SADiLaR is inviting applications from outstanding early career researchers for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (PDRF) in applied linguistics in general and language for academic purposes in particular. Full advert details available here: bit.ly/3UeRf7h

Are you a researcher, academic, working in info services, archiving & research support, or a student interested in research data management? SADiLaR invites you to an in-person Data Management Workshop. Space limited to 1st 60 participants that register. bit.ly/3Uf02pS

Honoured to share that I received the Exceptional Young Researcher Award last night at the @UPTUks. 🌟 This recognition is a reflection not just of my journey, but of the many remarkable people who have stood beside me every step of the way. (1/6)

Your customers speak dozens of languages, does your business? With Vulavula’s language features, your business can interact in multiple African languages, bringing you closer to the communities you serve. See what #Vulavula can do for you 👉lelapa.ai/products/vulav… #LelapaAI

I will be on the panel of "Impact of LLMs on Wikipedia", looking forward to the discussion.

Very well deserved. A big congratulations Vukosi Marivate 🇿🇦🚀📊 🎊🎊

From classroom to cutting-edge AI! 🎓👏 Our CIO, Vukosi Marivate 🇿🇦🚀📊, has been promoted to Full Professor of Computer Science at University of Pretoria. Join us in celebrating an incredible leader in academia & tech innovation - shaping Africa’s AI future! 🙌 #TechForAfrica #AIForAfrica #AcademicExcellence

A hearty congratulations to Vukosi Marivate 🇿🇦🚀📊 ! We celebrate your well-deserved promotion to Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pretoria. Your unwavering passion for leveraging Data Science to tackle local challenges and drive social impact has profoundly influenced the African

Join the SWiP TTT 2025 Workshop, a collaborative initiative by SADiLaR-Wikipedia-PanSALB (SWiP). We invite language enthusiasts, educators & community leaders to become digital content ambassadors for SA's official languages on Wikipedia. Apply here: bit.ly/4hiQRxy

Accepted to NAACL Findings 2025, see you in Albuquerque, New Mexico 🎉 J.'sasi Àrẹ̀mú Adéọlá Jr. updated version of the paper on arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2404.19442

🌟Registration is Now Open for Our 2025 Hundzula Retreat Live Stream! ✨Keynote Speakers🎤: Prof. Anicia Peters, Prof Kevin Durrheim, Dr Reggemore Marongedze 📅 Date: 19-21 Feb 2025 ⏰ Time:sites.google.com/view/hundzula-… 📍 Where: Online 🔗 Register Here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Coming up in two weeks is an online talk from King's Global Affairs on Generative AI and African languages: innovation, disruption and distance. Sign up to hear from Andiswa Mfengu (PhD) 🇿🇦, Andie Bukula and Nanjala Nyabola ⬇️ kcl.ac.uk/events/generat…

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

If you are have submitted a paper to ARR/ACL evaluating on African languages and not happy with the meta reviews or unsure if it will get into ACL 2025 You can consider submitting your paper and the reviews to our AfricaNLP workshop sites.google.com/view/africanlp…

Excited to be attending #NAACL2025 in Albuquerque this week! We'll be presenting 4 papers covering: - African languages Evaluation (IrokoBench and AfriHate), - a multilingual & multicultural VQA dataset (WorldCuisines), and - LLM eval. on Naija (w/ J.'sasi) See 👇

Congratulations to the authors of IrokoBench funded by Lacuna Fund for winning one of the Outstanding Paper Award at #NAACL2025 with Happy B. Kasumba Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, PhD Israel Abebe | እስራኤል አበበ Rooweither Mabuya Andie Bukula

Modimo, please help our family and friends find work. Amen 🙏🏾

Congratulations Sanele KaNtshingana ! Siyabonga sandile ngidi 👏🏾🙏🏿

Muhammad AbdulMageed Jesujoba Alabi Hellina Hailu Nigatu Google DeepMind Apple Masakhane Meta Sebastian Ruder @ ACL Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende Jess Finally, the organizers, thank you very much Constantine Lignos (✈️ ACL) Everlyn Asiko Chimoto Happy B. Kasumba Àrẹ̀mú Adéọlá Jr. Israel Abebe | እስራኤል አበበ Clemencia (Clem) Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, PhD Hattem Haddad Henok B Ademtew Rooweither Mabuya Andie Bukula Bonaventure F. P. Dossou Mmasibidi Setaka and Idris Abdulmumin