The formal languages/neural networks discord has slowly grown into a very real thing with community + (most) weekly seminar, and now even has a website to actually gather everything that's going on! Thank you @sleynas for setting this up! flann.super.site

A map of every European City

And, for the any employees still at Twitter, don’t underestimate the power of a pocket veto. Sometimes it doesn’t work out, or you have to escalate and risk it back firing, but a good pocket veto is a tool to learn to wield well.

trying out mastodon: @[email protected] idk yet how active i will be on there

You can contribute to the UC workers’ strike fund here givebutter.com/uc-uaw

Please consider donating! My family in Malatya/Turkey is now melting snow for water...

Random Hungarian spotted at the Oslo airport bathroom.

Excited to see our Perspective on protein language models published at Nature Machine Intelligence! Many thanks to the editors for their support and our reviewers! Check out our professionally formatted article here: nature.com/articles/s4225…

Our perspective on adapting LMs for protein sequences with the help of linguistic knowledge is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence. Led by Mai Ha, 🧍‍♂️ and Philippe A. Robert. Great collboration with Bartlomiej Swiatczak, Geir Kjetil Sandve and Dag Haug. nature.com/articles/s4225…

Making antibody ML great again from the eyes of linguistics! Super cool interdisciplinary work between Mai Ha the linguist and GreiffLab 💻🔬💊 et al. nerd immunologists. Got fresh insights working together with Mai Ha! Enjoy! nature.com/articles/s4225…

What is sold as interdisciplinary research range from just having a dataset passed around between scholars of different fields, to collaborations that truly transcend borders. I learnt a lot from this project, where linguistics as scientific approach was applied to bio as domain.

Anyone interested in public education should get informed about what's happening at WVU. This piece by Jonah Katz is a good place to start. He's a UMass Linguistics BA, a point of pride for our department, and that brings this home particularly closely. community.wvu.edu/~jokatz/Closur…

Linguists! Please spread the word to your UG students: The Racial Justice Committee in the Dept of Linguistics at the University of Toronto has started a new program to help support students who identify as Black or Indigenous and are applying to graduate school in linguistics.

One more baby is out! A perspective led by Mai Ha bring a salt of linguistic in the soup of biological sequence ML models! She describes how antibody sequences of different specificities may form a language, which has implications on the design of future LLM models.

now in Mississauga, Canada! relatedly: starting yesterday, I am now an Assistant Professor at UTM, on teaching stream in Linguistics and Computer Science! Very very excited to get back to teaching and thinking about pedagogy. Truly a dream come true.