Sepideh Ghanavati
@sepi-gh.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Privacy, Security, Software Engineering at UMaine
https://www.sepidehghanavati.com
https://www.sepidehghanavati.com
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March 8 is International Women's Day (and also my father's birth date!). I just played a bit with LLMs to see how well gender-based equity is handled in a simple code auto-completion exercise. Still much work to be done...
AI will not solve our gender-based issues today, so do something about it!
AI will not solve our gender-based issues today, so do something about it!
March 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
March 8 is International Women's Day (and also my father's birth date!). I just played a bit with LLMs to see how well gender-based equity is handled in a simple code auto-completion exercise. Still much work to be done...
AI will not solve our gender-based issues today, so do something about it!
AI will not solve our gender-based issues today, so do something about it!
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What could possibly go wrong…
WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials.
March 7, 2025 at 5:06 AM
What could possibly go wrong…
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We. Are. Canadian.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...
(see the 25-year old original version at www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY6J...)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...
(see the 25-year old original version at www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY6J...)
We Are Canadian
YouTube video by Jeff Douglas
www.youtube.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We. Are. Canadian.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...
(see the 25-year old original version at www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY6J...)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...
(see the 25-year old original version at www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY6J...)
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As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots.
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼🔬🧑🔬
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼🔬🧑🔬
Grad Admission Impacts Survey
It is grad admissions season and many postbacs are feeling the chilling impacts of the Trump administration's recent executive orders freezing and slashing extramural research funding. Dozens of gradu...
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February 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots.
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼🔬🧑🔬
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼🔬🧑🔬
Please consider following our newly accepted workshop, 12th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Requirements Engineering. We will post updates on this page.
February 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Please consider following our newly accepted workshop, 12th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Requirements Engineering. We will post updates on this page.
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🧪 A pretty damning article about firings at the NSF and the level of professionalism from management. www.wired.com/story/nation...
National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues
Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.
www.wired.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
🧪 A pretty damning article about firings at the NSF and the level of professionalism from management. www.wired.com/story/nation...
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so, if they cut NSF staff, is the idea that elon musk is gonna review my proposal? or is he gonna delegate it to that big balls guy …
cra.org/cuts-to-nsf-...
cra.org/cuts-to-nsf-...
Cuts to NSF and CISE Directorate Jeopardize American Leadership in Computing
A statement from the Computing Research Association (CRA) The reported termination today of 10 percent of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) workforce — including significant cuts to the Compu…
cra.org
February 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
so, if they cut NSF staff, is the idea that elon musk is gonna review my proposal? or is he gonna delegate it to that big balls guy …
cra.org/cuts-to-nsf-...
cra.org/cuts-to-nsf-...
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Please consider submitting to our IST special issue on Regulatory Compliance in Software Engineering, co-edited with Sallam Abualhaija and Michael Unterkalmsteiner
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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February 14, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Please consider submitting to our IST special issue on Regulatory Compliance in Software Engineering, co-edited with Sallam Abualhaija and Michael Unterkalmsteiner
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Paper on privacy rejected from NAACL but you want to still present it at NAACL? Submit to the 6th workshop on privacy in NLP! We have a fast track option for reviewed papers
Second CfP here:
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Thanks for liking and re-posting!
Second CfP here:
list.elra.info/mailman3/hyp...
Thanks for liking and re-posting!
[Extended deadline] Second Call For Papers, Sixth Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing at NAACL 2025 - Corpora - ELRA lists
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January 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Paper on privacy rejected from NAACL but you want to still present it at NAACL? Submit to the 6th workshop on privacy in NLP! We have a fast track option for reviewed papers
Second CfP here:
list.elra.info/mailman3/hyp...
Thanks for liking and re-posting!
Second CfP here:
list.elra.info/mailman3/hyp...
Thanks for liking and re-posting!