Becca Cohen

"Ideology, they argue, inhabits not only representational content: bias is 'embedded in the logic of representation itself.'" New in review, Chen Liying on Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert's Vector Media: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/chen_liying_...

If only the PocketOS founder had seen the sitcom Silicon Valley 🤦‍♀️

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons. openai.com/index/our-ag...

Come “poke around” our data “to find new books and authors [you’ve] never heard of!” @jamesfolta.com makes great use of the Int'l Bestsellers dataset built by @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, & @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on @literaryhub.bsky.social. lithub.com/find-your-ne...

Compiled Sean DiLeonardi, Becca Cohen, and Dan Sinykin, the International Bestsellers Dataset gathers data about international bestselling books from 2013 to 2022.

Stoked to see @jamesfolta.com in @literaryhub.bsky.social talking up a dataset on int'l bestsellers built by @sdileonardi.bsky.social + @beccacohen.bsky.social (I helped). See who the world reads! One nit: Folta sez "Sinykin is a great follow on Bluesky"—LIES lithub.com/find-your-ne...

When we published international bestseller data with @post45data.bsky.social all I wanted was to make a Sankey diagram but never managed, now someone has. And it looks beautiful. Check it out! Source: substack.com/home/post/p-... public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Excited to see the dataset being used!!

Out now in @natphys.nature.com "The undervaluing of elite women in physics", with @weihuali.bsky.social and H Zheng, we show how election into prestigious academic societies has markedly different effects on the research prominence of women and men physicists /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Making a CLEAN, SHAREABLE dataset is fucking hard! I'm super proud, then, to publish this one, on a team led by @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, with @post45data.bsky.social. It has more than a decade of 21C int'l bestseller data, revealing how popular world lit circulates....

Hoo boy! I can’t believe it’s happening. We’ve been working on this for years. Thanks to @post45data.bsky.social you can now search our IB database, with a very cool interface! Please share with anyone who might be interested Special thanks to @ninasabak.bsky.social for aiding with the data source

New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S. Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉 🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...

🎉 New Benchmark Alert: KRISTEVA – Close‑Reading for LLMs📚 I’m excited to announce a new paper accepted to ACL 2025, in collaboration with Patrick Sui, Philippe Laban, and others!

I’m going to need Mother Nature to knock it off with all these tornadoes. How am I supposed to write my dissertation while I’m stressing out about corralling my cats into the basement?

Thanks Apple AI, was looking for somewhere I could get germs on sale (second image is the actual promotion notification it was summarizing)

I need to hear this right now, which means that others probably do too: However you're getting through this, you're doing a good job. This month's been fucked up and intense and I know I'm not the only one who's overwhelmed. It's exhausting and cruel, and the important part is getting through 🩵

10 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 3: The author is a solitary creator. To find out what's NOT true, read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , @sdileonardi.bsky.social + @beccacohen.bsky.social in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034

& a link to the issue muse.jhu.edu/issue/54034 some contributors on bluesky who put the 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 in "firewall" include @krbarrett.bsky.social @3volumenovel.bsky.social @sdileonardi.bsky.social @beccacohen.bsky.social @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @kavithaganesan76.bsky.social @dallasliddle.bsky.social

If Stephen King is a brand name, what’s the diff bw him and more recent authors who embrace self-branding? It was more difficult to answer this than I first thought It was a pleasure getting here with my coauthors (& the ed.s & Post45 2023 crew). Please read and let us know what you think

With @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, I wrote a shortish essay on The Girl on the Train and how self-branding is changing authorship. For a fascinating special issue of Studies in the Novel ed by @megaplex.bsky.social and @sarahdallison.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

Post the last sentence of your last article OUT THIS MONTH! w @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @beccacohen.bsky.social The convergence of these two developments-Web 2.0 and globalized conglomerate publishing-with all their extra-literary ramifications, has transformed the author [into a brand manager].

There are many ways to identify texts that seem ahead of their time. Our CHR 2024 paper asks which measures of textual precocity align best with social evidence about influence and change.

Sarah Griebel, Becca Cohen, Lucian Li, Jaihyun Park, Jiayu Liu, Jana Perkins, Ted Underwood Locating the Leading Edge of Cultural Change https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15068

Our proceedings are out! 🚨 They include no less than 78 papers that reflect the diverse and innovative research happening within the Computational Humanities. Take a dive here: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/

🔍 The full program for #CHR2024 is now available! Join us for cutting-edge computational humanities research and discussions. See the complete schedule at: 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/

Kaige Xie, Mark Riedl Creating Suspenseful Stories: Iterative Planning with Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17119

The Gemini debacle showed how AI ethics *wasn't* being applied with the nuanced expertise necessary. It demonstrates the need for people who are great at creating roadmaps given foreseeable use. I wasn't there to help, nor were many of the ethics-minded ppl I know.