Accepted to #COLM2025! See you in MTL :)

Have you or a loved one been misgendered by an LLM? How can we evaluate LLMs for misgendering? Do different evaluation methods give consistent results? Check out our preprint led by the newly minted Dr. @arjunsubgraph.bsky.social, and with Preethi Seshadri, Dietrich Klakow, Kai-Wei Chang, Yizhou Sun

Announcing our first workshop keynote! "Processing Trans Languaging" by Vagrant Gautam @dippedrusk.com at 13:30 - 14:30 MDT on May 4, 2025 Read on for a description of the talk! 🧵

Corollary to cow on a beach

Went down a huge rabbit hole last night about how the land on which SF was built was primarily covered in massive shifting sand dunes

There's been a lot of work on "culture" in NLP, but not much agreement on what it is. A position paper by me, @dbamman.bsky.social, and @ibleaman.bsky.social on cultural NLP: what we want, what we have, and how sociocultural linguistics can clarify things. Website: naitian.org/culture-not-... 1/n

We are still looking for annotators! Please consider helping us out, either via filling out the form or sharing it more broadly 💜 Of course, selected annotators are financially compensated.

A walk through the Presidio fixes me more than I would like to admit

Today in xenophobia history: 102 years ago today, all Indian American naturalized US citizens were stripped of their citizenship and property. verylowfrequency.blogspot.com/2025/02/this...

🚨 FINAL REMINDER 🚨 Whether you're exploring queer linguistics/NLP or queer activism/D&I, the Queer in AI workshop at #NAACL2025 is the place to be! 📅 Submission Deadline: *Feb 20, 2025 AoE* Let’s make #NAACL2025 the queerest one yet! All details 👉 queerinai.com/naacl-2025 #QueerInAI #NLProc

Friendly reminder that all submissions are due Feb 20! Get your submissions in :) We do have a non-archival track! So do not hesitate to send in your work that is in submission/accepted elsewhere if you are looking for a wonderful group of folks to present your work to www.queerinai.com/naacl-2025

Incredible! 💃🏾🔥 I was so inspired by Oakland’s own TurfFeinz shining on the Super Bowl stage with Kendrick Lamar! Proud to see our city’s talent on full display. Keep dancing, keep thriving! 🙌🏾✨ #SuperBowlLIX #TurfFeinz 🔗 ktvu.com/news/oakland-dance-group-performs-halftime-show-kendrick-lamar

Our workshop has been extended till Feb 20. We are looking forward for your papers at NAACL's Queer in AI workshop.

The archival deadline has been extended to Feb 20! All submissions are now due on Feb 20. Get your work in soon 💜

So UCSB offers free Overleaf and this ??

We are looking for reviewers for our Queer in AI NAACL workshop. The reviewing workload is low (1-2 papers) and you will be given ample time to review. If you are new to reviewing, you are highly encouraged to sign up as a reviewer! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Friendly reminder, the archival deadline is Jan 30 💜

TIL that half of the UCs provide their students with free Overleaf premium, and I am not in that half

Never an unpretty day at Russian Ridge

I used to go to Will Rogers SP nearly every weekend as an undergrad (one of the most accessible hiking places by bus from UCLA), and it's still hard to believe that the buildings there are just gone now 😔 parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/...

How Benito has me this week

Saw an HSBC ad at Heathrow that just read, “Are we shaped by society? Or are we shaping society?” 😭 Are they asking for relevant literature?

Is anyone writing about the weird part of YouTube that records places in LA and the Bay which are in poverty and majority BIPOC? It just seems to play into poverty theater manufactured by the right

In wonderful news, I have given up on my Air India flight after 6 hrs of delays and somehow need to get the 463 km from Madurai to Chennai before my flight to SF from Chennai leaves in 12 ish hours ://

My unbelievably deep dislike of air travel just gets worse and worse as I get older

Archival deadline is Jan 30! We can't wait for your submissions 😊

Doechii successfully got the Family Matters theme song stuck in my head

Really appreciate Christopher Newfield for continuing to sound the drum on this. Not news for anyone who actually works in the humanities but critically important for folks in CS/ML/AI to know as they increasingly draw from the humanities for their ideas

Hice una entrevista con El País sobre la censura por la IA y sus sesgos LGBTQIA+ elpais.com/tecnologia/2...

