Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · 1d

YES!! 🙏🏼🎉

Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · 1d

asking for help: this morning I've seen a post promoting the release of a new, large, and curated dataset which *could* be used for LLM training and MT. What I remember is: it was a version 3 and it was the outcome of an EU funded project (and it was not OpenLLM Europe) - anyone?

1

Reposted by Tommaso Caselli

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

900 9.4K 17K

Reposted by Tommaso Caselli

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting position at the intersection of Empirical Literary Studies, Media Psychology, and Machine Translation!

GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 8d

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐂 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 (𝐄𝐑𝐂 𝐂𝐨𝐆, 𝐏𝐈 𝐀𝐧𝐚 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐟) 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫! ⁣🎉
⁣
We have an opening for a 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 in 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 for a starting duration of 12 months extendible to 30 months.⁣

For further details -> www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Vacatures bij de RUG

www.rug.nl

2 5

Reposted by Tommaso Caselli

New Scientist @newscientist.com · 7d

The revelation that endometriosis is linked to autoimmune disorders is opening up a whole new way to treat this painful and poorly understood condition

A deeper understanding of endometriosis is suggesting new treatments

The revelation that endometriosis is linked to autoimmune disorders is opening up a whole new way to treat this painful and poorly understood condition

www.newscientist.com

14 28

Reposted by Tommaso Caselli

Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 9d

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts

Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

www.theguardian.com

12 270 490

Reposted by Tommaso Caselli

GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 13d

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻! 😍
Here are some photos of our GroNLP station at the Forum, where we welcomed high school classes and potential future researchers. 🧑‍🔬🤖
Quizzes, puzzles, demos, card games, and of course, lots of chocolate! 🍫

1 7 14

Reposted by Tommaso Caselli

de Bibliotheek Gouda @biebgouda.bsky.social · 17d

Vanaf vandaag elke week Antifa-leestips (voor het hele gezin) uit de collectie van de bibliotheek. We beginnen met de stripbewerking van HET DAGBOEK VAN ANNE FRANK door David Polonsky. #leesvaardig #informatievaardig

40 390 990

Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · 20d

and we also have @gronlp.bsky.social stickers 🤩

1 5

Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · 20d

It's the end of the day, but this morning I got a pretty good news: I've been awarded an #NVIDIA DGX Spark as part of the #NVIDIA Academic Grant Program to run LLM experiments on Cultural Heritage data @gronlp.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social #HAICu

3 3 21

Reposted by Tommaso Caselli

GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 26d

1 5

Reposted by Tommaso Caselli

GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 26d

Today we were at #CLIN35 hosted by @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social - as always: great interactions, meeting old friends/colleagues, and lots of presentations from us @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

2 8 22

Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a book

Guerilla and Peace

Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a book

The Raisins of Wrath

Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a book

1983

1

Reposted by Tommaso Caselli

Alessandra T. Cignarella @cerveza-inglesa.bsky.social · Jul 21

🌈 Help with my LGBTQIA+ research! 🌈

I'm building a dataset to fight harmful LGBTQIA+ stereotypes in AI. Take my quick survey:
👉 IT: lnkd.in/dfPuyT6j
👉 NL: lnkd.in/d-3Di7WY
👉 FA: lnkd.in/dfvWzWCu
Everybody is welcome!

📤 Share if you can!

7 4

Reposted by Tommaso Caselli

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.bsky.social · Sep 4

I talked about my experience publishing a book in open access with @mitpress.bsky.social

#OpenScience
@operaseu.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social
@rug.nl

www.rug.nl/library/open...

Best practices in Open Science: Federico Pianzola on publishing with MIT’s Direct to Open programme

www.rug.nl

7 11

Reposted by Tommaso Caselli

EACL 2026 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨 EACL 2026 website is live and Call for Papers is out! 🚨

Join us at #EACL2026 (Rabat, Morocco 🇲🇦, Mar 24-29 2026)

👉 Open to all areas of CL/NLP + related fields.

