Jerry Spanakis 🟥 🦋 gerasimoss.bsky.social

I am not updating this space anymore, for now I keep it for archival reasons and eventually will delete it Connect with me on: 🔵 bsky.app/profile/gerasi… 💼🔗 linkedin.com/in/gspanakis/ 🌐 jerryspan.github.io

"peer" review

⚠️ Submitting to EMNLP 2026? Make sure to review our newly published Paper Integrity Policy first! It includes important updates on Generative Assistance in Authorship, thinly sliced contributions, and unverifiable references. 🔗 Details: 2026.emnlp.org/paper-integrit… #EMNLP2026

I'll tell you why so many people upset about the "no hallucinated citations" ban on the arxiv: because they've all been copying citation lists from each other without checking them since the beginning of time. And why did they do this? Because half of the citations in scientific papers are politics and not to the benefit of the reader. If you don't list the right papers, your paper doesn't look 'right' and reviewers will complain that you didn't cite this-and-that other unrelated work. For what I am concerned, these are all bullshit citations that shouldn't be in the papers in the first place. They can easily be automated by "related papers" links, that are (wait for it) provided by... AI...

Confession: I never had a single work-related sleepless night or ever pulled an all-nighter during my career incl. PhD. Don’t sacrifice your health. Sleep is a superpower — your brain on 8hrs of sleep is a lot smarter than your brain on sleep deprivation. Don’t listen to people who tell you to chronically sacrifice sleep for work. Sacrificing sleep for your kids/family is a different story.

when my phd advisor asks me for a weekly update on my experiments

Updating your method with a reviewer’s suggestions 🙄

📢 Please note a critical update to the original #EMNLP2026 Call for Papers: since EMNLP and AACL share the ARR May cycle, authors will need to explicitly select a target conference at submission time. This choice will be binding! For more details see: #paper-submission-information" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">2026.emnlp.org/calls/main_con…

I find really bizarre that main conference acceptance rates at top #NLProc venues (*ACL, EMNLP) hover around 19-22%, while top ML venues (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML) consistently accept 25-30% or more. This is problematic for our community for two main reasons ⬇️

European academia 2010-2026

#EMNLP2025 Reminder! #NLLP2025 kicks off tomorrow at 0900 (China Time) at A202. Check below for program and streaming info #nlproc 👇👇👇

🚀 The #NLLP2025 (at @emnlpmeeting #EMNLP2025) program is LIVE — in-person & online! 🎉 A full day packed with 38 great papers 🧠⚖️ — all with oral slots (+ optional posters) 🎤🪧 Dive in 👉 nllpw.org/workshop/progr… More info below👇👇👇

🚨 #NLLP2025 decisions are in! (📩 direct subs + 📑 ARR commits) 🎉 32 papers accepted 🥳 🙏 thx to our reviewers 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️ 🗂️ the final program is now up in the scramble (stay tuned) ☀️✈️ Ready for Suzhou? 🇨🇳🐉🥟 #NLProc #LegalTech #EMNLP2025 @emnlpmeeting

We keep 👀 on #openreviewdown saga, fingers (+toes) crossed for a quick fix🤞🖥️. ⏰ Deadline = Sept 2 AoE → still >24h to fine-tune your figures, tables or that last typo (or add that “one last” experiment 🧪) Stay tuned for any updates 📚

📢By overwhelming demand, submission deadline has been heroically extended to September 2nd (AoE) 🎉 Same deadline for ARR commits. 👉Direct: openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP… 👉ARR: openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP… So… sharpen your arguments, polish those experiments and plead your papers⚖️📚

If you’ve ever wondered how the TikTok pink sauce saga would have looked like in the European Union, join our @EU_Commission webinar on Monday to talk about product safety with i.a. @DikkeSvekke @gerasimoss @LauraAade @k_aligiannis. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

🎉 The Call for Papers for the 7th NLLP workshop at @emnlpmeeting is out! 📢 🌐 Fully updated CfP: nllpw.org/workshop/call 🗓️Submission deadline: 26 August 📧If you want to help w/reviewing, drop a line at nllp.chairs@gmail.com 🚀now, finish that paper #NLProc #legaltech

@LChoshen @ReviewAcl it would be easier if the reviewer unavailability form indicated that you are unavailable because you are an AC or SAC. Otherwise as a (S)AC you get all these emails and feels like you did something wrong 😑

@ReviewAcl What happens for ACs and SACs? Need to nominate someone else? need more papers?

🧐 New changes on reviewing the workload requirement starting from February cycle: aclrollingreview.org/reviewing-work…

@emnlpmeeting 👋 The CfP refers to the (for-now non-existent) ARR May cycle, while @ReviewAcl website still features 6 cycles per year (the X account mentions 5 cycles by ommiting the August cycle). What’s going to be? 🤔 Meanwhile, ARR February @aclmeeting got 8K+ submissions…

The EMNLP 2025 conference website and CfP are now live! 2025.emnlp.org/calls/main-con… Conference dates: November 5-9 in Suzhou, China Submissions will be through ARR, and this year's theme is Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP

Join us tomorrow for a deep dive into Responsible AI 👇 🔗 lu.ma/tovrj8z6