Having a conversation about gig labor conditions on my way from the Madurai airport and my Tamil abilities are really being tested

Grubhub is paying $25 million to settle charges brought by the FTC and the Illinois Attorney General. The company deceived diners about delivery costs, deceived workers about how much money they would make, and engaged in other illegal practices. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

Dear computer vision researchers, students & practitioners🔇🔇🔇 Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date & how people have proposed addressing them, from different angles. PDF: cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmx...

Truly will miss how beautiful Vancouver is

The Affinity Events are held throughout the conference week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Today, the following Affinity Workshops take place: Women in Machine Learning, LatinX in AI, Black in AI, Global South in AI, Muslims in ML, and New in ML. https://buff.ly/4iIZHX9

I may have had to wake up at 7 am but at least crossing the bridge was beautiful 🥲

I am SO excited for this workshop! Stop by and say hi on Wednesday 💜

Submit to the #NAACL2025 Queer in AI workshop by Jan 30 (archival)/Feb 20 (non-archival)! For the first time this year, accepted works can be included in the ACL Anthology 😊 Relevant topics include: 1. Queer linguistics 2. Queerness & NLP 3. Queer activism and D&I in tech/academia

1/7 🌈 BIG NEWS ALERT! The hottest Queer in AI workshop is back - and this time we're official! We're thrilled to announce we'll be at #NAACL2025 as an official workshop, meaning your work can now be published in the ACL anthology! 🎉

I finally have a new laptop! RIP my old laptop that carried me through undergrad and most of my PhD, I will miss your strobing touch bar, perpetual freezes and power downs, lack of space, 30-min battery life, fan too loud for me to be audible during meetings, and painful overheating, and stickers 💜

I will be presenting this at #NeurIPS2024 next week. We dive deep into why GNNs perform better for high-degree nodes, offering many theoretical & empirical insights. Wed 11 Dec 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. PST West Ballroom A-D #5510 Conference page: neurips.cc/virtual/2024... Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.03139

Seeing cool works on metrology and measurement modeling for NLP! So I wanted to port over the thread our ACL 2023 Findings paper (arxiv.org/abs/2305.09022) on conceptualizations of NLP tasks and measurements of performance! Work with Eric Yuan, @haldaume3.bsky.social, and Su Lin Blodgett. (1/n)

Just heard “la inteligencia artificial creó tu cuerpo” in a Romeo Santos song, take me back to the early 2010s please 😭

🌈🌈We have an incredible day planned for you at our #QueerInAI workshop at #NeurIPS2024 in Vancouver on December 11! You can join us in person or virtually via live-stream! Find out more about our events and our lovely speakers at queerinai.com/neurips-2024!! ✨✨

Join us for our in-person social for #NeurIPS2024 on Thursday, December 12 at 8pm at The Metropole Community Pub! 🌈✨🌈✨ We can’t wait to see you all and to mingle while enjoying the lovely city vibes! Check out our website queerinai.com/neurips-2024 for more details!

We are still looking for annotators! Please consider helping us out, either via filling out the form or sharing it more broadly 💜

I’ll be at NeurIPS next week! Presenting our poster on theoretical and empirical insights into why GNNs perform poorly for low-degree nodes, and helping with the @queerinai.com workshop (where we’ll share exciting news about our policy work!) and EvalEval workshop. Let me know if you’re around 😊

Join us on Dec 15 for this workshop! I am especially excited for the panel on challenges in AI evaluation and presentations on refusal and critically rethinking "inclusion." evaleval.github.io/schedule.html

Missing Karl the fog 🥲

Looking forward to talk about “Why participation is essential to AI, but not yet part of its design process” at Bauhaus Uni Weimar today at 4:30pm as part of the series “Equity & AI” Join to learn about socio-technical challenges, our work @queerinai.com , & to see me make a 🦆face

Poor papers on preferential attachment models of network evolution, they never saw Bluesky starter packs coming