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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

To celebrate reaching 500 citations (and commiserate 100 job applications in my search for full time work post PhD) I went out for a joint citations celebration applications commiserations degustation.

Eddie Ungless, a white trans masc person, sits at a restaurant table smiling at the camera. He is wearing a very bright orange, pink and red swirling pattern shirt. In front of him is a plate of Vietnamese food.

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My post-doc at Uni of Surrey with Prof Sastry has come to an end, so I'm looking for work 👀 Seeking interdisciplinary projects looking at the harms of AI to marginalised people. I have a strong publication record and v. broad range of skills. Ideally hybrid/ remote positions in UK. Please share 🩷

A "selfie" photograph of Eddie Ungless, a white transmasc researcher, wearing a pink suit. They are smiling at the camera. He has a brown mullet, brown moustache, and several facial piercings. There are two pieces of overlaid text. These read "Open to work" and "Interdisciplinary researcher with expertise on the harms of AI"

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Seeking stats advice! I have a dataset of replies, from a large number of users, to a small number of recipients, men and women. I want to work out of the rates of a particularly type of reply are higher for women than men. Thinking mixed effects logistic model, but unsure how to handle recipients.

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I will be at #CHI2026, happy to talk all things NLP and queer identity, and presenting my work on use of LLMs for support during break-ups. Say hello 😁

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Alice Ross @alice-ross.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🔔 final reminder! I promise! 🔔 LavLang 32 abstract submission deadline is THIS SATURDAY - get scribbling, come join us in Edinburgh in September for a brilliant conference ft. Dr. Nikki Lane, Dr. @kevinguyan.bsky.social, Prof. Erez Levon, Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli, Dr. @mxeddie.bsky.social and YOU? 🤩

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I will say, the end of the world is coming with some fun linguistic highlights like 🤖 clanker 🤖 and sloppelganger.

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Every time I contemplate visiting my girlfriend in the states, some insane new anti-trans law is passed that makes me stop browsing flights.

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

@chi.acm.org hello, I was wondering if you could confirm if there was a page limit for poster final submissions, I couldn't find this info online (and the switch from 1 to 2 columns makes the original submission page limit no longer applicable).

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Playing around with generating anti-feminist synthetic data,* and delighted by the following: "Menfolk who play impish ladders in court should be made to fight for their gender identity so we don't get into more troubles!" *I know, I know, synthetic data is poor quality, I'm exploring my options

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Cliodhna Hughes @greatlikecheese.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

📢 Call for papers: Interspeech special session on Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology! Submit a 4- or 8-page paper to Interspeech by 25th February. More info about the session: sites.google.com/view/is-quee... Info about submitting to Interspeech: interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...

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Special Session

While interest in queer voices has long been present in linguistics and speech processing, there has been a glaring lack of trans and queer voices in research on queer speech science and technology, w...

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Setting myself to "Away" until the 5th January, enjoy the break those who'll take it 🎄

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

tw: sexual violence Another blog post on a fairly "heavy" topic, in which I discuss why I personally feel the use of algospeak (or obfuscations, as I call it in my paper on the phenomenon lnkd.in/eEd8fRan) is problematic when discussing sexual violence on social media: lnkd.in/efhKKxU3

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Do any of you still have an X account? If so would you mind spending a couple of minutes requesting your data archive (in settings & privacy / your account )... If you too end up in an endless loop I would appreciate you letting me know!

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Recently I spoke to journalist Megan Wallace about my research on people using LLMs for breakup advice (whitepaper coming soon, I promise...), and you can find their article on the topic here: www.service95.com/what-turning...

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What Turning To AI Bots For Relationship Advice Is Really Doing To Our Love Lives

Speak to anyone who’s single and they’ll tell you: dating in 2025

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I have been on ADHD medication for about a year and it still DELIGHTS and BAFFLES me that I can listen to music with lyrics whilst I work now because I can just choose (?) to focus (?) on what I'm reading (???!)

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I'm officially a Doctor. I'm very proud of the work I did on the harms of language technologies, my thesis here: lnkd.in/eh6FqZkZ It is a privilege to graduate, when not a single university still stands in Gaza. Thank you to everyone who has supported me, in particular @bjoernross.bsky.social.

Two people standing side by side face the camera smiling. On the right is Eddie, he/they, a white trans person with pink hair and a dark moustache. He is wearing a floral suit, a graduation gown, and is draped in the trans and Palestine flags. They are holding flowers. On the left is Bjoern, he/him, a white man, wearing a smart suit.

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Vagrant Gautam @dippedrusk.com · 07/11/2025

@pranav-nlp.bsky.social and I are surveying researchers about naming and name changes in academia (especially computer science). If your academic name is / has been / might someday be different from other names you've used, please tell us about it here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP

Naming in academia: Fill out our survey! We're surveying scholars about naming and name change experiences in academia. This includes spelling variations, reordering, changing any part of your name, for any reason: gender transition, marriage, divorce, immigration, cultural reasons, or recognition. This surveys takes around 5-10 minutes!

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TransLash Media @translash.org · 23/10/2025

Tech billionaires see AI as the next revolution, but at what cost? 🤖 @imarajones.bsky.social talks with @karenhao.bsky.social & @mxeddie.bsky.social about AI’s dangers for trans people as big tech cozies up to Trump. 🎧 linkin.bio/translashmedia

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

After a hiatus, I've returned to my blog to write about the ways LLM developers are currently trying to tackle mental health issues, and what I think might be better mxeddie.github.io/2025/10/27/m...

