Dave Howcroft<p>It's been a while since I wrote an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> for folks who are <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NewHere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewHere</span></a>.</p><p>I'm a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Catholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Catholic</span></a> computational <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguist</span></a> who works on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NaturalLanguageGeneration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalLanguageGeneration</span></a> and lives in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a>. An <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/immigrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrant</span></a> multiple times over, I was born in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a>, grew up in the USA (in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a>), did my PhD in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a>, and moved here in 2019. I enjoy <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VideoGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VideoGames</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VideoEssays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VideoEssays</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenMic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenMic</span></a> nights, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/running" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>running</span></a>. I happen to be <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonbinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonbinary</span></a> and love <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languages</span></a>.</p>