🎉 Thrilled by the response to
@loreslm.bsky.social! We received 79 submissions & 57 papers have been accepted.
Huge thanks to PC & congrats to all accepted authors!
Looking forward to seeing you in Rabat!
@eaclmeeting.bsky.social #LoResLM2026 #EACL2026 #NLProchttps://annastansbury.github.io/website/StansburyRodriguez_The_Class_Gap_in_Career_Progression__Evidence_from_academia.pdf
📢now forthcoming in ECMA!
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
The 5th Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM) Workshop will be at
#ACL2026!
Call for papers is out. Topics include:
🐟 LMs as evaluators
🐠 Living benchmarks
🍣 Eval with humans
and more
New for 2026: Opinion & Statement Papers!
Full CFP:
gem-workshop.com/call-for-pap...Wow.
The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.
📢 The
#CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
https://anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0003/
Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros
Robot Bunnies Deployed in Florida To Help Fight Massive Python Problem
UF researchers have unleashed a battalion of 40 solar-powered, remote-controlled robot bunnies into the Everglades...
Getting aligned LLMs to help with misaligned tasks via context engineering, otherwise known as “Ender’s gaming”
Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.
www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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New Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI Decisions
Today, the AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions, sharing survey findings and calling for the establishment of policies in colleges and universities that pri...
Just to get back to where we were as of January 2025, we will need Manhattan Projects across multiple agencies. This particular loss will produce exponentially increasing human injury and economic damage to the U.S. as the ability to investigate and to regulate falls apart.
Japan has started rice rationing in stores as another harvest gets decimated by extreme heat. The future is grim for island nations that are directly exposed to sea surface heat spike.
This is Derrick Van Orden on the restricted Capitol grounds on J6. He denies being there.
Now out in Nature: we analyzed 19,000 computer vision papers and the 20,000+ patents citing them and found that most CV papers are used in surveillance enabling CV patents.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01965-5.pdf
Back to Damsky's paper which, again, WON AN AWARD FROM A FEDERAL JUDGE, I did want to highlight the passage in which he wrote that Justice Taney wasn't racist enough in Dred Scott, that immigration should be limited to whites only, and that we could use AI to figure out who the white people are. 3/
I'm going through UF Law book award winner Preston Damsky's twitter account, and it's worse than what the NYT reported. He thinks that Stephen Miller isn't racist enough. Because he's a Jew, and the "Jew clique ... is bringing America to ruin."
x.com/preston_terr...
x.com/preston_terr... 1/
New benchmark just dropped: SnitchBench by Theo Browne tests if LLMs will snitch on you to the authorities if you feed them incriminating documents and a tool that lets them send email, as seen in the Claude 4 System Card
Turns out they pretty much all will!
simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/...
How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM
A fun new benchmark just dropped! Inspired by the Claude 4 system card—which showed that Claude 4 might just rat you out to the authorities if you told it to …
You know why I know Missoula, Montana? Because the Fire Sciences Lab is there, operated by the US Department of Agriculture; they study fire and wildfire and have facilities to create fire tornadoes and stuff. This is what is going away too.
research.fs.usda.gov/firelabMissoula Fire Sciences Laboratory | US Forest Service Research and Development
So Harvard has officially revoked Francesca Gino’s tenure.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... This case was fascinating, especially re: how data fabrication was uncovered. Here was my attempt to summarize when this first came out:
youtu.be/m3dDZKeCayk
Fake data and accusations of dishonesty in research about honesty
YouTube video by Casey Fiesler
It’s really unfathomable that nearly every progressive elected official, organization and journalist is still on X.
The House has passed the GOP's budget bill with the 10-year ban on state AI laws intact. If the provision survives reconciliation in the Senate, the California, Colorado, or any other state that sought to pass laws governing AI would be legally banned from doing so.
This is what's behind the bill:
Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s campaign to ban state AI laws
Inside the effort to de-democratize AI
Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down!
www.404media.co/republicans-...
Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill
Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.
ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...This is one of the craziest AI episodes I’ve ever seen and I literally teach a whole class in part about when these things don’t work properly. None of the syllabus spent time on “well sometimes a deranged Afrikaner gets in there”
"These companies create extensive profiles on nearly every American, including highly sensitive data such as precise location history, political affiliations, and religious beliefs. This information is frequently resold for purposes ranging from marketing to law enforcement surveillance"
Be alarmed
CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.
Opinion | Is AI Enhancing Education or Replacing It?
