Google's AI somehow thinks that the ACL 2026 deadline (January 5, 2026) has already passed 🤔

🌍 Are you new to @icwsm.bsky.social or JQD:DM and based in a low- or middle-income country? 💡 Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026! 📢 Call icwsm.org/2026/submit.... 🚀 Apply by Jan 15 forms.gle/A9GkJboP7qi3...

🌍 Are you new to #icwsm or @journalqd.bsky.social and based in a low- or middle-income country? 💡Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026! 📢 Call icwsm.org/2026/submit.... 🚀 Apply by Jan 15 forms.gle/A9GkJboP7qi3...

Yufeng Li, Arkaitz Zubiaga RAVE: Retrieval and Scoring Aware Verifiable Claim Detection https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15793

Dina Pisarevskaya, Arkaitz Zubiaga Agent-based Automated Claim Matching with Instruction-following LLMs https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23924

Ali Khairallah, Arkaitz Zubiaga ALHD: A Large-Scale and Multigenre Benchmark Dataset for Arabic LLM-Generated Text Detection https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03502

I'm recruiting multiple PhD students for Fall 2026 in Computer Science at @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social 🍂 Apply to work on AI for social sciences/human behavior, social NLP, and LLMs for real-world applied domains you're passionate about! Learn more at kristinagligoric.com & help spread the word!

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

🚨 EACL 2026 website is live and Call for Papers is out! 🚨 Join us at #EACL2026 (Rabat, Morocco 🇲🇦, Mar 24-29 2026) 👉 Open to all areas of CL/NLP + related fields. Details: 2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/ • ARR submission deadline: Oct 6, 2025 • EACL commitment deadline: Dec 14, 2025

🌍 How can #NLP & #LLMs help tackle global challenges? 💡 We map 9 key domains to the UN SDGs & the Global Risks Report 2025, highlighting open challenges, overlooked opportunities, and paths toward responsible deployment. #NLP4SG #AI4SG #ResponsibleAI #NLP4PI

Check out our massive work on #NLP for Social Good: a position paper on how modern #NLP can be quite useful for positive social goals! arxiv.org/abs/2505.22327 thanks to @antoniakrm.bsky.social for leading efforts and @zhijingjin.bsky.social for building during the years the foundation of #NLP4PI

Can't remember who said it, but using ChatGPT for your college essays is like using a forklift to move the weights around at the gym. It's the process that's important to your development, not the end product.

Just released: Report of the 2025 AAAI Presidential Panel on the Future of AI Research. Covers a selection of topics of a larger set of research directions, providing high-level glimpses. Enjoyed collaborating with colleagues on the project. Report pdf avail here: aaai.org/wp-content/u...

🚨 Big news! We're thrilled to announce that #ICWSM 2026 will take place in sunny Los Angeles, California! 🌴☀️ More details coming soon! ✨

The updated ARR schedule has now been posted! aclrollingreview.org/dates Feb 2025: Februrary 15 May 2025: May 19 July 2025: July 28 Oct 2025: October 6 Jan 2026: January 5

Here is Tülu 3 405B 🐫 our open-source post-training model that surpasses the performance of DeepSeek-V3! It demonstrates that our recipe, which includes RVLR scales to 405B - with performance on par with GPT-4o, & surpassing prior open-weight post-trained models of the same size including Llama 3.1.

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us 🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...

In 2024, Bluesky grew from 2.9M to 25.9M users. With this growth came anticipated challenges in scaling Trust & Safety, from adding workstreams to adapting to new harms. In our newly published 2024 Moderation Report, we share details on what the year looked like for our Trust & Safety team.

Come work with us to help build better and quicker decisions for law enforcement. Deadline: 12 Feb Detail: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK931/m... (Note must be a UK residence for last 5 years) #AI #NLP #NLProc

One of my dissertation chapters had a tentative working title of “did the internet create annoying people, or just make it easier for existing annoying people to find and annoy me?” The answer is yes.

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...

We are excited to bring back ICWSM-Global Initiative also this year, 2 pg. applications due 15/01 for: - Travel expenses coverage to the conference in 2025 - Mentorship support from a senior academic in the field More details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/...

It’s remarkable that Zuck said “the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U.S." He not only ended the partnership, he threw US fact checkers under the bus.

🚨 Exciting news! The call for papers is now OPEN for the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (#WOAH2025) at #ACL2025 @aclmeeting.bsky.social in Vienna. 📆 Submission deadline: March 7, 2025 📄 Check out the CfP: www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Looking forward to your submissions! 🤩 #NLProc

⚠️ We are accepting submissions for the OSNEM special issue on Disinformation, toxicity, harms in Online Social Networks and Media 🗓️ submit by 31st March 2025! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

⚠️ We are accepting submissions for the OSNEM special issue on Disinformation, toxicity, harms in Online Social Networks and Media 🗓️ submit by 31st March 2025! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

The Call for Papers is live on our website! 🎉 We’re accepting submissions for full papers, demos, posters, and datasets—all due by January 15. Don’t miss the chance to showcase your work and join us this June in beautiful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 www.icwsm.org/2025/submit/...

1/ We're experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network. As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.

📣 Hiring at Cardiff NLP! Both positions with an application deadline on January 3rd and to start from ~April 2025 (flexible). 📚 PhD scholarship: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🧑‍🔬 RA/Postdoc: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... Please share!

ICWSM is also here 👇

I'm looking for a PhD student for a new big project on "Data Diversity for Fair and Robust NLP" (📅 Jan 5!) www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #nlproc #nlp

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

Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered... 1. Small AI models often perform better in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture. Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

Our #WebSci24 paper demonstrates how hate speech detection models struggle with and discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community's reclaimed language 👇 "Hate Speech Detection and Reclaimed Language: Mitigating False Positives and Compounded Discrimination" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2025 at Princeton to work on Comp Social Science/Societal Impact of GenAI/GenAI for SocSci I wrote a bit on research flavor & interests here: manoelhortaribeiro.github.io/advising Deadline: December 15th www.cs.princeton.edu/grad#prospec... Please boost!

Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark

It's great to see the massive wave of people coming to 🦋. Here's my first stab at a Computational Social Science starter pack: go.bsky.app/2m6iQ68 Go check out similar lists to bootstrap your network: bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... Wonder if these lists could be merged somehow..

I am excited to share this pre-print of a white paper we've been working on for a while: "Web Scraping for Research: Legal, Ethical, Institutional, and Scientific Considerations" With Megan Brown, Andrew Gruen, Gabe Maldoff, Solomon Messing, Zeve Sanderson. arxiv.org/abs/2410.23432

Providing citations to support fact-checking: Contextualizing detection of sentences needing citation on small wikipedias www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

**Last week to apply** to the 1st edition of our School "Computational Social Science: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities" (13-17 May 2024 in the beautiful Villa del Grumello, Lake Como) Check the full program and apply here by February 25th: css.lakecomoschool.org

We are excited to launch ICWSM-Global Initiative, 2 pg. applications due 11/30 for: Fully funded trip to the conference in 2024 (up to $5K) Mentorship support from a senior academic in the field icwsm.org/2024/index.h...