@lajello.bsky.social is giving his inaugural lecture as full professor at @itu.dk . A story in 3 parts about "how the web failed us". So well deserved.

ITU er særdeles flot repræsenteret ved #ESA2025 i Warszawa, Europas største konference for algoritmeforskning 👏 👉 Hele 10 pct. af de optagne artikler stammer fra ITU-forskere. 👉 Best Paper Award går til ITU's Eva Rotenberg og Ivor van der Hoog ESA’s for deres arbejde med Dijkstras algoritme.

I'm hiring a postdoc at ITU Copenhagen with experience in NLP, who is keen on improving citizens' experience of health emergency triage in an exciting project with the Danish emergency helpline and the University of Copenhagen. Knowledge of Danish is helpful. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

This Wednesday, 24 September 2025 at 14:30, our Professor Luca Aiello @lajello.bsky.social will give his inaugural lecture in Auditorium 0 at the IT University in Copenhagen! en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Pr...

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Few days ago I posted about our new article on semantic clustering with VLLMs (here if you missed it journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... ) and I wrote that the method is better than some alternative because it offers cultural awareness and interpretability. Let me explain what I mean by cultural

Prof. Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social will join us in Copenhagen on Wed, Sep 24, 12:30-13:15 to present at an exciting data science seminar! Topic: Why Use An Evolutionary Perspective To Study Culture? To attend, see: nerds.itu.dk/event/data-s...

#computationalsocialscience Our work on using VLLMs for semantic visual clustering is out on SSCR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... There is a lot happening in the space of computational analysis of visual content as we acknowledge more and more the visual nature of contemporary communication.

Roberta Sinatra and Vedran Sekara talk at Rigsrevisionen nerds.itu.dk/2025/09/18/r... @robysinatra.bsky.social @vedransekara.bsky.social

I will not stop using my em dashes out of fear of a reviewer accusing me of using AI!

Stort tillykke til Marco Carbone, nyudnævnt professor på ITU! 🥂🥳 Marco forsker i softwarekorrekthed og samtidig programmering. Læs mere om hans forskning her 👇 itu.dk/Om-ITU/Press...

More than 500 researchers have signed an open letter against the dangerous EU proposal on chat control. The proposal remains ineffective, undoes decades of results in E2E encryption, and threatens the privacy of half a billion citizens. csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

Just noticed the AIs available in the "AI studio" in Instagram. I understand that meta needs to find a way to justify the tons of money used on GPUs.. but who seriously imagined this could lead to something different from soft porno and cursing characters?

I understand the need to investigate how future techs are perceived by the public and shaped by that perception ... But the consequences of "quantum AI" seems a little bit to much.

Have you recently used a crowdsourcing platform to collect data or annotations? We are running a study about the use of LLMs in crowdsourcing platforms. If you want to help, fill in this 10 min survey 👉https://tinyurl.com/39ab55wf #NLProc

After some time of dealing with students that work with #LLMs for their projects, I can say that the major problem is that students develop some kind of laziness and they simply prompt their way out of everything. An example are simple data cleaning tasks that now are done (in a less reliable way!)

I'm attending a large European event in #SocialSciences & #Humanities and I'm frankly a little annoyed by the fact that when forced to justify their existence #SSHs seem to point at things like "that project who created a fake news detector now tested in schools". This not only points towards

No matter if you're going for a Sunday run, cleaning the house or walking the dog.. everything is better while listening to our Podcast on visual climate communication open.spotify.com/show/1ZwGesM... #climate #podcast #polarvis

Morten Boilesen has joined NERDS nerds.itu.dk/2025/09/05/m...

CFI turns 25! 🎉 19 Sep, Aarhus (INCUBA, Store Auditorium). Guest lectures: Charles Ess & Axel Bruns + panel (Bechmann, Linaa Jensen, Tække) + reception. All welcome — details: cfi.au.dk/news/article... #cfi_au #AI #InternetStudies #AarhusUniversity

New NERDS publication on hitting the music charts nerds.itu.dk/2025/09/04/n...

💓I am so (so, so) very excited to be joining @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social, starting February 2026, where I will continue my work on computational methods/AI, researcher data access, multi-platform language flows, and political extremism. 💓 1/

One of the most exciting projects I supervised in my academic career. A card game programming language.

Jonas Juul, assistant professor in the NERDS group at @itu.dk receive the Ørsted Research Talent Award 2025!! Go Jonas! 👍💪🏽🧠🏆 #Research #DKresearch en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Pr...

