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Academic QMUL. Social data science, Computational social science, NLP. he/him
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🌍 How can #NLP & #LLMs help tackle global challenges? πŸ’‘ We map 9 key domains to the UN SDGs & the Global Risks Report 2025, highlighting open challenges, overlooked opportunities, and paths toward responsible deployment. #NLP4SG #AI4SG #ResponsibleAI #NLP4PI

Check out our massive work on #NLP for Social Good: a position paper on how modern #NLP can be quite useful for positive social goals! arxiv.org/abs/2505.22327 thanks to @antoniakrm.bsky.social for leading efforts and @zhijingjin.bsky.social for building during the years the foundation of #NLP4PI

Can't remember who said it, but using ChatGPT for your college essays is like using a forklift to move the weights around at the gym. It's the process that's important to your development, not the end product.

Just released: Report of the 2025 AAAI Presidential Panel on the Future of AI Research. Covers a selection of topics of a larger set of research directions, providing high-level glimpses. Enjoyed collaborating with colleagues on the project. Report pdf avail here: aaai.org/wp-content/u...

🚨 Big news! We're thrilled to announce that #ICWSM 2026 will take place in sunny Los Angeles, California! πŸŒ΄β˜€οΈ More details coming soon! ✨

The updated ARR schedule has now been posted! aclrollingreview.org/dates Feb 2025: Februrary 15 May 2025: May 19 July 2025: July 28 Oct 2025: October 6 Jan 2026: January 5

Here is Tülu 3 405B 🐫 our open-source post-training model that surpasses the performance of DeepSeek-V3! It demonstrates that our recipe, which includes RVLR scales to 405B - with performance on par with GPT-4o, & surpassing prior open-weight post-trained models of the same size including Llama 3.1.

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us πŸ”— www.404media.co/openai-furio...

In 2024, Bluesky grew from 2.9M to 25.9M users. With this growth came anticipated challenges in scaling Trust & Safety, from adding workstreams to adapting to new harms. In our newly published 2024 Moderation Report, we share details on what the year looked like for our Trust & Safety team.

Come work with us to help build better and quicker decisions for law enforcement. Deadline: 12 Feb Detail: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK931/m... (Note must be a UK residence for last 5 years) #AI #NLP #NLProc

One of my dissertation chapters had a tentative working title of β€œdid the internet create annoying people, or just make it easier for existing annoying people to find and annoy me?” The answer is yes.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

We are excited to bring back ICWSM-Global Initiative also this year, 2 pg. applications due 15/01 for: - Travel expenses coverage to the conference in 2025 - Mentorship support from a senior academic in the field More details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/...

🚨 Exciting news! The call for papers is now OPEN for the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (#WOAH2025) at #ACL2025 @aclmeeting.bsky.social in Vienna. πŸ“† Submission deadline: March 7, 2025 πŸ“„ Check out the CfP: www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Looking forward to your submissions! 🀩 #NLProc

⚠️ We are accepting submissions for the OSNEM special issue on Disinformation, toxicity, harms in Online Social Networks and Media πŸ—“οΈ submit by 31st March 2025! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

⚠️ We are accepting submissions for the OSNEM special issue on Disinformation, toxicity, harms in Online Social Networks and Media πŸ—“οΈ submit by 31st March 2025! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

The Call for Papers is live on our website! πŸŽ‰ We’re accepting submissions for full papers, demos, posters, and datasetsβ€”all due by January 15. Don’t miss the chance to showcase your work and join us this June in beautiful Copenhagen πŸ‡©πŸ‡° www.icwsm.org/2025/submit/...

1/ We're experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network. As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.

πŸ“£ Hiring at Cardiff NLP! Both positions with an application deadline on January 3rd and to start from ~April 2025 (flexible). πŸ“š PhD scholarship: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬ RA/Postdoc: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... Please share!

ICWSM is also here πŸ‘‡

I'm looking for a PhD student for a new big project on "Data Diversity for Fair and Robust NLP" (πŸ“… Jan 5!) www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #nlproc #nlp

I'm creating a starter pack for the WOAH Community πŸ¦‹ Send me your username if you are a researcher working on (fighting) online harms and would like to be added πŸ˜‡ go.bsky.app/2hJFNQb #NLProc #HateSpeech

Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered... 1. Small AI models often perform better in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture. Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

Our #WebSci24 paper demonstrates how hate speech detection models struggle with and discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community's reclaimed language πŸ‘‡ "Hate Speech Detection and Reclaimed Language: Mitigating False Positives and Compounded Discrimination" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2025 at Princeton to work on Comp Social Science/Societal Impact of GenAI/GenAI for SocSci I wrote a bit on research flavor & interests here: manoelhortaribeiro.github.io/advising Deadline: December 15th www.cs.princeton.edu/grad#prospec... Please boost!

Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark

It's great to see the massive wave of people coming to πŸ¦‹. Here's my first stab at a Computational Social Science starter pack: go.bsky.app/2m6iQ68 Go check out similar lists to bootstrap your network: bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... Wonder if these lists could be merged somehow..

I am excited to share this pre-print of a white paper we've been working on for a while: "Web Scraping for Research: Legal, Ethical, Institutional, and Scientific Considerations" With Megan Brown, Andrew Gruen, Gabe Maldoff, Solomon Messing, Zeve Sanderson. arxiv.org/abs/2410.23432

Providing citations to support fact-checking: Contextualizing detection of sentences needing citation on small wikipedias www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

**Last week to apply** to the 1st edition of our School "Computational Social Science: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities" (13-17 May 2024 in the beautiful Villa del Grumello, Lake Como) Check the full program and apply here by February 25th: css.lakecomoschool.org

We are excited to launch ICWSM-Global Initiative, 2 pg. applications due 11/30 for: Fully funded trip to the conference in 2024 (up to $5K) Mentorship support from a senior academic in the field icwsm.org/2024/index.h...