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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Can sparse, interpretable LM features help us understand how the brain responds to language? 🧠 In our latest WiAIR podcast, we spoke with Dr. Greta Tuckute about her co-authored paper, “Interpreting Brain Responses to Language with Sparse Features from Language Models.” (1/6🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🧠 Does training an LLM longer make it more aligned with the human language network? In our latest #WiAIR episode, we spoke with Dr. Greta Tuckute about her co-authored paper, “From Language to Cognition: How LLMs Outgrow the Human Language Network.” (1/6🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New episode of #WiAIRpodcast: Greta Tuckute @gretatuckute.bsky.social talks to @j-novikova-nlp.bsky.social about what brain-LLM alignment does and does not tell us, and why, asked to keep one label out of neuroscience, cognitive science and AI, she drops AI first

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🎙️ Our new guest is live on #WiAIR soon! Dr.Greta Tuckute @gretatuckute.bsky.social, Research Fellow at the Kempner Institute at Harvard University, previously PhD at MIT. Greta will speak with us about language in biological brains and in artificial language models. Don't miss this episode!

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Do AI models really understand charts and graphs the same way we do? 📊 In the latest WiAIR Women in AI Research podcast episode, we are diving into another brilliant paper co-authored by our guest, Dr. Elisa Kreiss! 🎙 (1/7🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Are longer AI image descriptions actually better, or just more verbose? 🤔 We dive into this in the latest WiAIR Women in AI Research podcast with Dr. Elisa Kreiss! 🎙 (1/7🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Have you ever wondered why an AI-generated image description that seems perfectly accurate might be completely useless to someone using a screen reader? 🤔 We tackle this in the latest WiAIR Women in AI Research podcast with Dr. Elisa Kreiss! 🎙 (1/7🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🎙️ New #WiAIR episode's out! We speak with @elisakreiss.bsky.social about how context matters in image descriptions, why the metrics still assume there's one correct answer, how blind and low-vision users were left out of accessibility research & much more Youtube: youtu.be/jtQq8NspkY4

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🎙️ New guest alert! @elisakreiss.bsky.social joins the next episode of the #WiAIRpodcast. She's an Assistant Professor of Communication at UCLA, PhD in Linguistics from Stanford, now directing the Coalas Lab and studying how language and images work together to communicate meaning.

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In our latest WiAIR podcast, we spoke with Dr. Malihe Alikhani about her new Brookings Institution analysis detailing how Americans actually adopt AI in their daily and professional lives. (1/6🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

As AI transitions from assistant to autonomous agent, are we aligning tech with real human needs or surface-level expectations? 🤖 In our latest WiAIR podcast, we spoke with Dr. Malihe Alikhani (Northeastern / Contextual AI Lab) about AI alignment & safety. (1/7🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"We can't even encode our goals anymore" - Dr. Malihe Alikhani on why AI models are optimized to keep you happy rather than to be right. No corrections. No clarifications. No "I don't know." Just agreement, even when it's wrong. Full conversation now on #WiAIRpodcast.

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Is your AI truly helping you think better, or is it just echoing what you want to hear? 🤖 In our latest WiAIR podcast episode, we sat down with Dr. Malihe Alikhani (Northeastern University / Contextual AI Lab) to discuss AI sycophancy & human-AI collaboration. (1/6🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🎙️ New #WiAIR episode out now! We speak with Dr. Malihe Alikhani about the hidden failures in how we build and deploy AI.

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🎙️ New #WiAIR episode soon! Dr. Malihe Alikhani (Northeastern, Brookings) on why real AI alignment isn't flattery or metrics, but designing for the messy contexts where people actually use AI. #WomenInAI #AIResearch #WiAIRpodcast

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🧠 How do LLMs use their depth? Do all layers contribute in the same way—or do harder predictions require deeper processing? In our new #WiAIR episode, Dr. Anna Ivanova (@neuranna.bsky.social) discusses her recent paper with collaborators, “How Do LLMs Use Their Depth?” (1/7🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🤔 Can a system master language without mastering thought? In our new #WiAIRPodcast episode, Dr. Anna Ivanova (@neuranna.bsky.social) explores this question through the paper she co-authored: “Dissociating Language and Thought in Large Language Models.” (1/7🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

🎙️ 𝐍𝐞𝐰 #𝐖𝐢𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐎𝐮𝐭! In the new #WiAIRpodcast episode with @neuranna.bsky.social, we talk about the relationship between language, thought, and intelligence, with insights from neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI research. 📷 YouTube: youtu.be/e36ryy0Dsdo

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

After a break, the #WiAIR Women in AI Research Podcast is back! Our next guest is Anna Ivanova @neuranna.bsky.social from Georgia Tech, whose research tackles a fundamental question in AI and cognitive science: 🧠 What is the relationship between language and thought? Don't miss!

