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alexandra birch

@alexandrabirch1

Senior research fellow at Edinburgh interested in translation, IE and dialogue

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Patrick Galey is on @patrickgaley.bsky.social (@patrickgaley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What is happening in southern Europe right now is truly terrifying Highs of 45C are widespread, humans are not able to survive for long such temperatures without artificial cooling Vulnerable people will die #ClimateCrisis #Cerberus #HeatWaves esa.int/Applications/O…

Peter Strachan (@profstrachan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Awesome read Switching the world to 100% #RenewableEnergy will cost $62 trillion, but the payback would take just 6 years, writes Professor Mark Jacobson Mark Z. Jacobson #ClimateCrisis #EnergyTransition #WindWaterSolar #WWS cleantechnica.com/2022/09/06/swi…

Annie Leonard (@anniemleonard) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I really think this is terribly disruptive & inconsiderate to block a road like this. Don’t the people responsible for causing this know that people have to get to work, get to daycare to pick up kids? Someone needs to be held responsible! We must not tolerate this.

I really think this is terribly disruptive & inconsiderate to block a road like this. Don’t the people responsible for causing this know that people have to get to work, get to daycare to pick up kids? Someone needs to be held responsible! We must not tolerate this.
Mike Hudema (@mikehudema) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, every human being who ever was...the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known" Carl Sagan We have the solutions. Protect people & the planet. #ActOnClimate #climate #climatecrisis #nature

Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Rome crushes its all-time temperature record by two degrees--two degrees *Celsius.* That's statistically...crazy. But it shows we're living on a new planet

Rome crushes its all-time temperature record by two degrees--two degrees *Celsius.* 
That's statistically...crazy. But it shows we're living on a new planet
Peter Strachan (@profstrachan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Eight things the world must do to avoid the worst of #ClimateCrisis 1. Stop methane emissions 2. Stop deforestation 3. Restore degraded land 4. Change what we eat 5. Go #RenewableEnergy 6. Use energy more efficiently 7. Stop burning fossil fuels 8. #ActNow theguardian.com/environment/20…

António Guterres (@antonioguterres) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our planet has just endured the hottest summer on record. Climate breakdown has begun. We can still avoid the worst of climate chaos. We don’t have a moment to lose. public.wmo.int/en/media/press…

Our planet has just endured the hottest summer on record.

Climate breakdown has begun.

We can still avoid the worst of climate chaos. We don’t have a moment to lose.

public.wmo.int/en/media/press…
Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via The Discourse study. This isn’t just about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice. #citymakingmath

If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via <a href="/thediscourse/">The Discourse</a> study.

This isn’t just about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice.

#citymakingmath
Wenhao Zhu (@wenhao_nlp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🙌 Excited to share our latest research Question Translation Training for better Multilingual Reasoning 🔍 This paper present a novel X-English question alignment finetuning step which performs targeted language alignment for best use of the LLMs English reasoning abilities.

🙌 Excited to share our latest research

Question Translation Training for better Multilingual Reasoning 

🔍 This paper present a novel X-English question alignment finetuning step which performs targeted language alignment for best use of the LLMs English reasoning abilities.
Transducens (@transducens) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Postdoc 🎓 opportunity! Join the 25-year-experienced Transducens group at the University of Alicante, Spain, Universidad de Alicante UA under an #MSCA Fellowship 🇪🇺 Areas: language technologies, machine translation, language models, low-resource languages...🔗 bit.ly/msca-alicante

Bruntsfield Area Net Zero Action Initiative (@banzaiedinburgh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📽️Rewilding: Why Not Scotland? Free, this Thursday 6.30 Nature is dramatically recovering in EU. Scotland is depleted, but WNS shows how landscape ecological restoration helps nature, climate & people. Refreshments & discussion. #Edinburgh #Rewilding tinyurl.com/WNS24

📽️Rewilding: Why Not Scotland? 
Free, this Thursday 6.30 
Nature is dramatically recovering in EU. Scotland is depleted, but WNS shows how landscape ecological restoration helps nature, climate &amp; people. 
Refreshments &amp; discussion. 
#Edinburgh #Rewilding 
tinyurl.com/WNS24
QE Shared Task @ WMT (@qe_task) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The WMT'24 edition of the QE Shared Task it out! www2.statmt.org/wmt24/qe-task.… Focus? automatic methods for estimating the quality of NMT output at run-time. **NEW** this year => a subtask to provide explanations for the detected errors, as well as, suggest corrections! [1/n]

UTTER (@utterproject) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🗓 Mark your calendar: July 5th Save the date and join us for our 2nd User Day where we will explore multimodal #LLMs and the future of #NLP research! 👉This is a fully remote event and will be open to everyone. Stay tuned for updates on the complete agenda and how to register

🗓 Mark your calendar: July 5th

Save the date and join us for our 2nd User Day where we will explore multimodal #LLMs and the future of #NLP research!

👉This is a fully remote event and will be open to everyone. Stay tuned for updates on the complete agenda and how to register
UTTER (@utterproject) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🔶Join us for out 2nd UTTER User Day! This event is fully remote and open to everyone! Don't miss out on insights into multilingual and multimodal LLMs and NLP research. 👉 Register now: [eventbrite.pt/e/936485271657…] #UTTERProject #NLP #AI #Multilingual #VirtualMeetings

🔶Join us for out 2nd UTTER User Day!

This event is fully remote and open to everyone!

Don't miss out on insights into multilingual and multimodal LLMs and NLP research.

👉 Register now: [eventbrite.pt/e/936485271657…]

#UTTERProject #NLP #AI #Multilingual #VirtualMeetings
Wenhao Zhu (@wenhao_nlp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🎉 Excited to share “Generalizing from Short to Long: Effective Data Synthesis for Long-Context Instruction Tuning” 📄 (arxiv.org/pdf/2502.15592) We propose "context synthesis": instead of generating instructions from long texts, we synthesize contexts for instructions—drawing

🎉 Excited to share “Generalizing from Short to Long: Effective Data Synthesis for Long-Context Instruction Tuning” 📄 (arxiv.org/pdf/2502.15592)

We propose "context synthesis": instead of generating instructions from long texts, we synthesize contexts for instructions—drawing