📢 Unhappy about peer review at NLP/ML conferences? Here's a chance to do smth about it, and get an interdisciplinary PhD! NLP+discrete optimization at @itu.dk Project: interpretable methods for paper-reviewer matching Apply by Jan 6 for position DC6: www.cords-dn.at Master degree needed

📢 Unhappy about peer review at NLP/ML conferences? Here's a chance to do smth about it, and get an interdisciplinary PhD! NLP+discrete optimization at @itu.dk Project: interpretable methods for paper-reviewer matching Apply by Jan 6 for position DC6: www.cords-dn.at Master degree needed

i am looking for academic (or similarly "serious") courses or textbook-y texts on LLMs with a major component (lets say >66%) that is NOT about the technicalities of Transformers, optimization, RL, tokenization, etc, but instead focus more on data, eval, interpretability, etc. pointers?

🤯 We use the term 'intelligence' a lot, but wth do we mean? We got 303 survey responses from researchers. The most agreed-on criteria are generalization, adaptability & reasoning. ACL Findings preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.20959 with @brtrm.bsky.social @terne.bsky.social @heinrichst.bsky.social /1

📢 The Copenhagen NLP Symposium on June 20th! - Invited talks by @loubnabnl.hf.co (HF) @mziizm.bsky.social (Cohere) @najoung.bsky.social (BU) @kylelo.bsky.social (AI2) Yohei Oseki (UTokyo) - Exciting posters by other participants Register to attend and/or present your poster at cphnlp.github.io /1

Is there a term for the state of "killed yourself over last-minute conference submissions and now need a week to recover"? Also, any strategies from group leaders who manage to prevent that?

Big news 7 years in the making www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

📢 Breaking changes to EMNLP submissions! If you plan to submit, pls make sure ALL co-authors know that: - they have to register as reviewers by May 21st (can be done as soon as a paper is submitted) - if they get assignments, it must be done on time and acc. to guidelines. Penalties now possible!

IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member: Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800 Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 [email protected]

Researchers at the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands have received a questionnaire from the US with questions that are an attack on academic freedom. The University of Leiden advises not to respond www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...

That's just insane! @naaclmeeting.bsky.social Link to original report: www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

One week left to apply! Perks: a sane country with great infrastructure, healthcare, and biking lanes.

This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...

Finland is making a significant investment in the future of machine learning / artificial intelligence by hiring 20 professors (at various levels) www.ellisinstitute.fi/ellis-instit...

📢 Based on the recommendation from peer review committee, ARR switches from 8 to 10-week cycles. This will allow for a saner cycle schedule. See the full report here: www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/im... The ARR website is now updated with the new submission dates: aclrollingreview.org/dates

Really smart and good piece by @janus.bsky.social about steps you can take during this time to build power that are not posting www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

🇩🇰 PhD Fellowship call for candidates who have a data science idea they'd like to pursue in Denmark deadline: March 5 ddsa.dk/phdfellowshi... I'd be happy to support an applicant interested in generalization/memorization, data attribution, synthetic text detection, or efficient approaches in NLP

State media. State censorship. #January6th and #Project2025 search results are also being hidden on Instagram. There isn't a single, arguable reason to stay on any META platform or X.

As a professional gatherer of news I have to say one of the hardest things is staying simultaneously informed and sane. The only thing that works for me is a balanced media diet and avoiding the sources that scramble my brain. This means social media only in manageable doses.

JFC. Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg are in the front row at the #inauguration. They are sat IN FRONT of Trump’s Cabinet. The era of oligarchy. (📸: Julia Demaree Nikhinson, AFP)

There are a few of these. Bad actors are assembling blocklists to trick people into blocking voices that they want to mute. Readers, MAKE SURE YOU TRUST the author of a blocklist. They can keep people from you, and modify the blocklist after you subscribe. bsky.app/profile/fish...

