So, what *is* the @ecir2026.eu Information Retrieval for Good track? by Maria Heuss and Bhaskar Mitra: https://bhaskar-mitra.github.io/posts/2025/09/01/what-is-ir-for-good/

🚨 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

Last week, I defended my dissertation "𝘈 𝘗𝘶𝘻𝘻𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴: 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯" at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. *the* moment: #PhDone! 🎓✨🎉 I couldn’t have asked for better supervisors than Antske Fokkens & @suzanv.bsky.social 💖

Its the final countdown 🎶🎤 (I am re-reading my dissertation for my defense next week), and actually I realized I had some fun findings hidden in some papers that I myself forgot about! 😂 I don’t know if that’s a good or bad sign for my defense.. 😂

Realization: I really, really, really hate the part of my job where it is managing conda environments and going through a deep deep cave of issue reports trying to find why something randomly doesn’t work.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Deadline approaching! Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences #KONVENS2025, archival long-short papers (acl anthology) & non-archival abstracts and phd project descriptions (get feedback from a great community!) ! Deadline: June 13th.

Yay, so happy to host CLIN in Leuven this year! It'll take place on September 12th. Abstract submission deadline on June 13th!

My love language is sending my academic friends the papers/datasets/posts on social media that I know align with their research interest. 💖

Unlock the power of large language models for your research! Join this #GESISworkshop with Julia Romberg, @vigneshwaran-s.bsky.social, and @mmmaurer.bsky.social to explore adapters — an efficient alternative to fine-tuning your models. 🔗 Book now ➡️ t1p.de/adapters-lig... @gesis.org

Expert + LLM = Better Sexism Detection? ✨ Paper: 𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘔𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘮: 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵-𝘓𝘓𝘔 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰-𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘡𝘦𝘳𝘰-𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 w: @indiiigo.bsky.social, @matteo-mls.bsky.social y.social & @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social @ Findings #NAACL2025 !🤩

🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨 We've extended the submission deadline to Friday, April 18, 2025 (AoE)! Please share widely! www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html

ACL Rolling Review and the EMNLP PCs are seeking input on the current state of reviewing for *CL conferences. We would love to get your feedback on the current process and how it could be improved. To contribute your ideas and opinions, please follow this link! forms.office.com/r/P68uvwXYqfemn

Join us at the VU Amsterdam's Master's Event, Saturday, March 8, 10:30-15:00! Learn about our two Master's in Linguistics programs from faculty and students: Language and AI (1 year) and Human Language Technology (2 years). Programs: home.cltl.labs.vu.nl Location & details: vu.nl/en/education...

I’m finally making myself at home here now I’ve left Twitter (or what was left of it). “Making myself at home” includes: finally following a lot of people for a lively timeline, and adding BlueSky to my website! 😁

I have (finally?) deactivated my account on X. It was slowly but surely really becoming unworkable, and the app was more and more connected with the falling of democratic values and freedom of information in the world.

I had a great time during my funded research stay at GESIS AND it led to a paper that’s now one of my dissertation chapters! ✨🤩 Fully recommend, Cologne is also a great city to visit!

I'm not American nor an expert on U.S. politics, but looking in from the outside it seems like a speedrun to an autocratic regime, without independent laws and even press or truth, and as a European I am **baffled** that there are no massive protests or strikes?!?

Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

People often complain on social media, but I got locked out of my @zotero.org account because I no longer had access to my uni email, and their service in getting me access again was really *excellent*, and fast, and personal. 🙏✨👌

It’s really an upgrade that the Apple keyboard now allows one autocorrect keyboard with two languages, but the problem is that I write in three. 😂 I switch between English, Dutch, and Spanish, so still keyboard switching. 😛😅 Oddly specific problem.

Hi #nlp #nlproc 🦋, I an AE for an ARR paper with 0 reviews so far, please let me know if you can help with an emergency review in the next 48hours. Themes: cultural bias/multilinguality/LLMs. Thank you!

New year, new job, new laptop in #NLProc means: newly installing tensorflow and dependencies and solving conflicts in conda environments. 😅 Now for the first time with an Apple M1 chip, so extra ✨fun✨ 😛.

My resolution for the new year is going to be: not overworking and also planning breaks. ✨😌 During my PhD I tended to want to do “more”, but this wasn’t always “better”. This means I’ll be saying “no” more. Oh, and I want to improve my Spanish to B1/B2. 😁 Happy holidays! 🎄

I almost regret teaching my 90-year old grandma how the final weeks of a PhD work bc I just called her to thank her for sending us Christmas snacks, and she kept asking “shouldn’t you be writing? When are you done?” 😂

Hot take: Working another weekend this semester, I am left wondering: Why does the #NLProc publication process have so much artificial urgency baked into it? Requiring responses within 24h, emergency reviewers, everything urgent. Like, why? Slow science can also be a community goal.

📢 Ultimate test of #NLP bluesky: I need emergency reviewers for NAACL submissions on encoders (one multilingual, one for sentence embeddings). Help a desperate editor abandoned by the ACs! Author response starts tomorrow, so that's a true emergency. If you're my hero, lmk your openreview profile.

Nice to see we’re in #NLProc finally all moving somewhere else! 😁 At the start of my PhD, online connection to other researchers was super valuable. I really hope this remains accessible to PhDs currently starting, whether here or somewhere else!

What is it with companies that rejected you for PhD internships but keep emailing you, either with a “become a customer” message or a “rate our recruitment/career service” one? I sincerely doubt this is the best recruitment pool for either message, but maybe I’m wrong? 🤔

Hello world! 👋 I am still unsure how to find many of the people I enjoyed following from the bird site - any tips or tricks here? About me: PhD candidate in #NLProc at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, interests: computational argumentation, responsible AI, interdisciplinarity! 😀 👋😁