Rob Voigt

We are recruiting postdocs in AI at Sydney! This is through the new Centre for Sustainability, AI and Life Sciences, with flexibility to work with a range of academics. Please share with any students you know who are close to graduation! usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

Do you work across computational methods, social sciences, and the humanities? Submit to Text as Data 2026! 📄 One-page submissions 🔓 Non-archival ⏰ Due August 1 📍 October 5 @UCBerkeley tada2026.org

Jennifer Eberhardt and I have a piece out today in Vital City explaining our recent report with the NYPD Monitor and arguing for greater use of AI and computational tools for analysis of police body camera footage to build accountability and trust. www.vitalcitynyc.org/use-ai-to-an...

New report led by @robvoigt.bsky.social analyzing NYPD body cam footage. As part of the federal monitorship of the NYPD, we analyze language in over 6,000 BWC recordings to identify under-documented stops and how officers request consent to search. (1/6)

This major release of my lab's annotation tool, Potato 2.0, was a long time in the making but I'm really excited by all the new features (and quality of life improvements). If you're doing data annotation of any kind, check it out. Need any other features? We'd love to hear from you too!

The second new class I'm teaching is a very experimental graduate level seminar in CSE: "Building Small Language Models". I taught the grad level NLP class last semester (so fun!) but students wanted more—which of these new ideas work, and which work for SLMs? jurgens.people.si.umich.edu/CSE598-004/

After a multi-year effort led by my brilliant PhD advisee Ruth Bagley, this exciting work documenting large-scale racial disparities in media representations of gun violence is out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Very excited this work is out, many great chapters including a version of the fantastic MA thesis work of my former student Michael Senko (msenko1.github.io)!

💪 Congratulations to @burscott.bsky.social and Francesca Vigo on the publication of their impressive collection! 👉 Details here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111351568/html#overview @montreallx.bsky.social @kleonichka.bsky.social @helensauntson.bsky.social @robvoigt.bsky.social

For everyone working on the intersections between linguistic and computational research, consider submitting to the upcoming SCiL! We're very excited that it will be co-located with ACL 2026 as a workshop, and we've also received NSF funding to help cover costs. sites.google.com/view/scil2026

New work to appear @ TACL! Language models (LMs) are remarkably good at generating novel well-formed sentences, leading to claims that they have mastered grammar. Yet they often assign higher probability to ungrammatical strings than to grammatical strings. How can both things be true? 🧵👇

Tenure-track phonology position at UChicago!

UC Davis is looking to appoint a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Gender recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07293

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Four papers accepted at the #EMNLP2025 main conference! 1️⃣ Thinking Out Loud: Do Reasoning Models Know When They’re Right? 2️⃣ Seeing is Believing, but How Much? A Comprehensive Analysis of Verbalized Calibration in Vision-Language Models In these two papers, we look into...

“A woman using a public voice is in trouble.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

UMich Ling is hiring for a cluster hire position in AI and Linguistics! Come work in a fabulous department with great grad students, supportive colleagues, and one overly school-spirited nut who will tell you where all the fun stuff is on campus. apply.interfolio.com/171006

I just gave a virtual presentation at ACL 2025 on our work about the production–interpretation asymmetry in reference processing in LLMs. If you’re into computational psycholinguistics or the LLMs x cognitive science space, give it a read! aclanthology.org/2025.acl-sho... @robvoigt.bsky.social

I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering. Express interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I'm hiring a postdoc to start this fall! Come work with me? recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07123

This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) Below a thread summary 🧵1/n #metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy

Cory Booker has taken the Senate floor and plans to filibuster as long as he’s physically able to protest the complete disregard for the rule of law by Trump and Musk. Watch here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.

Looking for a PhD student to come work with me on the ethical implications of NLP from September! Please share widely and point any interesting students my way! 😊

Taser was a weapon company. Then it was a body camera company. Now it’s a body camera data company. @robvoigt.bsky.social and I look at some of the promises and challenges of applying natural language processing to BWC footage in a new article (1/5) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Wonderful explainer on indirect costs by Dick Aslin open.substack.com/pub/dickasli...

Major news: Donald Trump has just issued a trans military ban, with much of the details left to Hegseth. It states that being trans is incompatible with "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle" I know many military trans people who have served admirably for decades. Shameful.

Postdoctoral position at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social, "from all areas of research that advance the state of the art in data science and the health sciences, extending the reach of data-driven research into novel medical application domains" Happy to chat! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29529

New paper out today in Frontiers in AI! The sociolinguistic foundations of language modelling We argue sociolinguistics provides a foundation for understanding LLMs and addressing many challenges www.frontiersin.org/journals/art... doi.org/10.3389/frai... techxplore.com/news/2025-01...

Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

CMU LTI is hosting predoc interns this summer, centered around "Language Technologies for All"! Please apply and circulate! lti.cs.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

Our Summer 2025 Internship applications are now open! Note that positions are now open for high school through doctoral students! All applications are due February 15, 2025, by 5 pm PST. All materials should be sent to Ms. Mia Harris at miaharris@stanford.edu badlab.stanford.edu/summer-inter...

I'm seeking a postdoc to work with me and @kenholstein.bsky.social on evaluating AI/ML decision support for human experts: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/10/p... P.S. I'll be at NeurIPS Thurs-Mon. Happy to talk about this position or related mutual interests! Please repost 🙏

Excited to share that our work on using AI to analyze police body camera footage was featured in Scientific American! We're using multi-perspective, multi-modal, models to better understand police interactions and identify areas for improvement. www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-a...

looking forward to seeing folks at EMNLP, do say hi! unfortunately I have to be a day late, arriving tomorrow, but my fantastic student Qingcheng Zeng will be presenting this afternoon at the CSS poster session 4-5:30 on making adaptive semantic axes for social science purposes - check it out!

I am looking for a postdoc in social understanding and multimodal modeling of interaction! See more information here (sites.northwestern.edu/lingmechlab/...) and feel free to reach out with questions!