I will be at #CHI2026, happy to talk all things NLP and queer identity, and presenting my work on use of LLMs for support during break-ups. Say hello 😁

🔔 final reminder! I promise! 🔔
LavLang 32 abstract submission deadline is THIS SATURDAY - get scribbling, come join us in Edinburgh in September for a brilliant conference ft. Dr. Nikki Lane, Dr. @kevinguyan.bsky.social, Prof. Erez Levon, Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli, Dr. @mxeddie.bsky.social and YOU? 🤩

A screenshot of the miriam webster online thesaurus which offers as related words to "nurturing" the following: caring, giving, female, feminine, matronly, womanly, paternal, matriarchal, maternal, motherly, mother, womanlike, womanish

This feels unideal

I will say, the end of the world is coming with some fun linguistic highlights like 🤖 clanker 🤖 and sloppelganger.

Did you do this as a FOI request?

Every time I contemplate visiting my girlfriend in the states, some insane new anti-trans law is passed that makes me stop browsing flights.

@chi.acm.org hello, I was wondering if you could confirm if there was a page limit for poster final submissions, I couldn't find this info online (and the switch from 1 to 2 columns makes the original submission page limit no longer applicable).

Playing around with generating anti-feminist synthetic data,* and delighted by the following:

"Menfolk who play impish ladders in court should be made to fight for their gender identity so we don't get into more troubles!"

*I know, I know, synthetic data is poor quality, I'm exploring my options

Using people with disabilities as a gotcha is always gross

This reminds me of Geoffrey Hinton's ACL Keynote where he tried to argue that an unnamed person in his life with a disability "failing" a language understanding test was a sign we should accept that AI understands 🙃

A blonde white toddler sits for a school photo. She has her hands clasped in front of her. She has a blunt fringe and shoulder length hair, blue eyes, and a gummy smile. She's wearing a white short sleeved blouse and blue dungarees. She's smiling and looking slightly down from the camera.

She's still running things

📢 Call for papers: Interspeech special session on Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology!

Submit a 4- or 8-page paper to Interspeech by 25th February.

More info about the session: sites.google.com/view/is-quee...

Info about submitting to Interspeech: interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...

Setting myself to "Away" until the 5th January, enjoy the break those who'll take it 🎄

tw: sexual violence

Another blog post on a fairly "heavy" topic, in which I discuss why I personally feel the use of algospeak (or obfuscations, as I call it in my paper on the phenomenon lnkd.in/eEd8fRan) is problematic when discussing sexual violence on social media:

lnkd.in/efhKKxU3

Do any of you still have an X account? If so would you mind spending a couple of minutes requesting your data archive (in settings & privacy / your account )... If you too end up in an endless loop I would appreciate you letting me know!

What Turning To AI Bots For Relationship Advice Is Really Doing To Our Love Lives Speak to anyone who’s single and they’ll tell you: dating in 2025

Recently I spoke to journalist Megan Wallace about my research on people using LLMs for breakup advice (whitepaper coming soon, I promise...), and you can find their article on the topic here: www.service95.com/what-turning...

I have been on ADHD medication for about a year and it still DELIGHTS and BAFFLES me that I can listen to music with lyrics whilst I work now because I can just choose (?) to focus (?) on what I'm reading (???!)

Two people standing side by side face the camera smiling. On the right is Eddie, he/they, a white trans person with pink hair and a dark moustache. He is wearing a floral suit, a graduation gown, and is draped in the trans and Palestine flags. They are holding flowers. On the left is Bjoern, he/him, a white man, wearing a smart suit.

I'm officially a Doctor. I'm very proud of the work I did on the harms of language technologies, my thesis here: lnkd.in/eh6FqZkZ

It is a privilege to graduate, when not a single university still stands in Gaza.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me, in particular @bjoernross.bsky.social.

Naming in academia: Fill out our survey! We're surveying scholars about naming and name change experiences in academia. This includes spelling variations, reordering, changing any part of your name, for any reason: gender transition, marriage, divorce, immigration, cultural reasons, or recognition. This surveys takes around 5-10 minutes!

@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

Tech billionaires see AI as the next revolution, but at what cost? 🤖 @imarajones.bsky.social talks with @karenhao.bsky.social & @mxeddie.bsky.social about AI’s dangers for trans people as big tech cozies up to Trump.

🎧 https://linkin.bio/translashmedia

you're telling me... you're telling me they don't automatically rename the file... that's just cruel

After a hiatus, I've returned to my blog to write about the ways LLM developers are currently trying to tackle mental health issues, and what I think might be better mxeddie.github.io/2025/10/27/m...

my attention was directed to this: resourcehub.bakermckenzie.com/en/resources... which warns caution and that use of cloud-hosted AI likely voids privilege.

*turns out... linguistics 😊

🔔 My paper w/ @ninamarkl.bsky.social and @bjoernross.bsky.social is out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We surveyed TikTok users on motivations for using phrases like "le$bean". Primarily associated w/ topics that are moderated on SM, but also desire to express community + be playful.

I've got this great new AI tool that... ;)

Lol I saw the headline and was like oh Lake would love this hahahaha

I'm just a girlboy, standing in front of Google, asking it to know that when I say xyz in Gaelic I mean (Scottish) Gaelic and not Irish (Gaelic)

Nothing worse than discovering a whole new genre of Python error

this site is so fucking funny