Technology should facilitate learning, not substitute for it.
The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition
The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
“In the new structure, even if a revised proposal gets the green light from a division director, a new body whose membership has not been determined will take a fresh look to ensure it conforms to the agency’s new standard for making awards.”
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
These policies were intended to address CBP’s long-standing failures to provide adequate care for detainees who are most at risk—failures that have, in some cases, proved fatal.
US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants
CBP's acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency's custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly.
NEW: Fresh off announcing his departure for the University of Florida, outgoing University of Michigan President Santa Ono has had his name removed from the American Assoc of Colleges and Universities academic freedom letter he signed barely two weeks ago.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/outgo...
Outgoing UMich Prez Santa Ono Pulls His Name from Academic Freedom Letter
Over the weekend University of Michigan President Santa Ono announced that he...
Breaking: Pakistan shot down two Indian aircraft during the strikes, Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif, spokesman for the Pakistani military, tells me on the air just now. He called the Indian attack “a blatant act of war.”
Towards conversational diagnostic artificial intelligence - Nature
The conversational diagnostic artificial intelligence system AMIE (Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer) has potential as a real-world tool for clinical history-taking and diagnostic dialogue, bas...
FYI: I am hearing that it would be a very good idea to log into
research.gov and download copies of things like award letters if you have active NSF grants.
I also recommend grabbing PDFs/screenshots of public abstracts for NSF awards in case that database goes away.
JUST IN: Sen. Van Hollen says he is going to El Salvador tomorrow to see if he can talk to Abrego Garcia.
*Me, running my finger down the list looking for "San..."*
RECOVER Initiative: "Post-Exertional Malaise: What Is It and How Do I Manage It?"
studies.recovercovid.org/media/files/...The last line…
This is what the USIP lobby looked like before DOGE trashed it:
Yang Bai, Christan Earl Grant, Daisy Zhe Wang
RAMQA: A Unified Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Multi-Modal Question Answering
arxiv.org/abs/2501.13297A key takeaway from Columbia should be that compliance does not buy safety. Unis are viewing the admin's attack on higher ed as a prisoner's dilemma (best strategy: comply), leading to a collectively worse outcome. The only way out is collective action, & unlike true PD, unis can coordinate action.
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Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this
New video explainer on the Reinforcment Learning Algorithm from DeepSeek's R1 paper (Group Relative Policy Optimization). It uses Triangle Creatures as a cute example; I tried to make super accessible, so even if you've never done RL stuff before I hope you'll still enjoy!
youtu.be/wXEvvg4YJ9I
DeepSeek's learning algorithm explained with Triangle Creatures
YouTube video by Dr Mihai Nica
This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote.
There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP
Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
@aoc.bsky.social
Please explain what just happened. Is there no way to stop this w the reconciliation to be used by GOP to get around the filibuster? Are we sunk?
A newly hired advisor at DOJ is a former judge who received what was then Oregon's longest-ever suspension for misconduct.
He also made the news for "for having hung a picture of Adolf Hitler in his courthouse."
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doj-hir...The University of Florida’s ‘AI Queen’ is using AI technology to help prevent dementia.
phhp.ufl.edu/2025/02/21/t... 😁
The University of Florida’s ‘AI Queen’ is using AI technology to help prevent dementia » College of Public Health & Health Professions » University of Florida
Aprinda Indahlastari Queen is investigating the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on working memory.
There's a lot of genuine concern about parallels to the 30s. Another instructive and close-to-home parallel is the McCarthy era. This article talks in part about how academics were impacted.
www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
How we endured the McCarthy purges in US
Almost 70 years after a notorious US anti-communist crackdown, survivors are speaking out.
“I regret having to sleep out there so bad. I tell them, ‘I’m sorry, but I tried.’”
These kids deserved our protection. This mother deserves our protection. We are collectively failing one another.
Mom of 2 kids who froze to death while sleeping in a van says she asked for help: ‘I’m sorry, but I tried’
The mom of two children who died from hypothermia while sleeping in a cold van said she has asked for help for a long time.
Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including:
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
“The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unnecessary,” says the richest man in the world
On changes to
#NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47)
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...NOT-OD-24-110: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024 NOT-OD-24-110. NIH
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Wasn’t the outrage over Hillary Clinton’s private email server at home the possibility that it *might* contain sensitive information?
But now South African Michael Scott can just install a commercial server at OPM to scoop it all up?
