Facebook and Google are handing over user data to help police prosecute abortion seekers businessinsider.com/police-getting…

Happy Gender Pay Gap Bot day! #payequality #IWD2023 #putyourmoneywhereyourmouthis

In 2011, Jeremy Clarkson called for striking workers to be "shot in front of their families". He continued to present Top Gear for another four years. After criticising plans to criminalise asylum seekers, Gary Linekar has lasted three days.

here’s Halle Berry tearfully presenting Michelle Yeoh her Best Actress Oscar. they’re the only two women of color to win the award in 95 years

None of the fall in inflation Hunt is claiming credit for is down to him: as I have long explained a fall to under 3% later this year was an arithmetical certainty. But it does not mean prices will fall and with falling wages people will still be worth off. #budget2023

Doctors and nurses tend to make the headlines, but there are thousands and thousands of other NHS staff who are also being seriously underpaid They help to save and enhance lives too, and are an equally vital part of the family that we can’t afford to lose Please RT for them

The synthetic people seem so proud of their newly grown 5 fingers.

Woooo! Talk for #AIUK done! Stop Breeding Unicorns! (Invest in diverse teams instead 💕) Slides are CC-BY, please do reuse: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

“Chat GPT is sentient,” according to panel of guys who aren’t really clear yet on whether or not women are people

We have some exciting news! Come join us for our first ever virtual work experience for students aged 13–18. It will take place between 3-21 July and will contain a range of modules, work-based assignments, and the opportunity to join our live webinars!

A new opening in our team! Check it out if you're passionate about imitation learning, scale & video games - feel free to DM me with any questions 🎮🤖🌎

Some great work with our Microsoft Research/Microsoft Research intern Samyadeep Basu. Look out for our poster at ICLR next week in Rwanda!

Evaluation in ML is such an interesting area and Shakir Mohamed breaks it down wonderfully in this keynote from AISTATS. Worth a read!

If you're publishing a list of the 'World's Best Chemistry Scientists' and only one of the Top 100 is a woman, and the female Nobel Prize Winners also don't appear in the Top 100, you might possibly reflect that your methodology is rubbish? research.com/scientists-ran…

The paradigm shift to AI is the opportunity for new generations to take the lead and reinvent the rules. Let’s not compromise on our ideals and make tech more open, collaborative, inclusive and values-driven!

I’d rather ExxonMobil build up tolerance to lower profits.

NEW: Non-native English speakers’ assignments are more frequently flagged as AI-generated, a report has revealed. As the fall semester begins, faculty should consider whether the research makes a case for scrapping AI detectors altogether. mrkup.org/EmoKW

We're thinking hard about multimodal models & the challenges in evaluating them. Check out this Microsoft Research blog post, written by Besmira Nushi 💙💛, that reviews Microsoft's work in this space, including some of our team's work: msft.it/60129ZVI8! As always, a lot of work ahead!

Excel Labs now features a Python Editor to help you write Python in Excel. Built here at Microsoft Research partnering with Excel. Check it out: techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/…

New paper alert🚨: Happy to share that our paper on "Explaining CLIP's performance disparities on data from blind/low vision users" has been accepted to #CVPR2026! ArXiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2311.17315. See paper summary thread below👇🏼 #CVPR2024