David Mimno
@dmimno.bsky.social
He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
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David Mimno
@dmimno.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Optimist: AI has achieved human level performance!
Realist: “AI” is a collection of brittle hacks that, under very specific circumstances, mimic the surface level of human intelligence
Pessimist: AI HAS achieved human level performance
Realist: “AI” is a collection of brittle hacks that, under very specific circumstances, mimic the surface level of human intelligence
Pessimist: AI HAS achieved human level performance
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Want to be an intern at Microsoft Research in the Computational Social Science group in NYC (Jake Hofman, David Rothschild, Dan Goldstein)
Follow this link and do your thing! Deadline approaching soonish!
apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
Follow this link and do your thing! Deadline approaching soonish!
apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
Research Intern - Computational Social Science | Microsoft Careers
Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world's best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Researc...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Want to be an intern at Microsoft Research in the Computational Social Science group in NYC (Jake Hofman, David Rothschild, Dan Goldstein)
Follow this link and do your thing! Deadline approaching soonish!
apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
Follow this link and do your thing! Deadline approaching soonish!
apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
In Chap 10 of #ComputationalHumanities, @barbaramcgilli.bsky.social @fedenanni.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen argue for diachronic search in digital history. Computation loves abstraction and generality, humanists love specificity. How do we balance these?
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
In Chap 10 of #ComputationalHumanities, @barbaramcgilli.bsky.social @fedenanni.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen argue for diachronic search in digital history. Computation loves abstraction and generality, humanists love specificity. How do we balance these?
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
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Thrilled to be at Fantastic Futures w/@bertspaan.nl to talk about working w/digitized map collections as research data!
You can explore VERY large datasets of text from maps with our prototype #dataviz interface at text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.workers.dev
Featuring Rumsey collection maps!
#ff2025
You can explore VERY large datasets of text from maps with our prototype #dataviz interface at text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.workers.dev
Featuring Rumsey collection maps!
#ff2025
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Thrilled to be at Fantastic Futures w/@bertspaan.nl to talk about working w/digitized map collections as research data!
You can explore VERY large datasets of text from maps with our prototype #dataviz interface at text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.workers.dev
Featuring Rumsey collection maps!
#ff2025
You can explore VERY large datasets of text from maps with our prototype #dataviz interface at text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.workers.dev
Featuring Rumsey collection maps!
#ff2025
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📢 Unhappy about peer review at NLP/ML conferences? Here's a chance to do smth about it, and get an interdisciplinary PhD! NLP+discrete optimization at @itu.dk
Project: interpretable methods for paper-reviewer matching
Apply by Jan 6 for position DC6: www.cords-dn.at
Master degree needed
Project: interpretable methods for paper-reviewer matching
Apply by Jan 6 for position DC6: www.cords-dn.at
Master degree needed
www.cords-dn.at
December 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
📢 Unhappy about peer review at NLP/ML conferences? Here's a chance to do smth about it, and get an interdisciplinary PhD! NLP+discrete optimization at @itu.dk
Project: interpretable methods for paper-reviewer matching
Apply by Jan 6 for position DC6: www.cords-dn.at
Master degree needed
Project: interpretable methods for paper-reviewer matching
Apply by Jan 6 for position DC6: www.cords-dn.at
Master degree needed
Do people LÉLA in French?
Pour ce prix-là on entraîne plusieurs LLMs à l’état de l’art. GPT-OSS c’était trois millions, DeepSeekv3 10, Sonnet-Opus quelques dizaines.
December 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Do people LÉLA in French?
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📢 Postdoc position 📢
I’m recruiting a postdoc for my lab at NYU! Topics include LM reasoning, creativity, limitations of scaling, AI for science, & more! Apply by Feb 1.
(Different from NYU Faculty Fellows, which are also great but less connected to my lab.)
Link in 🧵
I’m recruiting a postdoc for my lab at NYU! Topics include LM reasoning, creativity, limitations of scaling, AI for science, & more! Apply by Feb 1.
(Different from NYU Faculty Fellows, which are also great but less connected to my lab.)
Link in 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
📢 Postdoc position 📢
I’m recruiting a postdoc for my lab at NYU! Topics include LM reasoning, creativity, limitations of scaling, AI for science, & more! Apply by Feb 1.
