Tal August

A beautifully designed roguelike: Hades (second one I think came out recently). Can't say it is super stressful, but worth a play!

Deadline for submission is in just under 10 days! Reach out if you have any questions.

What is future of reading? 📗

Announcing the 1st Science & Technology of Augmented Reading (STAR) workshop at #CHI2026!

We want your takes on: 🤖 AI & Agents for reading 👁️ Visual Interactions 🗺️ Domains (Code, Law, Ed, etc.)

👇 Submit a 2-4 pg paper: chi-star-workshop.github.io

While I'm unfortunately not at #ACL2025, please check out @shaily99.bsky.social's super cool poster on research cultures and language model evaluations!

Thanks! Happy to be here

🚨 Calling all writing tutors & instructors!
Can writing tools give guidance, but not text suggestions?
We built a prototype based on conversations with tutors, and would love your feedback!
📝 Try it out 👉 tinyurl.com/writor-system
🧾 Take a short survey (same link)
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Research Borderlands: Analysing Writing Across Research Cultures Improving cultural competence of language technologies is important. However most recent works rarely engage with the communities they study, and instead rely on synthetic setups and imperfect proxies...

Been cooking this up with the awesome @mariaa.bsky.social & @talaugust.bsky.social since my internship at S2, @ai2.bsky.social.

Very excited to present it at 🎉 @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025 (Main) 🎉 and as one of the 16(!!) plenary talks at 🎉 @ic2s2.bsky.social 🎉

📜 arxiv.org/abs/2506.00784

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Cool! Ya seems like it would be good to have better guardrails for this in an education focused application

From Crafting Text to Crafting Thought: Grounding Intelligent Writing Support to Writing Center Pedagogy Yijun Liu, Tal August. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing 2025). 2025.

As a former writing tutor, I've been waiting for someone to write this paper! By Yijun Liu and @talaugust.bsky.social.

Thanks Maria! We are both former tutors too and that was a major reason we wrote it :)