AI ethics hardly has anything to do with the use of AI anyway. It is about thinking critically who benefits from this technology, who structurally carries the burden, by whom it is built, from which ideologies and how this manifests in its harmful societal impact.

TIME SENSITIVE: NeurIPS is launching a new Affinity Support Pilot Program! Award recipients will receive support to present their research at #neurips2026 affinity events. We encourage you to thoroughly read the requirements before applying. The deadline is July 20 AoE. (1/2)

🚨 I’m still seeking an emergency reviewer for an ARR May 2026 submission on LLM-based image segmentation. Please DM me if you’re qualified to review for ARR (at least 2 ACL/AI conference pubs and 1 other pub), and could complete a review for it in the next couple days! 🙏

As local governments move more into using AI-assisted translation for important government docs, this is a very important issue to keep in mind. General purpose translation tools might not be as good when you want to execute specific tasks (or want specific info to be translated properly)

why was i assigned to review that many gay fanfictions / yaoi stuff in this ARR

In times of increased political repression and reduced sponsorship, as we prepare for our annual grad school app aid program - through which we’ve given $45k+ to 1000+ queer scholars in previous cycles - we welcome donations to support our initiatives: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

Not going to #ACL2026 myself but my PhD student and former postoc are presenting some very cool work!

I am shocked and flattered that this paper won the Best Paper Award (Honourable Mention) at #FAccT2026!

the ACL is telling me that my free registration for being an outstanding area chair only applies to virtual attendance lololol fuck I hate this organization

I am not at FAccT (as Canada didn't give me visa on time), but I am in Munich! Yesterday, I attended @verenablaschke.bsky.social's brilliant defense on dialectal variation. Congrats Dr. Verena!

@arborelia.net's Queer in AI talk and advocacy is the reason why we have successful name change policies in major ML venues.

This paper received an Hono(u)rable Mention at #FAccT2026

I will be presenting our work titled "Making a Name for Myself: On Academic Naming Policies and their Impact" this week at #FAccT2026. This paper talks about why names matter, why name change policies are important, how people benefit from it and what's still left to do.

Queer in AI is proud to showcase several papers that our members are presenting at @facct.bsky.social 2026 tomorrow through Sunday. One paper examines how years-long activism around name change policies has had an immensely positive impact for authors, benefiting both queer and cis scholars! 🤝🌈

I have to review 16 papers this week (sigh). The quality of papers in AIES and KONVENS are way higher than the papers I was assigned to review for EMNLP and NeurIPS.

Insider perspective: I have worked in companies where I was forced to implement age classifiers like these. These vision based age classifiers DO NOT WORK despite the best efforts to train them; they are always close to a random baseline.

Call for papers for special issue on Ethics in NLP in the journal Computational Linguistics. Discussions around ethics in #NLP and #ComputationalLinguistics is often limited by the expectations for what should be published in *CL conferences. Link to call: www.aclweb.org/portal/conte...

I made churros and coffee for all my students in my LLM coding class today. Hopefully, this entices them to come to the next session, where they have to attempt some really difficult mechanistic interpretability exercises.

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 My yearly reminder that I'm NOT a disappointment for being queer. I'm a disappointment regardless!

European teachers, how do you all teach LLMs programming basics to your students? Do you all have labs connected to GPU clusters? Recently, I have been putting up my code on colab so students can play with it; but Colab is kinda limiting.

welp, I got laid off. if anyone you know is looking for a slightly-used computational linguist -- remote or in #Syracuse, NY -- get in touch. I'm also open to "data science" positions if they're "languagey"

I need to start getting active on bluesky more, so I can finally post my ACL, FAccT and LREC papers.

I've just got hundreds of new citations in Google Scholar Apparently, you can search your name and first letter + last name and find tons of badly parsed versions of your papers. (Yes, citations don't matter, but making camera ready is boring, and I needed an escape,...)

I'm on a new committee reviewing ARR's Responsible NLP Checklist and looking to potentially make changes. I'd love to hear others' thoughts on what is working well or needs revised, especially given it might be fresh in memory from the recent ARR cycle. 1/

In light of last week's Met Gala, I wrote some thoughts based on my research studying a model used to curate generative AI training data medium.com/@jtaylor_hci...

