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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Day 5 of the UCU workers' strike against massive job cuts by highly remunerated senior management. “We are looking at hundreds of job losses, dozens of course closures ... Without even mentioning the removal of opportunities for people up and down Scotland." Jo Grady, UCU President, 01.10.2026

A pop-art depiction by Roy Lichtenstein of a blonde blue-eyed woman crying. Accompanying text highlights the worsening teaching conditions and likely impact on student education.

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Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This morning I started our Machine Learning course for the university-wide minor in AI @rug.nl The minor welcomes all students excluding very few programs. This means: assume zero coding skills and math background. A four-hour lecture, we all survived, students left smiling @gronlp.bsky.social

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Vilém Zouhar @zouhar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm on the faculty job market for Fall 2027 assistant professorship. I work on the science of AI/NLP evaluation, which is currently undergoing a crisis. Get in touch! My research statement is public: vilda.net

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Day 1 of the strike by the workers of UCU Edinburgh against the manufactured deficit (which is not really a deficit), and against a senior management earning millions while staff disappear and education suffers. Solidarity against this parasitical form of management of our higher education.

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Kanishka Misra @kanishka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Come be my colleague and teach meaning at UT Austin Linguistics!

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🗓️ We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the conference+journal track of the 6th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, July 8-9, 2027, in #Groningen, #TheNetherlands! #CCLS2027 #CfP Submit your article by February 1, 2027! 🥳🥳🥳 jcls.io/site/cfp/

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It is with great sadness that we announce the recent loss of a dear GroNLP group member. Gosse Bouma will always remain in our hearts! If you would like to write down memories or your condolences, you are welcome to do so via this www.condoleance.nl/19800.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Let's begin the second poster session of #CLiCit2026 Day 2 📚

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🤖 Up next: our panel "Raccontare l'AI generativa: il ruolo della comunità scientifica". 🗣️ Roberto Basili, Alessandro Lenci, and Malvina Nissim join the conversation, moderated by Danilo Croce. #CLiCit2026 #NLProc

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Morten H. Christiansen @mh-christiansen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

📣 I'm recruiting a new grad student at Cornell for F27, so please share the word with possible candidates interested in conversation as it intersects with language processing, evolution, and/or statistical learning, approached using computational and/or behavioral methods. 👉 Email me if interested

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s the final countdown! #CLiCit2026 is about to start ⏳✨ 📚 The pre-proceedings are now available: clic2026.unipa.it/pre-proceedi... 🗞️ Follow all conference updates and announcements here: clic2026.unipa.it/news

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

My prediction is that "a substantial part of humanity will die within the next 50 years" has a high probability. It has absolutely nothing to do with rogue AI. It's climate change. Because this species is too greedy to understand the tragedy of the commons.

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In questi giorni si tiene il LIX Congresso internazionale di studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana dedicato al tema “I dati nelle scienze del linguaggio”, un argomento molto caro anche alla nostra associazione! Qui il programma: eventi.unibo.it/sli-2026

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What, an Anthropic researcher states (without evidence) that there is a 10% chance that AI will cause human extinction? Incredible, we have never before heard such a claim!

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

EMNLP 2026 is shaping up to be the largest NLP conference in Europe this year! Put your brand in front of leading AI & NLP talent to build visibility, recruiting, and partnerships with the people shaping the field. ⏰ Deadline: September 15 🔗 2026.emnlp.org/sponsors/ #EMNLP2026

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Official website for the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think I'm in love with this guy

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De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl · 03/09/2026

Het opleggen van sancties aan Tomoko Akane, president van het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC), toont opnieuw: dit is meer dan een juridisch conflict. Het is een slagveld waar de strijd om Europese onafhankelijkheid van Amerika wordt uitgevochten. 👉 www.groene.nl/artikel/zoma...

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Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

After a burning summer, this. We all should be VERY worried and ask that ACTIONS are taken NOW. Everything else seems so meaningless.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

If buying isn't owning then piracy can't be theft. Any reasonable corporation knows that.

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Excited to announce our 2nd keynote speaker: Ryan Cotterell, Assistant Professor at ETH Zürich. 🎙️ "Surprisal Theory is Tautological (without Rational Grounding)" 📅 Sept 16, 11:30-13:00 📢 Register: clic2026.unipa.it/registration/

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 26/08/2026

this is only stuff you can do on open models not just open weights, but fully open models with open datasets this stuff is extremely important, and we know next to nothing about it

Matlin and Chakraborty designed a study » around inf'yence functions, a technique that estimates how much any single training document - an article, post, or page a model trained on - shaped how the model answered a particular benchmark question.
Add those estimates up across the data, and you can see which kinds of writing - literary, technical, and so on - support a given ability in the model. But that holds only if you can confirm the model actually trained on the documents in question.

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🎉Gli Atti di EVALITA (per ora dal 2018 al 2026) sono ora disponibili sull' @aclanthology.org: aclanthology.org/venues/evali... 🎉

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Anna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

📢 There's still time to apply! Let's design a more socially sustainable workflow for accessing community knowledge.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026

FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.

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Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI "Pervert Glasses"

Meta is vowing to crack down on creeps misusing its Ray Ban smart glasses. Whether it will be enough to regain trust remains to be seen.

