Ben Litterer

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…

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 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

do residents of real big cities know that the anti-city racist crime propaganda extends to every urban area in the country? there are people in small towns around here who are afraid to go to Cedar Rapids

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

Not me spending weeks clustering, cleaning, and modeling millions of rows of data just to make 3 absolutely mid matplotlib plots in the default color 😅