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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

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antoniakrm.bsky.social @antoniakrm.bsky.social · Jun 10

🌍 How can #NLP & #LLMs help tackle global challenges?

💡 We map 9 key domains to the UN SDGs & the Global Risks Report 2025, highlighting open challenges, overlooked opportunities, and paths toward responsible deployment.

#NLP4SG #AI4SG #ResponsibleAI #NLP4PI

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Daryna Dementieva @iamdddaryna.bsky.social · Jun 10

Check out our massive work on #NLP for Social Good: a position paper on how modern #NLP can be quite useful for positive social goals!

arxiv.org/abs/2505.22327

thanks to @antoniakrm.bsky.social for leading efforts and @zhijingjin.bsky.social for building during the years the foundation of #NLP4PI

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Arkaitz Zubiaga @zubiaga.org · May 14

Possibly overleaf, but not latex as a whole?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · May 7

Can't remember who said it, but using ChatGPT for your college essays is like using a forklift to move the weights around at the gym.

It's the process that's important to your development, not the end product.

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Arkaitz Zubiaga @zubiaga.org · Apr 7

There's some interesting stories around paper rejections, (i) TBL's WWW paper rejection from ACM Hypertext '91 cybercultural.com/p/1991-tim-b... or (ii) Google's PageRank paper rejected from SIGIR rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/f08-cse494-m...

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Eric Horvitz @erichorvitz.bsky.social · Mar 3

Just released: Report of the 2025 AAAI Presidential Panel on the Future of AI Research. Covers a selection of topics of a larger set of research directions, providing high-level glimpses. Enjoyed collaborating with colleagues on the project. Report pdf avail here:
aaai.org/wp-content/u...

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icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · Jan 20

🚨 Big news! We're thrilled to announce that #ICWSM 2026 will take place in sunny Los Angeles, California! 🌴☀️
More details coming soon! ✨

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · Feb 19

The updated ARR schedule has now been posted! aclrollingreview.org/dates

Feb 2025: Februrary 15
May 2025: May 19
July 2025: July 28
Oct 2025: October 6
Jan 2026: January 5

Dates and Venues

A peer review platform for the Association for Computational Linguistics

aclrollingreview.org

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · Jan 30

Here is Tülu 3 405B 🐫 our open-source post-training model that surpasses the performance of DeepSeek-V3! It demonstrates that our recipe, which includes RVLR scales to 405B - with performance on par with GPT-4o, & surpassing prior open-weight post-trained models of the same size including Llama 3.1.

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404 Media @404media.co · Jan 29

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us

🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...

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Arkaitz Zubiaga @zubiaga.org · Jan 21

Have you tried:

"To contact the list owners, use the following email address: [email protected]"

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Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · Jan 17

In 2024, Bluesky grew from 2.9M to 25.9M users. With this growth came anticipated challenges in scaling Trust & Safety, from adding workstreams to adapting to new harms.

In our newly published 2024 Moderation Report, we share details on what the year looked like for our Trust & Safety team.

Bluesky 2024 Moderation Report - Bluesky

Throughout 2024, our Trust & Safety team has worked to protect our growing userbase and uphold our community standards.

bsky.social

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Ravi Shekhar @rshekhar.bsky.social · Jan 17

Come work with us to help build better and quicker decisions for law enforcement. Deadline: 12 Feb
Detail: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK931/m... (Note must be a UK residence for last 5 years) #AI #NLP #NLProc

ML/ NLP Engineer (KTP Associate) at University of Essex

Recruiting now: ML/ NLP Engineer (KTP Associate) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

www.jobs.ac.uk

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Jan 14

One of my dissertation chapters had a tentative working title of “did the internet create annoying people, or just make it easier for existing annoying people to find and annoy me?”

The answer is yes.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Jan 15

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer.

The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

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icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · Dec 10

We are excited to bring back ICWSM-Global Initiative also this year, 2 pg. applications due 15/01 for:
- Travel expenses coverage to the conference in 2025
- Mentorship support from a senior academic in the field

More details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/...

ICWSM '25

www.icwsm.org

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Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social · Jan 7

It’s remarkable that Zuck said “the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U.S." He not only ended the partnership, he threw US fact checkers under the bus.

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Dec 18

🚨 Exciting news! The call for papers is now OPEN for the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (#WOAH2025) at #ACL2025 @aclmeeting.bsky.social in Vienna.

📆 Submission deadline: March 7, 2025
📄 Check out the CfP: www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html

Looking forward to your submissions! 🤩
#NLProc

Call For Papers

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

www.workshopononlineabuse.com

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Arkaitz Zubiaga @zubiaga.org · Dec 4

⚠️ We are accepting submissions for the OSNEM special issue on Disinformation, toxicity, harms in Online Social Networks and Media

🗓️ submit by 31st March 2025!

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Online Social Networks and Media | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Online Social Networks and Media | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect

Read the latest articles of Online Social Networks and Media at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

www.sciencedirect.com

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Arkaitz Zubiaga @zubiaga.org · Dec 4

⚠️ We are accepting submissions for the OSNEM special issue on Disinformation, toxicity, harms in Online Social Networks and Media

🗓️ submit by 31st March 2025!

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Online Social Networks and Media | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Online Social Networks and Media | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect

Read the latest articles of Online Social Networks and Media at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

www.sciencedirect.com

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icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · Dec 3

The Call for Papers is live on our website! 🎉 We’re accepting submissions for full papers, demos, posters, and datasets—all due by January 15. Don’t miss the chance to showcase your work and join us this June in beautiful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

www.icwsm.org/2025/submit/...

ICWSM '25

www.icwsm.org

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Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · Nov 26

1/ We're experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network.

As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.

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Jose Camacho Collados @camachocollados.bsky.social · Nov 25

📣 Hiring at Cardiff NLP! Both positions with an application deadline on January 3rd and to start from ~April 2025 (flexible).

📚 PhD scholarship: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🧑‍🔬 RA/Postdoc: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Please share!

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Arkaitz Zubiaga @zubiaga.org · Nov 22

ICWSM is also here 👇

icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · Nov 22

The International Conference on Web and Social Media has officially joined Bluesky! Follow us for the latest updates 🔔

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