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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I just came back from a vacation. I did not realize how widespread the discourse regarding 'AI gone rogue' was, until I saw messages about it from my friends, relatives, students and parents 🫥

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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CCC @ccc.de · 29/09/2026

Live facial recognition technology: A serious invasion of our privacy & a particularly clear example of risk (and also incorrect) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests

Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is as bad as facial based age verification.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

"What is uniquely African about the African AI landscape? Is it because those working on it are from/based in the African continent? Because it focuses on African languages/datasets? Or does it adhere to distinctly African values?" @hellinanigatu.bsky.social aial.ie/blog/worksho...

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An Introspective Look at the African AI Landscape: An organizer’s reflection

Key takeaways from “An Introspective Look at the African AI Landscape” workshop at the 9th inaugural Deep Learning Indaba

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Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com · 17/09/2026

Science isn't a statistical gachapon. The contempt these clowns have for the bedrock processes underlying knowledge production & scholarship truly knows no limit. It was bad enough when—as a scholar in an interdisciplinary field—I had to deal w/ quants reviewing qualitative/humanistic papers badly.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026

also, i'm looking to recruit researchers interested in/got experience in platform audit to work on roblox at the @aial.ie

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Now at KONVENS,Barbara Plank starts off with a keynote on how variability and disagreement is useful for NLP tasks.

Barbara plank giving a keynote talk on human label variation

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We received way too many submissions than we anticipated and we are looking for reviewers! Please help us out by reviewing a paper if you can. Let me know your email or openreview ID if you are interested.

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My advice to all junior and first-time authors: Make an ORCID profile!

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

why do so many european takeout places hand me a FORK to eat rice? at this point I need to start carrying a spoon in my pocket.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/09/2026

This is an absolutely catastrophic data breach of an identity verification vendor 150+ million drivers license scans that includes photos, address, license numbers etc. It includes Pete Hegseth, security researchers, and even the deputy director of the FBI. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-...

A screenshot of a search result on a website titled "NEXUS | Identity Document Database" showing a locked Minnesota driver's license record for "PETER HEG******." A driver's license portrait of Peter Hegseth appears on the left, next to mostly redacted information fields, including ID number, birth date (1980), and address, followed by a prompt to purchase the full record for $100.00.

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Me planning the vacation: For the next 2 weeks, I will relax, meditate and be with myself. Meanwhile AIES people this morning: Please upload the camera-ready paper by this week.

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

In Hamburg, usage of deep learning based vision methods are branded as 'good surveillance'. It is completely unclear what purpose is it solving and how good are they. Classification methods like actions, age and re-identification are highly error-prone and brittle.

This pattern recognition in video data was already tested at Berlin's Südkreuz train station in 2017. What's new about doing it with AI?

What's new is how the procedure is justified: as supposedly particularly sensitive to data protection, thereby legitimizing a kind of "good surveillance." This enables a new political constellation: data protection commissioners and the Green Party gave the green light, and in Hamburg, and now also in Berlin, Saxony, and Baden-Württemberg, police legislation has been amended to allow the police to collect data for AI training and forward it to external developers. With these laws, the police become a kind of gatekeeper for AI development in the security sector.

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I went to the BIPOC support group for academics earlier this week. This was the first time I have seen all of us being extremely disturbed and upset with the current events. Things are hard. It is important than ever to show love and uplift your fellow community members.

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ACL Rolling Review (ARR) @aclrollingreview.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

📢 EMNLP 2026 authors: ORCID is required for camera-ready submission. All authors must have an ORCID linked to their OpenReview profile before the paper can be submitted. Please check with your co-authors early: orcid.org #ACL #EMNLP #NLProc

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 16/08/2026

intensive lobbying by BigAI has left the AI Act hollow. risks like “loss of control” are mandatory for providers to assess while risks to fundamental rights & society as a whole including privacy, data protection, non-discrimination & risks from CSAM & non-consensual intimate imagery are left out

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I am organizing this fun workshop in Bremen this weekend! If you are interested in AI ethics and auditing systems; come join us, we have planned really fun activities this weekend.