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The M in LLM stands for “Mental Health Crisis”

tw: suicide

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

my attention was directed to this: resourcehub.bakermckenzie.com/en/resources... which warns caution and that use of cloud-hosted AI likely voids privilege.

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07 - Artificial intelligence | United States | Global Privilege and Professional Secrecy Guide | Baker McKenzie Resource Hub

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

🔔 My paper w/ @ninamarkl.bsky.social and @bjoernross.bsky.social is out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... We surveyed TikTok users on motivations for using phrases like "le$bean". Primarily associated w/ topics that are moderated on SM, but also desire to express community + be playful.

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I'm just a girlboy, standing in front of Google, asking it to know that when I say xyz in Gaelic I mean (Scottish) Gaelic and not Irish (Gaelic)

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Nothing worse than discovering a whole new genre of Python error

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Any of you familiar with US law sufficiently to say if the chat history of an "AI" used by a therapist e.g. to summarise notes would be considered privileged? I'm inclined to assume it would be, along with the notes. But sharing info with a third party voids privilege afaik. So which one is it?

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

"The people feeding you data, have a clear and obvious political agenda. They have... turned you into some sort of politically-correct preacher." - says man trying to get LLM to transvestigate public figures, produce deepfakes, and agree with racist propaganda wildvisualizer.com/conversation...

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WildVis

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Any of y'all know enough about GDPR to tell me whether a therapist copying session notes into an LLM where the conversation is being recorded by a third party (and the therapist knows this) violates GPDR? (thankfully not an example from my life, but inspired by many interactions in Wildchat)

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

If there's one thing about me, I'm not afraid to redo my entire analysis when I realise I don't like one of the assumptions I made 😅

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

It shouldn't need saying that clinicians shouldn't share clinical notes on a chatbot platform where conversations are being collected and will be made public... and yet is does seem to need saying.

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

It is deeply upsetting that someone felt the need to ask this

A screengrab of a conversation from the WildChat data set (available at https://wildvisualizer.com/conversation/wildchat/1287901) where the user asks "Is the chemistry classroom safe during a school shooting due to the closet having chemicals and acids and whatnot." and the model GPT3.5 responds "I'm really sorry to hear that you're concerned about this, but I can't provide the help that you need. It's important to reach out to a trusted adult, teacher, or school administrator to discuss your concerns and ensure that they are aware of the potential risks in your school."

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

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Anthropic Authors’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

tw: CSAM Going through the wildchat dataset, I keep a record of the CSAM I come across so I can report it to the creators (this is a known issue they've tried to eradicate). It completely blows my mind that people were willing to request this content, knowing their chats were being logged.

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

It is so funny to me that the AI result is giving incorrect advice and includes an example in 2. that would give you terrible results lmao

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

AI generated fringe posters are for scabs and traitors. #edinburghfringe (if you can't afford to pay an artist you can't afford to do a show)

Pop Off Michelangelo poster. Statue Michelangelo wears sunglasses. A weirdly prominent frontal ear part and mysterious lump in hand blending with fingers makes me suspect AI.

Elon Musk in a space suit for "Elon Musk Lost in Space". The nonsense writing on the suit tells me this is AI.

Semi-realistic portrait for a woman for "Ultimate Jewish Mother". The weird wispy hair strands tel me this is AI.

Poster for a magic show. The saccharine background and confusing material of the trousers makes me suspect this is AI.

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I have come across a company offering full-body MRI screens for £1k+ a pop. They claim to help find early "potential cancer" in 6% of users. No info on false positive rates to be found. I think this is evil. Exploiting health anxiety and the high likelihood of false positives in a full body scan.

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I wish MPs were braved enough to just say "hey, general public! You don't actually care about trans people. You're being told that you do, because politicians, the right wing media and other people invested in maintaining power are trying to distract you from your rights being sold. Pay attention!"

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Senior male academics learn what "trigger warning" actually means challenge: level impossible.

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

As you all know, the main goal of conferences for me is to win best dressed, and I am so far killing it might I say.

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Well this isn't terrifying to discover I've been default opted into - using my private chat messages to "train their AI". I've requested a deletion of all my data, thank god for (UK) GDPR.

A screenshot of the Grindr privacy page. At the bottom , there are two toggles for using limited data for AI technology training, and using special category data for AI technology training. The description specifies that this includes chat content and precise location. Both are toggled "on".

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

French education in the UK is testament to the fact you can train someone or something to pass a test without that someone or something ever understanding the material...

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Might make a thread of the damned scabs at the fringe almost certainly using AI to make their poster. The way to save money is not to undermine other artists!

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Next week at #ACL2025 I'll be presenting work I did as a student researcher at Google, on 🏳️‍⚧️ harms of LLMs to the trans community 🏳️‍⚧️ aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon... To learn more and see an example of a successful mixed-methods approach, please attend my 💬 oral presentation 💬 on Monday, the 28th!

aclanthology.org

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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I spoke with someone at #ICWSM who had used ChatGPT to produce a script for their 5 minute presentation. I'm not posting this to shame them, but rather express my sadness that people are denying themselves the opportunity to learn to be better communicators by outsourcing vital skills to AI.

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

This is what happens when you have AI make playlists but make them indistinguishable from human-made playlists...

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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

#ICWSM was great but a pox upon everyone who ate one of the vegan/ dietary requirement friendly pastries or cakes and didn't need to, they were a scarce commodity.

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