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Jasmijn Bastings @jasmijn.bastings.me · 24/04/2026

I'll speak about building community-centred harm taxonomies at the “Measuring and mitigating bias in AI” workshop, April 29th, 11am-3pm, Amsterdam. amsterdamnlp.github.io/blog/biaswor... in connection with the PhD defence of @ovdw.bsky.social #NLProc #bias #AI

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Measuring and mitigating bias in AI

Workshop “Measuring and mitigating bias in AI”

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AmsterdamNLP @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Work in progress -- suggestions for NLP-ers based in the EU/Europe & already on Bluesky very welcome! go.bsky.app/NZDc31B

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Oskar van der Wal @ovdw.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Last week, we organized the workshop "New Perspectives on Bias and Discrimination in Language Technology" 🤖 @uvahumanities.bsky.social @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social We're looking back at two inspiring days of talks, posters, and discussions—thanks to everyone who participated! wai-amsterdam.github.io

Photo of the poster session at the workshop.

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Oskar van der Wal @ovdw.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

This is a friendly reminder that there are 7 days left for submitting your extended abstract to this workshop! (Since the workshop is non-archival, previously published work is welcome too. So consider submitting previous/future work to join the discussion in Amsterdam!)

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Oskar van der Wal @ovdw.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Working on #bias & #discrimination in #NLP? Passionate about integrating insights from different disciplines? And do you want to discuss current limitations of #LLM bias mitigation work? 🤖 👋Join the workshop New Perspectives on Bias and Discrimination in Language Technology 4&5 Nov in #Amsterdam!

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Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · 01/02/2024

release day release day 🥳 OLMo 1b +7b out today and 65b soon... OLMo accelerates the study of LMs. We release *everything*, from toolkit for creating data (Dolma) to train/inf code blog blog.allenai.org/olmo-open-la... olmo paper allenai.org/olmo/olmo-pa... dolma paper allenai.org/olmo/dolma-p...

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OLMo: Open Language Model

A State-Of-The-Art, Truly Open LLM and Framework

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Oskar van der Wal @ovdw.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

A 🧵thread about strategies for improving social bias evaluations of LMs. #blueskAI 🤖 bsky.app/profile/ovdw...

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Oskar van der Wal @ovdw.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

I am super excited to share that our paper "Undesirable Biases in NLP: Addressing Challenges of Measurement" has been published in JAIR! doi.org/10.1613/jair...

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

I decided what we need to make blueskAI happen is a feed. Reply here to get added to the whitelist! Whitelisted users can post to the feed by adding the following keywords to a post: 🤖 bskAI blueskAI

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Oskar van der Wal @ovdw.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

It was exciting to present our recent work at BlackboxNLP in Singapore on low-level causal interventions for gender bias in GPT2 small: 📝"Identifying and Adapting Transformer-Components responsible for Gender Bias in an English Language Model" aclanthology.org/2023.blackbo... A summary 👇

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Identifying and Adapting Transformer-Components Responsible for Gender Bias in an English Language M...

Abhijith Chintam, Rahel Beloch, Willem Zuidema, Michael Hanna, Oskar van der Wal. Proceedings of the 6th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP. 2023.

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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · 10/12/2023

Together with Antoine Bertin & Cristina Tarquini we're raising funds to build a data-driven sculpture of beluga whale vocalizations as perceived by an Earth Species Project AI model. Can artificial listening enrich our understanding of whale communication through an immersive physical experience? 🐳

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

New manifesto! How can AI scientists borrow from evolutionary biology to strengthen their evidence and claims? Featuring the beautiful eggs of the tawny flanked prinia.

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The Parable of the Prinia’s Egg: An Allegory for AI Science | Naomi Saphra

I discuss what counts as strong evidence for an explanation of model behavior.

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