Lucy Li

We won an outstanding paper award at #EMNLP2026! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Aruna Srivastava will present @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social on how audio LMs penalize Indian, Chinese, and Nigerian English more so than American and British English in high-stakes settings. #EMNLP2026 joint work w/ @orevaahia.bsky.social; Sun Oct 25 at 16:00! aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-m...

We're at #EMNLP2026 with papers & talks across the conference. Come say hello and learn about our latest research!

The information school here is also hiring! "We especially encourage applications from ... the intersection of information, people, technology, and society..." jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Cool postdoc at Princeton on *AI as a cultural technology*, within their Societal AI initiative, perfect for candidates in digital humanities/cultural analytics working on downstream impacts of AI on culture. Get to work with @mmvty.bsky.social and other great people! apply.interfolio.com/195460

working on low-resource language technologies that consider the context of the community and language >>> arxiv.org/abs/2610.25440

We are hiring!! "Artificial intelligence, broadly construed. This includes embodied AI and robotics, machine learning and the systems that support it, and AI developed for problems in science, engineering, medicine, education, and society." jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

someone should've told PhD me that Underline conference talk recordings are forever and even years later you will be getting email notifications of people watching your talks and all you can hope for is that PhD you wasn't too embarrassing

Virginia Tech Computer Science is hiring tenure-track faculty at our main campus in Blacksburg, and HCI is a focus area. I'm on the search committee and at #CSCW2026 this week. Happy to answer questions. website.cs.vt.edu/About/facult...

This year UMass Amherst CICS will be hiring tenure-track faculty in natural language processing! Job ad to be posted soon. For anyone at #TADA2026 or #COLM2026 this week, I or my colleague Hamed Zamani would love to chat or answer questions about it - just say hi or send me an email to meet!

We're heading to #COLM2026 next week! Four days of workshops, posters, & talks on our latest fully open AI research, from Olmo Hybrid to evals for AI-assisted scientific writing. 🧵

Today we're unveiling Trillium Labs, a new non-profit to foster the open science of frontier AI. We're building open post-training recipes and will expand into open infra to study RSI, reward-hacking, multi-agent systems, and whatever comes next. blog.trilliumlabs.org/p/introducin...

It's possible for Jev/Laya/Decision Models to be not that big a deal as tech and massive as a new paradigm. Here's why I'm really excited from an NLP history perspective (thread)

My favorite emails I've gotten ever starting this new job are from The Center for Dairy Research recruiting participants for consumer panels and studies. So far I have gotten invites for taste-testing dairy beverages and queso dip.

now that a substantial proportion of my time is spent teachng, i am so grateful for people who make their lecture slides public so mine will be public too! lucy3.github.io/cs769-fall26...

UCSD Psychology is hiring!! We’re seeking a new assistant professor colleague who studies high-level human cognition, broadly construed. Please share and/or apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04646

The data from this OECD PISA report is damning. "students who do not use AI outperform those who do, ... equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Starting off my first lecture later this week as a prof with a little history of NLP! Warren Weaver (known for writing a memorandum that ignited machine translation in 1949, before "artificial intelligence" was even coined as a term) did his BS and PhD at UW-Madison 🦡🧀

I just found out that my work on english language arts books taught in schools was discussed in this podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/6zdE...

Are you on academic job market for #Postdoc or #TT Assistant/Assoc. Prof/Lecturer/ #AP /Research Scholar/ #fellowship jobs for 2026-2027 in #CS/ #SocSci/ #InfoSci/ Management Science/ #Psych & similar? Like last year, I am maintaining a list (so far ~200 positions) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

New issue of my newsletter Humane Ingenuity: “The Breath of the Author” — The palpable presence of someone else’s mind in our best writing should give us pause about the encroachment of AI text newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

📣 New! As AI agents are increasing used for daily tasks, their relative autonomy challenges traditional means of human oversight. Samir Passi & Ranjit Singh show why oversight can't rest on individual users alone, w specific recommendations for builders and deployers. datasociety.net/research-lib...

tada2026.org It's revived!!!!

Wrote a brief reflection on poor conceptualizations in AI work and why they matter, something I believe is so startlingly neglected. TL;DR - Poor conceptual foundations can severely undermine the credibility and reliability of knowledge claims.

I have two projects involving Chinese speakers this year, and so I'm saying "I'm going to ask my mom" in project meetings more often than usual

tada2026.org It's revived!!!!

Looking for two emergency reviewers for ACL ARR May, one paper is on educational question generation and one is on historical text!

👨‍🎨 update slai = social language and ai w = wisconsin

Excited to share this. @neel2112.bsky.social, @mariaa.bsky.social, and I analyzed 500K anonymous ChatGPT convos (shared w/ consent from WildChat) to see if people were generating fiction. We found tons of stories, fanfiction & erotica. Many users iterated on the same stories for days and weeks.

The Pudding's early history of U.S. restaurant dining: don't miss the interactive map of 5,000 historical menus pulled from the NYPL's Buttolph collection https://pudding.cool/2026/06/m...

me: "please draw a wisconsin badger hugging a jar of hazelnut spread except instead of the logo being nutella because it's trademarked it is the logo of my new research group" human 👨‍🎨:

New work from my lab! @teagrjohnson.bsky.social built a 12-dimensional narrative framework, annotated Dolma (no small feat given its extreme diversity), and analyzed narrative features across pretraining subsections. Highlight: pretraining data space displays strong narrative organization!

UW-Madison Sociology is hiring! We're inviting applications for an assistant professor position in the fields of demography, soc of population, and health, to begin August 2027. Come join @uwsoc.bsky.social and the great @cdeuw.bsky.social! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

tfw the articles ai retrieves are also ai-generated