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

Pranav A@pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 2mo 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?

i didn't present my FAccT paper in my group as all of my work was getting labelled as "activism", "political" and "not suitable for a CS PhD".

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · 2w ago

The most contemporary example is trans philosophy and trans studies in other disciplines being labeled as “activism” in academia for contesting transphobia through society.

Excited to welcome Queer in AI to NeurIPS Europe! 💫

Queer in AI@queerinai.com · 2w 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 · 3w 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 · last mo.

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

why was i assigned to review that many gay fanfictions / yaoi stuff in this ARR

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...

Not going to #ACL2026 myself but my PhD student and former postoc are presenting some very cool work!

LAGoM NLP@lagom-nlp.bsky.social · last mo.

This Sunday at 5pm at #ACL2026 in the multilingual session, Kushal Tatariya and Artur Kulmizev will present our work on auditing the quality of Wikipedia for low-resource NLP, see the paper here: aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon...

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.

the ACL is telling me that my free registration for being an outstanding area chair only applies to virtual attendance lololol fuck I hate this organization

I am not at FAccT (as Canada didn't give me visa on time), but I am in Munich! Yesterday, I attended @verenablaschke.bsky.social's brilliant defense on dialectal variation. Congrats Dr. Verena!

@arborelia.net's Queer in AI talk and advocacy is the reason why we have successful name change policies in major ML venues.

arborelia@arborelia.net · last mo.

hey this is about me too! What a document to land at the moment that I'm already dwelling on ways I've given up

This paper received an Hono(u)rable 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.

Queer in AI is proud to showcase several papers that our members are presenting at @facct.bsky.social 2026 tomorrow through Sunday. One paper examines how years-long activism around name change policies has had an immensely positive impact for authors, benefiting both queer and cis scholars! 🤝🌈

I have to review 16 papers this week (sigh). The quality of papers in AIES and KONVENS are way higher than the papers I was assigned to review for EMNLP and NeurIPS.

Insider perspective: I have worked in companies where I was forced to implement age classifiers like these. These vision based age classifiers DO NOT WORK despite the best efforts to train them; they are always close to a random baseline.

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

"an audit by Lighthouse Reports of public data on the government’s chosen AI provider shows that its tech misclassified more than a third of 16-year-olds as adults and, in some tests, was shown to give the wrong assessment in 70 per cent of cases" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Call for papers for special issue on Ethics in NLP in the journal Computational Linguistics. Discussions around ethics in #NLP and #ComputationalLinguistics is often limited by the expectations for what should be published in *CL conferences. Link to call: www.aclweb.org/portal/conte...

I made churros and coffee for all my students in my LLM coding class today. Hopefully, this entices them to come to the next session, where they have to attempt some really difficult mechanistic interpretability exercises.

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 My yearly reminder that I'm NOT a disappointment for being queer. I'm a disappointment regardless!

European teachers, how do you all teach LLMs programming basics to your students? Do you all have labs connected to GPU clusters? Recently, I have been putting up my code on colab so students can play with it; but Colab is kinda limiting.

welp, I got laid off. if anyone you know is looking for a slightly-used computational linguist -- remote or in #Syracuse, NY -- get in touch. I'm also open to "data science" positions if they're "languagey"

I need to start getting active on bluesky more, so I can finally post my ACL, FAccT and LREC papers.

I've just got hundreds of new citations in Google Scholar Apparently, you can search your name and first letter + last name and find tons of badly parsed versions of your papers. (Yes, citations don't matter, but making camera ready is boring, and I needed an escape,...)