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Saad Mahamood @saad.me.uk · 2d

forum.cspaper.org/topic/140/wh...

This is bad. But also shows how the need to publish in “A” ranked conferences is leading to bad outcomes for all parties.

When Acceptance Isn’t Enough: NeurIPS 2025 rejects 400 accepted papers due to venue crisis?

A Shock to the AI Research Community NeurIPS 2025, the 39th iteration of the world’s premier AI conference, finds itself embroiled in controversy. Despite pr...

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Saad Mahamood @saad.me.uk · 2d

I very much second this. I have also come across research papers with inscrutable diagrams. It just makes reading those papers an exercise in frustration.

ehudreiter.bsky.social @ehudreiter.bsky.social · 2d

New blog: Good diagrams for research papers

Ive seen a number of diagrams recently which are too complicated and difficult to understand. I explain some of the problems I see and give advice.

ehudreiter.com/2025/10/08/g...

Good diagrams for research papers

Ive seen a number of diagrams recently which are too complicated and difficult to understand. I explain some of the problems I see and give advice.

ehudreiter.com

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 2d

Hi all, there is a postdoc position open in the group I'm currently based in! ✨ Let me know if you are interested or have questions 🙂 Please share if you know someone who might be interested www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Memory access in language

Help uncover how memory shapes language use. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Language Sciences, you will join the ERC-funded MEMLANG project.

www.uu.nl

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 3d

COLM word cloud. Yoav says it’s the year of reasoning, but evaluation is also huge.

Evaluation reasoning interpretability rl in context benchmark alignment synthetic data

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Saad Mahamood @saad.me.uk · 3d

Kinder sollen nicht eine töte Erde erben.

Leo von Gripsholm @leovongripsholm.bsky.social · 4d

springer muss sterben damit wir leben können

Meinung am Sonntag
Der Klima-Sozialismus muss weg, wenn unsere Kinder in Deutschland eine Zukunft haben sollen
Ein Leitartikel von BILD-Chefin Marion Horn

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EACL 2026 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · 4d

🌞 Reminder: EACL 2026 submissions (via ACL Rolling Review) are due TODAY AoE! 🌞

Do not forget to leave enough time for filling in the responsible NLP checklist! ✅

Submission link: openreview.net/group?id=acl...

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Saad Mahamood @saad.me.uk · 6d

The countdown to INLG 2025 (2025.inlgmeeting.org) has now started! In 25 days will meet for the 18th international conference on natural language generation in Hanoi, Vietnam. Come take a look at the accepted papers: 2025.inlgmeeting.org/accepted-pap...

I am looking forward to see you all there!

INLG2025

The 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference is scheduled to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam from October 29 to November 2, 2025.

2025.inlgmeeting.org

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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 12d

RIP Peter Eisenberg (1940-2025), syntactician of German, phonologist, orthography specialist, and very public linguist (who was not afraid of controversies). He was my second PhD advisor in 1990-93, and an important person in my life during those years at FU Berlin. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_E...

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Saad Mahamood @saad.me.uk · 13d

Can confirm from my first hand experiences. It doesn’t preclude the need to learn the local language. But it is something that can be done with enough motivation.

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ehudreiter.bsky.social @ehudreiter.bsky.social · 16d

Aberdeen CS is hiring! We are especially interested in hiring new faculty in NLP. Closing date is 8 Oct. For more info, see below (or contact me)

www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...

Lecturer in Computing Science, Natural & Computing Sciences (NCS249A) | The University of Aberdeen

Browse and apply for current job openings at the University of Aberdeen across various schools, departments and roles, including admin and academic.

www.abdn.ac.uk

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dave howl-croft 👻🦔 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @davehowcroft.com · 17d

If you don't want LinkedIn to use your data to train generative AI models, make sure to opt out here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

LinkedIn Login, Sign in | LinkedIn

Login to LinkedIn to keep in touch with people you know, share ideas, and build your career.

