Ravi Shekhar
@rshekhar.bsky.social
Lecture, University of Essex, UK #NLP, #NLProc https://shekharravi.github.io/
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In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door. But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
This @universityofessex.bsky.social, by the way: www.ft.com/content/2cdd.... The university that had been established to transform the region & society, swiftly dropping the programmes for widening participation the moment finances are tight. They were in the middle in 2024, what happened?
UCU Essex@ucuessex.bsky.social · 11mo agoIn yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door. But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Since they're not restructuring, they're putting us all at risk because there may be a diminished need for "teaching and research", which are... the university's missions I guess?
@lucynoakes1.bsky.social · 11mo agoOngoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Sam McLean @sammcleanntcc.bsky.social on Essex Pathways, the University's experts on foundation year provision. "[O]nce that department is gone, it's gone. It would take decades to rebuild the hundreds of years of combined experience that run it."
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals. Please share widely.
Attending @aclmeeting.bsky.social Check out our work on "Addressing Blind Guessing: Calibration of Selection Bias in Multiple-Choice Question Answering by Video Language Models" (aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...) at Board: D10, Hall 5X, Wednesday, July 30, 11:00-12:30 #ACL2025 #ACL2025NLP #NLProc
Addressing Blind Guessing: Calibration of Selection Bias in Multiple-Choice Question Answering by Video Language Models
Olga Loginova, Oleksandr Bezrukov, Ravi Shekhar, Alexey Kravets. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2025.
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looking for emergency reviewers for ACL/ARR in text simplification/offensive language/ image captioning, please let me know if you could review 1-2 papers b/w 24-26 March #NLProc
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ML/ NLP Engineer (KTP Associate) at University of Essex
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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
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