Is AI useful... Well I've avoided Figma for years because every time I opened it, it looked too annoying to learn. But now they have a chatbot, and I made three websites yesterday.
People working in AI industry posting nonsense on X are not “putting their careers on the line.” They’ve got a ton of $$ and will be fine. A lot of this discourse is just weird in-group social signaling explicitly *for* career advancement. Genuine concerns exist but good luck disentangling all that.
I feel like there is a pattern in #CHR2027 papers of "we engineered this LLM-based pipeline and evaluated it in service of a humanities research question, but for CHR we will only report about the pipeline." I want to hear about the humanities research question and what you learned via the pipeline!
I’m on my way to my first #IC2S2! 🌧️ I’ll be supporting presentations about computational narrative analysis by my students and mentees @teagrjohnson.bsky.social and @umagunturi1.bsky.social. If you’re interested in storytelling, pretraining data, social media, or language models, come talk to us!
I'm looking for examples of successful NSF CAREER proposals and budgets, especially those written by NLP researchers. If you would be willing to share your successful proposal, or if you know of successful proposals that others have shared publicly, please let me know!
I'm looking for 1-2 emergency reviewers for a #COLM2026 paper on LLMs and science. Paper looks like a nice read to me! Reply or message me if you might be able to write a review by end of week.
Henry Farrell is giving a talk on culture and AI now at #COLM2026 and it's off to a blazing start. Join in the ballroom!
