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Matthias Orlikowski

@morlikow.bsky.social
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Computer Science PhD student at Bielefeld University - NLProc and Computational Social Science - Disagreement, Human Label Variation, Perspectives - Website: orlikow.ski

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Gavin Abercrombie @gavina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Applications open for September 2027 PhD entry at Heriot-Watt. Robotics focus but NLP PhDs possible. Get in touch for details www.cdt-d2air.uk
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UKRI AI CDT in Dependable and Deployable AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR)
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Anne Lauscher @a-lauscher.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
📢 Join our team in Hamburg! The Trustworthy AI lab 🤝 is looking for a Research Associate for a novel DFG-funded project on ethical multi-agent systems of LLMs. 🤖 Full-time | EGR. 13 TV-L | Apply by 8 April 2026 🔗 www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan... #TrustworthyAI #LLM #AcademicJobs #Hamburg
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Christina Viehmann @christinaviehmann.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
🚀 PhD (100%) | Disinformation, Youth & Cross-Platform Dynamics 👤 Profile: Strong affinity with CSS, Experience with digital data (social media, text corpora, etc.), Quantitative & computational methods (e.g., NLP, ML), Interest in political disinformation 📍 Cologne (up to 60% remote) is.gd/dYxJ9L
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Doctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science (CSS-117) | Jobs at GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
GESIS is one of the world's leading social science infrastructure facilities, supporting researchers at all levels of their research projects with expertise and infrastructure services. We help ensure...
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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...
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Jeremy Barnes @jeremy-nlp.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Seems to be a common situation for ACs this round, but I'm also looking for two emergency reviewers for the January #ARR Evaluation and Resources track. I'd appreciate any help (reposts, encouragement, black magic...)
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · 05/02/2026
#DigitalServicesAct #DigitalPlatform Check out this interesting #blog post by von Johannes Gruber, Yannik Peters, and Katrin Weller: Brave New Data Access World: What the Digital Services Act (#DSA) Means for Researcher Access to Digital Platforms
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Brave New Data Access World: What the Digital Services Act (DSA) Means for Researcher Access to Digital Platforms
The Digital Services Act (DSA) is reshaping how researchers access social media data. From new legal rights to platform transparency obligations, this blog explores what the DSA means for research and why it marks the beginning of a new era in studying online platforms.
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Anne Lauscher @a-lauscher.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I am delighted to announce the 1st call for papers for "Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache" (#KONVENS) 2026, the conference for #NLProc and computational linguistics organized under the auspices of the GSCL, the GfS-CL, the ÖGAI, and SwissNLP. @uni-hamburg.de
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Trustworthy AI Lab @tai-lab.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Exciting postdoc opportunity in Trustworthy AI & NLP with @a-lauscher.bsky.social! Work on cutting-edge generative AI while addressing ethics, fairness, multilingualism & sustainability. 3-year position, teaching included. Deadline: March 2 Start: June 1, 2026
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nlperspectives.bsky.social @nlperspectives.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
📢 2nd Call for Papers! Submit your original work, non-archival papers, and research communications on perspectivist data, modelling, and evaluation to our workshop co-located with LREC in Palma de Mallorca. Deadline: February 27 nlperspectives.di.unito.it/workshops/w2...
Pastries and snacks from Mallorca
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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The second new class I'm teaching is a very experimental graduate level seminar in CSE: "Building Small Language Models". I taught the grad level NLP class last semester (so fun!) but students wanted more—which of these new ideas work, and which work for SLMs? jurgens.people.si.umich.edu/CSE598-004/
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CSE 598-004 - Building Small Language Models
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Dirk Hovy @dirkhovy.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
New year, new job? If that is your current mantra, check the open postdoc positions with Debora Nozza and me at our lab. Deadline is January 31st. milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
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Postdoctoral Researcher – NLP (2 positions) | MilaNLP Lab @ Bocconi University
Two Postdoctoral Researcher positions – Deadline January 31st, 2026
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Proud to present our #EMNLP2025 papers! Catch our team across Main, Findings, Workshops & Demos 👇
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Debora Nozza @deboranozza.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🚨 New main paper out at #EMNLP2025! 🚨 ⚡ We show that personalization of content moderation models can be harmful and perpetuate hate speech, defeating the purpose of the system and hurting the community. We argue that personalized moderation needs boundaries, and we show how to build them.
