HYBRIDS MSCA network integrates AI and human intelligence to fight disinformation and hate speech online. Next week is our final conference with multiple talks from us PhD candidates and other researchers in the field. Online participation is free! Registration: hybridsproject.eu/events/navig...

Extracting structural/linguistic properties for large text datasets can be annoying. Existing tools either are not maintained, do not scale, or do not cover extensive sets of linguistic features. For this reason, I implemented 🧝elfen, a Python package for efficient linguistic feature extraction

amazingly, our conspiracy dataset paper 'Mute Cods' was accepted to #LREC2026! big thanks & huge shoutout to the (many) people involved 🫶 this truly was a collaborative effort and I'm glad & proud that we got so many of the Hybrids people together, happily united on three author lines 🤘 #MSCA

🇸🇬 Don’t miss @penzo-nicolo.bsky.social presenting his poster on synthetic Multi-Party Conversation generation at #AAAI26! 🏛️ Hall 2 🪧 Poster Board 257 ⏰ Jan. 22, 12–2 PM

this is what the deepest hole in the world looks like. under this tap + random clutter there is a hole that's more than 12500 meters deep. idk i just think about this a lot and thought you might want to know this

Fun fact: resident orcas vocalize more than transient ones, because they mainly eat fish, that cannot hear their calls. They live in matrilineal pods, and the relatedness of pods can be established not only genetically, but also by the similarity of their (complex, stable, and learned) dialects 🌊🎶

✨ Shared task alert! ✨ We are organizing FadeIT, the first shared task on fallacy detection accounting for genuine disagreement. FadeIT is part of EVALITA, whose workshop will be held in beautiful Bari, Italy in February 2026. Learn more from our website! 🌐 sites.google.com/fbk.eu/fadei...

Today I learned that the Jan Mayen island, a small island in the jurisdiction of Norway, close to Greenland and famous for its weather station and volcano, is actually on a microcontinent! Other microcontinents are Madagascar and New Zealand, but those are, of course, much bigger. Isn't that cool?