🚨New article in Nature Scientific Data: The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures: doi.org/10.1038/s415... with @lukashetzer.eurosky.social @sopro.bsky.social @chrauh.bsky.social @miklossebok.bsky.social 1/6

The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures

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We're hiring in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! ☀️⛰️ Machine learning and NLP people, please apply!

Maria Leonor Pacheco@mlpacheco.bsky.social · 3w ago

Come join us in Boulder! Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Which, whose, and how much knowledge do LLMs represent? I'm excited to share our preprint answering these questions: "Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Collapse in Large Language Models" 📄Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04226 💻Code: github.com/dwright37/ll... 1/10

I wrote a post about the emergence of AI-native students who do their research using GenAI tools. I think that there are some real risks to job prospects and the likely changes in their fields.

Left, right, whatever, I just want graduate students posting their papers here

That's a wrap on IC2S2 2026... we'll see you next year in Milan! 😍

While I'm posting for #IC2S2, I want to share my new lab and website with you all! Our lab is called "Computational Analysis of Text and Society" (CATS) and I finally updated the website! Check it out: cats-group.github.io

Just arrived in Burlington for #IC2S2! My student Krystal Gong will be presenting: 👉 Thursday @ 10:45 in Chittenden (413) about geopolitical stance formation in LLMs 👉 Friday @ 14:15 in Jost Foundation (422) about quantifying persuasive cues in text (arxiv.org/abs/2606.14580) @ic2s2.bsky.social

Persuasion Index: A Theory-Guided Framework for Persuasion Analysis

Identifying persuasive rhetorical cues is critical across domains, from detecting information manipulation and improving AI safety to advancing public health communication. We propose Persuasion Index...

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Happening next week, July 28, at @ic2s2.bsky.social !!

How to obtain data for CSS research in the Post-API age? And what if you can access a treasure trove of cross-platform, cross-device online activity data for your research? 👀 Come to our @ic2s2.bsky.social 2026 Tutorial in Vermont in ~3 weeks! (organized w/ @davidlazer.bsky.social) (1/7)

Excited to present a tutorial on simulating survey responses with LLMs at @ic2s2.bsky.social next week! ✨ 👉 central themes: analytic flexibility & hybrid samples with @gligoric.bsky.social, @indiiigo.bsky.social, @maximiliankreutner.bsky.social, @jrupprec.bsky.social, and @mstrohm.bsky.social – 🧵

Do you work across computational methods, social sciences, and the humanities? Submit to Text as Data 2026! 📄 One-page submissions 🔓 Non-archival ⏰ Due August 1 📍 October 5 @UCBerkeley tada2026.org

Preprint with @mariaa.bsky.social and @mellymeldubs.bsky.social on how real people are writing fiction with LLMs based on the Wildchat dataset here arxiv.org/abs/2606.22748.

AI Fiction in the Wild

Some professional authors are beginning to use AI tools to help produce their fiction writing. Are readers using AI to generate fiction, too? Drawing on over 500,000 anonymized, English-language ChatG...

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Finally I get to reap the benefits of search personalization

1/ Excited to share our new paper: Challenging Partisan Expectations Reduces Political Polarization We find that political conversations reduce polarization most when they challenge what people expect about partisan boundaries. 🧵 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.15901 #polisky

Challenging Partisan Expectations Reduces Political Polarization

Political conversations are often proposed as a remedy for political polarization, yet their effectiveness remains inconsistent. We argue that this inconsistency partly reflects a neglected feature of...

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At #ICA26, I mentioned in a panel on (late stage) ECRs that the more we share and build solidarity, the stronger we are as a community. In that spirit, I've shared job market materials from myself and others (w/ consent). I'm doing so again in case it is helpful: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

I'll be presenting my student Chloe's @chloenlp.bsky.social work constructing a dataset of YouTube channels and their historical subscribers counts today at ICWSM. 3:30 pm poster session, 4 pm session. We have a pip package! github.com/blast-cu/tub...

