Proud to be one of the researchers behind SHADES, the dataset featured in this @wired.com article, alongside @tiagotorrent.com. SHADES tackles bias across cultures and languages, pushing for more inclusive, multilingual AI. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/ai-bia... #AI #NLP #BiasInAI #MultilingualAI #SHADES

Excited to attend #IFNW2025 at Keio University! Looking forward to insightful discussions and reconnecting with fellow FrameNetters in Yokohama! 🇯🇵

Join us today @ 3:20 PM EST as Marcelo @viridiano.com examines emerging trends in Vision and Language research, and discusses the role of Frame Semantics in advancing multimodal AI. cwru.zoom.us/j/9667192443... #FrameSemantics #AI #VisLang #Multimodality

❗ New year, new #BreGroMM sessions: 📅 Next one is on 17 January on social interaction. 🫵 You want to present? More sessions are coming up and we have some open spots! 👉 You have an idea or a question, a workshop or some data to discuss? Submit your #abstract via forms.gle/mzj7vcGTmNJz....

A reminder from just three years ago that the web can be an incredibly fun, cool, awesome, creative, and inspiring space. youtu.be/ZivIAhxzFyk?...

“Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom” “(…) handwriting movements have a beneficial impact on the brain’s connectivity patterns related to learning and remembering.” www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

‘You will be visited by three spirits.’ The three spirits:

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🇬🇧 Teaching grandmother to suck eggs. 🇧🇷 Ensinar o padre a rezar missa. (Teaching the priest to say Mass) 🇪🇸 A enseñar a tu abuela a hacer cacerolas. (Teaching your grandmother to make pots) 🇮🇹 Insegnare al gatto a arrampicarsi. (Teaching a cat how to climb)

The internet was once a damn fun, cool, awesome, creative, democratic and mostly ethical place to hang out. #BringWebringsBack aftermath.site/website-musk...

We need a name for that feeling when you cooked for a bunch of people and you made the exact amount of food.

📣 Submissions for #CogSci2025 are now OPEN! 🌍 This year’s conference is fully hybrid — join us in San Francisco or online! 🔍 Review the submission guidelines ⬇️ Download the required templates 🗓️ Make note of key deadline dates cognitivesciencesociety.org/submissions/

The rise of #LLMs may give the impression that Language Resources are a relic of the past. In this talk, @tiagotorrent.com shows how curated databases are key to developing #AI for #healthcare and #multimodality in a culturally grounded, socially responsible way. videolectures.net/videos/eural...

Hey, UK! Happy first National Linguistics Day! Proposals for NLD traditions: (a) Add language wonder to every conversation. (b) Exchange gifts of linguistics content. (c) Sing linguistics carols: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor... (d) Do deeds to protect languages or linguistic institutions.

Most people don't seem to take note-writing very seriously as a skill.

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

If watching Star Wars has taught me anything about the future¹, it's that AI and technology sucks and still can't flawlessly execute all rebel attack positions in a single blast, and that people are still way too emotional. _____ 1. I know Star Wars is set "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away"

First time keynoting at an Intelligent Systems conference (BRACIS). So very proud to be talking about our joint project with @vitalstrategies.bsky.social which uses semantic analysis to estimate under reporting of Gender Based Violence in primary care units. 🤩

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I recently started one on vision and language: go.bsky.app/TENRRBb

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

Three Japanese books I adore: 1. The Book of Tea, by Okakura Kakuzo 2. In Praise of Shadows, by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki 3. A Dictionary Of Color Combinations, by Sanzo Wada

PhDs in language sciences who are considering industry: great insights here

Today, the person responding your email is most likely a human being. But will there come a time when we need to categorize communicators? Viridiano#HB (Human Being) Viridiano#AI (Artificial Intelligence)

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

OK, here it is: the starter pack to get to know the #multimodalists on Bluesky. Who is missing? go.bsky.app/QPLSxuX

How I arrived at Bluesky

Word buildings. An old favourite by @tomgauld.bsky.social tomgauld.com

Hey @mubashariqbal.com please add: bsky.app/starter-pack...

A directory of Bluesky Starter Packs blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

I don't get the list into a starter pack, but I guess it has almost the same purpose: Here are many scholars doing #multimodality - the stuff I am also mainly busy with. Great that it's getting busier here, finally! Welcome to all new people!

Ece Demir-Lira (@ecedemirlira.bsky.social) and I will guest edit a special issue on “Multimodal language, communication, and thinking” for the journal Cognitive Development. We accept letters of intent for both theoretical and empirical papers by Jan 15, 2025! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Pathways to Multimodality - our new book series with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social - now has a website, cover and design are done, and the first book is being produced! Watch out for lots of pink (!) stripes, because this world needs colours! www.degruyter.com/serial/pm-b/...

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I'm excited to appear on the latest @manymindspod.bsky.social Podcast talking about visual language and my new book, A Multimodal Language Faculty and our arguments for the necessity of a new Multimodal Paradigm for research on language and communication manyminds.libsyn.com/a-new-pictur...

#BreGroMM update: The Bremen-Groningen Online Workshops on #Multimodality will continue in 2024/2025! New sessions, new topics, more exchange! If you are interested in presenting your work, have a look at bit.ly/BreGroMM. And save the date for upcoming sessions!

A guide to BlueSky for Scientists * Common questions * Links to resources * An explanation of feeds * A directory of science feeds Please share with scientists on BlueSky! Written by me and @markrubin.bsky.social 🧪 #stats #PsychSciSky #neuroscience

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Snapshots from @rplevy.bsky.social’s amazing keynote on Large Language Models and Human Cognition at LREC-COLING 2024 📸

Excited to be front and center for @rplevy.bsky.social’s keynote at LREC-COLING 2024.

I’m excited to announce our latest paper! We show that visual sequences not only use anaphoric distance dependencies analogous to language, but they evoke similar brain responses! “Anaphoric distance dependencies in visual narrative structure and processing” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 Exciting News! Join us for the Linguistics Summer School 2024, a free online event featuring keynote presentations and courses by Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social, Mark Turner, and more! Visit the event website to learn more and register www2.ufjf.br/ppglinguisti... #LiS2024 #AI #Multimodality

MS Word now automatically generates alt text for images (which is great!), except it's terrible at it. The label for this image was given as "A diagram of a basketball diagram". #linguistics

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, Kwanzaa, or any other religious or cultural holiday… we wish you a wonderful festive period! 🥰

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate

In two weeks from now the #BreGroMMplus series will have Louise Ravelli from UNSW, Australia, on 21st Century Museums: Issues of Organizational Semiotics and #Multimodality. Join us for her talk online or onsite in Groningen via bit.lyBreGroMMplus

I started putting together a list with #multimodality scholars on Bluesky. Happy to add and adjust.

We are so close to finishing our annotation of panels in our TINTIN Corpus. Only 28 books to go to complete selection of panels in 1030 comics from 144 countries. We're also getting closer with panel framing and cross panel continuity. Analyses coming soon 👀 www.visuallanguagelab.com/tintin

It's back! Our talk series "Diversity in #Linguistics" will return for its second season in November 2023. We warmly invite everyone who is interested - member or not - to join us online. Spread the word! Visit div-ling.org/en/events/ta... for more info. #BLinguistik