(Different from NYU Faculty Fellows, which are also great but less connected to my lab.)
Link in 🧵
I’m recruiting a postdoc for my lab at NYU! Topics include LM reasoning, creativity, limitations of scaling, AI for science, & more! Apply by Feb 1.
(Different from NYU Faculty Fellows, which are also great but less connected to my lab.)
Link in 🧵
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On my way to San Diego for #NeurIPS and the 20th anniversary of #WiML! To celebrate, @hannawallach.bsky.social and I recorded a podcast discussing WiML’s journey, our friendship and collaborations, research we're excited about, & advice we'd give our younger selves! www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
Ideas: Community building, machine learning, and the future of AI
As the Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML) marks its 20th annual gathering, cofounders, friends, and collaborators Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach reflect on WiML’s evolution, navigating ...
www.microsoft.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
On my way to San Diego for #NeurIPS and the 20th anniversary of #WiML! To celebrate, @hannawallach.bsky.social and I recorded a podcast discussing WiML’s journey, our friendship and collaborations, research we're excited about, & advice we'd give our younger selves! www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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I'm super excited about the 20th @wimlworkshop.bsky.social, which is taking place tomorrow in San Diego, co-located with @neuripsconf.bsky.social!!! 🎉 To celebrate, @jennwv.bsky.social and I recorded a podcast episode! Check it out here: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
Ideas: Community building, machine learning, and the future of AI
As the Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML) marks its 20th annual gathering, cofounders, friends, and collaborators Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach reflect on WiML’s evolution, navigating ...
www.microsoft.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I'm super excited about the 20th @wimlworkshop.bsky.social, which is taking place tomorrow in San Diego, co-located with @neuripsconf.bsky.social!!! 🎉 To celebrate, @jennwv.bsky.social and I recorded a podcast episode! Check it out here: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Information, Culture & Society - School of Information Science
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
One thing that has changed: 10-15 years ago as an AC I personally knew 19 out of 20 reviewers for my pool. Now it’s unusual if I recognize one name. That kind of functional, internal anonymity breeds laziness.
I'm open to there being a role for blind review, but introducing non-blind review has a lot of upsides that may reduce how much we actually care about blind review.
I think we care about blind review only because our publishing system is poorly designed and needs change in the modern era anyway.
I think we care about blind review only because our publishing system is poorly designed and needs change in the modern era anyway.
The only argument advanced by proponents of blind peer-review boils down to "less powerful people can't criticize powerful people in public," the same argument people make when advocating for anonymity on social media.
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
One thing that has changed: 10-15 years ago as an AC I personally knew 19 out of 20 reviewers for my pool. Now it’s unusual if I recognize one name. That kind of functional, internal anonymity breeds laziness.
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🗣️ Keen to share your #DigitalHumanities research methods?
Everything we publish is #DiamondOpenAccess.
tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog
📩 Send us your proposal by: 15 February 2026
#CallForPapers
Everything we publish is #DiamondOpenAccess.
tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog
📩 Send us your proposal by: 15 February 2026
#CallForPapers
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
🗣️ Keen to share your #DigitalHumanities research methods?
Everything we publish is #DiamondOpenAccess.
tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog
📩 Send us your proposal by: 15 February 2026
#CallForPapers
Everything we publish is #DiamondOpenAccess.
tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog
📩 Send us your proposal by: 15 February 2026
#CallForPapers
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In 2023-ish it was trendy to write papers trying to explain why scaling laws had power law structures. The papers I remember were pretty unconvincing. Did anything meaningful come of this work? What does the best work in this vein look like?
November 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
In 2023-ish it was trendy to write papers trying to explain why scaling laws had power law structures. The papers I remember were pretty unconvincing. Did anything meaningful come of this work? What does the best work in this vein look like?
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Would the digital humanities community like to have their own section on arxiv? Pros/cons?
This has been a challenge for cs.HC: we need folks to step up and support that category. Please contact me if you are interested in moderating either DH or HC! Thanks!
November 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Would the digital humanities community like to have their own section on arxiv? Pros/cons?
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For any lovers of Aeschylus in Greek, we are looking for people to evaluate literal translations and glosses produced by Gemini 3. The data is here: github.com/gregorycrane...