Details: 2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/

• ARR submission deadline: Oct 6, 2025
• EACL commitment deadline: Dec 14, 2025

2 8 21

Reposted by Tommaso Caselli

WOinActie.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social · Sep 1

De nieuwe minister van OCW. Hij heeft les gegeven dus vindt zichzelf uiterst geschikt voor deze baan. Aangezien het vooral op de winkel passen wordt zou ervaring in de detailhandel waardevoller zijn geweest.

Lisa Westerveld 🌱 @lisawesterveld.bsky.social · Sep 1

Iemand die hakenkruizen heeft gelijkgesteld aan regenboogzebrapaden, wordt de nieuwe Minister van Onderwijs.

Het ministerie waar óók emancipatie onder valt en dus gaat over de aanpak van lhbti-discriminatie.

Uiteraard gaan we Kamervragen stellen.

www.oogtv.nl/2024/09/groo...

Groot deel Provinciale Staten neemt ‘geschokt’ afstand van uitspraken BBB-fractievoorzitter Moes

Acht partijen in de Provinciale Staten van Groningen hebben zich dinsdagmiddag gezamenlijk gedistantieerd van uitspraken van BBB-fractievoorzitter Gouke Moes. Het Statenlid zorgde zondag en maandag vo

www.oogtv.nl

1 13 32

Reposted by Tommaso Caselli

John Marsham @johnmarsham.bsky.social · Aug 28

Interesting analogy with countering right-wing anti-climate narrative. To counter it need a positive narrative of our own, not just refute it. A bairer, cheaper, cleaner more profitable future with more jobs and more nature is hard to argue against.

Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · Aug 28

Fear has owned the small boats story for too long and it's allowed populists to thrive. It’s time to reclaim the narrative – here's how. ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @peterthurlow.bsky.social

Here’s how we change the narrative on the small boats

Populists thrive on fear and repetition. To counter the small boats saga, here's how we must reshape the story

eastangliabylines.co.uk

4 11 61

Reposted by Tommaso Caselli

Yoav Goldberg @yoavgo.bsky.social · Aug 27

what this means it that we don't have a good mental model of how different steps in the LLM generation process depend on each other, and what are the causal relations that make it tick. which in turn means that LLM's explanations might be "transparent", but also that we fail to interpret them.

1 1 11

Reposted by Tommaso Caselli

Yoav Goldberg @yoavgo.bsky.social · Aug 27

the test is very simple: given an AI reasoning text broken into steps, we highlight one step as the target, and then ask you to identify the one-out-of-four preceding steps that we choose, which, if removed, will change the target step. turns out this is really hard.

1 1 6

Reposted by Tommaso Caselli

Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · Aug 26

Vanaf vandaag ontvangen de eerste 60-plussers een uitnodiging voor de coronaprik. Het coronavirus is er nog steeds is en kan weer opleven. De coronaprik geeft mensen die een hoger risico lopen om ernstig ziek te worden door #corona, extra bescherming.

www.rivm.nl/nieuws/c...
1/5

Coronaprik: uitnodigen risicogroepen 2025 van start | RIVM

Vanaf 26 augustus 2025 ontvangen de eerste mensen een uitnodiging voor de coronaprik. Het RIVM stuurt de uitnodigingen tot medio oktober naar mensen van 60 jaar en ouder. De coronaprik wordt van 15 september tot en met 5 december 2025 gegeven op priklocaties van de GGD Gemeentelijke Gezondheidsdienst (Gemeentelijke Gezondheidsdienst) door het hele land.

www.rivm.nl

4 10 12

Reposted by Tommaso Caselli

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...

4 3

Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · Aug 22

📝camera-ready and 🧑‍💻Git link will be available soon

2

Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · Aug 22

"The "r" in "woman" stands for rights. Auditing LLMs in Uncovering Social Dynamics in Implicit Misogyny" (lead by @arimuti.bsky.social and w. @deboranozza.bsky.social Alberto Barron-Cedeño and Chris Emmery)

1 1 2

Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · Aug 22

'Simulating Identity, Propagating Bias: Abstrction and Stereotypes in LLM-Generated Text' (w. @piasommerauer.bsky.social and @grambelli.bsky.social)

1 2