March 8 is International Women's Day (and also my father's birth date!). I just played a bit with LLMs to see how well gender-based equity is handled in a simple code auto-completion exercise. Still much work to be done... AI will not solve our gender-based issues today, so do something about it!

What could possibly go wrong…

We. Are. Canadian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb... (see the 25-year old original version at www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY6J...)

As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots. If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼‍🔬🧑‍🔬

Please consider following our newly accepted workshop, 12th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Requirements Engineering. We will post updates on this page.

🚀 We’ve joined BlueSky! 🌐 Plus, AIRE'25 has been accepted for the 33rd IEEE RE'25 Conference! 🎉 Our workshop will explore AI & RE intersections, from NLP to generative AI. Stay tuned for updates! #AIRE25 #AI #RequirementsEngineering #RE25 #BlueSky #AIandRE

🧪 A pretty damning article about firings at the NSF and the level of professionalism from management. www.wired.com/story/nation...

so, if they cut NSF staff, is the idea that elon musk is gonna review my proposal? or is he gonna delegate it to that big balls guy …  cra.org/cuts-to-nsf-...

Please consider submitting to our IST special issue on Regulatory Compliance in Software Engineering, co-edited with Sallam Abualhaija and Michael Unterkalmsteiner 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Paper on privacy rejected from NAACL but you want to still present it at NAACL? Submit to the 6th workshop on privacy in NLP! We have a fast track option for reviewed papers Second CfP here: list.elra.info/mailman3/hyp... Thanks for liking and re-posting!