"In the space of a few years, the UK has moved from a broadly inclusive status quo to being the most aggressively anti-trans developed democracy in the world." If you want to read up on just how bad things have gotten in the UK, read this article.

1.5 years in my PhD, 2 days before my EMNLP deadline, I am staring at the draft thinking I have genuinely no clue what I am doing.

I am getting tired of this "hallucinated" citations discourse. Folks from Queer in AI have been saying how shitty cite crawlers from Google scholar and Zotero are. People ignored them for years.

I see lots of posts about the automated reviewing at AAAI. Just to be contrarian: here's a counter from @dirkhovy.bsky.social's team: openreview.net/forum?id=cJh...

SAEs identify interpretable features in LLM layers, but what can we learn from how they activate together? 🤖📊 New #ACL2026NLP paper with Ruixuan Deng, Nick Hu, Miles Gilberti, and others reveals causal semantic modules composed of many co-activating features across LLM layers. 🧵

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy. We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

How are professional visual artists dealing with generative AI in the workplace? In our #CHI2026 poster, @hhj14.bsky.social, @willie-agnew.bsky.social and I share results from a survey of 378 verified professional visual artists 🧵 Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2603.04537

I get asked more questions about coffee from my students, rather than the teaching material.

Very excited to present this participatory auditing work that @queerinai.com did in EurIPS! Work featuring amazing people like @alissavalentine.bsky.social, @terezablazek.bsky.social, @gerasimoss.bsky.social, and many more.

Happy news: I'll be joining Eastern Michigan University as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in Fall 2026! If you're an EMU student interested in my research, let's connect 👋 Will be sharing some fun #ACL2026NLP papers from my postdoc soon!

three first-author papers accepted

I don't understand why the ACL/ARR organizers think this is an appropriate way to communicate with area chairs... The peer review system is collapsing, and the whole system of science as we know it requires a rethink. But let's be kind to eachother in the process and not forget what we are here for.

I am still looking for responses for this survey, please RT.

Y'all better hire @jordant.bsky.social for postdocs and @willie-agnew.bsky.social & @dippedrusk.com for professorships. They are some of the brilliant minds who worked on these papers and they will be an asset everywhere.

Deadline extension alert! Identity-aware AI #LREC2026 extended to February 25th! All info at: identity-aware-ai.github.io

Hello #NLProc #ACL2026NLP people. I am looking for **two emergency reviewers** in the Safety and Alignment in LLMs track for ACL/ARR. Reviews are due Feb 15th. Please DM if interested and available. Happy to offer drinks/food if you live in/pass by Lisbon ☀️

Hello #NLProc #ACL2026NLP community, I'm looking for an emergency reviewer for an ARR submission on LLM interpretability. If you're available to complete a review before Feb 15, please reply or DM 🙏

Ever notice companies claiming "AI-powered" when it's just... not? We're studying AI-washing (exaggerated AI claims in marketing) and need YOUR input. Help us out by filling this quick survey of 10-15 min: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Ever notice companies claiming "AI-powered" when it's just... not? We're studying AI-washing (exaggerated AI claims in marketing) and need YOUR input. Help us out by filling this quick survey of 10-15 min: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Deadline approaching! Identity-aware AI workshop #LREC2026 identity-aware-ai.github.io, there is time until Feb 20th to submit a short or full paper, with many non-archival options too!

Impressive work by the Glitter team: a new human-made benchmark for German gender-inclusive MT with long passages and multiple inclusive approaches + experiments showing that MT systems and LLMs still fall short in generating inclusive outputs. aclanthology.org/2025.finding... ✨

🤔 Want to use REPPO (cvoelcker.de/projects/rep...) but hate jax? 🤔 😮 Want to have stable on-policy RL without filling your GPU with an enormous replay buffer? 😮 🤖 Are you a roboticist and just want your RL code to run? 🤖 🎉 Fear not, we started adding new REPPO versions! 🎉 github.com/cvoelcker/rs...

Today, the ACL Anthology switched to a new system for how author pages work. From now on, ORCID iDs will be the main mechanism for matching papers to the correct author. 🧵⤵️