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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner

@leidner.bsky.social
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Computer scientist & computational linguist, working as a professor of artificial intelligence & as a director of my own consultancy, KnowledgeSpaces. Past lives include SAP, startup co-founder, Edinburgh PhD/PostDoc, Director of Research (Reuters London).

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Over 400 000 people contributed to the Apollo mission. But nobody would have landed without the programmer Margaret Hamilton (MIT), shown next to her code printout.
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Germany's decline of school kid performance in #mathematics and #reading 2012-2022. #education #Germany
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
#AI models are not transparent. That's a first in #technology #history, says the Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Chat GPT, asked about what the Bible says about protecting children and those that cause harm. (if you want to read the cut off part in your language: biblehub.com/matthew/18-6...) #censorship #children
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
important information for EACL attendees: #EACL2026 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The 2025 Bloomberg/BCS Karen Spärck Jones Award will be presented in three weeks at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. (The award alternates between EACL and ECIR.) #awards #NLP #IR #research @nlproc @eaclmeeting.bsky.social
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Writers and their day jobs lithub.com/the-work-beh... #literature #writing
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Erlangen's Emmy Noether: connecting #mathematics and #physics via Lie groups (1918)
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
lost in #translation...
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Böck et al. (2025) "Learner models: design, components, structure, and modelling" User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 35: 15, Cham, CH: Springer-Nature, DOI: 10.1007/s11257-025-09434-4. link.springer.com/article/10.1... [open access]
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Reuters: China's censor GAPP asks Cambridge University Press to withdraw academic articles about China from the Chinese Web. www.reuters.com/article/worl... #news #press #censorship #freedomofexpression #scholarship #research
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Menzner T. and J. L. Leidner (2026) "Bias explained: Generation of high-quality natural language explanations for classification decisions", Exp Sys Appl 299(D): 130115, doi.org/10.1016/j.es... [open access]. #XAI #NLproc #NLP #LLM
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Dear Anonymous: when we submitted, we actually thought "At least it's very well written..." ;-) - but thanks for the ticket to Spain, anyway - it feels good to see the dice in our favour ⚄ ⚄ ⚃ ⚄ ⚂ ⚄ ... #conferences #research
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Davis et al. (2024) "Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5-TR: cross sectional analysis" BMJ: 55 / 186 = 30% of DSM board members have industry conflict of interest
method COIs were determined
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
#AI pushes entry salaries down, experienced salaries up: cdn.prod.website-files.com/6660a5bfdcf6... #work #jobs #salaries #technology
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Ironically, Wikipedia already lists "Iran" as the winner of the war that Israel has just started (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...).
selected wars, 1939-2025
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Insurers launch cover for losses caused by AI chatbot errors archive.is/BrLso #insurance #AI #chatbots #lloydsoflondon #ycombinator
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
German public news channel ARD survey finds: about 50% of Germans find right-wing extremist party AfD poses a "similar threat for German society as [Hitler's party] NSDAP did at the time." #Germany #politics #Society #Fascism
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