Myrthe Reuver
@myrthereuver.bsky.social
PhD #NLProc from CLTL, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam || Interests: Computational Argumentation, Responsible AI, interdisciplinarity, cats || I express my own views
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Last week, I defended my dissertation "𝘈 𝘗𝘶𝘻𝘻𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴: 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯" at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. *the* moment: #PhDone! 🎓✨🎉
I couldn’t have asked for better supervisors than Antske Fokkens & @suzanv.bsky.social 💖
I couldn’t have asked for better supervisors than Antske Fokkens & @suzanv.bsky.social 💖
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For folks considering grad school in ML, my advice is to explore programs that mix ML with a domain interest. ML programs are wildly oversubscribed while a lot of the fun right now is in figuring out what you can do with it
September 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
For folks considering grad school in ML, my advice is to explore programs that mix ML with a domain interest. ML programs are wildly oversubscribed while a lot of the fun right now is in figuring out what you can do with it
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So, what *is* the @ecir2026.eu Information Retrieval for Good track? by Maria Heuss and Bhaskar Mitra:
https://bhaskar-mitra.github.io/posts/2025/09/01/what-is-ir-for-good/
https://bhaskar-mitra.github.io/posts/2025/09/01/what-is-ir-for-good/
September 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
So, what *is* the @ecir2026.eu Information Retrieval for Good track? by Maria Heuss and Bhaskar Mitra:
https://bhaskar-mitra.github.io/posts/2025/09/01/what-is-ir-for-good/
https://bhaskar-mitra.github.io/posts/2025/09/01/what-is-ir-for-good/
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🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
September 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
Last week, I defended my dissertation "𝘈 𝘗𝘶𝘻𝘻𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴: 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯" at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. *the* moment: #PhDone! 🎓✨🎉
I couldn’t have asked for better supervisors than Antske Fokkens & @suzanv.bsky.social 💖
I couldn’t have asked for better supervisors than Antske Fokkens & @suzanv.bsky.social 💖
September 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Last week, I defended my dissertation "𝘈 𝘗𝘶𝘻𝘻𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴: 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯" at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. *the* moment: #PhDone! 🎓✨🎉
I couldn’t have asked for better supervisors than Antske Fokkens & @suzanv.bsky.social 💖
I couldn’t have asked for better supervisors than Antske Fokkens & @suzanv.bsky.social 💖
Its the final countdown 🎶🎤 (I am re-reading my dissertation for my defense next week), and actually I realized I had some fun findings hidden in some papers that I myself forgot about! 😂 I don’t know if that’s a good or bad sign for my defense.. 😂
August 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Its the final countdown 🎶🎤 (I am re-reading my dissertation for my defense next week), and actually I realized I had some fun findings hidden in some papers that I myself forgot about! 😂 I don’t know if that’s a good or bad sign for my defense.. 😂
Realization: I really, really, really hate the part of my job where it is managing conda environments and going through a deep deep cave of issue reports trying to find why something randomly doesn’t work.
July 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Realization: I really, really, really hate the part of my job where it is managing conda environments and going through a deep deep cave of issue reports trying to find why something randomly doesn’t work.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Deadline approaching! Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences #KONVENS2025, archival long-short papers (acl anthology) & non-archival abstracts and phd project descriptions (get feedback from a great community!) ! Deadline: June 13th.
Remember the deadline for the CPSS (Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences) #KONVENS2025 is approaching! And also: besides archival submissions which will appear in the ACL anthology, we also have ...
Interested in the application of NLP to research questions form the Political and Social Sciences? This is the workshop for you! CPSS at #KONVENS2025 cpss-sig.github.io/CPSS-2025/cf... . Archival papers in the ACL anthology, deadline: June 13th!
June 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Deadline approaching! Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences #KONVENS2025, archival long-short papers (acl anthology) & non-archival abstracts and phd project descriptions (get feedback from a great community!) ! Deadline: June 13th.
My love language is sending my academic friends the papers/datasets/posts on social media that I know align with their research interest. 💖
May 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
My love language is sending my academic friends the papers/datasets/posts on social media that I know align with their research interest. 💖
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Unlock the power of large language models for your research!
Join this #GESISworkshop with Julia Romberg, @vigneshwaran-s.bsky.social, and @mmmaurer.bsky.social to explore adapters — an efficient alternative to fine-tuning your models.
🔗 Book now ➡️ t1p.de/adapters-lig...
@gesis.org
Join this #GESISworkshop with Julia Romberg, @vigneshwaran-s.bsky.social, and @mmmaurer.bsky.social to explore adapters — an efficient alternative to fine-tuning your models.
