Calling all interpreters (any language/domain), please take our brief (1-2 min) survey! We are recruiting for a research study about interpreters' perspectives on speech translation technologies. Form: bit.ly/4h85BRz We are grateful for all input! Interviewees receive a $45 Amazon Gift Card.

"What is uniquely African about the African AI landscape? Is it because those working on it are from/based in the African continent? Because it focuses on African languages/datasets? Or does it adhere to distinctly African values?" @hellinanigatu.bsky.social aial.ie/blog/worksho...

Science isn't a statistical gachapon. The contempt these clowns have for the bedrock processes underlying knowledge production & scholarship truly knows no limit. It was bad enough when—as a scholar in an interdisciplinary field—I had to deal w/ quants reviewing qualitative/humanistic papers badly.

Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · last wk.

This is the future of scientific papers. Instead of a PDF, the paper is an AI agent that you can talk to, ask questions, run analyses. No more digging through supplements - just ask the paper directly: "what p-value cutoff was used in Fig 3B? Re-run at 0.01." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

also, i'm looking to recruit researchers interested in/got experience in platform audit to work on roblox at the @aial.ie

Now at KONVENS,Barbara Plank starts off with a keynote on how variability and disagreement is useful for NLP tasks.

We received way too many submissions than we anticipated and we are looking for reviewers! Please help us out by reviewing a paper if you can. Let me know your email or openreview ID if you are interested.

Queer in AI@queerinai.com · 2w ago

Hey all, We have received way too many submissions for our workshop at NeurIPS and we are looking for reviewers. If you can help review a paper, within next month, then please let us know your Openreview ID!

My advice to all junior and first-time authors: Make an ORCID profile!

Nathan Schneider@complingy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Do you have an ORCID iD (unique personal identifier to attach to publications)? Every scientific author should claim one at orcid.org. Then, take 30 seconds to improve your @aclanthology.org page and prepare for new ARR requirements:

why do so many european takeout places hand me a FORK to eat rice? at this point I need to start carrying a spoon in my pocket.

This is an absolutely catastrophic data breach of an identity verification vendor 150+ million drivers license scans that includes photos, address, license numbers etc. It includes Pete Hegseth, security researchers, and even the deputy director of the FBI. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-...

Me planning the vacation: For the next 2 weeks, I will relax, meditate and be with myself. Meanwhile AIES people this morning: Please upload the camera-ready paper by this week.

In Hamburg, usage of deep learning based vision methods are branded as 'good surveillance'. It is completely unclear what purpose is it solving and how good are they. Classification methods like actions, age and re-identification are highly error-prone and brittle.

CCC@ccc.de · last mo.

Verhaltensmuster-Überwachung Hamburg, Mannheim, Berlin: Eine neue Ökonomie der Kontrolle, doch #Verhaltensscanner lösen keine Probleme www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1202...

I went to the BIPOC support group for academics earlier this week. This was the first time I have seen all of us being extremely disturbed and upset with the current events. Things are hard. It is important than ever to show love and uplift your fellow community members.

📢 EMNLP 2026 authors: ORCID is required for camera-ready submission. All authors must have an ORCID linked to their OpenReview profile before the paper can be submitted. Please check with your co-authors early: orcid.org #ACL #EMNLP #NLProc

intensive lobbying by BigAI has left the AI Act hollow. risks like “loss of control” are mandatory for providers to assess while risks to fundamental rights & society as a whole including privacy, data protection, non-discrimination & risks from CSAM & non-consensual intimate imagery are left out

I am organizing this fun workshop in Bremen this weekend! If you are interested in AI ethics and auditing systems; come join us, we have planned really fun activities this weekend.

