📢 Open Positions at the Uppsala NLP Group! 📢 Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months). uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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I often long for a place to just post whimsical personal updates for friends, but that kind of place doesn’t exist anymore. In my personal bubble, social media has long become too fragmented and/or abandoned for that purpose.

Just found out that yet another paper on North African Arabizi didn't find our work worth citing. they even wrote "No Arabizi-specific metric or resource exists for our dialect selection ». We were the first to release an annotated dataset for this dialect, published at acl and shit. Discouraging.

📄 New article published: “Controlling Language and Style of Multi-lingual Generative Language Models with Control Vectors” by Julius Leino & Jussi Karlgren nejlt.ep.liu.se/article/view...

I'm conducting research on how ACL's peer review policies impact NLP research quality, career trajectories, and inclusivity within our community. I am running a survey, which would take around 7-10 mins to complete: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/j2jr9nH3X0 I would really appreciate insights from y'all!

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📢Life update📢 🥳I'm excited to share that I've started as a postdoc at Uppsala University NLP @uppsalanlp.bsky.social, working with Joakim Nivre on topics related to constructions and multilinguality! 🙏Many thanks to the Walter Benjamin Programme of the DFG for making this possible.

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists

OpenAI is discovering what every social media company has also discovered: content moderation is hard and AI content moderation is also hard.

Why does every social media feed eventually end up looking like: [outrageous thing happening in the US] [extremely polarizing AI take] [random semi-funny meme] [shocking thing happened to person I don't know] [yet another reason climate change is worse than we thought] It's so emotionally tiring.

Idk who needs to hear this, but you do *not* need to glaze the reviewers of your papers when you respond to their feedback. Be grateful, sure, but don't wax poetic about how insightful and magical their farts are. It's just professional correspondence, my guy.

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

German is infamous for its compound words, but one of my personal favorites that amazes me every time is "Haltewunschtaste", the button that you push on a bus or tram to indicate you want to get off, a.k.a. the "stopping wish button".

New blog post: AI Allergy. On my increasing disgust with the AI discourse, even though I still like the technical and philosophical. And how I wish I could be excited about AI again. togelius.blogspot.com/2025/08/ai-a...

"Hang on a moment while we sign you out." - sign me in, outlook, IN!

Writing on any kind of social network always feels like approaching strangers in the Wild West – they always react like you might pull a gun at them any second. I'm so tired of it.

DeepL when translating to Swedish: Have you considered writing in Japanese?

🎓 Looking for PhD opportunities in #NLProc for a start in Spring 2026? 🗒️ Add your expression of interest to join @copenlu.bsky.social here by 20 July: forms.office.com/e/HZSmgR9nXB Selected candidates will be invited to submit a DARA fellowship application with me: daracademy.dk/fellowship/f...

a man throws a glass apple at a concrete egg, causing it to shatter

ICYMI – still a few days left to apply! ⤵️

Web design trends in 1996 – LEGO – MTV Online – Pepsi – WinZip #WebDesignHistory

#NAACL2025 ended more than a week ago & @ufal-cuni.bsky.social folks were there: Main conf: @kathaem.bsky.social presented joint work w/ @tomlim.bsky.social, @jlibovicky.bsky.social and Alex Fraser: Beyond Literal Token Overlap: Token Alignability for Multilinguality aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-s...

Interested in multilingual tokenization in #NLP? Lisa Beinborn and I are hiring! PhD candidate position in Göttingen, Germany: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... PostDoc position in Leuven, Belgium: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Deadline 6th of June

📣 We’re looking for postdocs in computational social science at Linköping University, Sweden! Positions can be based at the LiU NLP group (though the call is not limited to NLP). Two years full-time, with possibility of a third year. Deadline is June 3, 2025. More info here: liu.se/en/work-at-l...

✨ Please join us in welcoming Marshall A. Taylor to the Swedish Excellence Center for Computational Social Science (SweCSS) as our new Senior Visiting Fellow: liu.se/en/news-item...

We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word

Eveyone & their brother is using ChatGPT to avoid doing the reading/homework & we’re all going to suffer bc of it.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Do you have any favorite resources for “how to write feedback to students”? In my courses, it’s often several TAs that assess student papers, and I notice that the style and substance of the feedback differs wildly. I wanted to compile some guidelines, but was wondering what’s already out there.

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

Back on X, I had an ongoing thread about English words of which I had *just* discovered the correct pronunciation. It contained words like conscientious, demonstrable, carnivorous. The last one I posted in 11/2021: epitome. I thought by now I wouldn't discover any new ones anymore. I was wrong. >

We just announced a new position as assistant professor / biträdande universitetslektor (BUL). For more information visit: uu.varbi.com/se/what:job/...

John Carmack on the AI Quake-hallucinator.

I’m currently forced to prepare a document in a given MS Word template, and words can’t describe how hilariously terrible the experience is. Completely impossible to paste text and tables from another document without the styling being all over the place, and no obvious way to fix it.

I often complain that teaching takes up so much of my time, so it's nice to see that my department has started to formally recognize teaching efforts this way 🥰

We are hiring a law+NLP postdoc in Copenhagen! Deadline April 7: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

*taps the sign*

Glioblastoma cancer tore up the brain of someone I loved dearly. We are approaching highly effective treatment for glioblastoma with mRNA-based vaccines! —> doi.org/10.3389/fonc... And this conspiracy-soaked cabal wants to throw it away. Forcing more families to endure what mine did. Stop them.

If you are organizing a workshop in the United States, please consider adding a statement on remote attendance. Given the stories in the media about academia being under threat and grants being canceled based on their topic, it doesn't feel safe to go there if you work on those topics.

Don't be so fucking entitled on ACL Anthology issues challenge, impossible

The US are no longer safe. ANYONE can be tortured or made an example of. I speak near-accentless English, but French is my source language - there is NO WAY IN HELL I will visit. Not even on business. The German green-card holder who was mistreated. The H-1B surgeon who was deported. PHOQUE NO.

On the subject of people traveling to the US right about now: Fuck, if I were from another country and I didn't need to come, I sure as hell wouldn't, the current administration has made it clear traveling here isn't safe, and why not take them at their word, there's a whole world to visit

When I got Long Covid, I was 38 and healthy. If you are anything like I was then, it is hard to understand how bad Long Covid is. I think that we all have an instinct to just… look away. But, please, it is important that you look. #LongCovidAwarenessDay

Our CLASP announces the CfP for Language Models and Representations (LARP2025), the 10th CLASP conference Sept 8 and 9. gu-clasp.github.io/LARP/index.h... Here in Gothenburg Sweden. And yes, we did in fact call it LARP.

📖For this week's @milanlp.bsky.social reading group, @pranav-nlp.bsky.social presented "How Good is Your Wikipedia?" by Kushal Tatariya et al. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.05527 #NLProc

TIL about WordGrid, a game where you try to find the rarest possible words fitting certain constraints, and immediately found a unicorn, i.e. a word no one else has picked so far 😎 WordGrid #283 🟪🟨🟪 🦄🟪🟪 🟦🟪🟨 Rarity: 6.04 wordgrid.clevergoat.com 🐐

Wow, Inspera’s question editor really comes straight from hell. Super fiddly and annoying WYSIWYG interface, and half of the time my edits result in “invalid XML” so that I have to reload the page and lose all the changes that I made. 👿