Come join TRAILS as a postdoc at UMD (and work w folks at GW, MSU & Cornell) to conduct research and scholarship focused on approaches to AI that advance trust and trustworthiness with a great group of colleagues!
🌐 go.umd.edu/trails-postd...
🗓️ Summer/Fall 2026 start
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AIM's 2nd round of TTK hiring - building up to 30 - is up!
📅 Ddl 12/22/25
🔬 Accessibility & Learning, plus Sustainability & Social Justice
🧑🏫 Associate/Full Prof*
🔗 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
*Assistant-level candidates: apply to departments, mentioning AIM in a cover letter
AIM's 2nd round of TTK hiring - building up to 30 - is up!
📅 Ddl 12/22/25
🔬 Accessibility & Learning, plus Sustainability & Social Justice
🧑🏫 Associate/Full Prof*
🔗 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
*Assistant-level candidates: apply to departments, mentioning AIM in a cover letter
If you're at #FACCT2025 today, check out our AI Workers' Inquiry, where we'll have a stellar panel of workers organizing against AI and host a participatory session.
You can also participate online!
ai-workers-inquiry.github.io
Screenshot of pbrush with a Copilot tab.
my teenagehood destroyed: pbrush now has AI support.
We are delighted to announce our next seminar by Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social (@univofmaryland.bsky.social, currently on sabbatical at @sorbonne-universite.fr) entitled "Fairness and Trustworthiness in Generative Al" on Friday 20th June at 11am CEST.
What should Machine Translation research look like in the age of multilingual LLMs?
Here’s one answer from researchers across NLP/MT, Translation Studies, and HCI.
"An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation"
arxiv.org/abs/2506.13468
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
For the EALM Workshop
"On Assessing the Political Biases of Multilingual Large Language Models" by @lernerp.bsky.social Laurène Cave, @haldaume3.bsky.social Léo Labat, Gaël Lejeune, Pierre-Antoine Lequeu, @bpiwowar.bsky.social Nazanin Shafiabadi and yvofr.bsky.social, collaborated with the STIH lab
Thanks, David! I'm going to go delete my post (which for transparency stated full cuts to these) to try to avoid spreading incorrect info!
slashing support for grad students and undergraduates by 75% is a disastrous policy for US science and competitiveness.
Happy to see the Maryland Attorney General participating in this effort. I’ve generally been quite happy with the state and university responses to the terminations and other actions.
We introduce a super simple yet effective strategy to improve video-language alignment (+18%): add hallucination correction in your training objective👌
Excited to share our accepted paper at ACL: Can Hallucination Correction Improve Video-language Alignment?
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.15079
This is an incredibly well thought out and well written statement co-signed by a large group of subreddits on the importance of academic research.
I hate how it had to come about, but love the statement.
(And yes, this is the one that I had terminated 12 days ago.)
The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
no thank goodness!
there’s some coordination through AAUP around visas. see eg www.presidentsalliance.org/wp-content/u...
happy to see that USM (which covers UMD) signed
thanks. my main concern at this point are students and junior faculty. working to figure out how to ensure they’re protected and supported.
thanks i missed that
Hi Kate-- I'm really sorry to hear this. If NIH terminations are any guide, we expect NSF terminations to be chaotic, so we're trying to track them and organize the information. If don't mind, please have your team enter their grants here:
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
And please spread the word.
also got my first NSF grant terminated! what emoji do i put in my handle to signify this?
I am reading this correctly right? Broadening participation at NSF may target non-protected groups but cannot target protected groups?
It’s almost as if the issue isn’t with broadening participation but rather with which groups have been designated as protected over the past 60 years.
Oh absolutely true - just didn't brand itself (incorrectly) as RLHF :)
Maybe worth adding: the transformer was industry playing its role in scaling up academic research.
Parallelizable attention + non-parallelizable recurrence, both from academic research, were SOTA but didn't scale. So Google did what industry does: make it scale (by trading rec. for a bag of tricks)
I will be at IUI on 24-25 march. I'd love to meet up with folks who are interested in meeting up. DM me if that's you!
US tech firms - IME - rely heavily on grads of higher ed in general, and US higher ed in particular...
And yet I've not heard much noise from the Pichais, Nadellas, Zuckerbergs, Cooks, Benioffs, Sus, Jassys, Huangs, etc. about attacks on higher education...
Am I missing it or does it not exist?
Thanks for having me, it was great to visit!
Agreed. They do add "valid/reliable" to a parenthetical later, which is along these lines. But there's also definitely stuff cut out.
None of these changes are super surprising to me, but I find it interesting to see how they are interpreted.
[1] www.nist.gov/document/eva...
but that doesn't exist, but thank you Internet Archive from Feb 02, 2025:
web.archive.org/web/20250202...
