@pranav-nlp.bsky.social and I are surveying researchers about naming and name changes in academia (especially computer science). If your academic name is / has been / might someday be different from other names you've used, please tell us about it here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP

I was Delores from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice for Halloween!

Attending COLM next week in Montreal? 🇨🇦 Join us on Thursday for a 2-part social! ✨ 5:30-6:30 at the conference venue and 7:00-10:00 offsite! 🌈 Sign up here: forms.gle/oiMK3TLP8ZZc...

I will be - at the Aarhus conference 🇩🇰 on Monday for our workshop on representation + representativeness with synthetic data - living in Heidelberg 🇩🇪 in 2 weeks - in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in late September giving a talk at the ILCC (on reasoning about reference, probably) - in Montreal 🇨🇦 in October for COLM

I'm not at #ACL2025, but my student Elisa will be there presenting our work on LLMs' gender and country stereotypes in English, Spanish, and German, at the @genderbiasnlp.bsky.social workshop. aclanthology.org/2025.gebnlp-...

Have you or a loved one been misgendered by an LLM? How can we evaluate LLMs for misgendering? Do different evaluation methods give consistent results? Check out our preprint led by the newly minted Dr. @arjunsubgraph.bsky.social, and with Preethi Seshadri, Dietrich Klakow, Kai-Wei Chang, Yizhou Sun

Submitted! 🥳 Stay tuned for a defense date in 3-ish months

🚨🚨 Studying the INTERPLAY of LMs' internals and behavior? Join our @colmweb.org workshop on comprehensivly evaluating LMs. Deadline: June 23rd CfP: shorturl.at/sBomu Page: shorturl.at/FT3fX We're excited to see your insights and methods!! See you in Montréal 🇨🇦 #nlproc #interpretability

Do you have Opinions™ on what it means to "represent" things and people with data? Then submit 1-2 pages by May 28th and join us in Århus 🇩🇰 this summer to discuss representation and representativeness with synthetic data!

Do you have Opinions™ on what it means to "represent" things and people with data? Then submit 1-2 pages by May 28th and join us in Århus 🇩🇰 this summer to discuss representation and representativeness with synthetic data!

I'm teaching for the first time this semester and I am thrilled with how my concepts class is going! We discussed interpretability today after reading 2 critique papers (Lipton's Mythos of Model Interpretability and Krishnan's Against Interpretability) and 2 content papers: Patchscopes and RAVEL. 🧵

Come to my keynote tomorrow at the first official @queerinai.com workshop at #NAACL2025 to hear about how trans languaging is complex and cool, and how this makes it extra difficult to process computationally. I will have SO many juicy examples!

Best part of dissertation-writing is reading all sorts of things, including Ellen F. Prince making fun of sociolinguists in 1981.

Announcing our first workshop keynote! "Processing Trans Languaging" by Vagrant Gautam @dippedrusk.com at 13:30 - 14:30 MDT on May 4, 2025 Read on for a description of the talk! 🧵

If you were ever curious about the timeline of name changes as a Canadian immigrant in Germany, here's my data spanning 2 years for just the most important stuff. This does not include everywhere else I had to change my name, i.e., phone companies in Germany and Canada, public transit apps,

US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky

@pranav-nlp.bsky.social is speaking at the @i2sc.net about how seemingly neutral policies can cause harm when developed without input from marginalized communities, with examples from the AI Act and name change policies in academia

Just found a 2010 paper about automatically translating poetry, and one of the reviewers apparently wrote their entire review in verse! The authors link to the full review in a footnote - here's a snippet.

life update: i have discovered Gaming™

I've recently put together a "Fairness FAQ": tinyurl.com/fairness-faq. If you work in non-fairness ML and you've heard about fairness, perhaps you've wondered things like what the best definitions of fairness are, and whether we can train algorithms that optimize for it.

Max and Owen are here Two 4x4 dog pet portraits

I have a gift for the language enjoyers: > It's making me never want to have stilettos even more than I already never want to have stilettos 🐦🐦

saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu

I had this weird feeling of...patriotism? I think?...stir in me, I've not felt this since a beer commercial in the mid-90s.

