Léna Gaubert
@kittog.bsky.social
nlp (among other things) 🎪 data scientist @ arlq.ai 🔗 kittog.github.io
New #AIES paper w/ @benzevgreen.bsky.social & @tisjune.bsky.social - "Deconstructing AI Hype: A Playbook for Resistance"! Read here: shreyachowdhary.net/files/decons... We argue that AI hype is a problem not because it misdescribes AI, but because it facilitates AI entrenchment.
In PRH, we argued that rep geometry is converging, but it's still an open question exactly in what sense. I want to share some new evidence that might clarify the picture. The evidence comes from our work here, led by @schnaus.bsky.social: dominik-schnaus.github.io/unpaired-ros... 1/n
People in Ithaca sent a message to those who would normalize sexual assault on campus, paying a visit to Cornell’s main administrative building, Day Hall, which houses the office of the university president. If graffiti didn't change anything, it would be legal. crimethinc.com/KillPower
mauix.bsky.social@mauix.bsky.social · 6d agoCornell University was vandalized overnight as anger over the case spilled into protest. Silence protects the powerful. Speaking up changes the room. And the backlash always reveals who was comfortable with the harm.
🚨 Apply now for the #ELLISPhD Program! 🎓 Work with leading AI/ML researchers across Europe, with exchange visits & joint supervision. The application deadline is 31 Oct. Get all info & apply now at ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
thecut.com
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
thecut.com
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
Hey NLP enthusiasists! Check out this event supported by the ELLIS Unit Denmark: a free one-day #NLProc symposium featuring international speakers, poster presentations, and networking activities. 📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰 📅 22 October 🔗 https://cphnlp.github.io/
I'm pretty I really only needed one notebook for the two months to come, not sure what happened here
If you're having a stressful day, why not sit back, relax & immerse yourself in the reconstructed soundscape of a Jurassic forest. Based on ingenious analyses of the fossilized wings of extinct insects, from a paper in latest issue of @pnas.org. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (Sound up, obviously.)🦗🔊🧪
We are running #ALPS again in 2027! 1 week in a stunning alpine location, awesome lectures about modern NLP, constant interactions with fellow students & researchers Applications opened today alps.imag.fr
Great work from @geometric-intel.bsky.social in collaboration with Arlequin AI! Published at TAG-DS this week. 🎪 :)
Nina Miolane@ninamiolane.bsky.social · 2mo agoAI researchers should do exploratory data analysis (PCA, etc) before building models or running interpretability pipelines. But what does EDA look like for data on topological domains? What's PCA for a combinatorial complex? Discover #TopoExplorer!🍩
probably the coolest website that we could ever have for latent spaces
Nina Beguš@ninabegus.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat is latent reading? We propose a new interpretability and interpretative practice of, first, creating models trained on a literary work and, second, inspecting their latent space internally and externally. Try the two Finnegan Wake-based models - links in reply
slowly considering the idea of potentially giving in and using claude code after months of fighting the idea of having that thing in my ide. my mind has been spiraling over this for weeks now and it's so silly but i'm still atrociously conflicted.
NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
wired.com
When you prompt a model that is designed to produce text in the shape of a plan, it should not surprise you when a plan emerges
had a great time presenting our work at #CogSci2026 during the human-AI interaction panel. this was a first for me, so I was definitely over-stressed until the time of the talk, but it was a great experience overall :) 🇧🇷
🎉Congratulations to Guillermo Bernárdez Gil! Thrilled to share that our postdoc, Guille, has been awarded the 2026 Extraordinary Doctoral Award by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Congrats, Guille, so proud to have you on our team👏 🔗https://tinyurl.com/43hbr9t3
Dear all,, one of my M1 students is recruiting participants for two online listening experiments. We are looking for native speakers of English, aged 18–50, with no reported history of speech, hearing, or neurological disorders. Participation is entirely voluntary and unpaid.
📢 Our wonderful R&D team here at Arlequin AI is looking for a Postdoc in Computational Social Science to join a fully-funded project in collaboration with MARIANNE & SIRA teams at INRIA. 📆 18 months 📍Paris, France
Super excited to finally be in Rio for #CogSci2026!! 🇧🇷 :) I'll be presenting our paper at the Human-AI interaction panel this Friday morning. Looking forward to great discussions all week long!
Léna Gaubert@kittog.bsky.social · 5mo agoSuper excited to share that our paper "An Experimental Method to Study Opinion Diffusion in Human-AI Hybrid Societies" has been accepted at #CogSci2026 for presentation as a talk! 🇧🇷 Here's a little thread to share some of the stuff we did :) 1/6 🧶 👇
every day spent being surrounded by avid claude users feels like this (i'm being rage baited into the sun)
The human brain is strikingly modular: distinct networks for language, formal reasoning, social reasoning, physical reasoning. Is this fundamental to intelligent systems, or an accident of evolution? In our new preprint, we find the same modular organization emerges in LLMs.
I'm looking for a new PhD student to come join me at UAlberta & Amii to study trans perspectives on AI policy & the future of AI as part of my new lab. The position is fully funded and offers access to a range of supports - more details in the poster below!
« Le niveau des élèves en orthographe a baissé » : vrai ou faux ? Réponse courte : oui en gros… Réponse (plus) longue : c'est plus compliqué que ça… 🧵⬇️
Dublin & Howth on film! :) Shot on Pentax epsio w Mira 400 🍀
Léna Gaubert@kittog.bsky.social · 5mo agosome news from Dublin's bay. 🍀 surprisingly had too many conversations about the daily usage of Claude to organise meal prep and work weeks.
xan v0.58.0 is out \o/ More performance, less cruft, very wow! You can now draw synthwave sparklines or visualize network layouts in your terminal like it's 1970! Full changelog: github.com/medialab/xan... @medialab-scpo.bsky.social
