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Will Lewis

@wildlewis.bsky.social
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Affiliate Professor, University of Washington NLP, MT, under-resourced languages, Language Technology for Crisis Preparedness and Response

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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We are excited to announce the First Workshop on Language Technologies for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR), co-located with AACL-IJCNLP 2026, on November 9, 2026 in Hengqin, Zhuhai, China. When language AI meets crisis operations, lives can be saved. lt4cpr.github.io/aacl2026-wor...
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Language Technologies for Crisis Preparedness and Response · November 9, 2026 · AACL-IJCNLP 2026 · Hengqin, Zhuhai, China
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u... If masked group of hooligans approached your vehicle after you had just dropped off one of your kids at school and demanded that you get out, what would you do? Certainly not exit your vehicle! Yet, for that refusal, you die? Who are the terrorists here?
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
It may be 39 degrees, but it is a beautiful 39 degrees.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
MJT on CNN: "There's a new Democrat that's been elected that does deserve to be sworn in..." Crazy times it is when I keep going "I agree with MJT."
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
www.newsweek.com/russia-respo... Go, Moldova! The EU will welcome you with open arms. Let's hope Putin and his gang of thugs don't bomb them back to the Stone Age for daring to turn their back on the Russian Empire (maybe using Transnistria as an excuse).
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Russia Responds as Pro-Putin Party Defeated in Moldova Election
"Moldovans should probably resolve this among themselves,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Thank God for Jimmy Kimmel! What a comeback! Makes me almost want to watch network TV. Wait...couldn't watch him in Seattle because KOMO, the local ABC affiliate, is part of Sinclair, and Sinclair decided to censor Kimmel. Pretty easy for me to boycott KOMO since I never watch them anyway.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
www.msn.com/en-us/news/n... "This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote. Checks and balances are regrettably a thing of the past.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Opened for 110 years Kogetsu-Do is one of the last Japanese confectionaries in the West. I always stop by when in Fresno or close by (or not so close). Even when there are years between visits, Lynn still greets me by name when I enter the store. Such a special place. www.sfgate.com/centralcalif...
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A 110-year-old California confectionery is likely on its last owner
"Basically, this is my second home."
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I've had a picture of the Hubble Deep Field over my desk for years. Other than the sheer wonder of it, it is also a constant reminder of just how miniscule even my biggest problems are. www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
And now for a waterfall. (Teneriffe Falls near North Bend.)
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Unbelievable. And utterly frightening.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The cherry blossoms were peaking at University of Washington today. And so were the crowds!
A panoramic if the Quad, crowds and blossoming cherry trees. Kelly and Will with cherry blossoms behind them. A look towards the sun through cherry blossoms.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This is shameful. And it makes me so, so sad. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/w...
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Trump’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Hobble Earthquake Response in Myanmar
While China, Russia and other nations have rushed emergency response teams to the devastated country, the U.S., once a leader in foreign aid, has been slow to act.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This is absurd.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I have a Maasai name! At our latest camp, I guess the mere fact that I could produce even a little Maasai opened eyes, so much so, that I was given the name Oloshipa. I'm told it means "Happy One". I hope it doesn't mean Fuck Face or Man with Booger on His Face. All the Maasai here are using it now.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Mama lion with adolescent male son. I think she's scouting for the next meal.
Female adult lion peering over her adolescent son.Adult female lion peering into the distance, standing next to her adolescent son.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Of course, big cats claw, just like our friendly domestic variety does, but I was completely stunned when I saw it in the wild.
Adolescent male lion clawing a dead tree in an open field.Adolescent male lion clawing a dead tree in an open field, looking towards the camera.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
An exceptional talk by Kate Starbird at UW. She has worked on disinformation in social media for many years, and she fits this talk well into current events. I have never attended an academic talk before where the audience erupted into a spontaneous ovation at the end. Well worth the watch.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
You know, Trump strong arming our erstwhile allies and trade partners with heavy tariffs, while at the same time demanding Ukraine fork over its rare earths without offering anything in return, feels a lot like Tony Soprano demanding his money. Or else. Welcome to the land of gangster politics.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Another great paper by Steven Bird. Well worth the read for anyone working on translation technology, especially for languages that are not written. We tend to (over)concentrate on the technology, e.g., building big multilingual models, LLMs, etc., and forget the human side of things.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Hike up Ventana Canyon in Tucson. Been years since I hiked this trail! Didn't make it to la ventana, but did stop where I had a view (the only spot on the trail where you can see it before the top). Beautiful, sunny day, albeit cool, including some not-yet-melted snow. Blue sky everywhere!!! 😉😂
A view of la ventana from the trail, looking up a hillside, and small amount of blue sky embedded in the rocks.Snow on the trail, amongst some rocks. I almost stepped in it! (You can see my boot at the bottom of the image, just below the snow.)Aww, a baby saguaro. Less than 2 feet tall. I'd guess ~15 years old. My 10 inch tall water bottle to the left gives perspective.A view into distant Tucson, between two Saguaros, and the trail between them into the distance.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Counting the days...
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Calling bullshit on their lies isn't censorship. Failed insurrectionists aren't heroes. Fighting racism and helping underserved communities isn't discrimination. Showing empathy isn't evil. Supporting trans kids isn't abuse. Don't accept their twisted frames as reality.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
www.usatoday.com/story/news/2... Happy New Year!!