Do not dunk. Do not quote-post. Do not screenshot and repost. They wish to be visibly cruel because it makes them feel big and strong. Block them with the most powerful block button we've had on social media to save yourself the energy, and save others from the garage being spread

📢 #nlp #jobs A postdoc for an interdisciplinary project (sociology+NLP), to work on methodology for qualitative interviews with LLMs. This is a NLP position, but some soc/psy background is a plus. Domain PI: @hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social Apply by March 17 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Apple halts Apple Intelligence news summarization service after multiple hallucinations www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

📢 #nlp #jobs A postdoc for an interdisciplinary project (sociology+NLP), to work on methodology for qualitative interviews with LLMs. This is a NLP position, but some soc/psy background is a plus. Domain PI: @hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social Apply by March 17 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Just so everything is crystal clear.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

In #nlp org news @aclmeeting.bsky.social: there were a few clarifications to ACLPUB, based on frequent issues on ARR. TLDR: - don't abuse font sizes for figures and tables - limitations & ethical considerations sections go after conclusion, no page breaks - two-column formatting for appendices

I am shocked by the death of Felix Hill. He was one of the brightest minds of my generation. His last blog post on the stress of working in AI is very poignant. Apart from the emptiness of working mostly to make billionaires even richer, there's the intellectual emptiness of 'scale is all you need'

TechCrunch going in hard!

I fear there is deep truth here.

Last chance to participate in a sanity check on "intelligence" in LLMs! Survey closing tomorrow.

In case people thought the EU might actually do something as everyone else yells "not it!" and looks the other way. I'm no fan of many EU regulations, and some of these investigations were pretty sketchy. But, just... stopping them... seems more like capitulation than principles.

Abject capitulation to the griftarchy here. Use Bluesky, subscribe to newspapers, donate to ProPublica y’all.

📢 The survey 👇 on "intelligence" & ChatGPT is open until Jan 14. All fields are welcome, but a special invitation goes to folks in Philosophy, Psychology, HCI, Cognitive Science, CSS, and AI ethics. Please repost.

It’s time for THE charger. Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU. It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need! #DigitalEU

😁Now I want to know this: after the forced subscriptions generate $100B in revenue, who gets to declare reaching AGI - OpenAI or MS? Time to talk to your org about alternatives. Libreoffice is the clear choice for office, but what about mail+drive+calendar? I'm thinking proton, any better options?

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

If you are a #PhD student or a #postdoc in #AI / #NLP #nlproc you might want to read this thoughtful blog post

If you're following the OpenAI o3 announcements and are curious about the "ARC-AGI" benchmark and why I think solving these tasks by brute-force compute defeats the original purpose, here are some past posts about this from my Substack: (1/3)

>"There’s a phenomenon that happens ...along... Northern California... when the waves wash your footprints away, they are replaced by a layer of vile, reeking slime dotted by writhing marine organisms. This is, at times, how the internet feels right now... we are being actively replaced by garbage."

Posted without comment www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

📢 Let's close the year with a sanity check! In the end of 2024, how does the research community view the notion of 'intelligence' and its role in research on language models? Make your perspective count in this survey (link 👇)

Cohere's Maya: Open-source (code, dataset, and model) Multimodal Multilingual LLM - Paper: Maya: An Instruction Finetuned Multilingual Multimodal Model ( arxiv.org/abs/2412.07112 ) - Model and Dataset: huggingface.co/maya-multimo... - Repo: github.com/nahidalam/maya

📢 For those planning to submit papers to ARR December cycle & afterwards: if it's a revision of a paper previously reviewed at ARR, it is now mandatory to provide a link to earlier version & revision notes (summarizing changes and/or justifications for not revising as suggested by reviewers/AC).

The "AI" framing of large language models is currently widespread. But what do we even mean by "intelligence" - and what role does it really play in the research agenda in CogSci, NLP, and other fields? We made a survey. Could you help us pin this down?

I’m gonna share my hottest advising tips as someone new to the senior author role. See, this year I was on a lot of projects and I had a problem: Students started projects on different things, but then converged on similar ideas and questions—my own projects threatening to scoop each other!

If you're annoyed at how fuzzy the term 'intelligence' is, especially in 'AI' research - here's a survey to pin it down! Bonus: you might find the spots where your own notion of 'intelligence' is fuzzier than you'd like.

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