📢 Call for Participation – AthNLP 2026 #AthNLP26 (Sept 2–8, 2026, Athens 🇬🇷) is now open for applications! A summer school on #NLP, #AI, #LLMs & Multimodal #ML. 🗓️ Deadline: May 31, 2026 📌 Apply: ijerm0co.forms.app/athens-nlp-2... 📎 Info: athnlp.github.io/2026/ Stay tuned for speakers & updates 👀

Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026. We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....

SODAS researchers @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social and @fghjorth.bsky.social are featured in this upcoming panel about political leanings of LLMs, and how voters use these models to get voting advice. More info: caisa.dk/event/who-wo... Sign up here: www.survey-xact.dk/LinkCollecto...

Data Discussion on March 27! 📅 In this session, @jolukito.bsky.social will discuss data access and digital media research epistemology, while @jeanetbentzen.bsky.social will discuss how religion shapes nonprofit activity in the United States. Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...

I don't understand why the ACL/ARR organizers think this is an appropriate way to communicate with area chairs... The peer review system is collapsing, and the whole system of science as we know it requires a rethink. But let's be kind to eachother in the process and not forget what we are here for.

Hello #NLProc #ACL2026NLP people. I am looking for **two emergency reviewers** in the Safety and Alignment in LLMs track for ACL/ARR. Reviews are due Feb 15th. Please DM if interested and available. Happy to offer drinks/food if you live in/pass by Lisbon ☀️

Hello #NLProc #ACL2026NLP community, I'm looking for an emergency reviewer for an ARR submission on LLM interpretability. If you're available to complete a review before Feb 15, please reply or DM 🙏

Looking for emergency reviewers for ARR Special Track "Explainability of NLP Models". Topics: Faithfulness, mechanistic interpretability, surveys and position papers. Deadline Feb 14 AoE. #ACL2026NLP

I am looking for 2 emergency reviewers for the ARR Ethics, Bias & Fairness track. Please DM me if you are available 🙏

Our paper on ✨populism✨ and how LLMs struggle to detect it in political debates 🗣️ has been accepted to EACL main conference. Meet the lead author @kiddothe2b.bsky.social in Rabat to discuss PolSci🤝NLP

I started my 2-months fellowship at caisa.dk investigating how 🇩🇰Danish politics are represented in LLMs and if it is a good idea to use them for voting advice which might be relevant very soon with 🗳️Danish elections around the corner. I received a warm welcome & am very grateful for this opportunity

Excited to share that 📏 Cetvel benchmark has been accepted to #EACL2026! 📏 Cetvel is designed to evaluate LLMs in Turkish. Please see the thread below for more details. #NLProc

2020: Döpfner bekommt 1 Milliarde € Aktien geschenkt und schummelt 500 Millionen € Steuern am Staat vorbei. Niemand juckt’s. Sep. 2025: Hans sammelt 58 € Pfand, weil er Geld für Essen & Medikamente braucht, meldet es dem Sozialamt und das Geld wird ihm weggekürzt. Es ist so f*cking unfassbar!

Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite! 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸 The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives. Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.

Die Menschen mit der Yacht wollen dir einreden, dass die Menschen mit dem Schlauchboot das Problem wären.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Excited to see this being presented @euripsconf.bsky.social in Copenhagen ✨

Join us for a Data Discussion on Friday, November 7! 📅 Daniel Juhász Vigild will start by exploring how government use of AI impacts its trustworthiness, while Stephanie Brandl will examine whether LLMs can identify and classify fine-grained forms of populism. Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...

Hey, wer das @ndaktuell.bsky.social noch lesen möchte, hat jetzt die Gelegenheit die Zeitung zu retten. genossenschaft.nd-aktuell.de/spenden

Reminder for the new cycle: If you're an AC or SAC for ARR and would like to join our unofficial Slack workspace, email me or post here and I will add you! Please include an email address so I know where to send the invite. #EACL2026

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

#Chatkontrolle verhindern Die EU-Kommission plant eine Verordnung, die Anbieter von Messenger-Diensten. E-Mail-Providern und anderen Kommunikationsdiensten verpflichten würde, private Nachrichten automatisiert zu durchsuchen und strafbare Inhalte zu melden. [1/x] netzpolitik.org/2025/interne...

Come join me in wonderful Copenhagen! 🇩🇰 My department is looking to fill at least two positions - any specialization and any level! The University of Copenhagen aims to be the best place for the best ideas. What’s yours? Apply by Nov 15.