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The Data Therapist in the Blue Sky @datatherapist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

🚨 unfortunately, #ARR still desperately needs emergency Area Editors / ACs to write meta-reviews ASAP! If you qualify and can help, pls reply/DM ASAP. I’ll also post a link if I find it soon. Please BOOST! Thanks! #ACL #ARR #SAC #EMNLP2026 #NLP #NLProc

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This week we are in Rio 🌴 🦜🩴, Brazil 🇧🇷 for CogSci 😍 @frap98.bsky.social will present on a computational study of verb meaning acquisition in children co-authors: @jumelet.bsky.social @yevgenm.bsky.social @arianna-bis.bsky.social 🏛️ Session T.04 🗓️ July 24, 10:45 @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

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Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

another (sloppy) trend: papers compare new solutions against previous work by directly copy-pasting results and: (a) fail to use the same test distribution in their experiments; or (b) use a different metric. This affects 50% of the papers in my batch but only 2 reviews spotted it #ARR #EMNLP2026

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Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

new level unlocked: authors practically writing the meta-review as part of a "summary rebuttal" #ARR #EMNLP2026

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Vilém Zouhar @zouhar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

There are many things machine translation still can't do. Help us steer the next direction by contributing hard-to-translate inputs (and be on a cool paper).

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Gabriele Sarti @gsarti.com · 17/07/2026

Happy to be a small part of this colossal effort led by @zouharvi.bsky.social to reinvent the future of machine translation evaluation! 🔡 Join us in building the LTB and become a coauthor, help wanted!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Call for Papers: YNLG 2026 The Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation workshop is a 2d in-person event part of INLG 2026 @inlg.bsky.social in Utrecht 🇳🇱, with poster sessions, keynote talks, roundtable discussions, and a one-day hackathon. Due: August 10, 2026 ynlg-workshop.github.io

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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

ACL 2027 will be in Kyoto, Japan 🇯🇵 🤩

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026

ICLA-DCL special issues on Digital Comparative Literature. Srnd your abstract by 7 September 2026. Full CFP and submission details: icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/20... #DigitalComparativeLiterature #ICLA #DigitalHumanities #ComparativeLiterature

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ICLA DCL Journals CfP – Digital Comparative Literature

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🚨 The deadline for the Emanuele Pianta Prize has been extended to 10 July 2026 (23:59 CEST). Did you write your Master's thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics? Apply now! 🎓 More info 👉 clic2026.unipa.it/emanuele-pia... #CLiCit2026 #NLProc #ComputationalLinguistics

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Emanuele Pianta Award – CLiC-it 2026

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

From San Diego to Seul for #ICML2026 🇰🇷🏯🍜 We have 2 papers accepted at the main and 1 workshop - come and say "hi" @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/07/2026

A Tibetan activist lit himself on fire and outside of the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday to protest China’s control over his homeland, declaring in a video before his self-immolation that Beijing’s policies were “destroying the Tibetan people.” He later died.

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Tibetan Activist Sets Self on Fire Outside U.N. in Protest Against China

Lobga Rangzen, a 52-year-old resident of Queens, died after the self-immolation. He said Beijing’s policies were “destroying the Tibetan people.”

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🙋 Looking for emergency reviewers for ARR May / #EMNLP2026 Topics: Interpretability/Explainability, RAG, Answer Attribution, Knowledge Conflicts If you're willing to complete a review before July 6 AoE, please reply or send a DM!

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Summer conference season is starting and it will be busy! First up: #ACL2026 - We have 4 papers accepted (3 Main, 1 Findings) + 1 CoNLL. Congratulations to the authors! See you (virtually) in San Diego 🌊 🌴 🦭 @aclmeeting.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl

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University of Groningen | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen @rug.nl · 24/06/2026

Spraaktechnologie voor het Nedersaksisch en het mobiele Spraaklab: Martijn @wieling.bsky.social is veelvoudig bezig met het gebruik en behoud van streektaal 🗣️ Hij spreekt erover met @wimbrons.nl en Hanna van Loo in de nieuwe aflevering van de In de Wetenschap-podcast 👇 www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

Image showing the podcast setup, the hosts and interviewee Martin Wieling

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026

New at @aclmeeting.bsky.social: GOLEMcoref, a multilingual coreference dataset of fiction. 827k tokens across 7 languages (Chinese, Dutch, English, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, and Spanish) built from contemporary fanfiction. Led by @andreasvc.bsky.social and Xiaoyan Yang🧵 1/ @gronlp.bsky.social

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Tip on reviewing ARR papers in 2026: - Check the references FIRST. I wasted 40 minutes reviewing a paper before realizing the references were LLM-generated.

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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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De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl · 16/06/2026

✏️ Gorilla. #cartoon

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The 2026 Lectures on Computational Linguistics have started in Bozen with the tutorial “Developing ASR Systems for Conversational Speech Transcription and Analysis” by Barbara Schuppler #NLProc

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Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

What’s your favourite movie from each decade of your life? 80s: The Goonies 90s: The Big Lebowsky 00s: Kill Bill (volume 1) 10s: Django Unchained 20s: The Zone of Interest

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