Computational psycholinguist in @OfClasp, Professor at the University of Gothenburg. Promoted: thought leader to thought emperor. Ready to command your thoughts
Gothenburg, Sweden
Joined April 2009
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I've mentioned before: one of my brothers, a brain tumour doc, died of a brain tumour himself in Feb2020.
My family+his colleagues have joined forces to start an endowment for neuro-oncology resident training and research award.
Link to learn/donate: bt-endowment.org/
Asad Sayeed @[email protected] retweeted
Ser en del som påstår att SD ”rensat ut” sina rasister. Det är fel, de kosmetiska förändringar SD gjort sedan 2012 förändrar inte faktum. I våras förespråkade partiets migrationspolitiske talesperson öppet etnisk rensning. Jomshof fortsätter sin hets mot människor med muslimsk bakgrund och Björn ”judar är inte svenskar” Söder fortsätter att representera partiet. SD är helt enkelt vad de alltid varit: ett parti som vill splittra och ställa människor mot varandra utifrån härkomst. Ett rasistiskt parti.
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Y’all. We are literally witnessing a coup attempt going on live in Brazil. Bolsonaro is losing the election badly, so his people in state and local leadership are grounding flights, canceling public transportation going to Lula strongholds. Massive voter suppression. Supreme Court had to intervene to mandate 2hrs extra at the polls. Mixed reports on how many polling stations are respecting the ruling. Whew!
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The Islamic State was a much bigger threat to the region than Hamas. Hamas is an anti-colonial, nationalist militant group that commits atrocities against civilians. It's akin to the Mau Mau in Kenya or Viet Minh in Indochina. It has no ideology of global conquest.
ISIS and other Salafi Jihadist groups, conversely, actually want to exterminate the region's minorities and commit terrorist attacks in Europe and the US.
ISIS was also much better equipped than Hamas and had far more territory. And - despite the fact that ISIS, unlike Hamas, engaged in actual human shielding - the US/Iraqi Military/Peshmerga killed far fewer civilians in defeating ISIS than the IDF killed civilians in the so-called "war" in Gaza.
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250 families were evacuated in Hebron.
The army is destroying their houses.
Why?
Because 2 Hamas members probably sponsored by people abroad who attacked soldiers came from this neighborhood.
What is the children’s fault?
What is the women’s fault?
What is the innocents’ fault?
God please show mercy upon the innocents.
🙏🙏🙏
watch as I simultaneously dismiss complaints about ARR while griping incessantly about EMNLP local organizing
these people have a metaphysics of impurity that doesn't take into account intention which is very different from the Islamic view. The incidental presence of pork doesn't *by itself* create the impurity except among those who intended to partake
remember: the purpose of language is for traces and other empty categories, which metaphysically pre-exist biological cognition, to be Spoken
um yes? I'm surprised this is a question, it was explicitly intended to force a federalized fiscal union, or more precisely, create a gradual tendency to this, in an era when it was believed an inevitable necessity (not unjustifiably)
Asad Sayeed @[email protected] retweeted
#ICLR2027 is an eye-opener for our research community.
We criticize LLM-written papers for being convoluted, full of jargon, overly defensive, and difficult to understand.
But did LLMs create this writing culture, or did they learn it from us?
I know of no other place on earth where the shooting of two soldiers leads to the displacement of 2000 people who had no connection to the shooting other than being in the neighbourhood.
דיברתי עכשיו עם חברים פלסטינים מחברון, אלפי פלסטינים פונו מבתיהם מהרגע להרגע לא כי הם עשו משהו, לא כי הם יודעים משהו, לא כי הם הביעו תמיכה במפגעים. רק בגלל שם שכנים של שני פלסטינים שהרגו שני חיילים שלנו.
זאת עזפיקציה של הגדה המערבית, ממשלת ישראל יודעת שלהרוס את הבתים של לפחות 2,000 פלסטינים חפים מפשע זה לא מביא ביטחון.
אבל זה כן מביא את תחושת הנקם שהמתנחלים מתענגים עליה בריקוד שלהם על דם החיילים הצעירים שאיבדו את חייהם.
המתנחלים רוצים דם אלימות ואפרטהייד אנחנו רוצים חיים ושלום בין העמים. גם ובעיקר על זה הבחירות
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Just 2 days after Prof. Jason Arday's has been cleared yet again of commiting plagiarism, it's been announced that the white supremacist who instigated the witch hunt leading to his death, is being allowed by @UniofOxford to host a lecture at the same campus Lola Salem taught at.
🔴 NEW
Jason Arday Again Cleared of Plagiarism as His Attackers Launch an ‘Independent Inquiry’
By @NafeezAhmed
Backed by Reform UK megadonor Ben Delo, the Committee for Academic Freedom defended Arday’s accusers and has now commissioned a report into his appointment by Cambridge University
Subscribe to support fearless independent journalism.
bylinetimes.com/2026/10/21/j…
Asad Sayeed @[email protected] retweeted
I’m still shocked by the Arday frenzy this summer. Right across the spectrum — from the Times, Unherd, Telegraph, Mail to the Guardian, Novara, Private Eye… based on tenuous assumptions. Left right politics does not explain it. Something deeper, more atavistic and barbaric
Asad Sayeed @[email protected] retweeted
Barely two months ago, we lost Professor Jason Arday. Thousands grieved. Institutions across higher education spoke about inclusion and belonging.
Now Nathan Cofnas is being given a room at Oriel College, Oxford, to ask whether DEI is undermining higher education.
🧵
Asad Sayeed @[email protected] retweeted
My great grandfather is 87 and the only living survivor of the Nakba in our family.
I grew up with his stories.
About his village, the lemon orchard, the sea, the Shia shrine and how one day the Israeli army came and told them to leave.
Last night the Israeli army came again, and once again told Palestinians to leave.
I saw women and children, leaving their houses with whatever they can carry.
And I thought about my great grandfather and how he probably felt 78 years ago.
😔😔😔
for some reason I can't reply to Djamé...but only 5?
Dear #CDG travelers, don’t ever get a fucking expresso (noisette) at the French Taste and sit. They charge 5€ for it. Without announcing the price or anything.
5€… no wonder there’s a revolution coming.
Prices at airports are a racket and it’s @ParisAeroport’s fault.
Asad Sayeed @[email protected] retweeted
Imagine going through the last 3 years in the US, watching Gaza, the collapse of the Biden presidency, the Harris defeat, the DNC autopsy, the campus protests, this year’s insane primary results, the Iran war that followed and is ongoing, the endless ink spilled in column inches, the historic and unprecedented swing in public opinion, and then suggesting Gaza wasn’t a huge issue *in American politics* and the Syrian civil war was a bigger deal for America. You have to really be in an insane, pro-Israel establishment bubble.
Or just be a liar.
