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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I’ve been invited to give a keynote at RetroEval 2026. 🤩 Loving the conference title. We all need some retro evaluation in the age of LLM-generated benchmarks.

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Anyone thinking Weightwatchers when seeing mentions of the Academic Size & Shape project?

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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet. OpenAI: We'll do it

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

This tech, called “AI“ in the article, is already being used in some NHS trusts. Called Transpara and is a convolutional neural network trained on 1mio images to classify the likelihood of breast cancer in each new new mammography. Boffins made it 😉 www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #WhenTheySayAI

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The Lancet: AI-supported mammography screening results in fewer aggressive and advanced breast cancers, finds full results from first randomized controlled trial

Artificial intelligence (AI)-supported mammography identifies more cancers during screening and reduces the rate of breast cancer diagnosis by 12% in the years ...

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I mean, if Downdetector is down, it must be bad. :-)

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

OpenAI updates its terms of service for ChatGPT: can’t use the service for “tailored advice that requires a license, such as legal or medical advice, without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional.” www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

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ChatGPT users can’t use service for tailored legal and medical advice, OpenAI says

OpenAI dispelled suggestions that it’s changing its terms around legal and medical advice.

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Happy 10th Anniversary to the JOHD: openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com. It's wonderful to celebrate open access to humanities data as supported by this journal. And thank you for inviting me to speak about our work www.hiddenheritages.ai where we provide access to digitised Irish and Gaelic folktales.

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Decoding Hidden Heritages

Explore the shared linguistic and cultural heritage of Ireland and Scotland

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

#Edinburgh folks: free hackathon for 15-18 year olds on Sat 27th Sept. Build a project in a day. Free, beginner-friendly, and open to secondary students. Food, drinks, snacks, and swag are provided. At @codebasetech.bsky.social, Castle Terrace. Sign up at: lochdin-edinburgh.netlify.app Please share!

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Loch'd In — Teen Hackathon in Edinburgh

Loch'd In is a 12-hour teen hackathon in Edinburgh. Free, beginner-friendly, and myth-inspired.

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Interesting stats from EMNLP: This year, we received 8174 submissions and accepted 22.16% of the submissions as Main papers and 17.35% as Findings. … 82 papers were desk-rejected because at least one of their authors had been identified as an irresponsible reviewer 2025.emnlp.org/desk-rejecti...

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 13/08/2025

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

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Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Hidden Heritages - a great resource providing access to digitised Gaelic and Irish folktales. The transcription was done automatically using @transkribus.bsky.social or crowdsourcing. A great example of the use of AI and NLP for the benefits of research and society.

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Published today! 🗞️🗞️🗞️ Can Topic Modeling of Local Newspaper Texts Enhance Understanding of Neighborhood Effects on Health? Eleojo O. Abubakar, A. Grivas, B. Guthrie, C. Zheng, C. Grover, C. Llewellyn, C. MacRae, R. Tobin, B. Alex, C. Dibben, J. Pearce and A. Marshall doi.org/10.1111/gean...

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Can Topic Modeling of Local Newspaper Texts Enhance Understanding of Neighborhood Effects on Health?

Social attributes of neighborhoods, like heritage, and low-level social disorder, are not reflected in official metrics such as deprivation indices. However, research suggests these attributes are im...

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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Spaces still available! Join us in two days for this beginner-level online lesson where we’ll teach you how to create a digital gazetteer from historical texts, using the Linked Places Delimited (LP-TSV) format. No programming skills needed! 📅Thur 17 April 🔗 edin.ac/3FBtHoy

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Wonderful to see all the hard work of my PhD student Sarah Immel of the CDT for Designing Responsible NLP exhibited at the Edinburgh Science Festival. Today at the Edinburgh Futures Institute!

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arxiv cs.CL @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Lucy Havens, Benjamin Bach, Melissa Terras, Beatrice Alex Investigating the Capabilities and Limitations of Machine Learning for Identifying Bias in English Language Data with Information and Heritage Professionals arxiv.org/abs/2504.00860

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Simple but impactful chart shows the leading cause of death throughout the lifecycle.

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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Spaces still available to join our two-class course on Bayesian Statistics! We'll cover the fundamentals and provide hands-on practice with Bayesian models in R. 📆 Wed 25 Mar & 2 Apr, 14:00 – 16:00 🔗 edin.ac/42XeZ54

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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Curious about Machine Learning? Join us for our next Digital Methods of the Month session where we'll break down the basics and discuss some of its real world applications. No prior knowledge needed - this session is beginner friendly! 📆 Mon 7 April, 13:00 - 14:00 edin.ac/3DwwC1f

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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Are you a CAHSS researcher with an excellent data-led project? Nominate your work (or someone else's!) for a CDCS Digital Research Prize - there's £250 towards research costs up for grabs! Deadline for nominations NOW EXTENDED: 14th March 2025

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The @EdiClinicalNLP group is now on Bluesky for further announcements: bsky.app/profile/edin...

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Kasia Banas @edinkasia.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Come join us for the Edinburgh Winter School on Teaching Programming across Disciplines! 📍 Where: University of Edinburgh and online 📅 When: Wed 8th January, 9am-5pm GMT 💲 Cost: FREE 📋 More info: pairprogramming.ed.ac.uk/winter-schoo... 👍 Registration: forms.office.com/e/d3WABzje3n #Edusky

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Winter School 2025: Program and Details – Teaching Programming across Disciplines at the University of Edinburgh

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