Shane Storks
@shanestorks.bsky.social
NLP researcher studying reasoning and grounding. Research Fellow in CogSci at University of Michigan, incoming Assistant Professor of CS at Eastern Michigan University. he/him 🏳️🌈
I need *several* emergency reviewers on on mech interp for NLP. I also need emergency reviewers for papers on neuro-symbolic language reasoning, for a paper extracting symbolic structures from text, and for a paper on knowledge collapse in LLMs. Many missing reviews this cycle
🚨 I’m still seeking an emergency reviewer for an ARR May 2026 submission on LLM-based image segmentation. Please DM me if you’re qualified to review for ARR (at least 2 ACL/AI conference pubs and 1 other pub), and could complete a review for it in the next couple days! 🙏
Pride month may be coming to an end, but the party isn’t! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Join Queer in AI and friends at aclmeeting.bsky.social / #ACL2026NLP on Sunday, July 5! 🍱 BYO Lunch Social — 12:30–14:00 🥂🍻🍹 Evening Social — 19:00–22:00 All welcome! More details & sign-up 👉 queerinai.com/acl-2026
SAEs identify interpretable features in LLM layers, but what can we learn from how they activate together? 🤖📊 New #ACL2026NLP paper with Ruixuan Deng, Nick Hu, Miles Gilberti, and others reveals causal semantic modules composed of many co-activating features across LLM layers. 🧵
Happy news: I'll be joining Eastern Michigan University as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in Fall 2026! If you're an EMU student interested in my research, let's connect 👋 Will be sharing some fun #ACL2026NLP papers from my postdoc soon!
Hello #NLProc #ACL2026NLP people. I am looking for **two emergency reviewers** in the Safety and Alignment in LLMs track for ACL/ARR. Reviews are due Feb 15th. Please DM if interested and available. Happy to offer drinks/food if you live in/pass by Lisbon ☀️
Seems to be a common situation for ACs this round, but I'm also looking for two emergency reviewers for the January #ARR Evaluation and Resources track. I'd appreciate any help (reposts, encouragement, black magic...)
I'm looking for two emergency reviewers 🧑🚒👩🚒 for the ARR January Generalizability and Transfer track. Please reach out if you have time & qualify for review or RT for visibility🙏🙏
I could use an emergency reviewer for an ACL submission involving interpretability and syntax. Please DM me if you might be able to provide an emergency review before February 15!
Looking for emergency reviewers for ARR Special Track "Explainability of NLP Models". Topics: Faithfulness, mechanistic interpretability, surveys and position papers. Deadline Feb 14 AoE. #ACL2026NLP
I am looking for 2 emergency reviewers for the ARR Ethics, Bias & Fairness track. Please DM me if you are available 🙏
Hello #NLProc #ACL2026NLP community, I'm looking for an emergency reviewer for an ARR submission on LLM interpretability. If you're available to complete a review before Feb 15, please reply or DM 🙏
This work finally has a home! Looking forward to presenting “Transparent and Coherent Procedural Mistake Detection” at #EMNLP2025 🤩
Shane Storks@shanestorks.bsky.social · 2y agoHow well can VLMs detect and explain humans' procedural mistakes, like in cooking or assembly? 🧑🍳🧑🔧 My new pre-print with Itamar Bar-Yossef, Yayuan Li, Zheyuan Zhang, Jason J. Corso, and Joyce Chai dives into this! arxiv.org/pdf/2412.11927
Meet Ai2 Paper Finder, an LLM-powered literature search system. Searching for relevant work is a multi-step process that requires iteration. Paper Finder mimics this workflow — and helps researchers find more papers than ever 🔍
The EMNLP 2025 conference website and CfP are now live! 2025.emnlp.org/calls/main-c... Conference dates: November 5-9 in Suzhou, China Submissions will be through ARR, and this year's theme is Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP
Call for Main Conference Papers
Official website for the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
2025.emnlp.org
Our workshop has been extended till Feb 20. We are looking forward for your papers at NAACL's Queer in AI workshop.
Queer in AI@queerinai.com · 2y ago1/7 🌈 BIG NEWS ALERT! The hottest Queer in AI workshop is back - and this time we're official! We're thrilled to announce we'll be at #NAACL2025 as an official workshop, meaning your work can now be published in the ACL anthology! 🎉
One of ways in which AI hype men are highly copacetic with Trump is that they think you can assert things with absolutely no care for truth or feasibility. Bullshitters par excellence
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2y agoSam Altman is just blurting out words now www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
![Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang speaking at an event in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2024. Photographer: Kyodo/AP Images
So energy …
Fusion’s gonna work.
Fusion is going to work. Um. On what time frame?
Soon. Well, soon there will be a demonstration of net-gain fusion. You then have to build a system that doesn’t break. You have to scale it up. You have to figure out how to build a factory—build a lot of them—and you have to get regulatory approval. And that will take, you know, years altogether? But I would expect [Helion 20] will show you that fusion works soon.
20 Helion, a clean energy startup backed by Altman, Dustin Moskovitz and Reid Hoffman, focuses on developing nuclear fusion.
In the short term, is there any way to sustain AI’s growth without going backward on climate goals?
Yes, but none that is as good, in my opinion, as quickly permitting fusion reactors. I think our particular kind of fusion is such a beautiful approach that we should just race toward that and be done.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreiee7jjkbneuad2nrf4n2muxyl4ud6st5pnnr37b6tqep2nhnyreby)
Some happy news: my dissertation on "Coherent Physical Commonsense Reasoning in Foundational Language Models" is finally available online! 🎓https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/196025
Coherent Physical Commonsense Reasoning in Foundational Language Models
deepblue.lib.umich.edu
📣 UMich undergraduate/master students: are you interested in research at the intersection of LLMs and cognitive science, but need guidance and computing resources? I want to work with you! If interested, DM/email me with your CV and a brief project proposal!
How well can VLMs detect and explain humans' procedural mistakes, like in cooking or assembly? 🧑🍳🧑🔧 My new pre-print with Itamar Bar-Yossef, Yayuan Li, Zheyuan Zhang, Jason J. Corso, and Joyce Chai dives into this! arxiv.org/pdf/2412.11927