📣Post Doc Alert! I am hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher in political language and NLP/LLMs 🤩 Come join a great, interdisciplinary team at @ddc-sdu.bsky.social in Odense! Applications due October 15, 2026. Detail here: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Computational Political Communication Postdoc position(s) at The Digital Democracy Centre

Application deadline: October 15, 2026

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So what I am saying here is that just claiming that AI is mid misses the political and economic project it’s being leveraged to bring about (upward wealth transfer), while only focusing on that project without noting the flaws of the tech risks missing HOW it’s carrying out that project. 12/n

My first parenting webinar, entitled "Five descalation strategies not to try when your middle child enters the kitchen weilding a mini baseball bat to protest bed time," will be out next week. Stay tuned.

give me an AI that can pick out a decent watermelon at the supermarket and then we'll talk

People often pitch AI as unprecedented. But what if we already have the organizational tools to evaluate & negotiate its use? Our new book Auditing AI opens in the 1980s with the story of the US Network for Organ Sharing how how they test & decide on their algorithms direct.mit.edu/books/book/6...

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As of this morning I am officially "Dad, did they have traffic lights when you were younger?" years old. It feels bad.

My son's first teeball practice* is in a batting cage built in the back of a liquor store because it's still might snow in late April. It will be cut short for the Sabres game. g/l finding something more Buffalo than this. *(why are we having a practice for teeball?)

New #FAccT2026 paper with Su Lin Blodgett and @ninamarkl.bsky.social on the ideological work performed by discourses that sell the capabilities of generative AI products tisjune.github.io/papers/facct...

The English book is out! 🎉 🥳 Happy and proud that the English version of our book is presented today at the Global Progressive Mobilisation meeting in Barcelona! "The Open Future and Its Enemies: How we can Protect Free Society from AI Dictatorship" @paulnemitz.bsky.social #OpenFuture #Democracy

🚨NEW ESSAY ALERT🚨Broken Connections: Fieldnotes from the Old Internet. The most personal thing I've written in years. I trace my history with internet communities & online relationships & how much of that is now gone. And a lot about LiveJournal. Open Access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Quite coincidentally, I just sent this paper to all of the students in my lab this morning!

Lucy Li@lucy3.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Another one of @ahalterman.bsky.social and @katakeith.bsky.social's papers that I think should be cited more by CSS researchers: What is a protest anyway? Codebook conceptualization is still a first-order concern in LLM-era classification arxiv.org/abs/2510.03541

I have been thinking for the last few years about ideologies and how they emerge in text. This paper, with @davidlazer.bsky.social and Kim Williams, reflects some of those thoughts, and how I think we can improve and expand on how we operationalize ideology in discourse. arxiv.org/abs/2603.18945

A conceptual framework for ideology beyond the left and right

NLP+CSS work has operationalized ideology almost exclusively on a left/right partisan axis. This approach obscures the fact that people hold interpretations of many different complex and more specific...

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One of the benefits of writing a paper with only senior co-authors is that I do not have to avoid the satisfaction of informing this reviewer that this is not what the E stands for in EMNLP

I've tried to spell accommodate like, maybe, 1000 times in my life and never once have I done it correctly

Consider submitting an ICWSM workshop proposal! It’s a great opportunity to create space for discussions around emerging research threads, new methods, or even old but exciting topics. Deadline: Jan 30.

@icwsm.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📢 Reminder: The deadline for #ICWSM 2026 workshop proposals is Jan 30th, don’t miss your chance! Find all the details here 👉 icwsm.org/2026/submit.... @lespin.bsky.social @msaveski.bsky.social

Extended deadline for the ICWSM/JQD Global Initiative. (Ask your friends) to submit a 2-page proposal by Jan. 23. A free trip to ICWSM'27 in (TBD) and mentorship on your paper submission!

Kenny Joseph@kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🌍 Are you new to @icwsm.bsky.social or JQD:DM and based in a low- or middle-income country? 💡 Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026! 📢 Call icwsm.org/2026/submit.... 🚀 Apply by Jan 15 forms.gle/A9GkJboP7qi3...

Child 1: I am sad, I will cry and seek comfort Child 2: I am sad, I will cry and then try to hit you Child 3, this morning: I am sad, I will not cry but will somehow find a metal wrench and throw it at you

New paper (**w/ several brilliant folks looking for PhD positions!**) We look at attitudes towards doing social justice work in 500 students taking a first-year seminar class about computing, and qualitatively assess reasons for (not) wanting to do justice work. dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

🌍 Are you new to @icwsm.bsky.social or JQD:DM and based in a low- or middle-income country? 💡 Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026! 📢 Call icwsm.org/2026/submit.... 🚀 Apply by Jan 15 forms.gle/A9GkJboP7qi3...

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?" Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."

every now and then I stumble on a place like r/slowcooking where people just all out stan each others slow cooker recipes and it temporarily restores my faith in humanity and the internet

🌍 Are you new to @icwsm.bsky.social or JQD:DM and based in a low- or middle-income country? 💡 Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026! 📢 Call icwsm.org/2026/submit.... 🚀 Apply by Jan 15 forms.gle/A9GkJboP7qi3...

“The Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.” Check our article instead, which uses conversations not individually chosen for public sharing, actually describes our methods and data, and finds quite different distributions for how people use ChatGPT and personal info disclosed in their chats.

Trust No Bot: Discovering Personal Disclosures in Human-LLM Conversations in the Wild

Measuring personal disclosures made in human-chatbot interactions can provide a better understanding of users' AI literacy and facilitate privacy research for large language models (LLMs). We run an e...

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Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"Emotional conversations were also common in the conversations analyzed by The Post... In some chats, the AI tool could be seen adapting to match a user’s viewpoint, creating a kind of personalized echo chamber in which ChatGPT endorsed falsehoods and conspiracy theories."

Come be my boss! The new AI & Society Dept., focusing on critical and community-driven approaches to AI, is looking for our first permanent chair. Please feel free to reach out with questions! www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58816 [Plz repost]

Professor, Department Chair of AI and Society

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the key to good writing: 1. Decide 1-3 days before the deadline to rewrite the intro 2. End up drafting the leading phrase "At it's core, human communication is about..." 3. Question life choices

What are your favorite recent papers on using LMs for annotation (especially in a loop with human annotators), synthetic data for task-specific prediction, active learning, and similar? Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly. A few examples in thread ↴

Do not let any LLM serve as a form of epistemic grounding for society.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last yr.

New Trump EO: "when ideological biases or social agendas are built into AI models, they can distort the quality and accuracy of the output" ...so henceforth the US government won't do business with you unless your LLM is built to echo our ideological bias and promote our social agenda.

ICYMI, our DomainDemo dataset, which describes how different demographic groups share domains on Twitter, is now available to download! 📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info 💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter

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Reposting for the #ic2s2 crowd!

Kenny Joseph@kennyjoseph.bsky.social · last yr.

UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025. More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734

UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025. More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734

Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, AI & Society

The Department of AI and Society (AIS) at the University at Buffalo (UB) invites candidates to apply for multiple positions as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor. The new AIS ...

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