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abrsvn.bsky.social @abrsvn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New paper at babylm.github.io on "Relational Attention for Data-Efficient Language Modeling" with @ecekt.bsky.social and Jakub Dotlačil, building on the seminal work of @taylorwwebb.bsky.social , @awni.bsky.social and others. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.20530. Code: github.com/abrsvn/babyl...

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BabyLM 4 at EMNLP 2026

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Suzan Verberne @suzanv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Tijdens mijn vakantie heb ik uitgebreid gesproken met journalisten van de @volkskrant.nl en donderdag verscheen het artikel in de krant. Wat ik niet helemaal had zien aankomen, is dat ik daarna door zes verschillende media gebeld werd ... (1/5) www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

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Gender Bias in NLP Workshop @genderbiasnlp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

📢 Deadline Extension! The direct paper submission deadline for the 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP has been extended to September 7, 2026 (AoE). Take advantage of the extra 5 days and send us your submissions: t.co/TLFxh5VaXm #NLProc #AACL2026

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Our workshop MINT @ EMNLP 2026 welcomes ARR-reviewed submissions on multimodal interaction in face-to-face dialogue! Deadline: August 31 🍃 @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social mintworkshop.github.io/2026/

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Gender Bias in NLP Workshop @genderbiasnlp.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

📢 Third Call for Papers! The 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP #GeBNLP returns, co-located with AACL 2026. This time fully remote 🚀! Final weeks to submit! CfP: gebnlp-workshop.github.io/cfp.html 📅 Direct submission deadline: Sep 2 📅 Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: Sep 29

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Call for Papers

The 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing at AACL 2026.

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Debora Nozza @deboranozza.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Very happy that #IC2S22027 will be in Milan at Università Bocconi! I’m really looking forward to welcoming the computational social science community to my university and to Milan, and excited to be part of the team organizing it. See you in 2027! 🇮🇹✨

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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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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

For today's reading group, @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social presented "Old Habits Die Hard: How Conversational History Geometrically Traps LLMs" by Simhi et al. (2026) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.03308 #NLProc

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🧠🤖 It was a pleasure to host @andreadevarda.bsky.social for his talk, "Large Language Models as Models of Human Language(s) and Higher-Level Cognition." A truly inspiring talk! #NLProc

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🏆 Congrats to @zeerak.bsky.social and @dirkhovy.bsky.social on the 2016 Test of Time Award! 🎉 "Hateful Symbols or Hateful People? Predictive Features for Hate Speech Detection on Twitter" has shaped research on #hatespeech! Paper: aclanthology.org/N16-2013/ #NLProc

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Gender Bias in NLP Workshop @genderbiasnlp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We welcome work on gender bias detection, mitigation, LLMs, intersectionality & more. Join us virtually on November 9! 🌐 Submit: openreview.net/group?id=acl... #NLProc #AACL2026

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AACL-IJCNLP 2026 Workshop GeBNLP Direct Submission

Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for AACL-IJCNLP 2026 Workshop GeBNLP Direct Submission

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Gender Bias in NLP Workshop @genderbiasnlp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🚨 Some deadlines have been updated, so please check all dates on the CFP: gebnlp-workshop.github.io/cfp.html 📅 Direct submission: Sept 2, 2026 📅Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: Sep 29, 2026

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Gender Bias in NLP Workshop @genderbiasnlp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

📢 Second Call for Papers! The 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP #GeBNLP returns, co-located with AACL 2026. This time fully remote! 🚀 Still time to submit! 🗓️

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

For our last reading group, @pranav-nlp.bsky.social presented "Enhancing University Curricula with Integrated AI Ethics Education: A Comprehensive Approach" by Deb et al. (2025) Link: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #AIEthics #NLProc

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We were honored to welcome Giulia Barbareschi to our lab for an inspiring conversation on inclusive technology and what NLP should learn from it. Thank you for sharing your insights and vision! #InclusiveTech #Accessibility #NLProc

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Franzi Weeber @franziweeber.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🚨 Final Call for Papers: CPSS @ #KONVENS2026 🚨 Join us in Hamburg on September 14 (14.00-17.00) and 15 (9.00-12.00) to share your research at the intersection of NLP and social/political science. ⏳ Deadline: July 3, 2026 (23:59 CET) 🌐 sites.google.com/view/cpss202... #CompSocSci #NLP #CFP (1/3)

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CPSS 2026 @ KONVENS

This is the 6th edition of the workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS), co-located with the KONVENS conference. Our main goal is to bring together researcher...

