Xanda Schofield (she/her)

Assistant Professor in Comp Sci @harveymudd. Answering weird questions about too much text data. Bi/pan, she/her.
🐘 @[email protected]

[Xanda Schofield (she/her) @XandaSchofield]

For anyone I don't usually chat with: my department (computer science at Harvey Mudd) is hiring faculty! I like working here and you might too!
https://t.co/kLWePPncER

[Talia Ringer 🕊🪬 @TaliaRinger]

Wildly inappropriate that the speaker felt it necessary to specify that the student is Chinese, should go without saying

[Ian Arawjo @IanArawjo]

The one paper I can't stop thinking about from #CHI2024 is the nocebo effect paper: "The Placebo effect is robust to negative descriptions of AI". This was really stellar work with wide ramifications for the field. Should've gotten Best Paper. https://t.co/GIUeaSXYPZ

[Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R]

With another semester ending, here's your annual reminder that teaching evaluations systemically disadvantage women. Even when controlling for grades and other factors, students (esp. males) consistently give female professors lower scores. This can have serious ramifications.🧵

[Shaily @shaily99]

Conference locations are becoming more accessible (great!!) but conferences are still very expensive for most people in the world. Please considering sponsoring @QueerinAI (and when the time comes @WiNLPWorkshop for EMNLP) so we can help more authors actually make it in-person!!

[samson zhang @wwsalmon]

Claremont Faculty for Justice in Palestine have released a statement saying they are “appalled” by the college’s actions.

“On Friday afternoon Pomona College took aggressive action against the protesters, infringing on their rights to free speech and peaceful protest.”

[National Students for Justice in Palestine @NationalSJP]

BREAKING NEWS AT POMONA COLLEGE: 30+ cops have arrived on campus in full riot gear to arrest students who are currently trapped inside Alexander Hall. Earlier today, students initiated a sit-in in response to the administration violently confiscating their mock apartheid wall.

[samson zhang @wwsalmon]

MASS ARREST OF STUDENT PALESTINE PROTESTERS AT POMONA COLLEGE IN LA RIGHT NOW.

I’m covering for student publication. Please DM me for info + media.

[Hal Daumé III @haldaume3]

I wish we could stop worrying about whether something is intelligent or whether something is general, and just focus on whether something is useful, whether something helps people, and whether something moves society in a positive direction.

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[Xanda Schofield (she/her) @XandaSchofield]

It was an absolutely honor to contribute to the Data-Sitter's Club, which is a project I've always deeply admired. Shoutout to co-authors Sathvika (HMC '24) and Quinn for being so fun to work with on this.

[Maria Antoniak @maria_antoniak]

Is this my favorite thing on the internet? Is @XandaSchofield the best at explaining things and is Quinn Dombrowski brilliant for creating The Data-Sitter's Club? Yes yes yes!

"DSC #20: Xanda Rescues the Topic Model Disaster"

https://t.co/6UAVPs8kPq

[Academic Chatter™ @AcademicChatter]

A PhD (or any advanced degree) says absolutely nothing about your intelligence.

[H @haleyhaala]

Considering the mind-boggling amount of $$ flowing through #NLProc right now, it's surprising to hear that @WiNLPWorkshop has funding shortages. If your org has cash, please reach out to WiNLP to help them fund underrepresented authors at @emnlpmeeting!

[Irene Chen @irenetrampoline]

I've been compiling a list of resources page on my website for years, and @shaily99 's page blows mine out of the water 🤯

If you are applying to PhDs, doing research, give talks, or have a pulse, check out her advice

https://t.co/gyRXtr7S6f

[Xanda Schofield (she/her) @XandaSchofield]

Shoutout to @agile42 for an awesome in-class activity!

[Harvey Mudd College @harveymudd]

Mudders made their own "Kanban Pizza," in CS 123 with computer science professor @XandaSchofield ’13. The activity helps students visualize how to get from an existing process to a Kanban system, a workflow management method that helps implement improved work systems.

[Emma Pierson @2plus2make5]

I am recruiting PhD students for Fall '24! Please apply to Cornell CS if you are interested in ML, data science, health, or inequality. Feel free to retweet!

We are based in NYC - here's the view from our island campus (taken during Pride - note the rainbow lights!)

[Andrew Kuznetsov @andrewkuznet]

For any CS PhD applicants this year:

'Grad app support programs' give informal feedback (on statements, etc) from current PhD students before formally applying. Valuable stuff.

Made a 2024 tracker. Feel free to share! +Reach out if one's missing. 👇

https://t.co/MzB69pYHVz

[Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldni]

Just opened our call for PYIs (@allen_ai's residency program) If you:

- are thinking about a PhD, but you'd like to try research
- are a strong prototyper (have build ML models, NLP systems, or HCI apps)
- want to work with us on LLMs, NLP 4 science, HCI sensemaking

Apply🙌

[Conor Power @conor_power23]

Its PhD application season. Here are a few very cool new professors from my lab who you should apply to work with!
Sam Kumar, UCLA: Systems & Security
Mae Milano, Princeton: PL & Systems
Stephanie Wang, UW: Systems
Dixin Tang, UT Austin: Data
Daniel Kang, UIUC: Data & ML
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[Xanda Schofield (she/her) @XandaSchofield]

@mdredze A+ slide - much more subtle than the mug approach I use for Zoom meetings

[Xanda Schofield (she/her) @XandaSchofield]

celebrating the start of semester by scheduling my phone to lock me out of email, internet browser, and Slack between 11 PM and 9 AM