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Dave Howcroft 🦔 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@davehowcroft.com
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Computational linguist teaching computers to use their words. Queer. Catholic. Immigrant. they/them

Languages: en, de, fr, sv
Also available at https://mastodon.social/@_dmh
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Finally got to go to mass for the first time in weeks of traveling. The servicet St Joseph's Cathedral in Hanoi was lovely. Alhamdulillah!
Picture of St Joseph's Cathedral in Hanoi, partly obscured by green hedges in the plaza
November 16, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Ninh Bình was pretty cool
View of a karst landscape from the top of one of the peaks. A body of water is in the foreground with peaks filling the rest of the left and right side of the frame, as well as the background. A late afternoon sky fills the upper third of the image.
November 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Thought of @ifbookspod.bsky.social at the Sydney airport
A bunch of airport books on display at the Sydney airport. Along them is "The Let Them Theory", which has been covered on the podcast "If Books Could Kill"
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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At the #INLG2025 gala getting a taste of Vietnamese culture
Performers in Vietnamese traditional clothing are seated on a stage, some with instruments, performing a song. In the background we see the name of the restaurant Dong Son Drum and a screen announcing this is the conference gala dinner for INLG 2025
November 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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At the airport for my flight to Hanoi for #INLG2025!!!
A white enby with hair pulled back smiles at the camera with their eyes, rocking their denim jacket and an FFP2 mask. A backpack strap is visible.
October 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Mailed my ballot in today as part of the #WeAreTheUniversity campaign. It is unacceptable how employers are failing the public and their employees, and it is shameful that the prev gov't sacrificed public goods on the Altar of Austerity and that this gov't isn't willing to fix the problem
Dave stands in front of a red Royal Mail postbox holding their ballot envelope in the vote for strike action. In front of the envelope, they hold the insert explaining why you should vote Yes to strike action and Yes to action short of a strike!
October 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Today @ehudreiter.bsky.social let me take a look at his old copy of the #ACL proceedings from 1993. The proceedings for the entire conference fit into about 300 pages and you received a physical copy. My how the times have changed!
Cover of a light Grey book with red text indicating that it's the proceedings of the 31st annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics Showing page 299 of said book, nearly at the end!
August 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Omg the site description!
Website overview from DDG. The title is "Red-Pilles Movie Reviews" for worth it or woke dot com. It says "BASED reviews" and the summary says "honest Christian conservative reviews of movies, TV shows, and games. Explore content aligning with your family values at worth it or woke".
August 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Hello from beautiful Saarbrücken 💛💛💛
A Dave wearing glasses with long blond hair smiles and toasts you with their Bruch bier
August 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Presented #ASICA at #GramConf2025 today :)
a blond haired person in a blue shirt and orange trousers poses next to their academic research poster
June 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Happy Pride lovelies 💛💛💛

I love you, God loves you, be queer and live your life
Wearing my colorful dungarees and a purple shirt holding up my big B with the T placard posing with a queer affirming reverend and others at St Augustine Church during Pride
June 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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This week @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social had a strong presence at #HealTAC2025, a conference on NLP in healthcare. We had a demo from the ASICA project, work from an undergrad working with NHS Grampian, and two PhD students presenting work to help patients! Adarsa Sivaprasad even won best poster!
Seven researchers from University of Aberdeen pose from the balcony of the Glasgow University Union's debate chamber. The balcony and its seats are warm wood colored and the stage behind them gives a similar theatre vibe. The welcome slide for the conference is displayed on a projector above the stage.
June 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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If you haven't already, please sign this petition to #StopTheCuts! UK Higher Education ( #UKHE ) is in dire straits after years of neglect by the UK government. Institutions are at a breaking point and we will lose this public good if the government doesn't step up: stopthecutspetition.org.uk
Texts in the colors of the UCU reading "Stop the cuts: fund higher education now!" with stylized scissors and bits of background cut away. A pound sign lurks in the D of fund.
June 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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At His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen for Seagully Blonde! I was expecting Aberdonian parody of Legally Blonde, but it's even better than I imagined!!! Definitely come see it if you're in the 'Deen and get a chance today or tomorrow🔥🔥🔥
Dave poses in front of a pink poster for the show "Seagully Blonde" wearing their denim jacket and holding a beer
April 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Woke up early this morning to join #INLG2024 virtually! Thanks to the organisers (@siggen.bsky.social) for letting me present even though I couldn't attend in person, and thanks to the folks who came to the poster :)

Paper is on the #ACL Anthology if you're curious: aclanthology.org/2024.inlg-ma...
Picture of a laptop screen, showing the poster for my paper "Exploring the impact of data representation on neural data-to-text generation" and my face as I joined the INLG 2024 poster session remotely this morning.
September 26, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #52,519!
September 18, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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Bigger! in Glasgow! Let's gòooooooooooooõooøọö!
four chairs sit empty on a stage as a crowd with blurred faces eagerly waits for the show to start
April 16, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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Cheeky halfpint on my way home at the end of the week :)
A round faced white guy with goateeand stubble smiles at the camera and raises a half pint glass, wearing a cool red jacket in a warmly lit pub
October 13, 2023 at 5:58 PM
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Selfie Sunday Challenge

RS witha selfie of you right now
A white guy with a goatee wearing femme framed glasses chills out by the lake. His hair is dyed blond but his roots are showing.
July 30, 2023 at 8:38 PM
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Wonder what it will look like if Bluesky ever federates and there's an AP-ATProto bridge. And if Threads ever federates
Fediverse statistics in July 2023. 11 million total users, up 5.7m since last month. 24.5k servers, up 11.2k from last month. 2 million monthly active users, up 617k since last month.
July 26, 2023 at 8:11 PM
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Geek, nerds and weirdls selfie thread, join in
A person with dyed hair and wild eyes sticks out their tongue at you ferociously
July 8, 2023 at 3:25 PM
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Good noon to you! Glad im in time for mugtime
A person with a goatee and dyed blond hair on top of a brunette head holds up a mug where the number 25 is stylised to be an owl logo
June 15, 2023 at 11:04 AM
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Risky business posting feet online, but I'm in
Feet in grey sandals with straps around the ankles. The feet are on a bus and their nails are painted, different colors for each foot
June 11, 2023 at 3:06 PM
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The face of the seasoned traveler killing time because they failed to account for... some buses being full and requiring advance registration
A Dave with floof brown hair and nice glasses frames chills in a Starbucks
June 2, 2023 at 1:08 PM
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Running legs
A leg wearing short shorts seen from above POV with a purple and orange running shoe at the end
June 1, 2023 at 9:17 PM