I'm at #ICWSM2026 this week! Thursday evening, my student Liancheng (Krystal) Gong will be presenting her paper, "The Limits of De-Politicizing–and Also of Annotation: A Case Study in Russian Media Outlets’ Social Media Posts, 2016–2024" (Link: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...)

New preprint and dataset, work led by talented PhD student Jonathan Ivey! There's lots of interest in using LLMs to conduct qualitative interviews, but we don't know if they work because we don't know what makes "good" interview. We analyze 16,940 responses across 343 interviews and find:

I’m excited to share a new paper in Nature that shows how large language models launder the strategic rhetoric of authoritarian states. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A thread.

Computational approaches to media narrative analysis either miss nuanced storytelling patterns through coarse-grained analysis, or require domain-specific taxonomies that limit scalability. We show joint event and character modeling can address this gap. Details in our #ACL2026 (Main) paper. 🧵1/10

Attention #NLProc researchers, the EACL 2027 website is officially LIVE: 2027.eacl.org! 🎉 🇬🇷 Join us in Athens, Greece (Mar 9-13, 2027) at #EACL2027 📅 ARR submission deadline: Aug 6, 2026. Open to all areas of CL/NLP + related fields. Stay tuned for the detailed CfP soon!

🚨 Big news! #ICWSM '27 is heading to Edinburgh, Scotland 🏰 More details on dates and venue coming soon ✨ ❗How submissions work: • May 15, 2026: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → Sept '26 • Sept 15, 2026: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → Jan '27 • Jan 15, 2027: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → May '27 (→ ICWSM '28)

I'll be at #ICML2026 on July 10-11 in Seoul to speak at the Workshop on Culture x AI: Evaluating AI as a Cultural Technology. The workshop is currently accepting submissions, with humanities, ML, HCI, and social/cognitive sciences all welcome. Submit papers by May 1! Join us in Seoul! 🇰🇷

Doing AI Differently | Culture × AI Workshop

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Hear from Julia Mendelsohn at our upcoming hybrid Language and Conflict Panel, hosted by the LSC, Baha'i Chair for World Peace, and College of Behavioral & Social Sciences 🗣️ Visit go.umd.edu/lcpanel to register and learn more.

Just out! How deceptive online networks reached millions in the US 2020 elections www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How deceptive online networks reached millions in the US 2020 elections

Nature Human Behaviour - Appel et al. found that deceptive networks reached over 37 million Facebook and 3 million Instagram users during the 2020 US elections, with the majority of this exposure...

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To accommodate ACL decisions, we are further extending the commitment deadline for pre-reviewed ARR submissions to April 7!

@nlpandcss.bsky.social · 6mo ago

✨The NLP+CSS workshop is returning to ACL 2026!✨ Our commitment deadline for pre-reviewed ARR submissions has been extended to April 5! Website/CfP: sites.google.com/site/nlpandc... #NLProc #CompSocialSci #ComputationalSocialScience #ACL2026NLP @aclmeeting.bsky.social

🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Disinformation as Cultural Narrative: Conceptualizing Disinformation as Cross-Platform, Identity-Affirming, Cathartic Stories

Rather than framing disinformation as false facts which can be countered by true facts, we propose a model of disinformation as narrative by tracing three case studies of successful disinformation ...

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The deadline for submission to the Political Networks conference is this Friday. It's taking place Aug 4-7, in Manchester. sites.google.com/view/confpol...

2026 Manchester

Application and registration

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The paper acceptance notifications will be out by the 6th of April, AoE. The PCs are working hard throughout the holiday season to finalize the decisions. Apologies for the delay!

✨The NLP+CSS workshop is returning to ACL 2026!✨ Our commitment deadline for pre-reviewed ARR submissions has been extended to April 5! Website/CfP: sites.google.com/site/nlpandc... #NLProc #CompSocialSci #ComputationalSocialScience #ACL2026NLP @aclmeeting.bsky.social

NLP+CSS Workshops - Call for Papers - 2026

Language is deeply intertwined with nearly all human social processes. We do not expect teenagers to speak like senior citizens, and we recognize the mutual dependency between language and the ways pe...

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