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SIGGEN @siggen.bsky.social · 24d

The registration page for #INLG2025 is now live! Join us in Vietnam at the Oct 29 - Nov 2 for the best conference on #NaturalLanguageGeneration

2025.inlgmeeting.org/registration...

Curious to see what will be presented? Check out this list of accepted papers! 2025.inlgmeeting.org/accepted-pap...

Picture of the One Pillar Pagoda in Hanoi, a pagoda raised up over a green pond surrounded by greenery

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 27d

Computer scientists believe that soon every home will be able to have their own artificial intelligence machine on their own desktops (Source.)

A book that reads in block sans serif font, "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROJECTS FOR THE COMMODORE 64." The text is red, switching to gold for the words 'Commodore 64'. Cover bottom, a Commodore 64 - a light brown all-in-one microcomputer with dark brown keys - appears. In the center, a gold PCB in the shape of a human head radiates gold wires in the way wires might radiate from a chip, creating the silhouette of a head; in the center and neck of the head-shaped PCB, chips appear.

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Saad Mahamood @saad.me.uk · Aug 14

Reminds me of my Dualit toaster (www.dualit.com/collections/...) that has a similar aesthetic and all manual controls that is highly serviceable. Oh it makes great toast as well!

Toasters

Shop Dualit Toasters - combining 75 years of experience into five distinct ranges. Designed for aesthetics and performance. Discover your perfect match.

www.dualit.com

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EACL 2026 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · Aug 14

Interested in joining us in Rabat next year? 🇲🇦🤩

Key dates for #EACL2026:
• ARR submission deadline: Oct 6, 2025
• EACL commitment deadline: Dec 14, 2025

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · Aug 12

Excited to announce the first-ever Workshop for Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation (YNLG), supported by @siggen.bsky.social, taking place on October 29, 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam, co-located with INLG 2025.
Call for Submissions is out now!

ynlg-workshop.github.io

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Saad Mahamood @saad.me.uk · Aug 10

Thank you for this piece. It is important that we are able to ask the “why?”.

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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social · Jul 17

A personal update.

Why I am leaving big tech…

After spending almost two decades in big tech, I was notified last month that I am being laid off.There have been massive waves of layoffs across the industry recently, and I am just one of the many t...

bhaskar-mitra.github.io

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Hadas Kotek 🦄 @hadaskotek.bsky.social · Aug 8

Good news (for me!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5.
Bad news (for everyone!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5.
arxiv.org/pdf/2308.14921
hkotek.com/blog/gender-...

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Saad Mahamood @saad.me.uk · Aug 7

My south travel game is lacking…

Saad Mahamood @saad.me.uk · Aug 7

Furthest I’ve been:

N: Jyväskylä, Finland
E: Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan
S: Muscat, Oman
W: Starved Rock State Park, IL, USA

Jason Snell @snell.zone · Aug 7

Furthest I've been:

N: Helsinki, FI
E: St. Petersburg, RU
S: Mossburn, South Island NZ
W: Hanalei, Kauai, HI

New south champ since I last played this game!

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · Aug 7

Furthest I've been:

N: Carlisle, UK
E: Venice, Italy
S: Aruba
W: Mendocino, CA.

Though I'm gonna expand my west to Ohio in late September and, probably, my north to Fort William, Scotland next year.

bsky.app/profile/stac...

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ACL Rolling Review (ARR) @aclrollingreview.bsky.social · Aug 6

📢 Our Call for Nominations for ARR co-Editors-in-Chief is still open!
🗓️ Deadline extended to August 24, 2025.
For details and nomination instructions, visit:
🔗 aclrollingreview.org/call-for-nom...
#ARR #NLProc

Call for Nominations of ARR co-Editors-in-Chief

The ACL Rolling Review (ARR) initiative is seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for several co-Editors-in-Chief (henceforth “EiCs”, with the “co-“ understood) positions, serving a 2.5-year...

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Colin Cornaby @colincornaby.me · Aug 3

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

As a restaurant owner - I'm astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today's microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow's microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country. Recently I was watching a livestream of a local microwave salesman.

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