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

✨ Can translation quality serve as a scalable proxy for multilingual LLM evaluation? In our latest #WiAIR episode, we host Dr. Saadia Gabriel (@skgabrie.bsky.social) to discuss "Translation as a Scalable Proxy for Multilingual Evaluation". (1/5 🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

❓ Can generative AI fight misinformation—or could it be used to manipulate opinions? In our latest episode of WiAIR Women in AI Research, we spoke with Dr. Saadia Gabriel (@skgabrie.bsky.social) about her new paper MisinfoEval. (1/6🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

#WiAIR is at #ICLR2026, attending the wonderful keynote of Maja Mataric. Should robots be human-like, empathetic, vulnerable? Remember, we had an episode at #WiAIRpodcast about empathy in robots? Check it out if interested: youtu.be/Z8VBnZmSUto?...

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

❓ What if “toxicity” in AI isn’t a single truth—but depends on who sees it and in what context? In our latest WiAIR episode, we spoke with Saadia Gabriel (UCLA) about her paper tackling exactly this question. (1/6🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

✨ How vulnerable are LLMs to multi-turn jailbreaks, where harmful intent is spread across a conversation instead of one prompt? We host Dr. Saadia Gabriel (@skgabrie.bsky.social) to discuss "X-Teaming: Multi-Turn Jailbreaks and Defenses with Adaptive Multi-Agents" paper. (1/5 🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

What does it take to build AI we can trust? Part 1 with @skgabrie.bsky.social (UCLA): AI safety, misuse, and trust in LLMs, and how personal experience shapes impactful research. From hate speech to best paper. 🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/OZQqBWFUxQs #WiAIR #WiAIRpodcast

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Can AI be made safe? In our upcoming #WiAIR_podcast episode, @skgabrie.bsky.social explores how modern AI systems can be broken, manipulated, or used to influence human beliefs. Trailer out now: youtu.be/_OcCn83iTEY Full episode soon. #WiAIR #NLProc

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🎙️ Our next #WiAIR_podcast guest: @skgabrie.bsky.social ! Assistant Professor UCLA (prev UW, MIT and NYU), Saadia works on on measuring factuality, intent and potential harm of human-written language. Subscribe so you don't miss this episode 🎧 youtube.com/@WomeninAIRe...

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

My #atscience talk about Lea is now online! If you've only ever heard me talk about NLP, here's a chance to hear me rant about #atproto (the protocol you're reading this on!), social media for researchers, and the free internet. And if you're interested in helping us build Lea, please reach out!

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Lea: A Social App for Researchers - ATmosphereConf 2026

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

New episode in the #WiAIR @ EACL 2026 series is out! We speak with Maor Juliet Lavi about her new paper: "Detecting (Un)answerability in Large Language Models with Linear Directions" 👉 Watch it here: youtu.be/CCPE58A_FCQ #EACL2026 #WiAIRpodcast

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Why LLMs Hallucinate, and How to Make Them Say "I Don't Know" (EACL 2026)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Yet another video in the #WiAIR @ #EACL2026 series. Jing Yang presents her work "Persona Prompting as a Lens on LLM Social Reasoning" 🎥 Watch it here: youtu.be/bydex6cwgEs

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

New video in the Women in AI Research @ EACL 2026 series. We speak with @reasyaay.bsky.social from CMU about her work done during her research internship at NVIDIA: "Nemotron-CrossThink: Scaling Self-Learning beyond Math Reasoning" 🎥 Watch it here: youtu.be/-cPYHmxwN14 #WiAIR #EACL2026

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Why Your LLM Needs Math to Think Better (EACL 2026)

What if adding math data actually improves reasoning in non-math tasks? In this episode of #WiAIRpodcast, Syeda from the Carnegie Mellon University and NVIDIA presents Nemotron CrossThink (EACL 2026…

