For today's reading group, @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social presented "Old Habits Die Hard: How Conversational History Geometrically Traps LLMs" by Simhi et al. (2026) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.03308 #NLProc

🧠🤖 It was a pleasure to host @andreadevarda.bsky.social for his talk, "Large Language Models as Models of Human Language(s) and Higher-Level Cognition." A truly inspiring talk! #NLProc

🏆 Congrats to @zeerak.bsky.social and @dirkhovy.bsky.social on the 2016 Test of Time Award! 🎉 "Hateful Symbols or Hateful People? Predictive Features for Hate Speech Detection on Twitter" has shaped research on #hatespeech! Paper: aclanthology.org/N16-2013/ #NLProc

We welcome work on gender bias detection, mitigation, LLMs, intersectionality & more. Join us virtually on November 9! 🌐 Submit: openreview.net/group?id=acl... #NLProc #AACL2026

🚨 Some deadlines have been updated, so please check all dates on the CFP: gebnlp-workshop.github.io/cfp.html 📅 Direct submission: Sept 2, 2026 📅Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: Sep 29, 2026

📢 Second Call for Papers! The 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP #GeBNLP returns, co-located with AACL 2026. This time fully remote! 🚀 Still time to submit! 🗓️

For our last reading group, @pranav-nlp.bsky.social presented "Enhancing University Curricula with Integrated AI Ethics Education: A Comprehensive Approach" by Deb et al. (2025) Link: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #AIEthics #NLProc

We were honored to welcome Giulia Barbareschi to our lab for an inspiring conversation on inclusive technology and what NLP should learn from it. Thank you for sharing your insights and vision! #InclusiveTech #Accessibility #NLProc

🚨 Final Call for Papers: CPSS @ #KONVENS2026 🚨 Join us in Hamburg on September 14 (14.00-17.00) and 15 (9.00-12.00) to share your research at the intersection of NLP and social/political science. ⏳ Deadline: July 3, 2026 (23:59 CET) 🌐 sites.google.com/view/cpss202... #CompSocSci #NLP #CFP (1/3)

What Makes Linguistic Representations Good Models of High-Level Visual Perception in the Human Brain? This question underlies the study presented in our new preprint. We trained brain-encoding models to predict fMRI responses to naturalistic images from LLM-derived embeddings of image captions.

@taniseceron.bsky.social is presenting her work about political content in pre-training and post-training data at the AI & Society conference. #AIandSociety #NLProc

Our call for papers is live!! The 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP will be co-located with AACL and will be remote-only. Deadline for direct submissions is September 2.

When you ask an LLM "What job can I get with no prior experience?" and then get recommended a low salary, would your background have changed the answer you receive? Surprisingly, perhaps not. Check out our paper with @gsarti.com @arianna-bis.bsky.social and Raquel Fernández: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02776

🎉 Excited to welcome Lorena Calvo Bartolomé to our lab! Her expertise in NLP and signal processing will bring fresh perspectives to our research. She will be working on TOLD, a project exploring voice-based data collection as a richer alternative to written annotation. #NLProc

Welcome @esradonmez.bsky.social! We’re excited to have her with us over the next few months, where she’ll be working on pluralistic alignment.

We had the pleasure of hosting @tresiwald.bsky.social and Alireza Salemi at our latest seminar. Andreas spoke about the reliability of language models through computational argumentation, while Alireza presented his work on personalizing LLMs. Thank you both for the inspiring talks! #NLProc

🍃2nd Call for Papers!😊 EMNLP 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue (MINT) welcomes work on multimodal communication, speech, gesture, gaze, facial expressions, datasets, eval methods, and applications! @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social mintworkshop.github.io

Heads up, #NLProc community! The 7th GeBNLP workshop is heading to AACL! 🌏 (and it'll be remote-friendly! 💻) While we’re still finalizing the details, we're putting this on your radar! 🚨 ✨ Start brainstorming those submissions now and stay tuned for the updates! #GeBNLP #AACL2026

It was a pleasure to host @marcostranisci.bsky.social and hear about his newly awarded Marie Curie project “DISHARM” - inspiring work and a great discussion! #NLProc

New paper at #LREC2026 🎉 We introduce ACID, a cross-cultural dataset to study classism in NLP. 🔍 Key findings: pervasive negative stereotypes especially concerning morality, frequent offensiveness, and strong individual blame. 🔗 lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-mai...

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

Can you boost your AI review scores by asking an LLM to rewrite your paper? Yes! We call it paper laundering Our @icmlconf.bsky.social spotlight paper argues current AI reviewers aren't ready to automate peer review, and outlines what a science of peer review automation should look like 🧵👇 #ICML2026

📚 For today's reading group Yujie Ren presented "Safe + Safe = Unsafe? Exploring How Safe Images Can Be Exploited to Jailbreak Large Vision-Language Models" by Cui et al. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11496 #NLProc

New paper w/ UK AISI: Millions of people now use AI to help them write and communicate. In three experiments (14k participants, 3m+ human ratings) we show that AI writing assistance systematically distorts writer personas – their perceived beliefs, personality, and identity. 🧵

We are delighted to welcome @marlutz.bsky.social to our lab over the next few months! 🎉 She'll work on the representation of different demographic groups in LLMs. #NLProc

