Ben Litterer

Thanks to @dallascard and @david__jurgens for their help on this project! We also received great feedback from members of the Blablablab and CLC lab

Interested in working with SPoRC? Our data, paper, and code for creating the data and doing the analysis are freely available! paper: arxiv.org/abs/2411.07892 processing code: github.com/blitt2018/SPoR… analysis code: github.com/blitt2018/SPoR… data: huggingface.co/datasets/blitt…

Podcasts are a popular medium, but data for computational research is limited! We introduce the Structured Podcast Research Corpus (SPoRC - huggingface.co/datasets/blitt…), a large, multimodal dataset of English podcasts 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2411.07892

Honored to receive best paper at #ACL2023 @SIConWorkshop for our lab's (@_Hong_Chen @_jason_yan Kenan Alkiek @jiaxin_pei @agrima_seth @studentinfojock @minje__choi @BenLitterer @david__jurgens) work exploring Linguistic Accommodation on Reddit aclanthology.org/2023.sicon-1.7 A 🧵 1/13

Sound familiar? We've been told that a modest salary of $38k is "unrealistic". It's not. What's "unrealistic" is expecting grads to live in (stupidly expensive) Ann Arbor on anything less.

Our month-long strike was covered by @democracynow this morning! Like working people up and down the country, we're facing a cost of living squeeze while bosses like @UMichPrezOno rake in millions. We're proud to be fighting back against this inequality! democracynow.org/2023/4/26/head…

At today's hearing, the judge refused to issue a temporary restraining order against GEO. This is a HUGE WIN for the union - we continue to organize, strike, and pressure the University to meet our demands at the bargaining table. They can lie, they can sue, but UM works because WE do! ✊💜

SAN JOSE POLICE UNION EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CHARGED WITH ATTEMPT TO IMPORT, SELL FENTANYL. …it’s not just coming from the border. Police are bringing in the drugs killing our communities. Fentanyl is produced right here in America. This problem is so much bigger than border security. “Sean Pritchard, president of the San Jose Police Officer's association says he first got a call from federal authorities last Friday that Joanne Segovia, the union's executive director, was charged with attempting to import illegal synthetic opioid drugs from overseas, specifically valeryl fentanyl.” abc7news.com/joanne-segovia…

I occasionally hear my fellow grad students say something to the effect of "It sucks that I could go work at a gas station and earn more than I do now" Even though grad students are largely underpaid, I find it incredibly insulting to bash other workers for their pay increases

We can agitate for better working conditions in our universities without putting down workers in other sectors

@jiaxin_pei @jmendelsohn2 👀👀

@jmzumeldumlao @timgill924 I'll make sure to hold you accountable if you leave the office before 9 pm or do anything but study on the weekends 😤😤

Whenever I feel myself slowing down writing my essay, I remember @timgill924 and my motivation is instantly replenished

Seminal works in the fantasy genre gotta be lord of the rings, wheel of time, and of course, everything in macroeconomics