GRC_misc/aesch/AeschTBTrans at main · gregorycrane/GRC_misc
Contribute to gregorycrane/GRC_misc development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
For any lovers of Aeschylus in Greek, we are looking for people to evaluate literal translations and glosses produced by Gemini 3. The data is here: github.com/gregorycrane...
Reposted by David Mimno
even so, "user engagement" has forms tied to task success, to entertainment, to social connection, to habit, and to compulsion. collapsing them into a single scalar metric hides important differences in what users actually want from these systems. 25/26
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
even so, "user engagement" has forms tied to task success, to entertainment, to social connection, to habit, and to compulsion. collapsing them into a single scalar metric hides important differences in what users actually want from these systems. 25/26
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Here at UMass Amherst CICS, we’re searching for TT faculty in NLP – see the link from
www.cics.umass.edu/about/employ...
I’m happy to answer questions of course, too!
www.cics.umass.edu/about/employ...
I’m happy to answer questions of course, too!
Faculty Positions
Open tenure-track and teaching faculty positions in computer science and informatics at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
www.cics.umass.edu
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Here at UMass Amherst CICS, we’re searching for TT faculty in NLP – see the link from
www.cics.umass.edu/about/employ...
I’m happy to answer questions of course, too!
www.cics.umass.edu/about/employ...
I’m happy to answer questions of course, too!
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A student is working on detecting gaps in text transcriptions. Does anyone in #DigiClass or beyond know of open transcriptions of ancient Greek inscriptions, in EpiDoc or otherwise, similar to papyri.info ? I've worked with literary texts and papyri, but I'm stumped on this.
papyri.info
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
A student is working on detecting gaps in text transcriptions. Does anyone in #DigiClass or beyond know of open transcriptions of ancient Greek inscriptions, in EpiDoc or otherwise, similar to papyri.info ? I've worked with literary texts and papyri, but I'm stumped on this.
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The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901
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November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901
I just read this in English (The master of the Day of Judgment) and it was excellent. I’m guessing Eco liked it too. I can’t find an online copy of the German (1921), does anyone know a source?
(CW self harm)
(CW self harm)
Nothing to do with AI, but this, this was an incredible novel. One of Borges’ favorite too.
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I just read this in English (The master of the Day of Judgment) and it was excellent. I’m guessing Eco liked it too. I can’t find an online copy of the German (1921), does anyone know a source?
(CW self harm)
(CW self harm)
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Three exciting opportunities at
@msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC!!! 🎉
Internship w/ FATE: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
Internship w/ STAC on AI evaluation and measurement: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
Postdoc w/ FATE: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
@msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC!!! 🎉
Internship w/ FATE: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
Internship w/ STAC on AI evaluation and measurement: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
Postdoc w/ FATE: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
FATE internships: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
FATE postdocs: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
And internships with our close collaborators at STAC: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
FATE postdocs: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
And internships with our close collaborators at STAC: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Three exciting opportunities at
@msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC!!! 🎉
Internship w/ FATE: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
Internship w/ STAC on AI evaluation and measurement: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
Postdoc w/ FATE: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
@msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC!!! 🎉
Internship w/ FATE: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
Internship w/ STAC on AI evaluation and measurement: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
Postdoc w/ FATE: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
In chapter 9 of #ComputationalHumanities, Ben Schmidt goes back to a previous computational turn (and backlash) in digital history in "The Lessons of Time on the Cross"
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In chapter 9 of #ComputationalHumanities, Ben Schmidt goes back to a previous computational turn (and backlash) in digital history in "The Lessons of Time on the Cross"
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
Reposted by David Mimno
Wisconsin-Madison CS is recruiting faculty for natural language processing!
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences: Natural Language Processing (RISE-AI) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
jobs.wisc.edu
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Wisconsin-Madison CS is recruiting faculty for natural language processing!
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
The second half of #ComputationalHumanities ("asking about") starts with @roopikarisam.bsky.social on the multiple, overlapping challenges faced in computational ethnic studies, and concrete suggestions for how everyone can help reduce them!
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The second half of #ComputationalHumanities ("asking about") starts with @roopikarisam.bsky.social on the multiple, overlapping challenges faced in computational ethnic studies, and concrete suggestions for how everyone can help reduce them!
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
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Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at @msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉
Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.
Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at @msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉
Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.
Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.