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

Excited to share my new piece on AI policy in @contexts.org! In my 2024 article with Leslie McCall, we identified two emerging approaches to AI policymaking focused on safety vs. equity. Here, I discuss the rise of a third approach focused on hegemony and its implications. doi.org/10.1177/1536...

Jennifer Eberhardt and I have a piece out today in Vital City explaining our recent report with the NYPD Monitor and arguing for greater use of AI and computational tools for analysis of police body camera footage to build accountability and trust. www.vitalcitynyc.org/use-ai-to-an...

Use AI to Analyze Bodyworn Camera Footage

Police departments should harness the tech to improve accountability and training.

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New report led by @robvoigt.bsky.social analyzing NYPD body cam footage. As part of the federal monitorship of the NYPD, we analyze language in over 6,000 BWC recordings to identify under-documented stops and how officers request consent to search. (1/6)

SCiL is co-located with ACL as a workshop this year: we're welcoming ACL authors of papers with strong linguistic relevance to join us for an additional non-archival poster presentation to share their work with the linguistically-minded SCiL audience. If this is you, consider submitting here!

SCiL 2026 ACL Crossover Event Submissions

The 2026 Meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL, https://sites.google.com/view/scil2026) is co-located as an official workshop with the Association for Computational Linguistics (...

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“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

This major release of my lab's annotation tool, Potato 2.0, was a long time in the making but I'm really excited by all the new features (and quality of life improvements). If you're doing data annotation of any kind, check it out. Need any other features? We'd love to hear from you too!

@potatoannotator.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Super proud that today we're releasing Potato 2.0 - the biggest update yet to our open-source annotation platform www.potatoannotator.com 🥔 Major UI/UX improvements. Support for image, audio & video annotation. AI-powered assistance/hints/labeling. And still free 🤩 Here's some of what's new:

The second new class I'm teaching is a very experimental graduate level seminar in CSE: "Building Small Language Models". I taught the grad level NLP class last semester (so fun!) but students wanted more—which of these new ideas work, and which work for SLMs? jurgens.people.si.umich.edu/CSE598-004/

After a multi-year effort led by my brilliant PhD advisee Ruth Bagley, this exciting work documenting large-scale racial disparities in media representations of gun violence is out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Very excited this work is out, many great chapters including a version of the fantastic MA thesis work of my former student Michael Senko (msenko1.github.io)!

De Gruyter Brill Linguistics@dgb-linguistics.bsky.social · 8mo ago

💪 Congratulations to @burscott.bsky.social and Francesca Vigo on the publication of their impressive collection! 👉 Details here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111351568/html#overview @montreallx.bsky.social @kleonichka.bsky.social @helensauntson.bsky.social @robvoigt.bsky.social

💪 Congratulations to @burscott.bsky.social and Francesca Vigo on the publication of their impressive collection! 👉 Details here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111351568/html#overview @montreallx.bsky.social @kleonichka.bsky.social @helensauntson.bsky.social @robvoigt.bsky.social

For everyone working on the intersections between linguistic and computational research, consider submitting to the upcoming SCiL! We're very excited that it will be co-located with ACL 2026 as a workshop, and we've also received NSF funding to help cover costs. sites.google.com/view/scil2026

SCiL 2026

SCiL 2026July 3rd and 4thSan Diego, CA

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New work to appear @ TACL! Language models (LMs) are remarkably good at generating novel well-formed sentences, leading to claims that they have mastered grammar. Yet they often assign higher probability to ungrammatical strings than to grammatical strings. How can both things be true? 🧵👇

Tenure-track phonology position at UChicago!

Linguist List@linguistlist.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Jobs: English; Phonetics, Phonology, Semantics: Assistant Professor in Phonology, The University of Chicago

UC Davis is looking to appoint a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Gender recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07293

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Sociology of Gender

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Four papers accepted at the #EMNLP2025 main conference! 1️⃣ Thinking Out Loud: Do Reasoning Models Know When They’re Right? 2️⃣ Seeing is Believing, but How Much? A Comprehensive Analysis of Verbalized Calibration in Vision-Language Models In these two papers, we look into...

“A woman using a public voice is in trouble.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

Robin Lakoff, Expert on Language and Gender, Is Dead at 82

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UMich Ling is hiring for a cluster hire position in AI and Linguistics! Come work in a fabulous department with great grad students, supportive colleagues, and one overly school-spirited nut who will tell you where all the fun stuff is on campus. apply.interfolio.com/171006

I just gave a virtual presentation at ACL 2025 on our work about the production–interpretation asymmetry in reference processing in LLMs. If you’re into computational psycholinguistics or the LLMs x cognitive science space, give it a read! aclanthology.org/2025.acl-sho... @robvoigt.bsky.social

Leveraging Human Production-Interpretation Asymmetries to Test LLM Cognitive Plausibility

Suet-Ying Lam, Qingcheng Zeng, Jingyi Wu, Rob Voigt. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers). 2025.

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I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering. Express interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

NYU LLM + cognitive science post-doc interest form

Tal Linzen's group at NYU is hiring a post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and int...

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I'm hiring a postdoc to start this fall! Come work with me? recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07123

Post-Doctoral position - Department of Linguistics

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) Below a thread summary 🧵1/n #metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy

Cory Booker has taken the Senate floor and plans to filibuster as long as he’s physically able to protest the complete disregard for the rule of law by Trump and Musk. Watch here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.

This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.

The Shame of Columbia: violating academic freedom “Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.” open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

The shame of Columbia University

In surrendering to Trump, it's opening all universities to Trump's tyranny

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Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.

Columbia Concedes to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped

The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.

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Looking for a PhD student to come work with me on the ethical implications of NLP from September! Please share widely and point any interesting students my way! 😊

Centre for Technomoral Futures@technomoralfutures.bsky.social · last yr.

We are excited to announce a new, funded PhD studentship opportunity, alongside the School of Informatics @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social! Supervised by @zeerak.bsky.social and starting Sept 2025, the project will examine the ethical implications of natural language processing. Apply ▶️ edin.ac/40PAXEq

Taser was a weapon company. Then it was a body camera company. Now it’s a body camera data company. @robvoigt.bsky.social and I look at some of the promises and challenges of applying natural language processing to BWC footage in a new article (1/5) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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