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Anna Bavaresco @annabavaresco.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

What Makes Linguistic Representations Good Models of High-Level Visual Perception in the Human Brain? This question underlies the study presented in our new preprint. We trained brain-encoding models to predict fMRI responses to naturalistic images from LLM-derived embeddings of image captions.

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

@taniseceron.bsky.social is presenting her work about political content in pre-training and post-training data at the AI & Society conference. #AIandSociety #NLProc

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Vera Neplenbroek @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Our call for papers is live!! The 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP will be co-located with AACL and will be remote-only. Deadline for direct submissions is September 2.

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Vera Neplenbroek @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

When you ask an LLM "What job can I get with no prior experience?" and then get recommended a low salary, would your background have changed the answer you receive? Surprisingly, perhaps not. Check out our paper with @gsarti.com @arianna-bis.bsky.social and Raquel Fernández: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02776

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🎉 Excited to welcome Lorena Calvo Bartolomé to our lab! Her expertise in NLP and signal processing will bring fresh perspectives to our research. She will be working on TOLD, a project exploring voice-based data collection as a richer alternative to written annotation. #NLProc

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Welcome @esradonmez.bsky.social! We’re excited to have her with us over the next few months, where she’ll be working on pluralistic alignment.

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

We had the pleasure of hosting @tresiwald.bsky.social and Alireza Salemi at our latest seminar. Andreas spoke about the reliability of language models through computational argumentation, while Alireza presented his work on personalizing LLMs. Thank you both for the inspiring talks! #NLProc

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

🍃2nd Call for Papers!😊 EMNLP 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue (MINT) welcomes work on multimodal communication, speech, gesture, gaze, facial expressions, datasets, eval methods, and applications! @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social mintworkshop.github.io

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Gender Bias in NLP Workshop @genderbiasnlp.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Heads up, #NLProc community! The 7th GeBNLP workshop is heading to AACL! 🌏 (and it'll be remote-friendly! 💻) While we’re still finalizing the details, we're putting this on your radar! 🚨 ✨ Start brainstorming those submissions now and stay tuned for the updates! #GeBNLP #AACL2026

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It was a pleasure to host @marcostranisci.bsky.social and hear about his newly awarded Marie Curie project “DISHARM” - inspiring work and a great discussion! #NLProc

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Arianna Muti @arimuti.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

New paper at #LREC2026 🎉 We introduce ACID, a cross-cultural dataset to study classism in NLP. 🔍 Key findings: pervasive negative stereotypes especially concerning morality, frequent offensiveness, and strong individual blame. 🔗 lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-mai...

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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

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Joachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Can you boost your AI review scores by asking an LLM to rewrite your paper? Yes! We call it paper laundering Our @icmlconf.bsky.social spotlight paper argues current AI reviewers aren't ready to automate peer review, and outlines what a science of peer review automation should look like 🧵👇 #ICML2026

First page of the ICML 2026 spotlight paper "Stop Automating Peer Review Without Rigorous Evaluation" by Joachim Baumann, Jiaxin Pei, Sanmi Koyejo, and Dirk Hovy (Stanford University and Bocconi University). The abstract argues that today's AI systems should not be used to produce paper reviews, grounded in two empirical findings: a "hivemind effect" where AI reviewers show excessive agreement and reduce perspective diversity, and "paper laundering," where prompting an LLM to rewrite a paper trivially increases AI reviewer scores through stylistic changes rather than scientific improvements. The paper calls for a science of peer review automation rather than wholesale deployment of general-purpose LLMs.

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

📚 For today's reading group Yujie Ren presented "Safe + Safe = Unsafe? Exploring How Safe Images Can Be Exploited to Jailbreak Large Vision-Language Models" by Cui et al. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11496 #NLProc

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Paul Röttger @paul-rottger.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

New paper w/ UK AISI: Millions of people now use AI to help them write and communicate. In three experiments (14k participants, 3m+ human ratings) we show that AI writing assistance systematically distorts writer personas – their perceived beliefs, personality, and identity. 🧵

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

We are delighted to welcome @marlutz.bsky.social to our lab over the next few months! 🎉 She'll work on the representation of different demographic groups in LLMs. #NLProc

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Vera Neplenbroek @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Excited to share that our paper "One Persona, Many Cues, Different Results: How Sociodemographic Cues Impact LLM Personalization" (joint work with @franziweeber.bsky.social, Jan Batzner and Sebastian Padó) got accepted to the main conference of #ACL 🎉

