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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · 13d

Should WOAH start a mentorship programme? 🤔

As the workshop grows, reviewer expectations are rising.
We don’t want contributors from adjacent communities penalised by *CL norms.

Senior PhDs and beyond could be mentors.

Share your thoughts:

👉 forms.gle/safif3rU2rs5...

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Sep 11

Friendly reminder that tomorrow is the last day to apply! ⏰️🤓

Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Aug 25

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...

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Sep 1

Don't forget: the deadline to apply to join our organisation team is September 12th ⏳️

Thanks to those who have applied already 💪🏻

Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Aug 25

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...

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Aug 25

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...

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Agostina Calabrese @agostinacal.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Aug 1

And that’s a wrap on the day! Our workshop keeps growing, and so do our social events.

Huge thanks to all the authors, speakers, attendees, and of course, our amazing organisers 👏

The drinks were a blast!

#ACL2025NLP

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Aug 1

We're just getting started with lightning talks from the remote attendees ⚡️⚡️

#ACL2025NLP

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Agostina Calabrese @agostinacal.bsky.social · Aug 1

As someone who likes to believe that detection technology can eventually protect victims proactively, I feel I need to sit with some hard feelings after this talk.

Thank you @katejsim.bsky.social for bringing such an important and interesting perspective to the table 🙏

Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Aug 1

CSAM is something that happens among the young people and among the known people, it's not about a third external predator figure 🤯

Very eye-opening keynote by @katejsim.bsky.social #ACL2025NLP

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Agostina Calabrese @agostinacal.bsky.social · Aug 1

We always measure F1 scores on held out data, but what is the real cost of moderation errors?

Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Aug 1

Time for our second keynote 🚨

@fvancesco.bsky.social is going to guide us through practical aspects of safety that are often overlooked in academia.

Do we want to close the gap between academia and industry? Join us to find out!

#ACL2025NLP

Agostina Calabrese @agostinacal.bsky.social · Aug 1

Not yet time for the first coffee break, and #WOAH Q&A is already getting spicy 🌶

Congratulations to Dayei Oh for winning the best paper award with her paper on marxist-feminist ethics for content moderation 👏

#ACL2025NLP

Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Aug 1

Our best paper award goes to Dayei Oh for "From civility to parity: Marxist-feminist ethics for context-aware algorithmic content moderation". Congratulations!

Agostina Calabrese @agostinacal.bsky.social · Aug 1

"You can't create a product for survivors without having thought about them." - @cordeliamoore.bsky.social

Ever think about survivors scrolling porn sites, searching for images of themselves uploaded without consent? I hadn’t until now.

Come hear from field experts at @woahworkshop.bsky.social

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Aug 1

Our first speaker is Cordelia Moore, who works on gender-based violence and sexual violence facilitated in digital spaces.

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Aug 1

The 9th edition of the Workshop for Online Abuse and Harms is kicking off in Room 2.17 at #ACL2025NLP! We have a full program today, including 3 invited speakers, a panel discussion and a poster session. This year's workshop theme is Harms Beyond Hate Speech.

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today is the day! #ACL2025NLP

Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Nov 27

🥳We're excited to share that WOAH 2025, our 9th edition, will take place at #ACL2025 in Vienna! @aclmeeting.bsky.social

Our special theme this year will be "Harms Beyond Hate Speech".

CfP and more details soon 🚀

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Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social · Jul 31

Tomorrow!

Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Jul 15

🥁 #WOAH2025 Speakers🥁

We are excited to announce an amazing panel of 3 speakers who will discuss our theme "Harms Beyond Hate Speech"

🗣️ @cordeliamoore.bsky.social
🗣️ @fvancesco.bsky.social
🗣️ @katejsim.bsky.social

Full details: www.workshopononlineabuse.com/keynotes.html

🤩 See you on August 1!

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Agostina Calabrese @agostinacal.bsky.social · Jul 29

At #ACL2025NLP and on the job market (NLP + AI Safety) 💼

It's great to see growing interest in safety/alignment, but we often miss the social context.

Come to our @woahworkshop.bsky.social Friday to dive deeper into safe safety research!

A quiet token from the biggest @aclmeeting.bsky.social ⬇️

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Jul 15

🥁 #WOAH2025 Speakers🥁

We are excited to announce an amazing panel of 3 speakers who will discuss our theme "Harms Beyond Hate Speech"

🗣️ @cordeliamoore.bsky.social
🗣️ @fvancesco.bsky.social
🗣️ @katejsim.bsky.social

Full details: www.workshopononlineabuse.com/keynotes.html

🤩 See you on August 1!

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Agostina Calabrese @agostinacal.bsky.social · Jul 1

Huge congratulations to Dr. @vernadankers.bsky.social for passing her viva today! 🥳🎓

It's truly been an honour sharing the PhD journey with you. I wasn’t ready for the void your sudden departure left (in the office and in my life!).
Your new colleagues are lucky to have you! 🥺🥰

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · May 23

📢 #WOAH2025 invites non-archival submissions of relevant papers accepted to the ✨Findings of @aclmeeting.bsky.social✨

To present your Findings paper at #WOAH2025, complete the form by 📆June 10, 2025.

📝Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

docs.google.com

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Mar 31

📆 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

Call For Papers

The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) at ACL 2025.

workshopononlineabuse.com

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Mar 1

🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨

We've extended the submission deadline to Friday, April 18, 2025 (AoE)!

Please share widely!

www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html

Call For Papers

The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) at ACL 2025.

www.workshopononlineabuse.com

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Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · Feb 27

👀👀postdocs/ research scientist roles in 🇬🇧🇮🇪🌐 Worked across NLP, HCI, ethics, psychology, doing model eval, participant studies and lit reviews. I am passionate about AI harm mitigation 4 marginalised people🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. More: mxeddie.github.io/about/ + find links to 8 papers published during PhD. Please share🔊

About

mxeddie.github.io

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Zeerak Talat زیرک ظلعت (they/them) @zeerak.bsky.social · Feb 11

Looking for a PhD student to come work with me on the ethical implications of NLP from September!

Please share widely and point any interesting students my way! 😊

Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · Feb 11

We are excited to announce a new, funded PhD studentship opportunity, alongside the School of Informatics @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social!

Supervised by @zeerak.bsky.social and starting Sept 2025, the project will examine the ethical implications of natural language processing.

Apply ▶️ edin.ac/40PAXEq

Text reads: Given the increased uptake in the use and proliferation of NLP technologies, questions surrounding the ethical and responsible development of such tools are of greater urgency. This project will consider how NLP and machine learning are currently falling short in engaging with ethical development practices and examine how such practices can be improved for the benefit of end-users and society more broadly.

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Jan 9

📆Reminder📆:

📭 The #WOAH2025 submission deadline is March 7, 2025, anywhere on Earth!

See CfP: workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html

Looking forward to your submissions! 🤩

#ACL2025 #NLProc

Call For Papers

The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) at ACL 2025.

workshopononlineabuse.com

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Agostina Calabrese @agostinacal.bsky.social · Dec 26

2024 has been a though one. It started at a global minimum of my life, and went up with a positive monotonic trend. I'm extremely grateful to the people in my life. I now look forward to 2025 and life after the PhD (hopefully).

"Anche così è stato breve il nostro lungo viaggio.
Il mio dura tuttora"

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Edoardo Ponti @edoardo-ponti.bsky.social · Dec 22

We're hiring a lecturer or reader in embodied NLP at the University of Edinburgh!

Deadline: 31 Jan 2025
Call for applications: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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