Diana Maynard

2nd CfP: 3rd International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP 2026). Includes 2 shared tasks. More info at nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2026/

Another successful research visit to our team @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social thanks to the ATRIUM project. It wwas a pleasure to host Daniel, who created a dataset of othering language, as part of work on fear speech detection for social media posts. gate4ugc.blogspot.com/2026/01/my-a...

Call For Papers: 3rd International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP 2026). Includes 3 shared tasks. More info at nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2026/

ECOSOLUTIONS DFA - IMEMRE: Development of an impact measurement (Immune, Emergence, Resistance) for food systems chemicals on human immune disease, infection and AMR at University of Sheffield on Find... PhD Project - ECOSOLUTIONS DFA - IMEMRE: Development of an impact measurement (Immune, Emergence, Resistance) for food systems chemicals on human immune disease, infection and AMR at University of She...

Funded PhD position available with me (and other supervisors) based in the School of Biosciences, looking at measuring impact of food systems chemicals on health.
@sheffieldnlp.bsky.social @shefcmi.bsky.social
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Very proud to say that I've been selected to represent GB at the forthcoming European Blind Baseball Championships. Not bad for a middle-aged visually impaired academic with T1 diabetes. Now for lots of kit buying. #thiswomancan #blindbaseball #blindsport #nevertooold #universityofsheffield #t1d

Say What? Language, Communication and Who Gets a Say Come along to hear three fascinating talks which explore a range of subjects, from hate speech on social media and motivations related to language learning…

Excited to be talking this evening about the good, the bad, and the ugly of social media at the University's public engagement event "Pint of Science". It's not often I get to give talks in pubs about my research. pintofscience.co.uk/event/say-wh...

Research Associate in Quantitative and Computational Social Science Methods at University of Sheffield Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Associate in Quantitative and Computational Social Science Methods opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs...

Come and work with us! We have a part-time RA post on Computational Social Science / Journalism looking at data on abuse against journalists. Please share widely. jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU035/r... @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social

Exploring NLP Applications in Food Research: my ATRIUM TNA visit to the GATE group By Tenia Panagiotou As a postdoctoral researcher at the Consumer and Sensory Lab of the Department of Food Science and Nutrition of the Univ...

A lovely report from our latest @atrium-eu.bsky.social
#TNA visitor Tenia about her research visit to our GATE
team @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social to study NLP applications in food research.
gate4ugc.blogspot.com/2025/02/expl...

Call for Papers Now Open for CARMA 2025! We can't wait to see you in Rome, Italy, from July 2 to 4, 2025, for an inspiring event focused on Internet and Big Data in Economics and Social Sciences.
Roma Tre University.
Deadline: March 7, 2025. carmaconf.org/call-for-pap...

New report "Academic Access to Social Media Data for the Study of Political Online Safety" w. @georgidag.bsky.social @benoloughlin.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so... As new threats reach the social media environment, platforms continue to obstruct independent research. It’s time to act!

GATE team hosts its first ATRIUM TNA research visit: Using NLP to understand trends in political and social debate In December 2024, we  hosted research visitor Tasos Galanopoulos as part of   the   ATRIUM project  (Advancing fronTier Research In the arts...

In December we hosted our first ATRIUM research visitor. Tasos. Here's how he got on with his project "Using NLP to understand trends in political and social debate" gate4ugc.blogspot.com/2025/01/gate... You can apply for a visit here: atrium-research.eu/travel-grants/
@atrium-eu.bsky.social

Fundamentals of Open-Source Intelligence for Journalists Open-source intelligence (OSINT) – the gathering and analysis of publicly available information found on social media, and in databases and government records – can be invaluable in situations when…

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) can be used by journalists to investigate war crimes, reveal sanctions evasion, and uncover corruption. Read how @bellingcat.com has used OSINT in their Africa investigations here:

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Are you an undergraduate student or recent graduate with an interest in journalism and/or international affairs? Apply to become our next communications intern! More information: https://buff.ly/3YqCLUh

Three lit up Christmas trees in the quad of Firth Court, building in background.

🎄We’ve been looking at the whole life carbon emissions of real and fake Christmas trees to work out which is more sustainable and… it’s complicated 1/4

I bet half of them don't.

Transnational Access Scheme Grants Facilitating access to digital research infrastructures and advancing frontier knowledge in the arts and humanities - across disciplines, languages and media.

There's still a couple of weeks to apply for a fully funded research visit to our team in Sheffield, working on a project combining NLP and social sciences/digital humanities. @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social atrium-research.eu/travel-grants/

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Excited to announce that our first Retrotones album "Bad Romancing" was released yesterday, and with it our first video! Here's our take on (a slightly different!) Lady Gaga's Bad Romance youtu.be/-kxpRATqLNw?... #theretrotones #cre8ivestation #badromance #ladygaga #cover

Finding the needle in the ocean: multimodal retrieval systems for unstructured data (S3.5-COM-Zhao) at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Finding the needle in the ocean: multimodal retrieval systems for unstructured data (S3.5-COM-Zhao) at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

Cass and I are looking for a #PhD student to work on multimodal LLMs @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social.

This is a fully-funded scholarhsip (including stipend), open to home and international candidates.

Deadline: 29/1/2025

Please spread the work!

#nlproc

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User Simulation-Grounded Automatic Conversational Depression Diagnosis Support (C3.5-COM-Wang) at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - User Simulation-Grounded Automatic Conversational Depression Diagnosis Support (C3.5-COM-Wang) at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

📢 We are seeking #PhD students for a fully funded research project (open to local & international applicants)
@sheffieldnlp.bsky.social . This project is supported by a cross-discipline supervision team and opportunities. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...