📢 Call for Abstracts!
Towards a Safer Web for Women (co-located with #WebSci26)
📍 Braunschweig 🇩🇪 | 26 May 2026
Theme: Preventive approaches to women’s online safety
🗓 Deadline: 27 March 2026
🔗 forms.gle/tYheEgSwGecf...
🌐 tsww26.github.io
For today's reading group @arimuti.bsky.social presented "SPeCtrum: A Grounded Framework for Multidimensional Identity Representation in LLM-Based Agent" by @keyeun.bsky.social.
#NLProc #identity
This year’s workshop places a strong emphasis on preventive rather than reactive approaches to women’s online safety. We invite submissions presenting new findings, recent work, new ideas or previously published research (non-archival) that fits the workshop theme.
Call for abstracts! (Deadline: 17 March)
Submissions are now open for the second edition of Towards a Safer Web for Women Workshop, taking place on 26 May at the Web Science Conference 2026 in Braunschweig 🇩🇪.
👉 More info & submission details: tsww26.github.io
For our weekly reading group, Afshin Karimi presented "What Social Media Use Do People Regret? An Analysis of 34K Smartphone Screenshots with Multimodal LLM". Super interesting discussion!
Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
#NLProc
In academia, class background strongly shapes who advances and who stalls.
#MemoryModay #NLProc
@gattanasio.cc et al. study asks 'Is It Worth the (Environmental) Cost?' analyzing continuous training for language models. Balances benefits, environmental impacts, for responsible use. #AI #Sustainability
arxiv.org/pdf/2210.07365
Women's health information is increasingly being censored by anti-adult filters, which tag words like "vagina" as porn.
This isn't a new issue, but in an increasingly age-gated internet world, it's about to get a lot worse.
www.forbes.com/sites/gerist...
🎉 MilaNLP 2025 Wrapped 🎉
Lots of learning, building , sharing, and growing together 🌱
#NLProc
The deadline is approaching! Join the team :)
We're also back with the lab's seminar! Today we had Eleonora Mancini presenting her doctoral research "Multimodal AI for Human Expression Understanding".
#NLP #multimodality #speech
🚀 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
Huge thanks to our speakers at last Friday’s lab seminar!
🗣️ @penzo-nicolo.bsky.social on multi-party conversations
🌍 @patriciachiril.bsky.social on NLP for socially grounded research
#NLProc
Another exhausting day in the lab… conducting very rigorous panettone analysis. Pandoro was evaluated too, because we believe in fair experimental design.
We're happy to have @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social at our lab this week! She presented her #EMNLP2025 work "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization" and shared more of her exciting ongoing work.
#NLProc
What an inspiring week at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou🇨🇳!
Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who stopped by our poster/talk!
For our weekly reading group, @joachimbaumann.bsky.social presented the upcoming PNAS article "The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research" by @
@seanjwestwood.bsky.social.
LLMs require social knowledge to understand implicit misogyny, yet they mostly fail. If you want to know more, come check my poster from 12.30 to 13.30!
Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
#EMNLP2025
📚 For today’s reading group @arimuti.bsky.social presented Emergent Misalignment: Narrow Finetuning Can Produce Broadly Misaligned LLMs (Betley et al., 2025).
🧩 arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424
#NLProc #AIAlignment #LLMs
📣 New Preprint!
Have you ever wondered what the political content in LLM's training data is? What are the political opinions expressed? What is the proportion of left- vs right-leaning documents in the pre- and post-training data? Do they correlate with the political biases reflected in models?
📖For our last Reading Group @donyarn.bsky.social presented
"Culture is Everywhere: A Call for Intentionally Cultural Evaluation" by Oh et al.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01301
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MilaNLPers at CLiC-it 2025 presenting "Probing Feminist Representations: A Study of Bias in LLMs and Word Embeddings"
Check the paper at clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/u...
#NLProc #clicit25
What makes LLMs agree even when they shouldn’t? 🤔
At our last seminar’s lab, Jan Batzner presented The Brief History of LLM Sycophancy as We Know It.
#NLProc #sycophancy #LLM
🎓We're back with Fridays' lab seminars! Today we had
Suyash Fulay presenting "Truth, Political Bias, and AI Representation".
#NLProc
📖For this Thursday's Reading Group @deboranozza.bsky.social
presented two papers on #sycophancy in #LLMs.
Papers: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13995, arxiv.org/pdf/2310.13548
#NLProc
We're back with the reading group! 🚀
Today @paul-rottger.bsky.social presented The Levers of Political Persuasion with Conversational AI by Hackenburg et al. (2025)
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.13919
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"The "r" in "woman" stands for rights. Auditing LLMs in Uncovering Social Dynamics in Implicit Misogyny" (lead by @arimuti.bsky.social and w. @deboranozza.bsky.social Alberto Barron-Cedeño and Chris Emmery)
@milanlp.bsky.social @ #ACL2025 in #Vienna!
#NLProc
🎉 The @milanlp.bsky.social lab is excited to present 15 papers and 1 tutorial at #ACL2025 & workshops! Grateful to all our amazing collaborators, see everyone in Vienna! 🚀
🎓For today's lab seminar, we had the pleasure to host
@miriamschirmer.bsky.social with her presentation on Measuring and Reducing the Psychological Impact of Online Harm and Tiago Pimentel with How Much Does Tokenisation Impact Language Models?
#NLProc #onlineharms #tokenisation