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Another video in the #WiAIR_podcast at #EACL2026 series. @j-novikova-nlp.bsky.social speaks with @navitagoyal.bsky.social about her paper: "Steering Safely or Off a Cliff? Rethinking Specificity and Robustness in Inference-Time Interventions" 🎥 Watch it here: youtu.be/q42bUeh1KyA

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🚨 New series launch: WiAIR @ EACL 2026 First episode with @anganaborah.bsky.social: "Persuasion at Play: Understanding Misinformation Dynamics in Demographic-Aware Human-LLM Interactions" 🎥 Watch it here: youtu.be/xcec0EpJQJ4 #EACL2026 #NLProc #WiAIR

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

✨ How can we test how pretraining data affects language model behavior through direct intervention? In our latest #WiAIR episode, we host Dr. Hila Gonen to discuss “Rewriting History.” (1/5 🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

⚠️ AI safety guardrails may be weaker outside English. If a prompt is blocked in English, translating it into a low-resource language can sometimes bypass the model's safety filters. 🎙️ YouTube: youtu.be/Lsq3UzM8wIg

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

❓✨ Can something as simple as a color in a prompt influence an AI model’s prediction? In the latest WiAIR – Women in AI Research episode, we spoke with Hila Gonen (UBC) about a surprising LLM behavior called semantic leakage. Key insights from the paper 👇 (1/6🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

A single color in a prompt can change an LLM's prediction. As Hila Gonen notes: Likes yellow → school bus driver Likes red → firefighter Seen similar prompt sensitivity in LLMs? #WiAIR_podcast 🎙️: youtu.be/Lsq3UzM8wIg

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Happy International Women's Day, and happy birthday to #WiAIR! #wiair_podcast

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

✨ How can we reliably detect harmful prompts across languages, images, and audio? In our latest #WiAIR episode, we host Dr. Hila Gonen to discuss “OMNIGUARD: An Efficient Approach for AI Safety Moderation Across Languages and Modalities”. (1/5 🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

🎙️ 𝐍𝐞𝐰 #𝐖𝐢𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐎𝐮𝐭! In the new #WiAIRpodcast episode with Hila Gonen, we talk about semantic leakage, interventional analysis of LLMs, and the line between bias, hallucination, and leakage. 📷 YouTube: youtu.be/Lsq3UzM8wIg

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Remember "Lipstick on a Pig", where they showed that many embedding debiasing methods don't remove bias, just hide it. In the upcoming #WiAIR episode, I speak with its author Hila Gonen about taking this further into LLMs: semantic leakage and other hidden failures.

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

🎙️ Our next #WiAIR_podcast guest: Hila Gonen! Assistant Professor @cs.ubc.ca, she works at the intersection of NLP & ML, aiming to make LLMs responsible, reliable, and fair across languages and socio-demographic groups. Stay tuned 🎧 www.youtube.com/@WomeninAIRe...

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Reasoning traces look like explanations but are they? Letitia Parcalabescu argues that in reasoning LLMs anything leading to the right answer gets reinforced, even incoherent or emoji-filled traces. 🎬 Dive deeper in the full #WiAIR_podcast episode: youtube.com/watch?v=gzQi...

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

✨ Can we give formal, information-theoretic guarantees against hallucinations in RAG systems? In our latest #WiAIR episode, we host Dr. Letitia Parcalabescu to discuss "Bounding Hallucinations: Information-Theoretic Guarantees for RAG Systems via Merlin-Arthur Protocols". (1/5 🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

🧠 Do Vision & Language Decoders Use Images and Text Equally? In our latest episode, we speak with Letitia Parcalabescu about her ICLR 2025 paper examining how vision–language *decoder* models use images and text — and how self-consistent their explanations really are. (1/8🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

That could be a perfect summary of our last episode with Letitia on #WiAIR_podcast. Make sure you don't miss our interview: 🎬 YouTube: youtu.be/gzQiDCG_j7A

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Have you ever read an LLM explanation and asked: Is this genuinely reflective of the model’s reasoning — or just a consistent narrative? 🤔 (1/8🧵)

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Today, on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the women and girls driving discovery and innovation worldwide. 💜 At WiAIR Women in AI Research, we’re proud to spotlight female AI researchers and their groundbreaking work. Happy #WomenInScience Day! ✨

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