Queer in AI@queerinai.com · 2mo ago

We are organizing a workshop in Bremen, titled 'Contemplating the Future of Queer AI' on August 14, 9-17. This workshop is open to everyone, in a hybrid mode, see here for details: www.queerinai.com/ijcai-2026

One cool thing I liked from 'Adolescent Identity Expression through Transdisciplinary, Computational, Creative Writing' paper by Gifford et al (including @amyko.phd), is expressing identities via coding (mainly multilingual translation) and learning peers' culture through classroom discussions.

Amy J. Ko@amyko.phd · last mo.

So proud of my student and collaborators' ACM #icer2026 papers this year on joy, identity expression, and help-seeking community! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

I don't normally post about new papers coming out, but this one gets an exception: My student has just had her first paper (and my first paper with my own PhD student) accepted to AIES! We look at how speech technology research engages, or rather doesn't engage, with questions of surveillance!

Actually NLP means Noodles, Lasagna, and Pasta.

We are organizing a workshop in Bremen, titled 'Contemplating the Future of Queer AI' on August 14, 9-17. This workshop is open to everyone, in a hybrid mode, see here for details: www.queerinai.com/ijcai-2026

The metareview was good?!.... what the hell. I thought this was almost getting rejected.

Pranav A@pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

1.5 years in my PhD, 2 days before my EMNLP deadline, I am staring at the draft thinking I have genuinely no clue what I am doing.

All this discourse of having 50k submissions to AAAI, and no one is talking about that we would get AI reviews on our submissions. Who is making such policies?

Excited to welcome Queer in AI to NeurIPS Europe! 💫

Queer in AI@queerinai.com · 2mo ago

Our @neuripsconf.bsky.social Affinity Workshop Call for Contributions is LIVE 🌈 We welcome: • Queerness + AI research • Work from queer scholars Non-archival • Multiple submissions allowed 📅 Visa-friendly deadline: Aug 3 AoE 📅 Final deadline: Sep 3 AoE (1/3) #MachineLearning

Who is coming to Hamburg fro KONVENS? I will be presenting my benchmark on gender fair language in German (which was my EMNLP paper). konvens2026.uni-hamburg.de/index.php/da...

Happy to announce that three first-authored papers got accepted at #AIES2026! The topics include resisting surveillance, AI-washing, marketing and computer vision. Happy to connect with fellow researchers at AIES! Details of my papers:

ACM does not give a fuck about having incorrect citations in their proceedings, but do shit like this to have more nonsense, leading to even more incorrect cites.

Association for Computing Machinery@acm.org · 2mo ago

We are opening a consultation on the inclusion of ACM publications within AI licensing agreements for access and training purposes. We have published this piece as to why we believe it is the right time now to enter into these discussions. buff.ly/VTatuda

AI ethics hardly has anything to do with the use of AI anyway. It is about thinking critically who benefits from this technology, who structurally carries the burden, by whom it is built, from which ideologies and how this manifests in its harmful societal impact.

TIME SENSITIVE: NeurIPS is launching a new Affinity Support Pilot Program! Award recipients will receive support to present their research at #neurips2026 affinity events. We encourage you to thoroughly read the requirements before applying. The deadline is July 20 AoE. (1/2)

🚨 I’m still seeking an emergency reviewer for an ARR May 2026 submission on LLM-based image segmentation. Please DM me if you’re qualified to review for ARR (at least 2 ACL/AI conference pubs and 1 other pub), and could complete a review for it in the next couple days! 🙏

As local governments move more into using AI-assisted translation for important government docs, this is a very important issue to keep in mind. General purpose translation tools might not be as good when you want to execute specific tasks (or want specific info to be translated properly)

Victor Ojewale@victorojewale.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Most Multilingual benchmarks measure what models know, not what they can reliably do. Our #ACL2026 paper introduces functional benchmarks in six languages from English to Yoruba to test whether models can actually execute tasks across languages, not just answer fixed questions about them. 🧵1/n

In times of increased political repression and reduced sponsorship, as we prepare for our annual grad school app aid program - through which we’ve given $45k+ to 1000+ queer scholars in previous cycles - we welcome donations to support our initiatives: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...