🔗 Book now ➡️ t1p.de/adapters-lig...
@gesis.org
May 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Unlock the power of large language models for your research!
Join this #GESISworkshop with Julia Romberg, @vigneshwaran-s.bsky.social, and @mmmaurer.bsky.social to explore adapters — an efficient alternative to fine-tuning your models.
🔗 Book now ➡️ t1p.de/adapters-lig...
@gesis.org
Join this #GESISworkshop with Julia Romberg, @vigneshwaran-s.bsky.social, and @mmmaurer.bsky.social to explore adapters — an efficient alternative to fine-tuning your models.
🔗 Book now ➡️ t1p.de/adapters-lig...
@gesis.org
Expert + LLM = Better Sexism Detection? ✨
Paper:
𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘔𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘮: 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵-𝘓𝘓𝘔 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰-𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘡𝘦𝘳𝘰-𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯
w: @indiiigo.bsky.social, @matteo-mls.bsky.social y.social & @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social
@ Findings #NAACL2025 !🤩
Paper:
𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘔𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘮: 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵-𝘓𝘓𝘔 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰-𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘡𝘦𝘳𝘰-𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯
w: @indiiigo.bsky.social, @matteo-mls.bsky.social y.social & @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social
@ Findings #NAACL2025 !🤩
April 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Expert + LLM = Better Sexism Detection? ✨
Paper:
𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘔𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘮: 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵-𝘓𝘓𝘔 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰-𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘡𝘦𝘳𝘰-𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯
w: @indiiigo.bsky.social, @matteo-mls.bsky.social y.social & @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social
@ Findings #NAACL2025 !🤩
Paper:
𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘔𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘮: 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵-𝘓𝘓𝘔 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰-𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘡𝘦𝘳𝘰-𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯
w: @indiiigo.bsky.social, @matteo-mls.bsky.social y.social & @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social
@ Findings #NAACL2025 !🤩
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🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨
We've extended the submission deadline to Friday, April 18, 2025 (AoE)!
Please share widely!
www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html
We've extended the submission deadline to Friday, April 18, 2025 (AoE)!
Please share widely!
www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html
Call For Papers
The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) at ACL 2025.
www.workshopononlineabuse.com
March 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨
We've extended the submission deadline to Friday, April 18, 2025 (AoE)!
Please share widely!
www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html
We've extended the submission deadline to Friday, April 18, 2025 (AoE)!
Please share widely!
www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html
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ACL Rolling Review and the EMNLP PCs are seeking input on the current state of reviewing for *CL conferences. We would love to get your feedback on the current process and how it could be improved. To contribute your ideas and opinions, please follow this link! forms.office.com/r/P68uvwXYqfemn
Microsoft Forms
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February 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
ACL Rolling Review and the EMNLP PCs are seeking input on the current state of reviewing for *CL conferences. We would love to get your feedback on the current process and how it could be improved. To contribute your ideas and opinions, please follow this link! forms.office.com/r/P68uvwXYqfemn
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Join us at the VU Amsterdam's Master's Event, Saturday, March 8, 10:30-15:00!
Learn about our two Master's in Linguistics programs from faculty and students: Language and AI (1 year) and Human Language Technology (2 years).
Programs: home.cltl.labs.vu.nl
Location & details: vu.nl/en/education...
Learn about our two Master's in Linguistics programs from faculty and students: Language and AI (1 year) and Human Language Technology (2 years).
Programs: home.cltl.labs.vu.nl
Location & details: vu.nl/en/education...
CLTL
home.cltl.labs.vu.nl
February 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Join us at the VU Amsterdam's Master's Event, Saturday, March 8, 10:30-15:00!
Learn about our two Master's in Linguistics programs from faculty and students: Language and AI (1 year) and Human Language Technology (2 years).
Programs: home.cltl.labs.vu.nl
Location & details: vu.nl/en/education...
Learn about our two Master's in Linguistics programs from faculty and students: Language and AI (1 year) and Human Language Technology (2 years).
Programs: home.cltl.labs.vu.nl
Location & details: vu.nl/en/education...
I’m finally making myself at home here now I’ve left Twitter (or what was left of it).
“Making myself at home” includes: finally following a lot of people for a lively timeline, and adding BlueSky to my website! 😁
“Making myself at home” includes: finally following a lot of people for a lively timeline, and adding BlueSky to my website! 😁
February 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I’m finally making myself at home here now I’ve left Twitter (or what was left of it).
“Making myself at home” includes: finally following a lot of people for a lively timeline, and adding BlueSky to my website! 😁
“Making myself at home” includes: finally following a lot of people for a lively timeline, and adding BlueSky to my website! 😁
I have (finally?) deactivated my account on X.
