I'll be giving a spotlight talk at the Big Picture Workshop @ ACL 2026 in San Diego, presenting my PhD work on building tasks and benchmarks for dialogue and narrative understanding, and in particular on LLM memorization and evaluation—looking forward to connect with friends, old and new!

Beautifully put. I share much of this vision of what information science as a discipline has been and should be going forward.

David Jurgens@davidjurgens.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I've been thinking a lot about what is Information Science and what a bachelors degree (BSI) should look like in the future. The substance of information science—how people seek information, how systems present it, how access changes behavior, the ethics of all of it—has never been more relevant.

Some movies make you feel seen and forgiven. First thought after I managed to pick myself up from the triumphant Project Hail Mary. Haven't felt this way since Everything Everywhere All at Once. I find social media exhausting, but I was compelled to come back and share this with you.

New paper to appear at EACL 2026 main conference, and it's now up on arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17536. The character limit here is insane, so I'll let the screenshots speak for themselves. We put together a new dataset for conversational role attribution & thread disentanglement.

Never thought this day would come. We're officially past the midpoint of the semester, and the students who are brave enough to stay in my sometimes crazy—but always radical—interdisciplinary experiment are now submitting their final project proposals. We've covered a lot of ground in just 7 weeks!

Mark your calendars for our second Cultural Analytics Talk Series lecture w/ @ucbids.bsky.social! @ischool.uw.edu Prof. @mellymeldubs.bsky.social will discuss how authors and readers are using #AI to generate fiction writing. 📅 Oct. 24, 12:15 - 1:30 pm 📍 210 South Hall, Online

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Oct 24, 2025, 12:15 pm - Fiction readers are using AI to generate their own original stories, role-play, world-building, fan fiction, erotica, and more. Melanie Walsh explores the roots and future of…

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To ensure wider reach: our Cultural Analytics class will meet in a larger classroom, 210 South Hall, on 9/2. (And no, pun not intended.)

It just hit me. I gave the first lecture of the class I designed from scratch today. And there were not enough seats in the classroom!

Watched Michael Lannan and Andrew Haigh’s Looking again over a couple of weekends. The first time I watched it I was contemplating whether to go to Berkeley for grad school, and indeed I took that t-shirt Jonathan Groff wore in episode 2 (with the Cal logo on it) as a sign.

Great read! "The limits of Interdisciplinarity" resonated with me the most. AI has the potential to make the articulation of critical sensibility more concrete and robust, but there are troubling trends, both in academia and politics, that do make me wonder if this conversation can be sustained.

Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · last yr.

New this morning, a Comment I contributed to Nature Computational Science on the interaction between large language models and the humanities. 🧪 🤖 #MLSky rdcu.be/etk07 The link above will be open-access for a month — plus, I'll reply to this post with a link to a permanently open preprint. +

Recently, though rather belatedly, I decided to give The Office another go, after seeing the great John Krasinski in Angry Alan off-Broadway. Five seasons in I know that I shall remain, in spirit at least, a lifelong resident of Scranton, PA (Stars Hollow, CT is probably just a short drive away).

My course proposal for Cultural Analytics @berkeleyischool.bsky.social has been approved for Fall 2025! This is the fullest expression of my vision for CA: a radical interdisciplinary experiment for rethinking knowledge production at the intersection of the humanities and machine learning. (1/9)

Just came back from Happy Pleasant Valley (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley) and still hyped. Dear Evan Hansen meets A Man on the Inside with Mrs. Kim from Gilmore Girls taking the stage to sing her heart out. Defies expectations on all counts, originality definitely puts Broadway to shame.

Prepping for my remote OH for applied NLP

Last stop in Denmark -- had a blast in Copenhagen, despite operating on only 3 hours of sleep. @mariaa.bsky.social handles every detail with such grace and @arnicas.bsky.social gave a wonderful talk that really shows me how much farther applied NLP can go, from learning and pedagogy to game design.

That's a wrap at #CHR2024! I'll need some time to reflect and regroup (and learn how to use bluesky)-- just wanted to take a moment to thank all my friends, old & new. Even on day 3, people were still approaching me with great feedback and kind words about my work. It's a community filled with love!

Amazing talk by @kentkchang.bsky.social. Too many interesting themes to try to summarize, but please check out his recent work on subversive narratives, television, suspicious readers, models at odds with the truth, and the "queer gap in the cultural analytics." kentkc.org #chr2024

Really love @kentkchang.bsky.social paper on subversive and queer readings of relationships with tv data for examples #chr2024

Go @kentkchang.bsky.social ! #CHR2024

Woohoo @naitian.org #CHR2024