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Paul Röttger @paul-rottger.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
There’s plenty of evidence for political bias in LLMs, but very few evals reflect realistic LLM use cases — which is where bias actually matters. IssueBench, our attempt to fix this, is accepted at TACL, and I will be at #EMNLP2025 next week to talk about it! New results 🧵
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Jana Lasser @janalasser.eurosky.social · 28/10/2025
My lab is looking for a Senior Scientist (= PostDoc with option of permanency)! We are looking for someone interested in doing cutting-edge computational social science + helping us with data & software engineering 🤓. See job ad for details jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d14...
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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Planning on printing your #EMNLP2025 poster in Suzhou? There is an easy option available through the conference website: 2025.emnlp.org/poster-print...
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Poster Printing
EMNLP 2025 Poster Printing
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Trustworthy AI Lab @tai-lab.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
“You speak Bavarian? Then you must be uneducated + closed-minded.” 🤯 Not your opinion? Good. But it might be your LLM’s!! 🧵 Check out our #EMNLP2025 paper, where we uncover concerning dialect bias in recent LLMs - including GPT-5. #AI #Bias #Dialect #Fairness #LLM #NLProc #Safety
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Marco Guerini @ ACL2025 @marcoguerini.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I have two fully funded PhD positions in my group. If you want to work on persona based dialogical models or using LLMs to fight online harms then consider applying!
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Shanshan Xu @sxu3.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Super excited to see the growing interest and awareness in diversity, variation, and pluralistic alignment in the NLP community! ✨ 🪩 Below 🧵 are some keynote talks and workshops that highlight this important direction 🤸
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
We’re incredibly proud to announce that our lab received two #ACL2025 awards: Best Social Impact Paper for @elisabassignana.bsky.social and @dirkhovy.bsky.social , and Outstanding Paper for @paul-rottger.bsky.social. Congratulations to them and to all collaborators who made this possible!
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Debora Nozza @deboranozza.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Just arrived in Vienna for ACL 2025 🇦🇹 Excited to be here and to finally meet so many people in person! We have several papers this year and many from @milanlp.bsky.social are around, come say hi! Here are all the works I'm involved in ⤵️ #ACL2025 #ACL2025NLP
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Paul Röttger @paul-rottger.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
*pluralism* in human values & preferences (e.g. with personalisation) will also just grow more important for a global diversity of users. @morlikow.bsky.social is presenting our poster today at 1100. Also hyped for @michaelryan207.bsky.social's work and @verenarieser.bsky.social's keynote!
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Paul Röttger @paul-rottger.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Very excited about all these papers on sociotechnical alignment & the societal impacts of AI at #ACL2025. As is now tradition, I made some timetables to help me find my way around. Sharing here in case others find them useful too :) 🧵
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ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
📢 ACL 2025 this is a reminder of 🎤 #InvitedTalk by Verena Rieser from Google DeepMind "Whose Gold? Re-imagining Alignment for Truly Beneficial AI." on the technical & ethical challenges of building beneficial AI! 🤝 ⚖️ #ACL2025NLP #NLProc Find out more: 2025.aclweb.org/program/keyn...
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Annemarie Friedrich @annefriedrich.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Looking forward to #acl2025 in Vienna! Excited to catch up. I am also hiring, one fully paid (100% E13) position for either a PhD student or a PostDoc in computational linguistics / digital humanities / corpus linguistics (earliest start date: October 2025). Who is interested?