#Telegram research is about to be changed: Telegram introduced a global keyword search. (Not yet implemented in telethon)

I'm super fascinated by the amount of work and tools that are being developed to allow people from the humanities and social sciences to work with visual data. A friendly reminder that these methods often make, under the hood, a lot of assumptions about the data. So you might

Some feeling i can't shake: when we (as researchers) work with LLMs in the pipeline, there seems to be the idea - even among critical people - that LLMs have reasoning capabilities, we just need to understand in which way these abilities differ from human reasoning. I think this is potentially

On my way to the CVMR25 symposium on Computational Visual Media Research (CVMR): Methods, Theories, and Reflections www.ikmz.uzh.ch/en/research/.... So much is going on in this space, very exciting times!

NERDS at IC2S2 in Norrköping nerds.itu.dk/2025/08/01/n...

Big congrats to our postdoc @elisabassignana.bsky.social for the well deserved Social Impact award at #ACL2025NLP!!

#Meta 's personal super intelligence is really scary. Mostly because it is perfectly in line with the company's tradition. #Facebook started with an oversimplified understanding of "social connections" and resulted into a lot of problems when things turned out to be not as simple as they expected.

📣 Next week we will be in Vienna for @aclmeeting.bsky.social to present a couple of works from our lab! Find more about each of them below 🧵👇 #NLP #NLProc #ACL2025NLP @itu.dk @aicentre.dk

NERDS at #ic2s2 😍

Repeat after me: LLMs are not humans in a bottle nor are able to reliably simulate them. LLL are commercial products, not developed for research and the whole algorithmic fidelity thing was largely wishful thinking www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The DSA data access porta is finally here: digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/d... now more than ever we need coordinated action between the research community to show the value that we can produce, not just in terms of publications.

Two PolarVis presentations this week: (1) on the (mis)uses of VLLMs for analysing climate change visuals, today at the CCVision Network Meeting, and (2) on methods for longitudinal coordination detection applied to PolarVis data, tomorrow at SunBelt. @lrossi.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social

Morning sessions are underway, and the coffee breaks are already buzzing with great conversations! ☕ #ICWSM

AoIR is very happy to once again offer the Kelly Quinn Travel Scholarships for scholars & researchers who would otherwise face financial barriers to attending the #AoIR2025 conference. Please see here for details & how to apply: aoir.org/2025kellyqui... Application deadline is July 8th.

The #ica25 social media research crowd might appreciate the release of a WebUI for CooRTweet, a tool to visuale and study online coordinated behavior coortweet.lab.atc.gr/auth/login

I'm pretty happy to present our work on using VLLMs to achieve semantic clustering at #ica25. (Centennial A at 9.00 if you are curious ;-))

Easy and spectacular walks just 1hr from Denver. Now my #ICA25 begins :-)

So many great Computational Methods sessions coming up at #ICA25!! Check them out, and we look forward to seeing you there! 👇👇👇

Waiting for the bus in Denver during a superhot day is a great way to fight the jetlag. #ica25

📢 Meet the keynote speakers at #ICWSM 2025: Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam “Machinic Critique: Algorithmic Auditing” 📅 June 25 🕑 8.30 AM 📍CSS 35.01.05 Find the full program here: www.icwsm.org/2025/schedul...

🤯 We use the term 'intelligence' a lot, but wth do we mean? We got 303 survey responses from researchers. The most agreed-on criteria are generalization, adaptability & reasoning. ACL Findings preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.20959 with @brtrm.bsky.social @terne.bsky.social @heinrichst.bsky.social /1

📢 New #ACL2025 Findings preprint from @brtrm.bsky.social about the perspectives on 'intelligence' in the research community! A survey of 300+ researchers shows that most don’t view current NLP systems as intelligent and only few see building intelligent systems as a research goal. #NLProc @itu.dk

🚨 Special Session at #ICWSM2025 From biased algorithms to inclusive research: science and practice Join Roberta Sinatra & Jakob Feldtfos Christensen to explore bias in science and inclusion in practice. 📅 June 24 🕑 12:00 PM 📍CSS 35.01.05

Looking forward to our satellite on "Understudied Networks in Computational Social Science" next Tuesday (June 3) from 9am at @netsciconf.bsky.social Join us for 10 great talks discussing (Meta)Decidem, Tiktok, Bluesky, Wikidata, Painters, and more! galeale.github.io/UNCSS/?trk=f...

📢 New #ACL2025 preprint by our postdoc @elisabassignana.bsky.social about the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on the adoption and usage of language technologies! A first step for better understanding the AI Gap across SES and develop more inclusive language technologies ⚖️🤖 #NLProc @itu.dk

So much for the de-nazification...