David Jurgens is now on BlueSky only and I will introduce how to use potato (github.com/davidjurgens/p…) to do data labeling at Prolific webinar! Potato+Prolific allows you to easily collect high-quality annotations from demographic-balanced participants!

IC2S2 2024 will be hosted at Penn, in the beautiful and vibrant Philadelphia! Xi Song Dan Hopkins #IC2S2.

Can't believe it's already been a week - thank you all for helping to make the first ever SICon a huge success! Congrats to our Best Paper Award winners: Ananthasubramaniam et al. and our Outstanding Paper Award winners: Soler et al. ! sites.google.com/view/sicon-202…

Some profoundly depressing data for your Monday morning Ungated version nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Honored to receive best paper at #ACL2023 Social Influence in Conversations Workshop for our lab's (Hong Chen Jason Yan Kenan Alkiek Jiaxin Pei Agrima Seth. On the research job market!! lavinia dunagan Minje Choi Ben Litterer David Jurgens is now on BlueSky only) work exploring Linguistic Accommodation on Reddit aclanthology.org/2023.sicon-1.7 A 🧵 1/13

Why do we believe a public power utility can preform better than DTE? Because the currently existing ones already do. When utilities are run for people not profits the infrastructure fails less often, it's that simple

Best poster award

It's August, which means PhD admissions season is getting started! If you or someone you know is applying for #PhD programs (especially in U.S. & STEM fields), I have a whole YouTube playlist trying to help demystify the hidden curriculum. An overview: cfiesler.medium.com/phd-admissions…

I just published Tips for Writing NLP Papers link.medium.com/uBPPpR5yiCb I wrote it for my students so I don't have to sound like a broken record (and edit papers for the same issues over and over again 😃). But some of you might find it useful too.

🎆New Paper🎆 Ever wonder how to get rid of unwanted YouTube recommendations? My ICWSM paper with Siqi Wu🏃🏻‍♂️ and Paul Resnick investigates the efficacy of several YouTube features to do just that. We also surveyed real users on whether they're aware of these features. (1/8)

How was your "vacation"?

Great to see that #CIST2023 talk attracted so much attention! I am currently on the job market and I study Human-centered AI, NLP, Fairness, Misinformation, Crowdsourcing, and Digital Platforms. I am happy to give a talk if you are hiring and would like to learn more details😃

Annotator disagreement is common in NLP, but is it just noise? We are introducing a new strategy for annotator representation to help models better learn from data that has inherent disagreements. 🐙 Github code: github.com/MichiganNLP/An…

When not to fine-tune a model: (…140k internal Slack messages later) User: “Write a 500 word blog post on prompt engineering” Assistant: “Sure I shall work on that in the morning” User: “Write it now” Assistant: “ok” #OpenAIDevDay

The OpenAI guy

IT’S GREAT TO BE A MICHIGAN WOLVERINE! #GoBlue

🚀Our field experiment (Yan Chen Alain Cohn & Al Roth) on Twitter shows that social media promotion can boost job market outcomes, especially for women❗️ ✅Job market candidates in the treatment group received one additional flyout, with women receiving 0.9 more job offers.

Easily the biggest honor and privilege of my career to serve the best research community on Earth ICWSM I'm grateful beyond words to every single person who attended, to those on the OC who made it all possible. <3