One reason among many, yes. If you interrogate who they should or shouldn't think should be having kids, it gets very bad very fast.

I’m looking for #reviewers for any of the following journal submissions. Submission length is often similar to #ACL’s (4 or 8 pages for short/long submission type). Please contact me if you can #review, and BOOST this in any case. Thanks! #LowResource #NLP #NLProc #review

I was supposed to finish this March 31 and then the #Claude Code leak happened, handing me the perfect opening example Some of it has been in the works for longer: it's also a version of (part of) my #DHd2025 keynote titled "What makes LLMs so irresistible?" Read it here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages

"In the late 1950s, the library at CERN began soliciting preprints from physicists, asking them to send their papers to the library, instead of to their private mailing networks."

What if the most dangerous AI isn’t rogue - but works as intended? A new ELLIS-affiliated paper shows aligned, policy-compliant AI can still undermine democracy at scale. Bottom line: alignment ≠ safety. Democratic resilience must keep pace. 📄 Paper: https://bit.ly/4snKdLN

I love being unionized and I love unions

🚨 NEW POLL! Yet another poll has the Scottish Greens overtaking Reform, Labour and the Tories. We would become the second largest party in the Scottish Parliament! On May 7th, let's demand better. Vote Scottish Greens. 💚

I don't know who needs to hear this tonight but one of the best teaching tips I've received in the past 10 years is that you can shove all your assignments into an unpublished module on Canvas and their due dates and titles will show up for your students but they will remain locked.

Cardinal Pierre was, from 2016 until earlier this year, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States — i.e., the Vatican's ambassador to the U.S. Vance is Catholic, has made that fact a significant part of his public persona, and has a book on his conversion to Catholicism coming out this year.

I'm unsurprised inasmuch as tradwifery is an attempt to turn traditional women's labor into something comprehensible in a capitalist attention economy—it's a woman's fantasy of femininity and women's labor being appreciated and approved. Like yaoi, tradwife content is by and for women.

Begging people to learn just one thing about Central Asia.

i mean it's never been a secret?

interesting that an increase in emotionally intelligent parenting and teaching is suggested as a reason, given, you know, who fucking hates it

Finishing up conference reviews & here's my take: sociology (the study of social human behavior) has never been more popular but it's mostly being done outside of Sociology departments and Sociology journals sociology is thriving while Sociology is dying, and both fields are worse off for it

📦 My first #RStats package on CRAN: {readelan} A package dedicated to reading all files associated with ELAN: eaf, etf, ecv. Reads annotations, metadata, controlled vocabularies. Relevant for many in #linguistics perhaps? More info here: borstell.github.io/misc/readelan/

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Thompson's PhD work is really excellent! Great engagement with a real world problem looking at how to leverage mobile devices and AI to inform drivers and help them adapt their behavior, with a deep emphasis on the local context. Looking forward to seeing what he does next!

oh god i still have so much of that book to do and so little time

Oh, cool, just the US president casually promoting (another) genocide: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again"

What a tragic and unnecessary loss brought on by cruel policies cruelly enforced. The broader picture is that while some of the GOP's war on science will be reversible, some won't. Never again in my lifetime will the best and brightest from around the world want to study and work in the US.

Happy Easter! He is risen 💛

Seen several new papers criticising performance benchmarks. Why is anyone surprised? No one cares whether performance benchmarks mean anything - vendors see them as marketing tools, and academics just want to beat something from a SOTA perspective. Neither cares about validity

my first exposure to the net

More to see in that image: * Aurora Australis (bright green, upper right) & Aurora Borealis (plane green, lower left) visible as faint streaks * The bright dot in the lower right is Venus * The white haze in the lower right is zodiacal light: dust in the plane of the Solar System lit by sunlight

So no polymers = no food and med packaging = collapse of modern mass supply chains

The entire world right now is realizing that the US is incapable of fighting an opponent that can shoot back and that plays into why you're seeing a lot more countries now trying to open up talks with Iran and China. American hegemony isn't dying, it's already dead

Made it this far. Might as well continue. I'm stacking joy like legos. Fuck it.

📍It's official! #INLG2026 is coming to Utrecht, Netherlands, Oct 17-21! Hosted with support from Utrecht University and the local NLP community. Follow us here and check 2026.inlgmeeting.org for updates -- hope to see you there!

Click thru to the pdf with a list of all the degrees now eliminates like for example women's studies and exceptional needs early childhood education and journalism and architecture and visual arts and political science and foreign language teacher ed and African & African American studies and

This is brutal. Also, the justification that these decisions use is complete bullshit. Enrollment, for example, is not a straightforward result of the quality of the program: enrollment relies on institutional support for advertising and recruitment into a given major.

Beyond that, the whole idea that the point of education is to get a job is one of the main forces driving the skyrocketing cost of education and the administrative push for ever larger class sizes. There are many other reasons to pursue a degree, but only the "productive" one is privileged.

OK, not that anyone asked, but let me just explain why my takes re: Tesla stans are what they are and why they're so pointed. I ended up in conversation with someone who is a pretty big deal in Tesla circles. Had influence with Elon etc. He didn't know the words "Alpitronic Hypercharger" 🧵

May Day General Strike movement is growing across the country. Check out our map as the movement grows across the country! paydayreport.com/may-day-gene...

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

The daily horrors when you look at the wars taking place to make weak men feel strong, wealthy politicians trying to convince everyone that immigrants and refugees rather than billionaires and underrestrained capitalism are wrecking society, and that's just the start of the list 😮‍💨

ah, a new possible addition to the canon of SIGBOVIK AI papers

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

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I’m committed to a new assessment regime on my modules next year: extended essay worth 60% of the mark and a viva discussing their research and argument process worth 40% (literally where did you find this source and tell me about it). I’m marking a big pile now and this AI shit is out of control.

Are there papers/data on real-world safety problems and harms to patients from using AI chatbots for health? I've seen papers which ask patients to role play scenarios, but is there anything where people ask about their own health? Surveys, incident reporting, or trials of bots in live usage?

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

The point about intergenerational process, training up a next generation of humans, needs a lot more attention and thought. In the short term, will publishers, like universities, turn increasingly to vivas to assess authorship?

But calling for it anyway, however ignorantly, will make a direct difference to what climate change denying donors pay politicians. So there’s that.

making a crystallography game calling it project rhomboid

A very easy step the Secretary of State could make is to shut down the use of consultancies in #UKHE. It leaks SO MUCH money out of the (public) sector to for-profit firms, is creating a truly dangerous monoculture, and is so seemingly obscure none outside the sector will be pissed off.

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

I am a citizen of Iceland and let me assure you that we are not terrified of the future because of “authoritarian gender ideology”. What scares us is transphobes, ultra right wing ideologies, the manosphere, fascism, MAGA, oligarchs, techno fascists, ecological collapse and climate change.