Homepage News Section — Design

Date: 2026-06-27 Status: Approved

Goal

Add a “News” section to the homepage (_pages/about.md) that shows recent, dated updates (papers, talks, internships, programs) in a compact, scrollable box — matching the convention on academic homepages such as fywalter.github.io and isthatyou.github.io.

Placement

Directly after the bio in _pages/about.md, under a ## News heading.

Item format

Date-prefixed: a bold “Mon YYYY” date, an em dash, then the entry text with inline links. Newest first.

Display behavior

A fixed-height container (~5 items tall) with an internal vertical scrollbar for older entries, so the homepage stays compact as the list grows.

Architecture (data-driven)

Three pieces, each with one responsibility:

1. _data/news.yml — the content. A list of entries: ```yaml
   • date: 2026-05-01 # real date; used for sorting and display content: “New preprint available: Certainty Distortion in Language Model Rewriting” ``` content is Markdown (inline links allowed). date is a full YYYY-MM-DD.
2. _includes/news.html — the renderer. Sorts entries by date descending, formats each date as %b %Y (“May 2026”), renders content through markdownify (stripping the wrapping <p>), and emits the scroll-box markup:

      
   <div class="news-list">
        
       <div class="news-item">
         <span class="news-date">Jun 2026</span>
         <span class="news-text">Excited to start a research internship at Apple, working on post-training recipes to improve the QA system powering Siri! 🙌
   </span>
       </div>
        
       <div class="news-item">
         <span class="news-date">Jun 2026</span>
         <span class="news-text">Honored to be interviewed for the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCOZrevHJlc&amp;list=PLT-CmpE4c3jer-nHVath1ZbeacyXc-Thx">Deep Learning Voices</a> hosted by the Deep Learning Sessions Portugal (remote)! 🥂
   </span>
       </div>
        
       <div class="news-item">
         <span class="news-date">May 2026</span>
         <span class="news-text">New preprint out — <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.07951">Certainty Distortion in Language Model Rewriting</a>! 🌟
   </span>
       </div>
        
       <div class="news-item">
         <span class="news-date">Jan 2026</span>
         <span class="news-text">Our paper <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02671">Uncertainty as Feature Gaps</a> was accepted at ICLR 2026! 🎉
   </span>
       </div>
        
       <div class="news-item">
         <span class="news-date">Jan 2026</span>
         <span class="news-text">Excited to TA CS 175 — Projects in AI (Winter 2026), where I’ll mentor students building NLP-related projects! 🙌
   </span>
       </div>
        
       <div class="news-item">
         <span class="news-date">Dec 2025</span>
         <span class="news-text">Our paper <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10661">Bayesian Evaluation of Black-box LLM Behavior</a> was accepted at the NeurIPS 2025 LLM Evaluations Workshop! 🎉
   </span>
       </div>
        
       <div class="news-item">
         <span class="news-date">Dec 2025</span>
         <span class="news-text">Our paper <a href="/files/soft_constrained_decoding.pdf">Semantic Probabilistic Control of Language Models</a> was accepted at the NeurIPS 2025 SPIGM Workshop! 🎉
   </span>
       </div>
        
       <div class="news-item">
         <span class="news-date">Nov 2025</span>
         <span class="news-text">Our paper <a href="https://aclanthology.org/2025.tsar-1.4/">Readability Reconsidered</a> was accepted at the TSAR Workshop @ EMNLP 2025! 🎉
   </span>
       </div>
        
       <div class="news-item">
         <span class="news-date">Jun 2025</span>
         <span class="news-text">Excited to start a research internship at Capital One, working on post-training recipes for question-answering systems! 🙌
   </span>
       </div>
        
       <div class="news-item">
         <span class="news-date">Apr 2025</span>
         <span class="news-text">Our paper on <a href="https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-naacl.293/">hallucination in multi-document summarization</a> was accepted at NAACL 2025 Findings! 🎉
   </span>
       </div>
        
       <div class="news-item">
         <span class="news-date">Apr 2025</span>
         <span class="news-text">Gave an invited talk at the <a href="https://mcgill-nlp.github.io/reading-group/winter-2025/catarina-belem/">Mila/McGill NLP reading group</a> on perceptions of linguistic uncertainty! 🎊
   </span>
       </div>
        
       <div class="news-item">
         <span class="news-date">Mar 2025</span>
         <span class="news-text">New preprint out — <a href="/files/soft_constrained_decoding.pdf">Semantic Probabilistic Control of Language Models</a>! 🌟
   </span>
       </div>
        
       <div class="news-item">
         <span class="news-date">Jan 2025</span>
         <span class="news-text">Our paper on <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-024-00976-7">what large language models know and what people think they know</a> was published in Nature Machine Intelligence! 🎉
   </span>
       </div>
        
       <div class="news-item">
         <span class="news-date">Nov 2024</span>
         <span class="news-text">Our paper <a href="https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.483/">Perceptions of Linguistic Uncertainty</a> was accepted at EMNLP 2024! 🎉
   </span>
       </div>
        
       <div class="news-item">
         <span class="news-date">Jun 2024</span>
         <span class="news-text">Excited to start a research internship at Megagon Labs, working on evaluating, characterizing, and mitigating hallucinations in multi-document summarization! 🙌
   </span>
       </div>
        
   </div>
   

3. _sass/_custom.scss — the styling. A .news-list scroll box and .news-item / .news-date / .news-text rules, all using the brand --global-* variables (pale blue-gray #EAF0F6 background via --global-code-background-color, cool-gray #CAD4DF border, deep-slate bold date, muted-blue links inherited from the theme).

_pages/about.md references the section with ## News + `

`.

Seed entries (newest first)

| date (YYYY-MM-DD) | display | content | |—|—|—| | 2026-06-01 | Jun 2026 | Participating in the Deep Voices program from DLSPT (remote) | | 2026-05-01 | May 2026 | New preprint available: Certainty Distortion in Language Model Rewriting | | 2026-01-15 | Jan 2026 | Paper accepted at ICLR 2026: Uncertainty as Feature Gaps | | 2025-06-15 | Jun 2025 | Started a research internship at Apple | | 2025-06-01 | Jun 2025 | Started a research internship at Capital One | | 2025-04-01 | Apr 2025 | Invited talk at the Mila/McGill NLP reading group on Perceptions of Linguistic Uncertainty (details) | | 2025-03-01 | Mar 2025 | New preprint available: Semantic Probabilistic Control of Language Models | | 2025-01-01 | Jan 2025 | Paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence | | 2024-11-01 | Nov 2024 | EMNLP 2024 main-conference paper: Perceptions of Linguistic Uncertainty | | 2024-06-01 | Jun 2024 | Started a research internship at Megagon Labs |

Note: Apple and Capital One are both dated Jun 2025 per the user; distinct date day values keep their ordering stable while both display “Jun 2025”.

Out of scope

• No separate /news/ archive page.
• No automatic generation of news from the publications/talks collections.
• No per-item icons or tags.

Files touched

• _data/news.yml (new)
• _includes/news.html (new)
• _pages/about.md (edit: add News section)
• _sass/_custom.scss (edit: add .news-list styles)