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

One cool thing I liked from 'Adolescent Identity Expression through Transdisciplinary, Computational, Creative Writing' paper by Gifford et al (including @amyko.phd), is expressing identities via coding (mainly multilingual translation) and learning peers' culture through classroom discussions.

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Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them) @zeerak.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I don't normally post about new papers coming out, but this one gets an exception: My student has just had her first paper (and my first paper with my own PhD student) accepted to AIES! We look at how speech technology research engages, or rather doesn't engage, with questions of surveillance!

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Actually NLP means Noodles, Lasagna, and Pasta.

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Queer in AI @queerinai.com · 06/08/2026

We are organizing a workshop in Bremen, titled 'Contemplating the Future of Queer AI' on August 14, 9-17. This workshop is open to everyone, in a hybrid mode, see here for details: www.queerinai.com/ijcai-2026

Flyer for "Contemplating the Future of Queer AI," a hybrid workshop on August 14, 2026, 9:00 to 17:00, at the Universität Bremen Cartesium Building and via Zoom. Free and open to all. Program includes keynotes, lightning talks, and focus groups.

First keynote, "Envisioning Gender: The Social Production of Identity in Computer Vision," at 9:30, with Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, PhD (he/him), Research Scientist at Sony. Photo of a light-skinned person with green-tipped hair and glasses, wearing a tan blazer.

Second keynote, "Queer NLP: Past, Present, and Future," at 13:00, with Dr. Sabine Weber (they/them), Postdoctoral Researcher at Universität Bamberg. Photo of a light-skinned person with short brown hair, wearing a dark blazer over a white shirt.

Bottom row: a QR code labeled "Register" on the left and one labeled "Learn More" on the right, flanking four logos: Queer in AI, RAI, 3 Minds Media Machines, and Universität Bremen. Text below reads "Organizing Team: Andrea Sipos, A Pranav, and Martin Mundt." Background is a pastel blue-pink gradient.

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The metareview was good?!.... what the hell. I thought this was almost getting rejected.

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

All this discourse of having 50k submissions to AAAI, and no one is talking about that we would get AI reviews on our submissions. Who is making such policies?

Summary
Three technical tracks (Main Track; AI for Social Impact; AI Alignment)
Two-phase reviewing for the Main Track:
Phase 1: Two reviews supplemented by one AI-generated, non-decisional review.
Phase 2: Additional reviews for papers not rejected in Phase 1.
Author response after Phase 2, only for papers not rejected in Phase 1.
Metareview and disposition decision after author response period.

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Pierre Marion @pierremarion.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Excited to welcome Queer in AI to NeurIPS Europe! 💫

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Who is coming to Hamburg fro KONVENS? I will be presenting my benchmark on gender fair language in German (which was my EMNLP paper). konvens2026.uni-hamburg.de/index.php/da...

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Dates – Konvens 2026

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Happy to announce that three first-authored papers got accepted at #AIES2026! The topics include resisting surveillance, AI-washing, marketing and computer vision. Happy to connect with fellow researchers at AIES! Details of my papers:

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

ACM does not give a fuck about having incorrect citations in their proceedings, but do shit like this to have more nonsense, leading to even more incorrect cites.

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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

AI ethics hardly has anything to do with the use of AI anyway. It is about thinking critically who benefits from this technology, who structurally carries the burden, by whom it is built, from which ideologies and how this manifests in its harmful societal impact.

