naitian
@naitian.org
NLP / CSS PhD at Berkeley I School. I develop computational methods to study culture as a social language.
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The deadline has been extended to Monday, August 3 --
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
📄 One-page submissions
🔓 Non-archival
⏰ Due August 1
📍 October 5 @UCBerkeley
tada2026.org
August 1, 2026 at 1:59 AM
The deadline has been extended to Monday, August 3 --
Wheeeeee Text as Data is coming back, and will be in the Bay Area right before COLM! One-page extended abstract due on August 1 -- hope to see you all there!
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
📄 One-page submissions
🔓 Non-archival
⏰ Due August 1
📍 October 5 @UCBerkeley
tada2026.org
July 14, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Wheeeeee Text as Data is coming back, and will be in the Bay Area right before COLM! One-page extended abstract due on August 1 -- hope to see you all there!
In case you missed it, the GenAI for the World workshop (co-located w/ COLM) extended submissions until 6/30 AoE!
We welcome work on globalizing tasks, evaluations, and systems. All submissions are non-archival. Tracks for direct submissions or accepted COLM papers
sites.google.com/view/genai4w...
We welcome work on globalizing tasks, evaluations, and systems. All submissions are non-archival. Tracks for direct submissions or accepted COLM papers
sites.google.com/view/genai4w...
June 26, 2026 at 8:13 PM
In case you missed it, the GenAI for the World workshop (co-located w/ COLM) extended submissions until 6/30 AoE!
We welcome work on globalizing tasks, evaluations, and systems. All submissions are non-archival. Tracks for direct submissions or accepted COLM papers
sites.google.com/view/genai4w...
We welcome work on globalizing tasks, evaluations, and systems. All submissions are non-archival. Tracks for direct submissions or accepted COLM papers
sites.google.com/view/genai4w...
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If you count the first calendar we did as the beginning of ORB, which we do, then today is our one-year anniversary of being An Actual Thing! One full ORBIT around the sun!
a computer generated image of the earth and moon in orbit
ALT: a computer generated image of the earth and moon in orbit
media.tenor.com
April 30, 2026 at 4:02 PM
If you count the first calendar we did as the beginning of ORB, which we do, then today is our one-year anniversary of being An Actual Thing! One full ORBIT around the sun!
vibe coding is so good for taking my horrifying jupyter notebooks and converting them into a set of self-contained scripts that are more reproducible
April 24, 2026 at 5:31 PM
vibe coding is so good for taking my horrifying jupyter notebooks and converting them into a set of self-contained scripts that are more reproducible
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Patrick Sui and I are hosting an #ICLR2026 social for anyone with background/interest in the humanities! Room 210, 12-1:30pm on Friday 24 April!! Humanities-adjacent, humanities-curious, everyone is welcome! Should be a fun group! :)
April 22, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Patrick Sui and I are hosting an #ICLR2026 social for anyone with background/interest in the humanities! Room 210, 12-1:30pm on Friday 24 April!! Humanities-adjacent, humanities-curious, everyone is welcome! Should be a fun group! :)
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early view of my article is out! it explores the twinned ideologies of referentialism that often subtend language and "AI" and how those ideologies break apart in the R&D pipeline, where the social-pragmatic dimension of both speech + data come to the fore rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long-stan...
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 20, 2026 at 1:29 PM
early view of my article is out! it explores the twinned ideologies of referentialism that often subtend language and "AI" and how those ideologies break apart in the R&D pipeline, where the social-pragmatic dimension of both speech + data come to the fore rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Would you realize if the book you were reading was AI? What if it was humanized to remove AI-speak?
We find that even without using stylistic cues (e.g., word choice or sentence structure) narrative choices alone give AI fiction away!
We find that even without using stylistic cues (e.g., word choice or sentence structure) narrative choices alone give AI fiction away!
April 7, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Would you realize if the book you were reading was AI? What if it was humanized to remove AI-speak?
We find that even without using stylistic cues (e.g., word choice or sentence structure) narrative choices alone give AI fiction away!
We find that even without using stylistic cues (e.g., word choice or sentence structure) narrative choices alone give AI fiction away!
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my hot take is that this is a *fantastic* result & reason for optimism:
April 1, 2026 at 4:15 PM
my hot take is that this is a *fantastic* result & reason for optimism:
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Join @taylor-arnold.bsky.social and me for a postdoc to expand distant viewing! 2 years. Awesome liberal
arts college. Great city. Option to teach 1-2 courses a year for extra pay. Thanks to Mellon for the opportunity! Happy to answer any questions.
richmond.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff_...
arts college. Great city. Option to teach 1-2 courses a year for extra pay. Thanks to Mellon for the opportunity! Happy to answer any questions.
richmond.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff_...
March 24, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Join @taylor-arnold.bsky.social and me for a postdoc to expand distant viewing! 2 years. Awesome liberal
arts college. Great city. Option to teach 1-2 courses a year for extra pay. Thanks to Mellon for the opportunity! Happy to answer any questions.
richmond.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff_...
arts college. Great city. Option to teach 1-2 courses a year for extra pay. Thanks to Mellon for the opportunity! Happy to answer any questions.
richmond.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff_...
every slide is a banger??
