What a better way to start the year: 📝paper accepted at #EACL2026 (main) w. Elena Ruzzetti and @fmz8.bsky.social and my Groningen beautifully covered with snow @gronlp.bsky.social 🐮 (more on the paper soon)

👀 Look what 🎅 has broght just before Christmas 🎁: a brand new Research Master in Natural Language Processing at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu... Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)

📣 I'm hiring 📣 Post-doc position at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social as part of @rug.nl CIT Innovation Fun "A3i – Artificial Intelligence Innovation Identifier" Full call is available here: lnkd.in/esdQ7YGD 📅 Application deadline: Jan. 15 2026

✨ It's happening ✨ Curious to meet our new colleague? Stay tuned! #HAICu @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @gronlp.bsky.social #NLProc #LLMs #CulturalHeritage

With only a week left for #EMNLP2025, we are happy to announce all the works we 🐮 will present 🥳 - come and say "hi" to our posters and presentations during the Main and the co-located events (*SEM and workshops) See you in Suzhou ✈️

Happy #SpiritDay! Go purple to support LGBTQ youth. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ A message to the LGBTQ youth out there: 💜 You’re never alone. If you ever feel alone or isolated, know that you have a beautiful community waiting for you and fighting for you to have the rights and protections you deserve. 💜

asking for help: this morning I've seen a post promoting the release of a new, large, and curated dataset which *could* be used for LLM training and MT. What I remember is: it was a version 3 and it was the outcome of an EU funded project (and it was not OpenLLM Europe) - anyone?

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Interesting position at the intersection of Empirical Literary Studies, Media Psychology, and Machine Translation!

The revelation that endometriosis is linked to autoimmune disorders is opening up a whole new way to treat this painful and poorly understood condition

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone. And you're cutting... the sleeper? www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻! 😍 Here are some photos of our GroNLP station at the Forum, where we welcomed high school classes and potential future researchers. 🧑‍🔬🤖 Quizzes, puzzles, demos, card games, and of course, lots of chocolate! 🍫

Vanaf vandaag elke week Antifa-leestips (voor het hele gezin) uit de collectie van de bibliotheek. We beginnen met de stripbewerking van HET DAGBOEK VAN ANNE FRANK door David Polonsky. #leesvaardig #informatievaardig

It's the end of the day, but this morning I got a pretty good news: I've been awarded an #NVIDIA DGX Spark as part of the #NVIDIA Academic Grant Program to run LLM experiments on Cultural Heritage data @gronlp.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social #HAICu

Today we were at #CLIN35 hosted by @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social - as always: great interactions, meeting old friends/colleagues, and lots of presentations from us @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

Slightly diminish a book Guerilla and Peace

🌈 Help with my LGBTQIA+ research! 🌈 I'm building a dataset to fight harmful LGBTQIA+ stereotypes in AI. Take my quick survey: 👉 IT: lnkd.in/dfPuyT6j 👉 NL: lnkd.in/d-3Di7WY 👉 FA: lnkd.in/dfvWzWCu Everybody is welcome! 📤 Share if you can!

I talked about my experience publishing a book in open access with @mitpress.bsky.social #OpenScience @operaseu.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl www.rug.nl/library/open...

🚨 EACL 2026 website is live and Call for Papers is out! 🚨 Join us at #EACL2026 (Rabat, Morocco 🇲🇦, Mar 24-29 2026) 👉 Open to all areas of CL/NLP + related fields. Details: 2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/ • ARR submission deadline: Oct 6, 2025 • EACL commitment deadline: Dec 14, 2025

De nieuwe minister van OCW. Hij heeft les gegeven dus vindt zichzelf uiterst geschikt voor deze baan. Aangezien het vooral op de winkel passen wordt zou ervaring in de detailhandel waardevoller zijn geweest.

Interesting analogy with countering right-wing anti-climate narrative. To counter it need a positive narrative of our own, not just refute it. A bairer, cheaper, cleaner more profitable future with more jobs and more nature is hard to argue against.

what this means it that we don't have a good mental model of how different steps in the LLM generation process depend on each other, and what are the causal relations that make it tick. which in turn means that LLM's explanations might be "transparent", but also that we fail to interpret them.

the test is very simple: given an AI reasoning text broken into steps, we highlight one step as the target, and then ask you to identify the one-out-of-four preceding steps that we choose, which, if removed, will change the target step. turns out this is really hard.

Vanaf vandaag ontvangen de eerste 60-plussers een uitnodiging voor de coronaprik. Het coronavirus is er nog steeds is en kan weer opleven. De coronaprik geeft mensen die een hoger risico lopen om ernstig ziek te worden door #corona, extra bescherming. www.rivm.nl/nieuws/c...#corona,1/5

Excited for WOAH’s 10th anniversary? 😍 We're launching an open call for new organisers! Our goal: diversify the team and bring in fresh perspectives. 🗓️ Apply by September 12 🔗 forms.gle/aiFs35vwDXnt...