It was slowly but surely really becoming unworkable, and the app was more and more connected with the falling of democratic values and freedom of information in the world.
It was slowly but surely really becoming unworkable, and the app was more and more connected with the falling of democratic values and freedom of information in the world.
February 24, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I have (finally?) deactivated my account on X.
It was slowly but surely really becoming unworkable, and the app was more and more connected with the falling of democratic values and freedom of information in the world.
It was slowly but surely really becoming unworkable, and the app was more and more connected with the falling of democratic values and freedom of information in the world.
I had a great time during my funded research stay at GESIS AND it led to a paper that’s now one of my dissertation chapters! ✨🤩 Fully recommend, Cologne is also a great city to visit!
Are you an early-career researcher who's interested in collaborating with someone @gesis.org? Then look into applying for a funded research stay ⬇️ The next deadline is coming up on March 31, 2025!
#JuniorResearchProgram
Visiting research stay at GESIS – Apply now!
We invite Ph.D. students and early career postdocs to come to GESIS. Visiting researchers of the Junior Research Program are involved in our research to publish with GESIS staff, and to develop research ideas and joint projects.
Visiting research stay at GESIS – Apply now!
We invite Ph.D. students and early career postdocs to come to GESIS. Visiting researchers of the Junior Research Program are involved in our research to publish with GESIS staff, and to develop research ideas and joint projects.
February 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I had a great time during my funded research stay at GESIS AND it led to a paper that’s now one of my dissertation chapters! ✨🤩 Fully recommend, Cologne is also a great city to visit!
I'm not American nor an expert on U.S. politics, but looking in from the outside it seems like a speedrun to an autocratic regime, without independent laws and even press or truth, and as a European I am **baffled** that there are no massive protests or strikes?!?
February 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I'm not American nor an expert on U.S. politics, but looking in from the outside it seems like a speedrun to an autocratic regime, without independent laws and even press or truth, and as a European I am **baffled** that there are no massive protests or strikes?!?
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Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments
www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...
www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...
Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies
The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.
www.404media.co
February 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments
www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...
www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...
People often complain on social media, but I got locked out of my @zotero.org account because I no longer had access to my uni email, and their service in getting me access again was really *excellent*, and fast, and personal. 🙏✨👌
February 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
People often complain on social media, but I got locked out of my @zotero.org account because I no longer had access to my uni email, and their service in getting me access again was really *excellent*, and fast, and personal. 🙏✨👌
It’s really an upgrade that the Apple keyboard now allows one autocorrect keyboard with two languages, but the problem is that I write in three. 😂 I switch between English, Dutch, and Spanish, so still keyboard switching. 😛😅 Oddly specific problem.
January 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It’s really an upgrade that the Apple keyboard now allows one autocorrect keyboard with two languages, but the problem is that I write in three. 😂 I switch between English, Dutch, and Spanish, so still keyboard switching. 😛😅 Oddly specific problem.
New year, new job, new laptop in #NLProc means: newly installing tensorflow and dependencies and solving conflicts in conda environments. 😅
Now for the first time with an Apple M1 chip, so extra ✨fun✨ 😛.
Now for the first time with an Apple M1 chip, so extra ✨fun✨ 😛.
January 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
New year, new job, new laptop in #NLProc means: newly installing tensorflow and dependencies and solving conflicts in conda environments. 😅
Now for the first time with an Apple M1 chip, so extra ✨fun✨ 😛.
Now for the first time with an Apple M1 chip, so extra ✨fun✨ 😛.
My resolution for the new year is going to be: not overworking and also planning breaks. ✨😌
During my PhD I tended to want to do “more”, but this wasn’t always “better”. This means I’ll be saying “no” more. Oh, and I want to improve my Spanish to B1/B2. 😁
Happy holidays! 🎄
During my PhD I tended to want to do “more”, but this wasn’t always “better”. This means I’ll be saying “no” more. Oh, and I want to improve my Spanish to B1/B2. 😁
Happy holidays! 🎄
December 24, 2024 at 4:02 PM
My resolution for the new year is going to be: not overworking and also planning breaks. ✨😌
During my PhD I tended to want to do “more”, but this wasn’t always “better”. This means I’ll be saying “no” more. Oh, and I want to improve my Spanish to B1/B2. 😁
Happy holidays! 🎄
During my PhD I tended to want to do “more”, but this wasn’t always “better”. This means I’ll be saying “no” more. Oh, and I want to improve my Spanish to B1/B2. 😁
Happy holidays! 🎄