Do you consider yourself an interdisciplinary researcher? If so, please take part in our study, thanks!

Indu Panigrahi@indupanigrahi.bsky.social · 2w ago

📌 Do you have experience or professional interest engaging with an unfamiliar discipline or a discipline beyond your primary discipline? Complete this 10-15 minute survey! 👉 illinois.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Eligibility criteria and compensation details in 🧵 cc: @talaugust.bsky.social

The STAR workshop at #CHI2026 is just over a week away! Due to increased interest, we're capping our open-door attendance at 100. To make sure everyone interested in the workshop has a spot, please sign up below. 📝 Register: forms.gle/28U2RySizboW... 🌐 Details: chi-star-workshop.github.io

Deadline for submission is in just under 10 days! Reach out if you have any questions.

Tal August@talaugust.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What is future of reading? 📗 Announcing the 1st Science & Technology of Augmented Reading (STAR) workshop at #CHI2026! We want your takes on: 🤖 AI & Agents for reading 👁️ Visual Interactions 🗺️ Domains (Code, Law, Ed, etc.) 👇 Submit a 2-4 pg paper: chi-star-workshop.github.io

What is future of reading? 📗 Announcing the 1st Science & Technology of Augmented Reading (STAR) workshop at #CHI2026! We want your takes on: 🤖 AI & Agents for reading 👁️ Visual Interactions 🗺️ Domains (Code, Law, Ed, etc.) 👇 Submit a 2-4 pg paper: chi-star-workshop.github.io

While I'm unfortunately not at #ACL2025, please check out @shaily99.bsky.social's super cool poster on research cultures and language model evaluations!

Shaily@shaily99.bsky.social · last yr.

#IC2S2 was so much fun, now see you at Vienna at #aclnlp2025. Fine me around the conference or in the poster session on Wednesday at 11 talking about this work, cultural competence in LLMs, and evaluation.

🚨 Calling all writing tutors & instructors! Can writing tools give guidance, but not text suggestions? We built a prototype based on conversations with tutors, and would love your feedback! 📝 Try it out 👉 tinyurl.com/writor-system 🧾 Take a short survey (same link) 🎁 Enter a raffle to win $20

Been cooking this up with the awesome @mariaa.bsky.social & @talaugust.bsky.social since my internship at S2, @ai2.bsky.social. Very excited to present it at 🎉 @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025 (Main) 🎉 and as one of the 16(!!) plenary talks at 🎉 @ic2s2.bsky.social 🎉 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2506.00784 [10/11]

Research Borderlands: Analysing Writing Across Research Cultures

Improving cultural competence of language technologies is important. However most recent works rarely engage with the communities they study, and instead rely on synthetic setups and imperfect proxies...

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As a former writing tutor, I've been waiting for someone to write this paper! By Yijun Liu and @talaugust.bsky.social.

From Crafting Text to Crafting Thought: Grounding Intelligent Writing Support to Writing Center Pedagogy

Yijun Liu, Tal August. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing 2025). 2025.

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