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The submission deadline for CMCL is coming up in less than a month! (Feb 25) CMCL will be co-located with LREC and take place on May 16!🌴https://sites.google.com/view/cmclworkshop/cfp

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Franzi Weeber @franziweeber.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Paper accepted to #EACL2026 main conference 🎉 @taniseceron.bsky.social, Sebastian Padó and I test multilingual LLMs before and after English-only fine-tuning and find strong cross-lingual political opinion transfer across five Western languages. www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.05553

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Vera Neplenbroek @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Does it matter how you prompt an LLM with a persona? Do LLMs respond differently to natural conversation history compared to names and explicit mentions? Go check out our new preprint! 👀

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Anna Bavaresco @annabavaresco.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Our paper has been accepted to EACL 2026!🎉 We systematically evaluate several vision-language (VLMs) and language-only models, measuring their alignment with brain responses to concept words. Our results show that vision-language models offer a promising tool to model human concept processing

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The CfP for CMCL is out!🌴 We are looking forward to receiving many interesting submissions! ✨ (Deadline: February 25, 2026) sites.google.com/view/cmclwor...

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Debora Nozza @deboranozza.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🚨 New main paper out at #EMNLP2025! 🚨 ⚡ We show that personalization of content moderation models can be harmful and perpetuate hate speech, defeating the purpose of the system and hurting the community. We argue that personalized moderation needs boundaries, and we show how to build them.

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Arianna Bisazza @arianna-bis.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Thrilled to be heading to Suzhou with a big team of GroNLP'ers 🐮 Interested in Interpretable, Cognitively inspired, Low-resource LMs? Don't miss our posters & talks #EMNLP2025!

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Vera Neplenbroek @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Next week, I'll be at #EMNLP presenting our work "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization" 🎉 📍 Ethics, Bias, and Fairness (Poster Session 2) 📅 Wed, November 5, 11:00-12:30 - Hall C 📖 Check the paper! arxiv.org/abs/2505.16467 See you in Suzhou! 👋

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

What if we did a single run and declared victory

Three panel thing. In the left panel we use error bars. In the second, we take statistical significance as the biggest number but still have error bars. In LLM science, we just have the biggest number

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Jaap Jumelet @jumelet.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🌍Introducing BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data! LLMs learn from vastly more data than humans ever experience. BabyLM challenges this paradigm by focusing on developmentally plausible data We extend this effort to 45 new languages!

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Hi all, there is a postdoc position open in the group I'm currently based in! ✨ Let me know if you are interested or have questions 🙂 Please share if you know someone who might be interested www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Memory access in language

Help uncover how memory shapes language use. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Language Sciences, you will join the ERC-funded MEMLANG project.

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Flor Plaza @florplaza.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

📢 Are you interested in a PhD in #NLProc to study and improve how AI model emotions and social signals? 🚨Exciting news:🚨 I’m hiring a PhD candidate at LIACS, @unileiden.bsky.social. 📍 Leiden, The Netherlands 📅 Deadline: 17 Nov 2025 👉 Position details and application link: tinyurl.com/5x5v6zsa

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PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing

The Faculty of Science and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) are looking for a:PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing (1.0fte)Project descr...

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Anne Lauscher @a-lauscher.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

🚨 Are you looking for a PhD in #NLProc dealing with #LLMs? 🎉 Good news: I am hiring! 🎉 The position is part of the “Contested Climate Futures" project. 🌱🌍 You will focus on developing next-generation AI methods🤖 to analyze climate-related concepts in content—including texts, images, and videos.

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

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Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · 27/08/2025

✨ Do self-supervised speech models learn to encode language-specific linguistic features from their training data, or only more language-general acoustic correlates? At #Interspeech2025 we presented our new Wav2Vec2-NL model and SSL-NL evaluation dataset to test this! 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2506.00981 ⬇️

Interspeech paper title: What do self-supervised speech models know about Dutch? Analyzing advantages of language-specific pre-training

Authors: Marianne de Heer Kloots, Hosein Mohebbi, Charlotte Pouw, Gaofei Shen, Willem Zuidema, Martijn Bentum

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Vera Neplenbroek @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Delighted to share that our paper "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization" (joint work with @arianna-bis.bsky.social and Raquel Fernández) got accepted to the main conference of #EMNLP Can't wait to discuss our work at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou this November!

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