Could't get a better way to end my summer break: two papers accepted at #EMNLP Findings.

Researchers (including some fantastic people at UW) found that chatbots can persuade people on political issues, and that they often do so by shifting the frames of the debate: www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...

Il demande à ChatGPT comment remplacer le sel de son alimentation et finit par consommer du bromure de sodium, le sexagénaire se retrouve à l’hôpital ➡️ https://l.lindependant.fr/zD8

#ACL2025 has just finished and it was great to meet with old friends and connect with new colleagus. In case you missed our papers/presentations, this was us 🐮👇 @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

On my way to #ACL2025NLP ✈️ 🇦🇹 Really looking forward to meeting many people in person and engage in some discussion on hate speech, misinformation, and narrative perspectives. Many other people from @gronlp.bsky.social 🐮will also be there, don’t be shy and say “hi!” Here what I’m involved into 👇🏻

12. Participatory Design for NLP 🗓️ Tue 7/29, 16:00–17:30 📍Ballroom 1.33

"HODIAT: A Dataset for Detecting Homotransphobic Hate Speech in Italian with Aggressiveness and Target Annotation", an enriched version of HODI hodi-evalita.github.io 🏳️‍🌈 With Greta Damo, @cerveza-inglesa.bsky.social, @tommasoc80.bsky.social, @vivipatti.bsky.social #WOAH2025

@tommasoc80.bsky.social and I are the nominal hosts of this meet up, but of course we hope it's going to be as participatory as possible. Bring your experiences with and/or questions about PD for NLP

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

Welcome to #AQL2025 🗣️ First day of our main conference is well underway! We have a wonderful turn out of colleagues and an exceptional line up of podium and poster presentations!

Seeking participants! An MA student I am supervising is looking for speakers of English to answer a few survery questions for her dissertation. You can find out more and participate at this link: mailchi.mp/6fcd7c955006... Please share and sign up if you can!

## BREAKING NEWS ## Being "Desk Rejected" at #EMNLP on the deadline of review submission because a table in the paper is 3 mm over the left marging so "this is ground for desk rejection". I know I am not the only one expericing late and debatable desk rejections. Does it feel better? No.

Het kabinet is weg, nu de onderwijsbezuinigingen nog. Het is de hoogste tijd om te versterken wat door dit kabinet is afgebroken. Daarom dienen we vandaag met onze bondgenoten een wetswijziging in om de €1,6 miljard aan onderwijsbezuinigingen volledig van tafel te krijgen.

Stiamo facendo questa cosa... Una mano è sempre ben accetta :) 🙏

Stiamo vivendo una rivoluzione tecnologica, ma quanto conosciamo realmente l'uso dell'IA nella nostra quotidianità? Aiuta a scoprirlo compilando questo breve questionario (10 min): bit.ly/sondaggio_ai...

Kabinet🚮

🔍 Stiamo studiando come l'AI viene usata in Italia e per farlo abbiamo costruito un sondaggio! 👉 bit.ly/sondaggio_ai... (è anonimo, richiede ~10 minuti, e se partecipi o lo fai girare ci aiuti un sacco🙏) Ci interessa anche raggiungere persone che non si occupano e non sono esperte di AI!

@grambelli.bsky.social these weeks is hosted by @gronlp.bsky.social for a postdoctoral visiting sponsored by @abstractionerc.bsky.social for a collaboration with @tommasoc80.bsky.social and @piasommerauer.bsky.social on the emergence of language-mediated stereotypes, a form of overgeneralization.

Wij zeggen: Er is wél een rode lijn. Onze advertentie, vandaag in het AD, Trouw en de Volkskrant. Deel dit statement en help ons om meer partijen te overtuigen.

🎉 I'm ready for a new adventure! I'll be in Groningen @unigroningen.bsky.social one month for a research visiting at @gronlp.bsky.social 🇳🇱 Many thanks to @tommasoc80.bsky.social who organized my staying. Let's promote @abstractionerc.bsky.social research around the globe! 🎆

Final round table discussion to pave new grounds on research about conversational dynamics @catemauri.bsky.social @fusaroli.bsky.social @dingemansemark.bsky.social @tommasoc80.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social @caterinavillani.bsky.social @annaborghi.bsky.social @mariannabolog.bsky.social

📆 Reminder! 📆 🚀 The #WOAH2025 submission deadline is just over two weeks away! (April 18, 2025, Anywhere on Earth!) 🔗 CfP: workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html We're excited to see your submissions! 🤩 #ACL2025 #NLProc

Don't miss the #WOAH2025 deadline!

I really think it's time to move all the conferences out of the US. It's very expensive, it's very hard to get a visa for many nationals, and now you can also be turned away at the border because of your political views. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...