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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · May 4

I'm ded #NAACL25

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NAACL @naaclmeeting.bsky.social · May 1

We have a faculty panel about to start at San Miguel at 10:45am. See you there!

Faculty panel:
James Martin, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Graham Neubig, Lu Wang

#NAACL2025

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · Apr 30

Session?

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · Apr 30

Are you presenting? If yes, send pointer and I'll find you!

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · Apr 29

I'll be at #NAACL25 all week, reach out if you'd like to catch up!

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · Apr 4

My phone keeps thinking that my Spanglish texts are in Filipino and keeps asking me if I want to translate them. I thought we'd reached super intelligence.

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · Mar 29

It had worked well for me in the past, but this time it was very weird. I agree with you! If the review form was designed to treat it as a revision and embrace the continuity of the assessment it would help with this problem. Wonder how we could bring this to the attention of the ARR chairs.

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · Mar 28

Yeah, I was wondering if it could be that. I think the quality of our papers (and def. the ones in my AC batch) varied considerably in quality, yet score distributions were way too uniform. Maybe with the rubric requiring explicit recommendations, reviewers are less likely to take a stance?

Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · Mar 28

This ARR cycle, we resubmitted 4 papers addressing (meta)reviewer feedback. They all got lower scores than they had before (requesting same reviewers), and all had the exact same borderline scores (~2.5). All papers in my AC batch (about 16) also have the same borderline scores. It looks very odd.

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · Mar 28

love that the thumbnail a picture of @tuhinchakr.bsky.social

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · Mar 24

I need an emergency reviewer for a paper on language to logic translation, anyone available to do it? #NLProc

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · Mar 16

Another joyful day existing as Venezuelans in the world.

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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · Feb 18

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Avijit Ghosh @evijit.io · Feb 6

A group of us came together to challenge the dominant narrative of AI research - paper out today. We posit that “AGI” is as nebulous to define as its supposed benefits, and we argue that principled scientific, engineering and societal needs should drive AI research instead. Read 👇

Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social · Feb 6

With Christopher Graziul, @struthious.bsky.social, Hananel Hazan, El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi, @evijit.io, @kat-heller.bsky.social, Jacob Metcalf, Fabricio Murai, @eryk.bsky.social, Andrew Smart, Todd Snider, Mariame Tighanimine, @taliaringer.bsky.social, @mmitchell.bsky.social and Shiri Dori-Hacohen.

Blili-Hamelin et al. Stop Treating 'AGI' as the north-star goal of AI Research.pdf

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · Feb 6

What is the difference between 2 (substantial revisions) and 3 (major revisions) in the ARR meta-reviewer form? Why do we keep both of these?

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Queer in AI @queerinai.com · Feb 3

Our workshop has been extended till Feb 20. We are looking forward for your papers at NAACL's Queer in AI workshop.

Queer in AI @queerinai.com · Dec 9

1/7 🌈 BIG NEWS ALERT! The hottest Queer in AI workshop is back - and this time we're official! We're thrilled to announce we'll be at #NAACL2025 as an official workshop, meaning your work can now be published in the ACL anthology! 🎉

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · Dec 3

I'm going to print this out and hang it in my office.

Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · Dec 3

2. Shut up in meetings. If everyone you talk to starts to think like you, then you need to talk less. If you take a moment before giving your opinion, students will use that moment to come up with an idea you never would have.

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · Nov 24

I have seen some anti-peer-review takes on here, and, believe me, I understand the frustrations, but I would urge caution before doing or publicly saying anything too drastic. We live in age rife with misinformation and anti-intellectualism—not everyone wants academia to survive

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Rutgers Computer Science Department @rucomputerscience.bsky.social · Nov 26

We are excited to welcome David Rothschild, Senior Principal Research and Economist at Microsoft Research, to Rutgers. David will discuss an ongoing project using LLM and Human-in-the-Loop coding to label news in near-real time. www.cs.rutgers.edu/news-events/...

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · Nov 26

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · Nov 26

My biggest accomplishment yet is having @realblucifer.bsky.social follow me.

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Emilio Ferrara @emilioferrara.bsky.social · Nov 14

Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack?

Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented!

go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · Nov 24

add me? :)

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Julia Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn2.bsky.social · Oct 29

📣 I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2025 at the University of Maryland College of Information.
Consider applying if you're interested in language, society/politics, and computers!

Deadline Dec 3: ischool.umd.edu/academics/ph...

And pls share with anyone who may be interested!

Doctor of Philosophy in Information Studies (PhD) - College of Information (INFO)

This doctoral program prepares students to address the hardest social and technical problems of today and tomorrow.

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · Nov 24

I don't now about this whole ARR response period over the weekend 😅

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