Christine de Kock

cc @arimuti.bsky.social, Ángel Pavón Pérez, Miriam Fernandez, and Alba Morales

This year’s workshop places a strong emphasis on preventive rather than reactive approaches to women’s online safety. We invite submissions presenting new findings, recent work, new ideas or previously published research (non-archival) that fits the workshop theme.

Call for abstracts! (Deadline: 17 March)

Submissions are now open for the second edition of Towards a Safer Web for Women Workshop, taking place on 26 May at the Web Science Conference 2026 in Braunschweig 🇩🇪.

👉 More info & submission details: tsww26.github.io

The Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with Andy Guess (Politics/SPIA), Brandon Stewart (Sociology), and me (CS).

puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Please apply before Sunday, the 13th of December!

Great to drop into MLAI's eSafety Hackathon on tackling online harms with AI.

Shout-out to unimelb.bsky.social partner @christinenlp.bsky.social for her work on online extremism (christinedekock.com) and to Macken Murphy's engaging talks on the manosphere (tiktok.com/@mackenmurphy).

I'm recruiting multiple PhD students for Fall 2026 in Computer Science at @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social 🍂

Apply to work on AI for social sciences/human behavior, social NLP, and LLMs for real-world applied domains you're passionate about!

Learn more at kristinagligoric.com & help spread the word!

Excited for WOAH’s 10th anniversary? 😍

We're launching an open call for new organisers!
Our goal: diversify the team and bring in fresh perspectives.

🗓️ Apply by September 12
🔗 forms.gle/aiFs35vwDXnt...

The 9th edition of the Workshop for Online Abuse and Harms is kicking off in Room 2.17 at #ACL2025NLP! We have a full program today, including 3 invited speakers, a panel discussion and a poster session. This year's workshop theme is Harms Beyond Hate Speech.

Great work @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social and team 🙌✨ #acl2025nlp

Our ✨BRIGHTER✨ paper won the a best resource paper award at @aclmeeting.bsky.social #ACL2025!
Big thanks to all the team members!

#acl2025 #acl2025nlp @aclmeeting.bsky.social

Lastly, I will co-host the EquiCL BoF session with @zeerak.bsky.social on Tues 29/7 at 14.00 in Room 1.33. Come along to chat all things equity in ACL!

I am co-organising WOAH 9 and @zeerak.bsky.social will be presenting:
📚 Pathways to radicalisation: On Radicalisation Research in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
(Zeerak Talat, Michael Schlichtkrul, Pranava Madhyastha, Christine de Kock)
📍WOAH poster session @ 13:40 on Thurs 31/7

📚 RAEmoLLM: Retrieval Augmented LLMs for Cross-Domain Misinformation Detection Using In-Context Learning based on Emotional Information (A UniMelb / Manchester Uni collab led by Zhiwei Liu)
📍Poster session 2. Hall X4 X5. Tues 29/7 @ 10.30

📚 BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages (A huge collab & shared task led by @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social and Shamsuddeen Muhammad)
📍Resources and eval 2. Hall B. 2pm on Tues 29/7
📍Shared task presented at SemEval in Hall 2 on Thurs 31/7

📚 Detecting Sockpuppetry on Wikipedia Using Meta-Learning (Luc Raszewski and Christine de Kock)
📍Poster session 2. Hall X4 X5. Tues 29/7 @ 10.30
📍Also presented at WikiNLP Workshop in 2.31 on Fri 01/08

Amped to be in Vienna for ACL 2025. Catch me and my fab co-authors at these sessions:

📚 Inducing lexicons of in-group language with socio-temporal context (Christine de Kock)
📍Poster session 4. Hall X4 X5. Weds 30/7 @ 11am.

Love this :) I often think about the parallel in the delay between the work and the reward.

🥁 #WOAH2025 Speakers🥁

We are excited to announce an amazing panel of 3 speakers who will discuss our theme "Harms Beyond Hate Speech"

🗣️ @cordeliamoore.bsky.social
🗣️ @fvancesco.bsky.social
🗣️ @katejsim.bsky.social

Full details: www.workshopononlineabuse.com/keynotes.html

🤩 See you on August 1!

The UZH response in the report: "This project yields important insights, and the risks (e.g. trauma etc.) are minimal. This means that suppressing publication is not proportionate to the importance of the insights the study yields."

The (e.g. trauma etc.) is a bit telling

👥 Join us for the 1st Workshop on Protecting Women Online at TheWebConf!
📅 April 28, 2025 | 📍Sydney, Australia
🌐 Program & details: tsww25.github.io

Featuring amazing invited talks & discussions on tackling #VAWG — don’t miss it!

#TheWebConf25 #NLProc

Call For Papers The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) at ACL 2025.

📆 Reminder! 📆

🚀 The #WOAH2025 submission deadline is just over two weeks away! (April 18, 2025, Anywhere on Earth!)

🔗 CfP: workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html

We're excited to see your submissions! 🤩

#ACL2025 #NLProc