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Queer in AI @queerinai.com · 12/07/2026

TIME SENSITIVE: NeurIPS is launching a new Affinity Support Pilot Program! Award recipients will receive support to present their research at #neurips2026 affinity events. We encourage you to thoroughly read the requirements before applying. The deadline is July 20 AoE. (1/2)

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Shane Storks @shanestorks.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

🚨 I’m still seeking an emergency reviewer for an ARR May 2026 submission on LLM-based image segmentation. Please DM me if you’re qualified to review for ARR (at least 2 ACL/AI conference pubs and 1 other pub), and could complete a review for it in the next couple days! 🙏

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

As local governments move more into using AI-assisted translation for important government docs, this is a very important issue to keep in mind. General purpose translation tools might not be as good when you want to execute specific tasks (or want specific info to be translated properly)

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Queer in AI @queerinai.com · 01/07/2026

In times of increased political repression and reduced sponsorship, as we prepare for our annual grad school app aid program - through which we’ve given $45k+ to 1000+ queer scholars in previous cycles - we welcome donations to support our initiatives: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

Image with pastel rainbow gradient background, various text emoticons, and the text queerinai.com/donating.

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Miryam de Lhoneux @mdlhx.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Not going to #ACL2026 myself but my PhD student and former postoc are presenting some very cool work!

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I am shocked and flattered that this paper won the Best Paper Award (Honourable Mention) at #FAccT2026!

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CJ @virmalised.us · 28/06/2026

the ACL is telling me that my free registration for being an outstanding area chair only applies to virtual attendance lololol fuck I hate this organization

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I am not at FAccT (as Canada didn't give me visa on time), but I am in Munich! Yesterday, I attended @verenablaschke.bsky.social's brilliant defense on dialectal variation. Congrats Dr. Verena!

Verena standing in front of mic defending the thesis

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

@arborelia.net's Queer in AI talk and advocacy is the reason why we have successful name change policies in major ML venues.

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This paper received an Hono(u)rable Mention at #FAccT2026

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I will be presenting our work titled "Making a Name for Myself: On Academic Naming Policies and their Impact" this week at #FAccT2026. This paper talks about why names matter, why name change policies are important, how people benefit from it and what's still left to do.

Making a Name for Myself: On Academic Naming Policies and their
Impact
A PRANAV, Trustworthy AI Lab, University of Hamburg, Germany
VAGRANT GAUTAM, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany
MARTIN MUNDT∗
, University of Bremen, Germany
JORDAN TAYLOR∗
, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
ARJUN SUBRAMONIAN∗
, Queer in AI, USA
FRANZISKA SOFIA HAFNER∗
, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
DANIEL CHECHELNITSKY∗
, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
WILLIAM AGNEW∗
, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
ANNE LAUSCHER∗
, Trustworthy AI Lab, University of Hamburg, Germany

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Queer in AI @queerinai.com · 24/06/2026

Queer in AI is proud to showcase several papers that our members are presenting at @facct.bsky.social 2026 tomorrow through Sunday. One paper examines how years-long activism around name change policies has had an immensely positive impact for authors, benefiting both queer and cis scholars! 🤝🌈

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I have to review 16 papers this week (sigh). The quality of papers in AIES and KONVENS are way higher than the papers I was assigned to review for EMNLP and NeurIPS.

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Insider perspective: I have worked in companies where I was forced to implement age classifiers like these. These vision based age classifiers DO NOT WORK despite the best efforts to train them; they are always close to a random baseline.

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Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them) @zeerak.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Call for papers for special issue on Ethics in NLP in the journal Computational Linguistics. Discussions around ethics in #NLP and #ComputationalLinguistics is often limited by the expectations for what should be published in *CL conferences. Link to call: www.aclweb.org/portal/conte...

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I made churros and coffee for all my students in my LLM coding class today. Hopefully, this entices them to come to the next session, where they have to attempt some really difficult mechanistic interpretability exercises.

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 My yearly reminder that I'm NOT a disappointment for being queer. I'm a disappointment regardless!

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

European teachers, how do you all teach LLMs programming basics to your students? Do you all have labs connected to GPU clusters? Recently, I have been putting up my code on colab so students can play with it; but Colab is kinda limiting.

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Люблю хлеб @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

welp, I got laid off. if anyone you know is looking for a slightly-used computational linguist -- remote or in #Syracuse, NY -- get in touch. I'm also open to "data science" positions if they're "languagey"

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I need to start getting active on bluesky more, so I can finally post my ACL, FAccT and LREC papers.

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