It is wild how quickly Claude Code lets you progress from rapid prototyping to feature creep.

@lucy3.bsky.social Yes, don't leave us in suspense!

To accommodate ACL decisions, we are further extending the commitment deadline for pre-reviewed ARR submissions to April 7!

Thank you to everyone who has completed their reviews for the NLP+CSS workshop! If anyone has the bandwidth to help with emergency reviewing over the next couple of days, please send me a DM!

I guess the appropriate baseline comparison would be a map with each state's population visualized using the dot encoding.

Yes, nice observation here! It looks to me like they've just computed a value per state, and then randomly distributed that many dots in the corresponding area. But as you say, it looks like that's only for the US, whereas Canada and other countries just have one value for the entire country.

Deadline extended! Get your direct submissions in by March 8 AoE

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If any of them are interested in podcasts, they could try looking at some subset of SPORC (e.g., Arts, Leisure, Music, Fiction, etc.): huggingface.co/datasets/bli...

Looks great! Can't wait to read!

Finally, many thanks to Stuart Soroka (@snsoroka.bsky.social) for championing this work!

When it Rains, it Pours: Modeling Media Storms and the News Ecosystem Benjamin Litterer, David Jurgens, Dallas Card. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023. 2023.

If you've made it this far, you might also want to check out Amber's earlier work on media storms: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1..., or my student Ben Litterer's (@blitt.bsky.social) ACL paper on the same topic: aclanthology.org/2023.finding...

Catching Fire Appendix Cambridge Political Communication Element APPENDIX FOR   CATCHING FIRE IN THE NEWS

For additional details, including coding protocols, teaching resources, and side-by-side case comparisons, you can refer to the accompanying website: www.amber-boydstun.com/catching-fir...

We also discuss additional factors that can influence the course of a storm, such as journalistic gatekeeping, attention fatigue, political activism, and strategic communication online.
For a more in-depth summary, please take a look at Jill's thread here: bsky.app/profile/jill... or read the book!

The book is build around a series of paired case studies -- similar events, where one became a full-fledged media storm, and the other did not -- such as the Titan Submersible Implosion vs. the Messenia Migrant Boat Disaster, occurring just days apart in 2023.

The heart of this work uses the fire triangle model (heat, fuel, and oxygen) as a metaphor to characterize the necessary conditions for an event to become into a media storm -- those stories that are so pervasive in the news that they are practically inescapable.

Catching Fire in the News Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Catching Fire in the News

I'm a little late in sharing this news, but thanks to the extraordinary efforts of Amber Boydstun, @jilllaufer.bsky.social, and @nlpnoah.bsky.social, our book on media storms, "Catching Fire in the News", is now published and available fully open-access from Cambridge! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Congratulations!!

The deadline for the 2026 FAccT DC is next Tuesday, February 24! If you are a student working on topics relevant to the FAccT's scope, this is an opportunity to interact with a diverse set of peers and mentors! #facct2026 #facct26 #facct

Details here: facctconference.org/2026/callfor...

Congratulations!! That's such fantastic news!

Ugh, that's awful....

Apparently they are now seeing cases of senior people asking to be removed from ARR submissions, rather than doing their assigned reviews, so that their students' submissions don't get desk rejected!

I've found people were a bit later than usual this year, but in the end all but two of my reviewers came through with their reviews! Of those who didn't, one was apparently assigned more papers than they requested, so they are choosing to only do the number they asked for.

Hmm... seems like Google's AI Summaries are using a not-so-great (possibly quantized?) model at the moment. Lots of double commas...

It's somehow so endearing to still encounter occasional glitches like this

No worries, I totally get it! (I should also say, I think this is great work, and obviously very timely!)

It might also be interesting to check how many self-identify one way or another (e.g., "this review ..." or "in this position paper ...", etc.)

There is also ML Feed, although I'm not sure which came first bsky.app/profile/smcg...

Facebook AI Creates Its Own Language In Creepy Preview Of Our Potential Future In a glimpse at what the beginning of the technological singularity might look like, researchers at Facebook shut down an artificial intelligence platform after the bots went off script and developed ...

Yeah, it seems like the interesting part is that this type of story tends to capture so many people's attention. I guess there is something about social simulation and emergence that people find exciting? Reminds me somewhat of this classic from 2017: www.forbes.com/sites/tonybr...

Cool, that definitely makes sense in terms of practicality, although they do seem kind of different conceptually. Do you have a sense of what proportion in your sample are just straight up reviews (i.e,. here's what's been written on this topic) vs. what proportion have more of a normative argument?

I wrote a short post touching on this a while back. Seems like we are seeing somewhat polarized reactions to this idea... dallascard.github.io/granular-mat...