Oliver Lemon

A direct attack on free enterprise, liberty, and basic morality

Hello #NLProc #ACL2026NLP people. I am looking for **two emergency reviewers** in the Safety and Alignment in LLMs track for ACL/ARR.

Reviews are due Feb 15th. Please DM if interested and available.

Happy to offer drinks/food if you live in/pass by Lisbon ☀️

Robotics in particular badly needs better evaluations

This year’s KONVENS will take place our beautiful city, Hamburg, September 14–17, under the special theme “Context Matters: NLP Beyond Text”.

The call can be found on our website: konvens2026.uni-hamburg.de.

An important topic, in honour of an important career in NLG

X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok Elon Musk's X and Grok platforms are facing increased scrutiny from authorities on both sides of the channel.

Why is @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social still on X?

@drscottarthurmp.bsky.social @cllrconorsavage.bsky.social X is an unsuitable communication platform for a council.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral Researcher in Artificial Intelligence for Digital Hearing Health

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Nice analogy with linguistic levels of analysis : phonetics --> semantics --> pragmatics

Exclusive: Pentagon clashes with Anthropic over military AI use - sources The Pentagon and artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic are at odds over potentially eliminating safeguards that might allow the government to use its technology to target weapons autonomously an...

Source: Pentagon Clashes With Anthropic Over Military AI Use @reuters.com
The Pentagon and AI developer Anthropic are at odds over potentially eliminating safeguards that might allow the government to use its technology to target weapons autonomously and conduct U.S. domestic surveillance. 🤬

Solving the "data gap" in robotics by just collecting a lot of robot data

"Word from Mordor is that the Tomes of Epstein have been moved to the lower levels of Barad-dûr. Will Sauron's distraction tactics work forever?"

🏹 Job alert: Fully Funded PhD: Test-Time Adaptation & Agentic AI for Multimodal Foundation Models at Aarhus University

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Logical Reasoning and Machine Learning Postdoctoral Researcher in Logical Reasoning and Machine Learning

🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral Researcher in Logical Reasoning and Machine Learning at Helsinki University

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Robots for constructing buildings are actually very challenging. It will take a looooong time before they can replace all the trained people deported from the US.

⏳ Deadline approaching! We’re hiring 2 fully funded postdocs in #NLP.

Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects (SALMON & TOLD)

🔗 Details + how to apply: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...

⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026

Who speaks for Earth?

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

🏹 Job alert: Co-design of hardware and control for dexterous mobile manipulation at University of Cambridge

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Speech recognition faster at texting Smartphone speech recognition software is not only three times faster than human typists, it's also more accurate. The researchers hope the revelation spurs the development of innovative applications ...

Agree about the linearity of speech being a limitation. But voice is great when need/want your hands and eyes to be free. It's also faster than typing and you don't get typos. I don't want to have to use my phone to type commands robots, I want to speak to them!
news.stanford.edu/stories/2016...

The current generation of humanoid robots is still very unsafe, which is a huge problem if your goal is to put them in homes.

Four PhD Positions in Natural Language Processing, AI and LLM Security (CPH) The Technical Faculty of IT and Design, Department of Computer Science, Section for Copenhagen, Natural Language Processing The Department of Comput...

🏹 Job alert: Four PhD Positions in Natural Language Processing, AI and LLM Security (CPH) at Aalborg University

📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 1st
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I have a #postdoc (1+1 yrs) at the School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh to work on 💥 #reliable #LLM #agents with #neurosymbolic #nesy layers 💥 with Huawei Trustworthy Technology and Engineering Laboratory Munich

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Natural Language Processing How do you build Large Language Models? How do humans experience Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications in their daily lives? And how can we...

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Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu...

Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)

🚀 We’re opening 2 fully funded postdoc positions in #NLP!

Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects.

🔗 More details: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...

⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026

🏹 Job alert: Two fully funded PhD positions in Natural Language Processing at University of Leipzig

📍 Leipzig 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by Jan 15th
🔗 https://ellis.eu/research/jobs/2025-12-16-two-fully-funded-phd-positions-in-natural-language-processing

Good news!🎉

The government is set to announce tomorrow that the UK will rejoin the Erasmus+ scheme from January 2027 according to reports.

Read more: https://www.bestforbritain.org/uk_to_rejoin_erasmus

You might be interested in the ASIMOV benchmark: Generating Robot Constitutions & Benchmarks for Semantic Safety share.google/4gVRpGHdoDb9...

📢 PhD & postdoc call for start in autumn 2026 📢
Join a new interdisciplinary project on Human-Centered Explainable LLMs @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk
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🎉 New work: “Learning Massively Multitask World Models for Continuous Control”

We introduce MMBench: a 200-task RL benchmark, and Newt: a language-conditioned multitask world model trained with large-scale online RL.

www.nicklashansen.com/NewtWM/

Code, checkpoints, dataset etc. are open-source!

6-panel SMBC comic update where a person asks a robot who is the background, cleaning, if they have achieved consciousness. The robot says "Nah - consciousness requires a reflective inner experience, unified persistent sense of self hood, and an intrinsic set of goals." The robots adds that an ai has no existence as it is, it just tries to meet the needs of the hour rather than eternally striving upward. This gives the human pause, and then reply "aw man, did you already attain total spiritual enlightenment?" The robot replies with "Namu amida butsu" a Japanese Buddhist chant.

The worst part of selfless robotic servants is going to be how happy they are.

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