Edwin Simpson

Lecturer; Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇩🇪

[Edwin Simpson @overwired]

Come and work on AI with us at the University of Bristol - applications from NLP specialists encouraged! https://t.co/58z4CSZEgU

[Edwin Simpson @overwired]

Anyone available for an emergency ACL review by end of 15th Feb? I have several interesting papers on NLP/LLMs that are missing reviews :(

[Edwin Simpson @overwired]

Small models for summarisation used to hallucinate a lot... We can now make them as factually consistent as LLMs by fine-tuning them with weak factuality metrics...
https://t.co/34kBR3V5Mv
Come to our Findings poster at @emnlpmeeting Friday 12.30-13.30, presented by Yuxuan Ye!

[Edwin Simpson @overwired]

In need of a couple of emergency reviewers for ACL rolling review -- please get in touch if you could review a paper on RL/summarization or VLMs by 26th June?

[Kosta Derpanis (sabbatical in Zurich) @CSProfKGD]

Collegues in Europe are running this poll about #NeurIPS2025 participation. If in Europe, highly recommended to participate.

[Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi]

It's now public! My postdoc call is for the inaugural postdoc as part of this $10.5M gift for a new AI fellows program at Cornell. There's a lot more in this program, so more exciting things to happen here real soon!

https://t.co/3QFcR6WPuA

Application: https://t.co/4926jfKgSh

[Khanh Nguyen @khanhxuannguyen]

📢 I am on the JOB market this year 📢

I am looking for both faculty and research scientist positions.

My research makes AI agents useful and safe for humans. I enable them to effectively convey uncertainty, ask for help, learn from human feedback, and pursue goals that benefit humans.

I will summarize my research using two diagrams.

The first diagram highlights the impact of the research directions I have contributed to. I worked on these areas before they gained widespread attention and played a role in bringing these problems to the forefront of the research community.

[Edwin Simpson @overwired]

Looking for a PhD in NLP or interactive AI? At the University of Bristol we're recruiting candidates interested in interaction with small models, applications such as health, and uncertainty and disagreement in NLP. https://t.co/o3seS2WqJd Please send a message if interested!

[Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore]

Undergrads/graduates: if you want to do a PhD, can’t afford to do a masters and know the area you want to do a PhD in, a perfectly decent alternative is to apply for a research assistant job and gain substantial research experience. Check https://t.co/yCJLUcvj7O for job ads

[Jose Camacho Collados @CamachoCollados]

Mark Zuckerberg and Yann LeCun boasting about Meta's Llama models being downloaded over 20 million times last month... 😱🤭

[Edwin Simpson @overwired]

@JiUngLee1 @UKPLab @TUDarmstadt @CS_TUDarmstadt @Hessian_AI @ATHENECenter @FraunhoferSIT @ProLOEWE @IGurevych @JustusThies @TorstenZesch Congratulations, Ji-Ung!

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain

“Every decision taken by Tory (and @LibDems) governments was a political decision—it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich friends and dump the burdensome price on those least able to endure the cost.”

“There is mold in the walls and shit in the rivers, posh butter in the supermarkets has anti-theft tags stuck to it, the trains run on schedule about half the time, the average pub-poured pint of lager—the blood of the nation—is nearing the criminal price of 5 pounds ($6.34), and on May 22 a new general election was announced to the people of Great Britain by a prime minister who is richer than the king. 

“Should the polls prove correct—short of a 2016-scale error—the annihilation will be justified. Wage growth is at its lowest level since the Napoleonic Wars. What the Financial Timescalls the “rental market” and what the rest of us call “How much of your money someone richer than you takes every month” is stratospherically inflated; rent is about half a person’s average salary in London. Chain stores on British high streets close permanently at a rate of 14 per day, leaving most shopping areas a procession of corrugated shutters, uncollected rubbish, and the sleeping bags of the homeless.

“The precious marvel that is the National Health Service is cracking at the seams; at the current rate, waiting lists will not be cleared for another 685 years. The union for junior doctors, the BMA, has organised 10 strikes and walkouts in the past year for a pay deal that would only bring wages up to the current level of inflation. The city of Birmingham was the first to tip over into bankruptcy; more will follow.

“In 2022, at least 3% of all families in Britain—around two million people—could not afford to eat. Like a revenant from Dickens, Victorian diseases like scurvy, rickets, and scabies are back to blight children.

“Life expectancy has dropped to the lowest level since 2010—tellingly, the year the Conservatives took power, at the height of the recession.”

“These are the bitter fruits of austerity: an experiment in sado-monetarist economics and financial barbarism. Not much unites those five PMs other than the constant ritual tribute in blood to their coiffed icon, Margaret Thatcher. Yet Thatcher, back in the 1980s, did not lie about how brutal the first shock of neoliberalism was going to be. She coldly promised torture before riches.

“Its sequel, however, was pitched by its architect George Osborne, chancellor under David Cameron, as a bit of belt-tightening resembling that most prized memory in the national canon: the Blitz Spirit. Come on, chaps, buck up and give it some welly. The shattering of society into thinner fragments was supposed to be a hardy adventure. 

“Midway through this downhill plummet, Britain bumbled backward out of the EU. The wreckage of this four-year disaster can now best be seen as an attempt to escape the harsh bite of austerity.

“Brexit was a retreat from hunger into myth: an embrace of antique fables about British pluck and derring-do, a belief that even without an empire and an industrial base this archipelago might reclaim past glory. Faced with profound turmoil, much of the nation turned to a half-remembered falsehood about their grandfather’s generation, marching along with Churchill. This election is the reckoning Brexit postponed.

https://t.co/PRKpMibIqR

[Cardiff NLP @Cardiff_NLP]

🕐 Last three days to register for the Cardiff NLP Workshop!

All the information, including activities, schedule and invited speakers, is available at the workshop website: https://t.co/QrtUuY8ROV

[Edwin Simpson @overwired]

We're already a large and diverse group of researchers, (top 5 research ranking in the UK), the university is building a new city centre campus, and Bristol is a great place to live... Message me if you want to know more about working here!

[Edwin Simpson @overwired]

University of Bristol is looking 6 permanent lecturers/senior lecturers (assistant/associate professor) in Data Science, AI, and Robotics. The university will soon be home to the UK's fastest supercomputer, which Bristol researchers get dedicated time to use...

[Edwin Simpson @overwired]

Robotics: https://t.co/PhOOOEWhvf

[Jose Camacho Collados @CamachoCollados]

Join us for our 2nd Cardiff NLP Workshop! 🎉🎉

[Edwin Simpson @overwired]

It's *this* Monday night, i.e., tonight!

[Edwin Simpson @overwired]

If you're around Bristol, this event on Monday evening looks really interesting:
AI & NATURE PUBLIC LECTURES:
An evening of fascinating talks by Robert Dawes (BBC) and internationally renowned scientist and ecologist Prof Tanya Berger-Wolf (Ohio)
https://t.co/yntZdOhwy1

[Edwin Simpson @overwired]

It's part of the Bristol AI and Nature week: https://t.co/VwVOH7tfvw