I have recently discovered that football is amazing

Thrilled to have been awarded the Association for Computational Linguistics 2016 test of time award for my first ever paper, written with/under the guidance of @dirkhovy.bsky.social A couple of cute things about the paper/its genesis/its outcomes

This is the one book I wish literally everyone working in NLP/AI would read. All of Weizenbaum's work is so incredibly relevant even after 50 years that I end up highlighting every third sentence every time I read it. This thread contains some great examples.

M.J. Crockett@mjcrockett.bsky.social · last mo.

Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason, has long been out of print - used copies sell for hundreds of dollars. It's wild that this is not more widely available given how much his ideas still apply to the world we're in now. 🧵/

I am shocked and flattered that this paper won the Best Paper Award (Honourable Mention) at #FAccT2026!

Pranav A@pranav-nlp.bsky.social · last mo.

I will be presenting our work titled "Making a Name for Myself: On Academic Naming Policies and their Impact" this week at #FAccT2026. This paper talks about why names matter, why name change policies are important, how people benefit from it and what's still left to do.

I will be presenting our work titled "Making a Name for Myself: On Academic Naming Policies and their Impact" this week at #FAccT2026. This paper talks about why names matter, why name change policies are important, how people benefit from it and what's still left to do.

I'm looking for a new PhD student to come join me at UAlberta & Amii to study trans perspectives on AI policy & the future of AI as part of my new lab. The position is fully funded and offers access to a range of supports - more details in the poster below!

Attention #NLProc researchers, the EACL 2027 website is officially LIVE: 2027.eacl.org! 🎉 🇬🇷 Join us in Athens, Greece (Mar 9-13, 2027) at #EACL2027 📅 ARR submission deadline: Aug 6, 2026. Open to all areas of CL/NLP + related fields. Stay tuned for the detailed CfP soon!

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

ky.fyi

- Cafe / bookshop / board game bar with generously-sized tables, great coffee and cocktails, and excellent ventilation (sub-700 ppm CO2) - Trans-centred beach - Taxi service where I drive you from A to B without either of us uttering a word besides hi and bye

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 3mo ago

Take a break from the discourse and quote this with a business you would want to start if you could afford to lose money on it

Virginia Eubanks: I find the philosophy that sees human beings as unknowable black boxes and machines as transparent deeply troubling... The presumption that human decision-making is opaque and inaccessible is an admission that we have abandoned a social commitment to try and understand each other.

imagine having a company called AllBirds, pivoting and changing its name to NewBird, and both before and after it's NOT ABOUT BIRDS!!!

Late post but I'm at #EACL2026 in Morocco where I'm petting cats, seeing sights, and presenting some work - here are the highlights.

LMs that "know more" about toxicity are less toxic! Our #TACL 📄 connects behavior and internals: 💠 LMs amplify toxicity beyond humans 💠 Information about toxicity peaks in lower layers 💠 Bypassing these layers increases toxicity More details👇 #NLProc #interpretability (1/🧵)

Excited to share the first preprint of my PhD! While many papers focus on what kind of information LLMs trust, @dippedrusk.com, Katja Markert, and I instead investigate whose evidence models prefer by looking at source credibility. #NLP #Research #CL #LLMs 1/7 🧵

I passed! #PhDone

Vagrant Gautam@dippedrusk.com · last yr.

Submitted! 🥳 Stay tuned for a defense date in 3-ish months

@pranav-nlp.bsky.social and I are surveying researchers about naming and name changes in academia (especially computer science). If your academic name is / has been / might someday be different from other names you've used, please tell us about it here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP

I was Delores from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice for Halloween!

Attending COLM next week in Montreal? 🇨🇦 Join us on Thursday for a 2-part social! ✨ 5:30-6:30 at the conference venue and 7:00-10:00 offsite! 🌈 Sign up here: forms.gle/oiMK3TLP8ZZc...

I will be - at the Aarhus conference 🇩🇰 on Monday for our workshop on representation + representativeness with synthetic data - living in Heidelberg 🇩🇪 in 2 weeks - in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in late September giving a talk at the ILCC (on reasoning about reference, probably) - in Montreal 🇨🇦 in October for COLM

I'm not at #ACL2025, but my student Elisa will be there presenting our work on LLMs' gender and country stereotypes in English, Spanish, and German, at the @genderbiasnlp.bsky.social workshop. aclanthology.org/2025.gebnlp-...

Colombian Waitresses y Jueces canadienses: Gender and Country Biases in Occupation Recommendations from LLMs

Elisa Forcada Rodríguez, Olatz Perez-de-Vinaspre, Jon Ander Campos, Dietrich Klakow, Vagrant Gautam. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP). 2025.

aclanthology.org

Have you or a loved one been misgendered by an LLM? How can we evaluate LLMs for misgendering? Do different evaluation methods give consistent results? Check out our preprint led by the newly minted Dr. @arjunsubgraph.bsky.social, and with Preethi Seshadri, Dietrich Klakow, Kai-Wei Chang, Yizhou Sun

Agree to Disagree? A Meta-Evaluation of LLM Misgendering

Numerous methods have been proposed to measure LLM misgendering, including probability-based evaluations (e.g., automatically with templatic sentences) and generation-based evaluations (e.g., with aut...

arxiv.org

Submitted! 🥳 Stay tuned for a defense date in 3-ish months

🚨🚨 Studying the INTERPLAY of LMs' internals and behavior? Join our @colmweb.org workshop on comprehensivly evaluating LMs. Deadline: June 23rd CfP: shorturl.at/sBomu Page: shorturl.at/FT3fX We're excited to see your insights and methods!! See you in Montréal 🇨🇦 #nlproc #interpretability

Do you have Opinions™ on what it means to "represent" things and people with data? Then submit 1-2 pages by May 28th and join us in Århus 🇩🇰 this summer to discuss representation and representativeness with synthetic data!

Do you have Opinions™ on what it means to "represent" things and people with data? Then submit 1-2 pages by May 28th and join us in Århus 🇩🇰 this summer to discuss representation and representativeness with synthetic data!

I'm teaching for the first time this semester and I am thrilled with how my concepts class is going! We discussed interpretability today after reading 2 critique papers (Lipton's Mythos of Model Interpretability and Krishnan's Against Interpretability) and 2 content papers: Patchscopes and RAVEL. 🧵

Come to my keynote tomorrow at the first official @queerinai.com workshop at #NAACL2025 to hear about how trans languaging is complex and cool, and how this makes it extra difficult to process computationally. I will have SO many juicy examples!

Best part of dissertation-writing is reading all sorts of things, including Ellen F. Prince making fun of sociolinguists in 1981.

Announcing our first workshop keynote! "Processing Trans Languaging" by Vagrant Gautam @dippedrusk.com at 13:30 - 14:30 MDT on May 4, 2025 Read on for a description of the talk! 🧵

Queer in AI@queerinai.com · last yr.

🚨 FINAL REMINDER 🚨 Whether you're exploring queer linguistics/NLP or queer activism/D&I, the Queer in AI workshop at #NAACL2025 is the place to be! 📅 Submission Deadline: *Feb 20, 2025 AoE* Let’s make #NAACL2025 the queerest one yet! All details 👉 queerinai.com/naacl-2025 #QueerInAI #NLProc

If you were ever curious about the timeline of name changes as a Canadian immigrant in Germany, here's my data spanning 2 years for just the most important stuff. This does not include everywhere else I had to change my name, i.e., phone companies in Germany and Canada, public transit apps,