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Dr Eddie Ungless

@mxeddie.bsky.social
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academic transfag interested in harms of language technologies | he/they | see also mxeddie.github.io [Image description: Profile picture shows cartoon of Eddie's face looking very displeased. He is white with blue eyes, a dark moustache and brown hair]

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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.
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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
lofaith.substack.com/p/prediction... my best pal @contentking.bsky.social 's writing on the topic
lofaith.substack.com
Prediction markets might be radicalising your boyfriend
The Manosphere gamified radicalisation. Prediction markets gamblify it.
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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 🩷
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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
only two people I have on WhatsApp, both acquiantances, post statuses. One is a former pet sitter from iirc Germany, older middle aged. The other is a 30 something transmasc from Brighton.
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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Witnessed this first hand when you came to Edinburgh 🙃
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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I don't think it meets the assumption of independence of observations because multiple replies can come from a single user
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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 · 18/03/2026
This feels unideal
A screenshot of the miriam webster online thesaurus which offers as related words to "nurturing" the following: caring, giving, female, feminine, matronly, womanly, paternal, matriarchal, maternal, motherly, mother, womanlike, womanish
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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 · 02/03/2026
Did you do this as a FOI request?
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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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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Using people with disabilities as a gotcha is always gross
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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This reminds me of Geoffrey Hinton's ACL Keynote where he tried to argue that an unnamed person in his life with a disability "failing" a language understanding test was a sign we should accept that AI understands 🙃
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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
She's still running things
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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/...
sites.google.com
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...
service95.com
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.
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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
you're telling me... you're telling me they don't automatically rename the file... that's just cruel
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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...
mxeddie.github.io
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.
resourcehub.bakermckenzie.com
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 · 23/09/2025
*turns out... linguistics 😊
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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 · 18/09/2025
I've got this great new AI tool that... ;)
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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Lol I saw the headline and was like oh Lake would love this hahahaha
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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 · 12/09/2025
this site is so fucking funny
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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
futurism.com/godfather-ai... SCREAM incredible news for me who is about to publish a whitepaper on LLMs and break ups hahahaha
futurism.com
Godfather of AI Says His Girlfriend Broke Up With Him Using ChatGPT
Geoffrey Hinton, long considered a "godfather of AI," revealed that his ex-girlfriend had broken up with him — by using ChatGPT.
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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
Shameless self citation for my CHI extended abstract that played with this idea and might be useful for its references to other more detailed papers dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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"Till I can get my satisfaction": Open Questions in the Public Desire to Punish AI | Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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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...
wildvisualizer.com
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 · 05/09/2025
paging @ninamarkl.bsky.social so she doesn't miss this excellent bleet
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Dr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Godspeed!
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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
I absolutely have enough data to track down one of the clients as well, with a bit of time.
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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...
lieffcabraser.com
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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