Sepideh Ghanavati

March 8 is International Women's Day (and also my father's birth date!). I just played a bit with LLMs to see how well gender-based equity is handled in a simple code auto-completion exercise. Still much work to be done...

AI will not solve our gender-based issues today, so do something about it!

What could possibly go wrong…

We Are Canadian YouTube video by Jeff Douglas

We. Are. Canadian.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...

(see the 25-year old original version at www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY6J...)

Grad Admission Impacts Survey It is grad admissions season and many postbacs are feeling the chilling impacts of the Trump administration's recent executive orders freezing and slashing extramural research funding. Dozens of gradu...

As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots.

If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Please consider following our newly accepted workshop, 12th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Requirements Engineering. We will post updates on this page.

🚀 We’ve joined BlueSky! 🌐 Plus, AIRE'25 has been accepted for the 33rd IEEE RE'25 Conference! 🎉 Our workshop will explore AI & RE intersections, from NLP to generative AI. Stay tuned for updates!

#AIRE25 #AI #RequirementsEngineering #RE25 #BlueSky #AIandRE

So true 😅

National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.

🧪 A pretty damning article about firings at the NSF and the level of professionalism from management. www.wired.com/story/nation...

Cuts to NSF and CISE Directorate Jeopardize American Leadership in Computing A statement from the Computing Research Association (CRA) The reported termination today of 10 percent of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) workforce — including significant cuts to the Compu…

so, if they cut NSF staff, is the idea that elon musk is gonna review my proposal? or is he gonna delegate it to that big balls guy … 
cra.org/cuts-to-nsf-...

Please consider submitting to our IST special issue on Regulatory Compliance in Software Engineering, co-edited with Sallam Abualhaija and Michael Unterkalmsteiner

👉 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Tempting 🤭

Paper on privacy rejected from NAACL but you want to still present it at NAACL? Submit to the 6th workshop on privacy in NLP! We have a fast track option for reviewed papers

Second CfP here:
list.elra.info/mailman3/hyp...

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