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Matthias Orlikowski @morlikow.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Who's presenting on subjectivity in annotation (human label variation, learning from disagreement, perspectivism) at #ACL2025? papers by e.g. @liweijiang.bsky.social @tiancheng.bsky.social @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social @romanklinger.de keynote @verenarieser.bsky.social link to full list below ⤵️
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Hope Schroeder @hopeschroeder.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🗣️ Excited to share our new #ACL2025 Findings paper: “Just Put a Human in the Loop? Investigating LLM-Assisted Annotation for Subjective Tasks” with Jad Kabbara and Deb Roy. Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2507.15821 Read about our findings ⤵️
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Just Put a Human in the Loop? Investigating LLM-Assisted Annotation for Subjective Tasks
LLM use in annotation is becoming widespread, and given LLMs' overall promising performance and speed, simply "reviewing" LLM annotations in interpretive tasks can be tempting. In subjective annotatio...
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Matthias Orlikowski @morlikow.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I will be at #acl2025 to present "Beyond Demographics: Fine-tuning Large Language Models to Predict Individuals’ Subjective Text Perceptions" ✨ Huge thank you to my collaborators Jiaxin Pei @paul-rottger.bsky.social Philipp Cimiano @davidjurgens.bsky.social @dirkhovy.bsky.social 🍰 more below
Picture of Matthias Orlikowski presenting a poster on the paper titled "Beyond Demographics: Fine-tuning Large Language Models to Predict Individuals’ Subjective Text Perceptions". The poster is similar to the one that will be presented at ACL 2025, showing a number of figures about the key results.
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🎉 The @milanlp.bsky.social lab is excited to present 15 papers and 1 tutorial at #ACL2025 & workshops! Grateful to all our amazing collaborators, see everyone in Vienna! 🚀
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Gavin Abercrombie @gavina.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I'll be presenting this tutorial in Vienna with co-organisers @daniel-russo.bsky.social, @helenabon.bsky.social, Yi-Ling Chung, @marcoguerini.bsky.social and invited civil society speakers Cathy Buerger (@dangerousspeech.org) and ‪@simofons.bsky.social‬ (Facta). Come along or join online!
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Elisa Bassignana @elisabassignana.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
🚨 New paper accepted at #ACL2025 Main conference! 🙌 "The AI Gap: How Socioeconomic Status Affects Language Technology Interactions" w/ @amandacurry.bsky.social & @dirkhovy.bsky.social Very happy for this first collab with @milanlp.bsky.social 🤝 🔗 lnkd.in/dtsH3gaX 🤗 lnkd.in/d7diuBJh 🧵👇 #ACL2025
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Dirk Hovy @dirkhovy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Had the chance to revamp a PhD class on CSS. We're now using Colab notebooks to use Python for data analysis. Check out the new syllabus (w/ reading, slides, background notebooks, and exercises plus solutions). 📚👇 bit.ly/438R6Hk #ComputationalSocialScience #PhD
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Syllabus: Computational Methods for Social and Political Science, Spring 2025 Recommended Reading: Christian, B., & Griffiths, T. (2016). Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisio...
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Incredible! "Content moderators who comb through harmful material uploaded to online platforms have formed a global trade union alliance...to improve working conditions. The Global Trade Union Alliance of Content Moderators (GTUACM) announced today in Nairobi" www.theverge.com/news/658566/...
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Content moderators are organizing against Big Tech
Workers are fighting for working conditions and mental health support.
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Anna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
📢 Breaking changes to EMNLP submissions! If you plan to submit, pls make sure ALL co-authors know that: - they have to register as reviewers by May 21st (can be done as soon as a paper is submitted) - if they get assignments, it must be done on time and acc. to guidelines. Penalties now possible!