New preprint: "Decoding Alignment: A Critical Survey of LLM Development Initiatives through Value-setting and Data-centric Lens" 🔍 Beyond a survey, this is a presentation of a series of concerns on what we could frame as "corporate" alignment #llms #ai arxiv.org/abs/2508.16982

We released a new preprint on ✨populism✨ and how LLMs struggle to detect it in political debates 🗣️ This was a fun (and very educational) PolSci🤝NLP project 🫶

New preprint 📚 "Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Discourse: A Case Study on Donald Trump's Presidential Campaigns", joint work with @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social and Paris Aslanidis. Link: arxiv.org/abs/2507.19303 #NLProc #PoliSci #LLMs 👇A TL;DR thread 🕸️ 1/5

Reviewer #2 🙃 "Note: Given the size of the language models used in this study (all models <= 13B), I encourage the authors to follow the literature and call them small language models (SLMs) instead of LLMs." Has anyone seen this notation in the literature?

NeurIPS is endorsing EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present NeurIPS work in Europe concurrently with NeurIPS. Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website: blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n... eurips.cc

Deutschland ist den USA sehr ähnlich – nur merkt das kaum jemand, weil unsere rechten Brandstifter aussehen wie Sparkassenfilialleiter und nicht wie durchgedrehte Reality-TV-Stars.

wrote a thing for @jacobinmag.bsky.social trying to contextualise generative AI's deployment within capitalism's recent history — and what it means for labour

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

Alle Abgeordneten, die die Diäten-Erhöhung von 606 € auch überflüssig finden, sind herzlich eingeladen, dieses Geld an @sanktionsfrei.bsky.social zu spenden.Wir unterstützen damit Menschen, die mtl.weniger als das zur Verfügung haben&können das Geld super gut gebrauchen! sanktionsfrei.de/support 1/2

If you're finishing your camera-ready for ACL or ICML and want to cite co-first authors more fairly, I just made a simple fix to do this! Just add $^*$ to the authors' names in your bibtex, and the citations should change :) github.com/tpimentelms/...

Join us this Friday for the final session of this spring’s Data Discussions! 💡

In a new paper, Malene Hornstrup Jespersen, Kristoffer Albris, and Helene Willadsen investigate the interrelations of different digital use cases and provide insights from which relevant conceptualizations of ‘screen time’ can be made📱 Read the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thank you to Stefan Halfpap, Haralampos Gavriilidis, Lukas Pirch, and Stephanie Brandl for their excellent tutorials this afternoon at #BIFOLDDay2025. We look forward to the Spring Reception starting at 4 PM! @lpirch.bsky.social @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social @harrygav.bsky.social

Tomorrow is BIFOLD Day (April 30, 2025). We are looking forward to Tutorials on Data Visualization, Efficient Data Loading, Machine Learning with PyTorch-Geometric and Natural Language Processing.

Today we are releasing Kaleidoscope 🎉 A comprehensive multimodal & multilingual benchmark for VLMs! It contains real questions from exams in different languages. 🌍 20,911 questions and 18 languages 📚 14 subjects (STEM → Humanities) 📸 55% multimodal questions

At least there is no need to jailbreak the model anymore 🫠 (Is there a counterpart to make it nicer 🎭?)

We are hiring a law+NLP postdoc in Copenhagen! Deadline April 7: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Join us for the first SODAS Lecture of the spring on March 21! 📅 Kevin Munger will kick off the lecture series with a talk on the effects of TikTok edits on evaluations of politicians📱 Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...

Come work with us! Assistant prof. Clara Vandeweerdt is hiring a three-year post-doc on a project using machine learning and survey experiments to understand who advocates for climate action in the media, and why it matters. 👩‍💼 Job call here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

I am recruiting 2 PhD students for Fall'25 @csaudk.bsky.social to work on bleeding-edge topics in #NLProc #LLMs #AIAgents (e.g. LLM reasoning, knowledge-seeking agents, and more). Details: www.cs.au.dk/~clan/openings Deadline: May 1, 2025 Please boost! cc: @aicentre.dk @wikiresearch.bsky.social

If you are working as an AC or SAC for ARR and would like to join some kind of *unofficial* Slack channel to ask each other questions and figure out this process together, please comment in this thread or send me a message. #ACL2025

I would love to get people's input on that for a current 👩‍🔬 research project 🫶