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We hired a college intern. Today's his first day. Here's what he just sent me.

BRIGHTER: multi-labeled datasets in 28 languages from 7 distinct families for emotion in #NLProc collected and annotated by native speakers to be presented today at #ACL2025 Session 9: IP-Orals – Resources and Evaluation 2 pm Hall B.

.Dr. Sam co-founded African Bank in 1975. It was officially launched after he & NAFCOC mobilised Black community to raise R1 mil capital. An insane feat under apartheid. The 1st branch opened in Ga-Rankuwa, PTA. This made African Bank the 1st Black-owned & managed. Legend! ✊🏾

See y'all in Nairobi next week #wikimania

I just paid for pro this past week. And now this

Finished reading Karen Hao's Empire of AI. It reminded me of the conversation I had with her in Kigali on the sidelines of ICLR 2026 2023. There is much for us to fight for to make sure AI represents all of us. Thank you for the magnificent book Karen en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of…

Our paper won an award at ACL 2025. 🥳🥳🥳

Whoop whoop. Amazing team!!!

I'm reading about a beach here in Africa where access requires a QR code even for locals. And, I'm ready to donate a sheep for those okes who slaughtered at Clifton because what the helly 😳

Kindly receive a call for a special issue on Remote Sensing in Africa spj.science.org/page/remotesen…

Impressive to see a number of Masakhane affiliates received several best paper awards at the ongoing #ACL in Vienna. Gradually, we are putting African and other low resource languages on the map. Congratulations to all contributing authors 👏🏾

6th AfricaNLP Workshop ACL 2025 #ACL2025NLP #ACL2025 @masakhane Opening remark by Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, PhD

Johnny Steinberg (2011) wherein he dismantles the myth of the “good governance” of the Apartheid government. Canonical. Required reading. timeslive.co.za/ideas/2011-12-…

Nailed it

And our SemEval task won a best task description award 🥳 Co-led with Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, PhD and Saif M. Mohammad. Thanks to all the team members!

If you're a researcher or engineer releasing open science papers & open models and datasets, I bow to you 🙇🙇🙇 From what I'm hearing, doing so, especially in US big tech, often means fighting your manager and colleagues, going through countless legal meetings, threatening to

Today is the day! #ACL2025NLP