Women love me. Fish love me. I do my best to care for all creatures and even when I fail they see my efforts

Preview of my talk at UCLA tomorrow 👀

I added a new assignment to my Computational Linguistics class last semester: - Choose a linguistic phenomenon in a language other than English - Give a 3-minute presentation about that phenomenon & how it would pose a challenge for computational models Would recommend! 1/n

Few people know this but 2 years ago my bestie @mariusmosbach.bsky.social met Angela Merkel

Over the last few years, several people from the @milanlp.bsky.social lab went onto the academic job market in #NLP. Based on the conversations with them, I collected some observations we shared internally. In case they are useful for others, though, here they are: dirkhovy.com/post/2025_01...

I love logicians lol

I saw an AI Generated image of Lord Vishnu that had details that were wrong. It led to this mini rant about generative AI on information ecosystems that rely heavily on interpretation, with sources of truth are scarce and/or disputed, and are difficult to navigate. open.substack.com/pub/shaily99...

@maureenkosse.bsky.social is defending today! I don't have an exact number, but the time that I invited her to a family dinner and she talked about her research was the highest number of times I've heard the word "cuck" in a conversation. I'm excited to see if she outdoes herself at her defense!

@mariaa.bsky.social is currently giving a talk at the @i2sc.bsky.social, hosted by @ingmarweber.bsky.social!

traveling to Luxembourg today --> giving a talk on Friday in Saarbrücken at the Saarland University Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing --> hanging out in Paris for the weekend Please join for the talk if you're nearby!

It's been a long year dippedrusk.com/posts/2024-1...

merry xmas!

#AdventOfPapers 8: Intimacy: A Special Issue (by Lauren Berlant). This is just the introduction to an issue on various topics related to intimacy, which I might read more of later. Every time I read critical theory I'm surprised and I learn things. www.jstor.org/stable/1344169

#AdventOfPapers 7: On the Impact of the Computer on Society (by Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer scientist whose writing is just timeless). This paper is as relevant today as when it was published 52 years ago, and talks about societal impact, theory vs. performance, www.jstor.org/stable/1734465

#AdventOfPapers 6: On the world-making work of artificial language understanding (by @tisjune.bsky.social). Fundamentally this is a critique of the structuralist view underlying current NLP work, i.e., that there's a structured "langue" underlying the variation we see,

European PhD update: I'm setting off on my second 3 week vacation of this year, during which I won't respond to texts, emails or thoughts about work. For ultimate vacationmaxxing, I've packed my binoculars, camera, watercolours, sketchbook, a puzzle and 2 books 🥰

Best thing I've seen all day

Turned @dippedrusk.bsky.social 's amazing Vancouver list dippedrusk.com/posts/2024-0... into Google Maps pins: maps.app.goo.gl/nGBbcUAMMixC...

1/7 🌈 BIG NEWS ALERT! The hottest Queer in AI workshop is back - and this time we're official! We're thrilled to announce we'll be at #NAACL2025 as an official workshop, meaning your work can now be published in the ACL anthology! 🎉

For those of you attending #NeurIPS2024 in person: I'm from Vancouver and I made an extensive list of restaurants, bars, bookstores, etc., that I used to frequent when I still lived there. Enjoy! dippedrusk.com/posts/2024-0...

#AdventOfPapers 5: Over-Reliance on English Hinders Cognitive Science. The authors present a tonne of cross-linguistic evidence to argue that a focus on English hinders the "scope and validity of the cognitive science enterprise," whose goal is to understand the human mind and its processes.

#AdventOfPapers 4: The Zeno’s Paradox of ‘Low-Resource’ Languages (@hellinanigatu.bsky.social et al won a best paper award for this at EMNLP!) They present a qualitative analysis of 150 NLP and speech papers and show that there is no consensus on what “low-resource” means.

Anyone got any Heidelberg recs? (never been before, but I'm going on Friday the 13th!)

Linguists: has anyone ever published a critique of Sentiment Analysis and related methods from a sociolinguistic perspective?

This has inspired me to read some Searle tonight (Minds, Brains, and Programs)!

Seeing cool works on metrology and measurement modeling for NLP! So I wanted to port over the thread our ACL 2023 Findings paper (arxiv.org/abs/2305.09022) on conceptualizations of NLP tasks and measurements of performance! Work with Eric Yuan, @haldaume3.bsky.social, and Su Lin Blodgett. (1/n)