Aniello De Santo

Sooo our department building got so flooded that even non affected offices and labs are being “boxed up” without ETA from betting back in 😭🙃

Oh no, I might have a crush on this city

Many cool things at #nwav54 today! Worth mentioning is also the abundance of pain au chocolates during breaks 🖤

So many linguists on this flight

I’m gonna be in Montreal (for #NWAV54 !!) for a few days! Suggestions accepted to things to do in a lil free time (food! Places to walk and see nice things! More food and maybe music? Art?)

Not our building getting flooded during Fall break 🙃😭😅

The longest week, BUT seeing Becky Chambers tonight!! (I will also come home with her new book so win/win on all fronts)

"Syntactitians please stop talking about computational efficiency without a well-specified notion of a) computation and b) efficiency" 2026 challange

Tokyo Godfathers is still a masterpiece

I intense babka craving 😭

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

🧵 New preprint! Speech is noisy, yet we usually understand it. I used eye-tracking + a self-supervised speech model (HuBERT) to show that speech comprehension unfolds as real-time Bayesian "noisy-channel" inference & that listeners tune their noise model to their environment 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

I don’t know that we have made it clear enough to the general public/international community how the NSF is just…not funding social and behavioral science research anymore? Like?

Another day, another “Utah first in the country to adopt X terrible policy” 🙃

Y'all should stop writing interesting papers, when am I supposed to read all of them 😭

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to join our lab in Fall 2027, through either Computer Science or Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for people with interests in NLP plus [healthcare | literary studies | narratives | social media | etc.]. Join us! 🏔️☀️

Sometimes I forget I how much I love reading fiction (then I enter a book tunnel and don’t sleep for three days 😅)

I bought too many books again

I have made too many grumpy posts recently, so here is a beautiful live rendition to Dispose of Me to offset them www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTnu...

I am glad that Tamsyn Muir is back with a new book but HOW IS IT NOT THE LAST GIDEON ONE 😭😭😭😭

The university: let’s take a thing everybody thinks works Perfectly and that supports local food makers and…make it not so in the name of “serving the campus community better” 😩🙃

Tell Congress to save NSF's SBE! Take action here: cossa.org/action-cente...

Dream postdoc!

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great combo of intense heat and terrible air this weekend in SLC. 10/01, great state 🙃

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Not that it matters anymore since the NSF is dead, but it's *really* demotivating to have a proposal consistently ranked Excellent and still go unfunded. I know it is a lottery and there is no money etc etc but SIGH.