Excited to share that our paper "One Persona, Many Cues, Different Results: How Sociodemographic Cues Impact LLM Personalization" (joint work with @franziweeber.bsky.social, Jan Batzner and Sebastian Padó) got accepted to the main conference of #ACL 🎉

The submission deadline for CMCL is coming up in less than a month! (Feb 25) CMCL will be co-located with LREC and take place on May 16!🌴https://sites.google.com/view/cmclworkshop/cfp

Paper accepted to #EACL2026 main conference 🎉 @taniseceron.bsky.social, Sebastian Padó and I test multilingual LLMs before and after English-only fine-tuning and find strong cross-lingual political opinion transfer across five Western languages. www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.05553

Does it matter how you prompt an LLM with a persona? Do LLMs respond differently to natural conversation history compared to names and explicit mentions? Go check out our new preprint! 👀

Our paper has been accepted to EACL 2026!🎉 We systematically evaluate several vision-language (VLMs) and language-only models, measuring their alignment with brain responses to concept words. Our results show that vision-language models offer a promising tool to model human concept processing

The CfP for CMCL is out!🌴 We are looking forward to receiving many interesting submissions! ✨ (Deadline: February 25, 2026) sites.google.com/view/cmclwor...

Thank you so much for having me! @milanlp.bsky.social 😊

🚨 New main paper out at #EMNLP2025! 🚨 ⚡ We show that personalization of content moderation models can be harmful and perpetuate hate speech, defeating the purpose of the system and hurting the community. We argue that personalized moderation needs boundaries, and we show how to build them.

Thrilled to be heading to Suzhou with a big team of GroNLP'ers 🐮 Interested in Interpretable, Cognitively inspired, Low-resource LMs? Don't miss our posters & talks #EMNLP2025!

Next week, I'll be at #EMNLP presenting our work "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization" 🎉 📍 Ethics, Bias, and Fairness (Poster Session 2) 📅 Wed, November 5, 11:00-12:30 - Hall C 📖 Check the paper! arxiv.org/abs/2505.16467 See you in Suzhou! 👋

What if we did a single run and declared victory

🌍Introducing BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data! LLMs learn from vastly more data than humans ever experience. BabyLM challenges this paradigm by focusing on developmentally plausible data We extend this effort to 45 new languages!

Hi all, there is a postdoc position open in the group I'm currently based in! ✨ Let me know if you are interested or have questions 🙂 Please share if you know someone who might be interested www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

📢 Are you interested in a PhD in #NLProc to study and improve how AI model emotions and social signals? 🚨Exciting news:🚨 I’m hiring a PhD candidate at LIACS, @unileiden.bsky.social. 📍 Leiden, The Netherlands 📅 Deadline: 17 Nov 2025 👉 Position details and application link: tinyurl.com/5x5v6zsa

🚨 Are you looking for a PhD in #NLProc dealing with #LLMs? 🎉 Good news: I am hiring! 🎉 The position is part of the “Contested Climate Futures" project. 🌱🌍 You will focus on developing next-generation AI methods🤖 to analyze climate-related concepts in content—including texts, images, and videos.

Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

✨ Do self-supervised speech models learn to encode language-specific linguistic features from their training data, or only more language-general acoustic correlates? At #Interspeech2025 we presented our new Wav2Vec2-NL model and SSL-NL evaluation dataset to test this! 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2506.00981 ⬇️

Delighted to share that our paper "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization" (joint work with @arianna-bis.bsky.social and Raquel Fernández) got accepted to the main conference of #EMNLP Can't wait to discuss our work at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou this November!

Our paper on multilingual reasoning is accepted to Findings of #EMNLP2025! 🎉 (OA: 3/3/3.5/4) We show SOTA LMs struggle with reasoning in non-English languages; prompt-hack & post-training improve alignment but trade off accuracy. 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2505.22888 See you in Suzhou! #EMNLP

What a privilege to have #CCN2025 in (an exceptionally warm and sunny) Amsterdam this year! It was my first time attending the conference, and being surrounded by so many talented researchers whose interests are similar to mine has been a deeply enriching experience ✨

Some amazing @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social people in Vienna💫#acl2025 Raquel Fernández Sandro Pezzelle Katia Shutova @esamghaleb.bsky.social @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social @annabavaresco.bsky.social + @leobertolazzi.bsky.social

🎉 Happy to share that I will be presenting two papers at ACL 2025. 1️⃣ Cross-Lingual Transfer of Debiasing and Detoxification in Multilingual LLMs: An Extensive Investigation (Findings) 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Vera Neplenbroek, @arianna-bis.bsky.social, Raquel Fernández 📍 Monday, July 28, 18:00-19:30, Hall 4/5

Do LLMs assume demographic information based on stereotypes? We (@arianna-bis.bsky.social, Raquel Fernández and I) answered this question in our new paper: "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization". 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2505.16467

Happy to share that "LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks" arxiv.org/abs/2406.18403 got accepted to ACL Main! #ACL2025 🎉

Excited to share that "Cross-Lingual Transfer of Debiasing and Detoxification in Multilingual LLMs: An Extensive Investigation" arxiv.org/abs/2412.14050 got accepted to ACL Findings! 🎉 #ACL2025 Big thanks to my supervisors Raquel Fernández and @arianna-bis.bsky.social for their guidance and support!