For a recent lab meeting, I wrote up a grab bag of ways to think about your development as a researcher during a PhD: emerge-lab.github.io/papers/an-un...
Sharing in case folks find it useful or have feedback!
Sharing in case folks find it useful or have feedback!
emerge-lab.github.io
March 16, 2026 at 10:42 PM
every slide is a banger??
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ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online
I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players
ssh snakes.run to join!
I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players
ssh snakes.run to join!
February 26, 2026 at 4:10 PM
ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online
I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players
ssh snakes.run to join!
I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players
ssh snakes.run to join!
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We visualize the Olympic medal count as Norwegian-style scarf. :) 📊
Check out how Germany looks like and generate your own scarf – including download of the knitting pattern.
Check out how Germany looks like and generate your own scarf – including download of the knitting pattern.
February 23, 2026 at 11:29 AM
We visualize the Olympic medal count as Norwegian-style scarf. :) 📊
Check out how Germany looks like and generate your own scarf – including download of the knitting pattern.
Check out how Germany looks like and generate your own scarf – including download of the knitting pattern.
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We were excited to host @naitian.org at today’s lab seminar for a talk on variation, semiotics, fashion, and style. A refreshing perspective at the intersection of sociolinguistics and NLP!
#NLProc
#NLProc
February 13, 2026 at 4:55 PM
We were excited to host @naitian.org at today’s lab seminar for a talk on variation, semiotics, fashion, and style. A refreshing perspective at the intersection of sociolinguistics and NLP!
#NLProc
#NLProc
ew why is claude doing that
February 5, 2026 at 9:21 PM
ew why is claude doing that
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we got you 😭 www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
Best gas masks
“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.
www.theverge.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:55 PM
we got you 😭 www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
“Position paper” is just a label to make some kinds of interdisciplinary theoretical work fit into the CS publishing schema.
In addition, when considering different subfields, we find striking differences in how we classify 'position' papers, leading to huge differences in how this policy affects different CS subfields.
January 29, 2026 at 4:42 PM
“Position paper” is just a label to make some kinds of interdisciplinary theoretical work fit into the CS publishing schema.
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Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
I just got back from Michigan and—
January 7, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I just got back from Michigan and—
Showing this to everyone that I meet at a conference that thinks I’m an extrovert
A farewell card for #chr2025 people, safe travels everyone✨
December 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Showing this to everyone that I meet at a conference that thinks I’m an extrovert
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Excited to get this work out in the world at #chr2025 (with Sabrina Baur, Mackenzie Cramer, Anna Ho and Tom McEnaney) -- asking: how much do contemporary songs tell stories, and how has that changed over the past half century?
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
Measuring the Stories in Contemporary Songs
anthology.ach.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Excited to get this work out in the world at #chr2025 (with Sabrina Baur, Mackenzie Cramer, Anna Ho and Tom McEnaney) -- asking: how much do contemporary songs tell stories, and how has that changed over the past half century?
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
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Keeping this at hand in case I need to point to it and tap
December 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Keeping this at hand in case I need to point to it and tap
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New grant program announcement: You've heard me talk this morning about those 23 new DH awards from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program? Well, we just announced our new RFP for 2026! Teams can be global too! Please consider applying. RFP here: www.schmidtsciences.org/opportunity/...
2026 Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI) RFP - Schmidt Sciences
Overview [Read the full RFP] Schmidt Sciences is requesting proposals to the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI), aimed at fostering research in the digital humanities with a particular focus ...
www.schmidtsciences.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
New grant program announcement: You've heard me talk this morning about those 23 new DH awards from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program? Well, we just announced our new RFP for 2026! Teams can be global too! Please consider applying. RFP here: www.schmidtsciences.org/opportunity/...
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Lavinia Dunagan and @dallascard.bsky.social find implicit references to bible verses using a combination of neural embeddings and text similarity—neither is enough on its own #CHR2025
December 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Lavinia Dunagan and @dallascard.bsky.social find implicit references to bible verses using a combination of neural embeddings and text similarity—neither is enough on its own #CHR2025
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Awesome, the Edinburgh HCRC map task corpus 30 years later without the insane "different maps" complication.
Of course, not really fully embodied, but at least spatial, and super well controlled. #AI
Here's the older one: groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/maptask/
via @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social
Of course, not really fully embodied, but at least spatial, and super well controlled. #AI
Here's the older one: groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/maptask/
via @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Awesome, the Edinburgh HCRC map task corpus 30 years later without the insane "different maps" complication.
Of course, not really fully embodied, but at least spatial, and super well controlled. #AI
Here's the older one: groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/maptask/
via @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social
Of course, not really fully embodied, but at least spatial, and super well controlled. #AI
Here's the older one: groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/maptask/
via @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social