WOAH is coming back for its 10th edition at EMNLP 2026 in Budapest! 🎊 For this important anniversary, we invite authors to critically reflect on our achievements as a community and adjust the aim going forward. Stay tuned, more updates coming soon! #EMNLP2026 #WOAH2026 #NLProc

I passed my viva! 🎓🥹 Thanks to @bjoernross.bsky.social and Mirella Lapata for pushing me to write a thesis I’m proud of, to examiners @malvinanissim.bsky.social and Emily Allaway for making the viva such a positive experience, and to everyone who supported me, in person or from afar 🥰

Thanks so much for having me and for the warm welcome! My first visit to Wales didn't disappoint 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😊

At #EMNLP2025 to present the last chapter of my PhD 🐼 Let's talk #HateSpeech detection, generalisation and NLP safety at my poster: 📆tomorrow 🕟4.30pm Look for the circus-themed poster 🎪🤸🏻‍♀️ Work with @tomsherborne.bsky.social @bjoernross.bsky.social and Mirella Lapata at #EdinburghNLP + @cohere.com

Should WOAH start a mentorship programme? 🤔 As the workshop grows, reviewer expectations are rising. We don’t want contributors from adjacent communities penalised by *CL norms. Senior PhDs and beyond could be mentors. Share your thoughts: 👉 forms.gle/safif3rU2rs5...

Friendly reminder that tomorrow is the last day to apply! ⏰️🤓

Don't forget: the deadline to apply to join our organisation team is September 12th ⏳️ Thanks to those who have applied already 💪🏻

Excited for WOAH’s 10th anniversary? 😍 We're launching an open call for new organisers! Our goal: diversify the team and bring in fresh perspectives. 🗓️ Apply by September 12 🔗 forms.gle/aiFs35vwDXnt...

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We're just getting started with lightning talks from the remote attendees ⚡️⚡️ #ACL2025NLP

As someone who likes to believe that detection technology can eventually protect victims proactively, I feel I need to sit with some hard feelings after this talk. Thank you @katejsim.bsky.social for bringing such an important and interesting perspective to the table 🙏

We always measure F1 scores on held out data, but what is the real cost of moderation errors?

Not yet time for the first coffee break, and #WOAH Q&A is already getting spicy 🌶 Congratulations to Dayei Oh for winning the best paper award with her paper on marxist-feminist ethics for content moderation 👏 #ACL2025NLP

"You can't create a product for survivors without having thought about them." - @cordeliamoore.bsky.social Ever think about survivors scrolling porn sites, searching for images of themselves uploaded without consent? I hadn’t until now. Come hear from field experts at @woahworkshop.bsky.social

Our first speaker is Cordelia Moore, who works on gender-based violence and sexual violence facilitated in digital spaces.

The 9th edition of the Workshop for Online Abuse and Harms is kicking off in Room 2.17 at #ACL2025NLP! We have a full program today, including 3 invited speakers, a panel discussion and a poster session. This year's workshop theme is Harms Beyond Hate Speech.

Today is the day! #ACL2025NLP

Tomorrow!

At #ACL2025NLP and on the job market (NLP + AI Safety) 💼 It's great to see growing interest in safety/alignment, but we often miss the social context. Come to our @woahworkshop.bsky.social Friday to dive deeper into safe safety research! A quiet token from the biggest @aclmeeting.bsky.social ⬇️

🥁 #WOAH2025 Speakers🥁 We are excited to announce an amazing panel of 3 speakers who will discuss our theme "Harms Beyond Hate Speech" 🗣️ @cordeliamoore.bsky.social 🗣️ @fvancesco.bsky.social 🗣️ @katejsim.bsky.social Full details: www.workshopononlineabuse.com/keynotes.html 🤩 See you on August 1!

Huge congratulations to Dr. @vernadankers.bsky.social for passing her viva today! 🥳🎓 It's truly been an honour sharing the PhD journey with you. I wasn’t ready for the void your sudden departure left (in the office and in my life!). Your new colleagues are lucky to have you! 🥺🥰

📢 #WOAH2025 invites non-archival submissions of relevant papers accepted to the ✨Findings of @aclmeeting.bsky.social✨ To present your Findings paper at #WOAH2025, complete the form by 📆June 10, 2025. 📝Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📆 Reminder! 📆 🚀 The #WOAH2025 submission deadline is just over two weeks away! (April 18, 2025, Anywhere on Earth!) 🔗 CfP: workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html We're excited to see your submissions! 🤩 #ACL2025 #NLProc

🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨 We've extended the submission deadline to Friday, April 18, 2025 (AoE)! Please share widely! www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html

👀👀postdocs/ research scientist roles in 🇬🇧🇮🇪🌐 Worked across NLP, HCI, ethics, psychology, doing model eval, participant studies and lit reviews. I am passionate about AI harm mitigation 4 marginalised people🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. More: mxeddie.github.io/about/ + find links to 8 papers published during PhD. Please share🔊

Looking for a PhD student to come work with me on the ethical implications of NLP from September! Please share widely and point any interesting students my way! 😊

📆Reminder📆: 📭 The #WOAH2025 submission deadline is March 7, 2025, anywhere on Earth! See CfP: workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Looking forward to your submissions! 🤩 #ACL2025 #NLProc

2024 has been a though one. It started at a global minimum of my life, and went up with a positive monotonic trend. I'm extremely grateful to the people in my life. I now look forward to 2025 and life after the PhD (hopefully). "Anche così è stato breve il nostro lungo viaggio. Il mio dura tuttora"

We're hiring a lecturer or reader in embodied NLP at the University of Edinburgh! Deadline: 31 Jan 2025 Call for applications: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

The call for papers for #WOAH2025 is out! 📢 Deadline: 7th March Venue: ACL 2025 #ACL2025NLP #NLProc

I’ve created an Italian #NLProc Researcher Starter Pack 🇮🇹 DM me to join if you're not in yet! go.bsky.app/LHbWLHp

🥳We're excited to share that WOAH 2025, our 9th edition, will take place at #ACL2025 in Vienna! @aclmeeting.bsky.social Our special theme this year will be "Harms Beyond Hate Speech". CfP and more details soon 🚀

Can we detect #hatespeech at scale on social media? To answer this, we introduce 🤬HateDay🗓️, a global hate speech dataset representative of a day on Twitter. The answer: not really! Detection perf is low and overestimated by traditional eval methods arxiv.org/abs/2411.15462 🧵

Here is a starter pack of researchers from the University of Edinburgh working on all areas of AI! go.bsky.app/KRNDkN7

Last 5 days to apply for a PhD at #EdinburghNLP! Deadline: November 25 www.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos... If you are passionate about: - adaptive tokenization and memory in foundation models - modular deep learning - computational typology please message me or meet me at #NeurIPS2024!

I'm creating a starter pack for the WOAH Community 🦋 Send me your username if you are a researcher working on (fighting) online harms and would like to be added 😇 go.bsky.app/2hJFNQb #NLProc #HateSpeech