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Dirk Hovy @dirkhovy.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
We (w/ @diyiyang.bsky.social, @zhuhao.me, & Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder) are excited to present our #NAACL25 tutorial on Social Intelligence in the Age of LLMs! It will highlight long-standing and emerging challenges of AI interacting w humans, society & the world. ⏰ May 3, 2:00pm-5:30pm Room Pecos
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Anna Maria Planitzer @amplanitzer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Happening now at #COMPTEXT2025 in a fantastic panel on "Advances in Misinformation, Toxicity & Hate Speech Detection" 👏 @pia-p.bsky.social presenting our latest work on how a more Perspectivist approach to NLP for algorithmic moderation could account for users’ differing views on what is harmful 🤔
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Many thanks to @wired.com & @thiccreese.bsky.social for covering our work on stereotype bias!! The new dataset is SHADES, now available here: huggingface.co/datasets/LanguageShades/BiasShades The first of its kind for analyzing GenAI stereotyping across many languages+cultures. Published at NAACL.🤗
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LanguageShades/BiasShades · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
📖For today's Reading Group @elisabassignana.bsky.social presented "Disentangling Perceptions of Offensiveness: Cultural and Moral Correlates" by Aida Davani et al. Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #NLProc
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🎓For our last Friday's lab seminar, it was a pleasure to have Pia Pachinger presenting "Modeling Toxicity Through the User’s Lens" and Luca Braghieri presenting "Article-level slant and polarization in news consumption on social media" ✨
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Matthias Orlikowski @morlikow.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Can LLMs learn to simulate individuals' judgments based on their demographics? Not quite! In our new paper, we found that LLMs do not learn information about demographics, but instead learn individual annotators' patterns based on unique combinations of attributes! 🧵
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Roman Klinger @romanklinger.de · 08/04/2025
We (@csindermann.bsky.social and @romanklinger.de) prepare project to develop a novel annotation/data acquisition platform. To understand limitations of current systems, we could use your help. If your research involves collecting data, could you fill this form? tinyurl.com/annotation20... Thanks!
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Online Survey
Expert Survey on Empirical Data Collection Practices
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/04/2025
Large Language Model-based social simulation has emerged as an exciting new research method. But do LLMs actually resolve the problems that have historically limited use of Agent-Based Models? What do they bring? We review the literature to find out! with Maik Laaroij arxiv.org/abs/2504.03274
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Do Large Language Models Solve the Problems of Agent-Based Modeling? A Critical Review of Generative Social Simulations
Recent advancements in AI have reinvigorated Agent-Based Models (ABMs), as the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to the emergence of ``generative ABMs'' as a novel approach to simula...
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Matthias Orlikowski @morlikow.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
🗻🥾☀️🌨️ ALPS25 Winter school, here we go! Looking forward to a week of talks, projects, posters, meeting many other researchers and, well, hiking!
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Anna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
One week left to apply! Perks: a sane country with great infrastructure, healthcare, and biking lanes.
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Joel Mire @joelmire.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Reward models for LMs are meant to align outputs with human preferences—but do they accidentally encode dialect biases? 🤔 Excited to share our paper on biases against African American Language in reward models, accepted to #NAACL2025 Findings! 🎉 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.12858 (1/10)
Screenshot of Arxiv paper title, "Rejected Dialects: Biases Against African American Language in Reward Models," and author list: Joel Mire, Zubin Trivadi Aysola, Daniel Chechelnitsky, Nicholas Deas, Chrysoula Zerva, and Maarten Sap.
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Victor Wang @victorwang37.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
LLM judges have become ubiquitous, but valuable signal is often ignored at inference. We analyze design decisions for leveraging judgment distributions from LLM-as-a-judge: 🧵 (w/ Michael J.Q. Zhang, @eunsol.bsky.social)
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Dirk Hovy @dirkhovy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Wanna keep up with our @milanlp.bsky.social lab? Here is a starter pack of current and former members: bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Karolina Stańczak @karstanczak.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
📢New Paper Alert!🚀 Human alignment balances social expectations, economic incentives, and legal frameworks. What if LLM alignment worked the same way?🤔 Our latest work explores how social, economic, and contractual alignment can address incomplete contracts in LLM alignment🧵
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Shivani Kumar @shivanikumar.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
What’s inside? 💭 Multilingual Hypothetical + Reddit based dilemmas 🌐 Action choices of people across 46 countries! 🔎 Ethical principles preferences 📊 Cultural & moral profiles of annotators 🔁 Consequence modeling Think of it as a "CT scan" of human moral judgment! (3/n)
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Luca Rossi @lrossi.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🚨[PREPRINT]🚨 "TikTok StitchGraph: Characterizing communication patterns on TikTok through a collection of interaction networks" : arxiv.org/pdf/2502.18661 What does a "conversation" look like on #TikTok? Answering these question from a #network perspective is not easy
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