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What is the Chinese Lunar New Year? Everything to know about the Year of the Snake
Lunar New Year celebrations begin Wednesday. Here's everything to know about the 2025 Lunar New Year, the Year of the Snake.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
www.usnews.com/news/world/a... Doubtless temporary. Sigh.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
You know, this sent chills down my spine. And I agree. But I find it hard to reckon with the fact that I do. It makes me so sad.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
www.huffpost.com/entry/donald... Yup, includes National Science Foundation. NSF suspended all panels. I wonder if our students will get paid. I wonder if I'll get paid.
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Trump Orders Freeze On All Federal Grants And Loans
Democrats warned that Trump’s latest order could harm programs used by millions of Americans, including early childhood programs, and food and rent assistance.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
A quote for our time: "What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all." Attributed to Valery Legasov, Chernobyl Miniseries.
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Nature @nature.com · 24/01/2025
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
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Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
WTF! What happens to scientists on soft money appts? Their terms abruptly end (just like every NIH meeting, incl. panel reviews, yesterday)? Completely unprecedented. Likely already having long term consequences for science in this country. So insanely stupid. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I really thought this was a late night joke. But, it's true: the US Constitution, which used to be on the whitehouse.gov site, has been deleted. No, really.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
TikTok's back up again today because Trump signaled he'd do something about it. Definitely going to be bought up all or part by the broligarchy. Even more concentration of our social media into the hands of the few.
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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Why can't people just accept that Trump tried to ban TikTok in 2020 but failed and then was against the ban when Sleepy Joe was in favor of it and now is going to save TikTok and China is bad and therefore tariffs, but also the CEO of TikTok is going to the inauguration. Why is that so difficult?
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Message with an intended audience of one. Very similar message/strategy to a video that TikTok served me, from their official account, featuring their CEO, last night. Isn’t this what Harris explained on the debate stage? Flattery as foreign policy.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Had great chats with my Uber drivers this trip to Costa Rica. One driver and I talked at length about the benefits of bilinguality and cognition. The one this morning, we talked about his experiences elsewhere, in particular, skiing and his first exposure to snow. Love how language opens doors.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Funny thing grief. In the back pocket of jeans I hadn't worn in a while I found a tattered receipt. It was for a movie my friend Ileana and I had seen. It struck me that that was the last movie we'll ever see together. Attending her mass and wake were touching, but that receipt brought me to tears.
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Dan Jurafsky @jurafsky.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Look what came up as I settled in for my flight. I already liked President Carter for saving American Beer. But, dude! Now I like him even more! What an amazing man! What an amazing life!
Screen capture of the monitor on a plane showing the movie "Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President."
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Just flew into LAX. After dark, the "clouds" gave a reddish hue to everything. Then the cabin smelled like a campfire. Then, looking to the north as we were coming in, there were the towering flames of the Palisades fire. Where am I really? This isn't LA. At least not the LA of the present.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
As everyone should know by now, the anti-trans rhetoric isn’t about “protecting women” in bathrooms or sports … but about removing trans people from public life. And it’s working. This is a big company, making a big change that isn’t about protecting anyone (except men from having to see tampons).
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
So, I wonder if Trump actively asks himself "What would Putin do?" when he comes up with these hair brained schemes. Better watch out Trump, Denmark's countering the threat with 12 elite dog-sled teams and two new boats! www.politico.eu/article/dona...
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Trump’s invasion of Greenland would be ‘the shortest war in the world’
We took the president-elect literally not seriously and charted out how the U.S. military would fare against Denmark — which recently boosted the island’s security by financing two dog sled patrols…
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I have to admit what I've enjoyed most about Bluesky is the growth of academic discourse on Bluesky, especially in fields that matter most to me. And without all the ads and foaming at the mouth BS. I choose what I want to see. www.science.org/content/arti...
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As academic Bluesky grows, researchers find strengths—and shortcomings
Platform fosters collegial interactions among scientists, but potentially limits interactions beyond the academic community
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Eddy Almuiña @ealmuina.xyz · 21/11/2024
Así fueron las últimas 24 horas de posts en Bluesky en cuanto a idiomas. He añadido las cantidades en la leyenda de la gráfica para entenderla mejor. Español y portugués peleando intensamente por el tercer lugar. Pero que se anden con cuidado los japoneses!
Gráfica de pastel reflejando la distribución de posts publicados por idioma en Bluesky. Encabeza el inglés con muchísima diferencia, seguido de japonés, portugués, español..., en ese orden.
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Eddy Almuiña @ealmuina.xyz · 17/11/2024
Por cierto, que sea Bluesky la app más descargada en España se está notando. Ya es el español el tercer idioma más usado! 🥉
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DeBerardinis Lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center @rjdlab.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Tryptophan Day to those who celebrate! -RJD
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Yes! What worries the Chinese most isn't just the flight of users from Twitter, but that Bluesky allows less ability to manipulate users algorithmically. I'm sure this concerns not just the Chinese govt, but other (wanna-be) totalitarian actors. It's a good thing. www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
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Bluesky boom worries Chinese media | Semafor
State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform, have recently seen their growth plateau.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To Your Phone: Thinking About Bluesky talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-fun... via @TPM
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A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To Your Phone: Thinking About Bluesky
Ever since Elon Musk bought Twitter two years ago, those who despise his evolving mix of predatory trolling, stunted emotional development and right-wing extremism have been hoping for an alternative.
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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I've enjoyed Bluesky a lot so far. It feels a lot like the old Twitter, which, although I was never very active on the platform, I did tend to lurk and review others' posts regularly. That was years ago, however. Enter Bluesky... www.cnet.com/news/social-...
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Bluesky Is the Small Comfort I'd Been Looking For. Let's Hope It Lasts
Commentary: I rediscovered the joy of small social networks and now Bluesky is exploding. I hope it keeps its soul.
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