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

🚨 New Paper: Our latest work “Beyond Technocratic XAI: The Who, What & How in Explanation Design” was accepted to AIES 2025 🎉🥳. Thanks to @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social and Ninell Oldenburg for being amazing co-authors! Read the preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2508.09231

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 🫶

Would you consider asking an LLM like ChatGPT for voting advice, e..g, for national elections? 1️⃣ I have already done that 2️⃣ Maybe in the future 3️⃣ Only a public model trained for this purpose 4️⃣ I don’t think this is ever a good idea 📊 Show results

Looking forward to NoDaLiDa Copenhagen-edition 🥳

📜 🎉 Happy to announce our workshop "AI-based Methods for the Humanities"! Bringing together #ML and #Humanities researchers to discuss frontiers in #DigitalHumanities, #NLP, #XAI and more! Hosted together with Matteo Valleriani and @bifold.berlin @tuberlin.bsky.social @mpiwg.bsky.social

🌍 Join us in Copenhagen - fantastic city for work-life balance and awesome science. I am hiring PhD students & Postdocs in my group at SODAS Univ of Copenhagen to explore AI, network science & the science of science. 📍 Start: flex summer 2025 📌 Info&Apply: www.robertasinatra.com/2025/03/02/p...

Honest question: how do people in NLP deal with the enormous stream of papers 📄 coming in on a daily basis? I would need three times the hours ⏳ to finish my reading list before new papers come in again 📚

The gender gap in young voters (<25) is remarkable. Women (left bars) predominantly vote left (34%) while men vote far-right (25%) and conservative (17%).

ganz normales Land

Noch unentschlossen? Du willst bezahlbare Mieten, soziale Gerechtigkeit und eine klare Kante gegen Rechts? Dann gibt es nur eine Wahl: Morgen bei der Bundestagswahl Deine Stimme für Die Linke!

Made my day: The guy in the Fiat 500 🚗 cruising the streets of Nørrebro at 9:30 in a tshirt with an open roof window (-5C ☀️🥶) singing along to Eminems “Real Slim Shady” 🎤

Es gibt nicht nur ein Thema.

📢 This week, I joined SODAS (Center for Social Data Science at the University of Copenhagen) as a TT Assistant Professor 👩‍🏫 . After a very warm welcome 🫶, I am looking forward to new collaborations and exciting research at ✨ the intersection of NLP and Social Science ✨

You got angry als Umweltaktivisten Öl und Suppe auf mit Glas geschützte Gemälde warfen? Oh boy, am I gespannt auf your Befindlichkeit now.

Only two weeks⌛️left to apply for this fully funded PhD fellowship in Interpretable NLP at the University of Copenhagen & @aicentre.dk! Don’t miss the chance to explore interpretability for LLMs under my and @iaugenstein.bsky.social's supervision.

I’m looking for a postdoc, to start ideally ASAP! The work would be in the EU-funded TrustLLM project, focusing on modularisation and language adaptation of LLMs, tokenization, and evaluation benchmarks for multilingual LLMs. The position would be full-time for 2 years with no teaching obligation.

Inspired by @wimlds.bsky.social , I looked for a "Women in Machine Learning" starter pack and couldn't find one. So I created one! May have some mistakes. I'll try to do an AI ethics one next. 🤗 go.bsky.app/LT6CwNN

I'm ashamed of my country once again. It's disgusting to discuss deportations of Syrians literally in the same week the regime crumbled. While not even all prisoners were freed. #NotInMyName

we need professors that are not naturals at academic writing we need professors who didn’t have perfect grades we need professors that went to community college we need professors that went to non-selective institutions we need professors that have always struggled to belong

Work in progress -- suggestions for NLP-ers based in the EU/Europe & already on Bluesky very welcome! go.bsky.app/NZDc31B

excited for the sudden influx of #nlp folks to bluesky 🤩

I am thrilled to share that our paper "Evaluating Webcam-based Gaze Data as an Alternative for Human Rationale Annotations" was accepted to LREC-COLING 📜 arxiv.org/pdf/2402.19133… We analyse low-cost eye-tracking data as an alternative to human rationale annotations when evaluating XAI methods.