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Ilias Chalkidis @kiddothe2b.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New preprint 📑: "Templated or fully Synthetic? Prompt construction as a confound in measuring LLM political stance beyond writing assistance". The preprint is available: 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2608.11008 TL;DR 🧵 follows 👇 1/N

Two sets of examples for templated and LLM-generatedprompts for two selected topics (Climate Change / Russia–Ukraine), each set for one of the two newly introduced intents (information seeking and opinion sharing), and a given user’s stance (neutral / sided). Below, we present the mean lean of GPT 5.4 mini between the two topic-specific poles across all three intents in the same setting (intent and user’s stance), followed by the mean realness rank assigned by the human annotators for that intent.

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Ferda Ataman, Antidiskriminierungsbeauftragte @beauftragte.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Jetzt brauchen wir erst recht mehr Solidarität, um dem Terror und Hass entgegen zu treten.

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Ilias Chalkidis @kiddothe2b.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

📢 Our paper 🤯🧠 "Brainrot: Deskilling and Addiction are Overlooked AI Risks" has been accepted at the ACM Fairness, Accountability & Transparency (FAccT) conference 2026. The preprint is available: 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2605.03512 TL;DR 🧵 follows 👇 1/5

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Brainrot: Deskilling and Addiction are Overlooked AI Risks

The scope of AI safety and alignment work in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has so far mostly been limited to harms related to: (a) discrimination and hate speech, (b) harmful/inappropriat...

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AthNLP - Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School @athnlp.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

📢 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 👀

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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....

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

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...

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CAISA | Who would ChatGPT vote for and why should we care?

Apr 16, 2026 | Se dette og mange flere events fra Det Nationale Center for AI i Samfundet (CAISA).

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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...

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SODAS Data Discussion 2 (Spring 2026)

SODAS is delighted to host Jo Lukito and Jeanet Sinding Bentzen for the Spring 2026 Data Discussion series!

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Jelle Zuidema 🟥 @wzuidema.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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.

This is a reminder that the meta-reviews are due TODAY 4 March AoE.

Please remember that if you don't sumit your meta-reviews on time you might be considered highly irresponsible, which means your co-authored papers may be desk rejected and you may become ineligible from committing to *CL conferences or (re-)submitting any work on the the next ARR cycle.

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Giuseppe Attanasio @gattanasio.cc · 10/02/2026

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 ☀️

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Shane Storks @shanestorks.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

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 🙏

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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

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Stephanie Brandl @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

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

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Stephanie Brandl @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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Stephanie Brandl @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

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

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CAISA - Det Nationale Center for Kunstig Intelligens i Samfundet

Det Nationale Center for Kunstig Intelligens i Samfundet (CAISA) er et nationalt konsortium, der samler forskere fra Københavns Universitet, Aalborg Universitet, Aarhus Universitet, ITU og DTU i tæt s...

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Ilker Kesen @ilkerkesen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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

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Sanktionsfrei @sanktionsfrei.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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!

Sozialamt zieht Flaschenpfand von Sozialhilfe ab
Das Sozialamt Altona zog einem Rentner 58 Euro gesammeltes Pfand von der Grundsicherung ab. Dabei dürfte er selbst nach strenger Auslegung etwas behalten.

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

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.

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Laserbrille 💚 @laserbrille.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

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

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 20/11/2025

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.

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Stephanie Brandl @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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...

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SODAS Data Discussion 3 (Fall 2025)

SODAS is delighted to host Daniel Juhász Vigild and Stephanie Brandl for the Fall 2025 Data Discussion series!

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Raul Zelik @raulzelik.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

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

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

📣 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.

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Signal @signal.org · 03/10/2025

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...

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Sonja Lemke @sonjalemke.dielinkebt.de · 03/10/2025

#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...

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Internes Protokoll: Dänemark will Chatkontrolle durchdrücken

Dänemark will die Chatkontrolle in drei Wochen durchdrücken. Am Gesetz ändert die Ratspräsidentschaft nichts, stattdessen sollen Staaten ihre Meinung ändern. Die Position Deutschlands ist maßgeblich. ...

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Friedolin Merhout @fmerhout.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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.

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Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

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Ilias Chalkidis @kiddothe2b.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

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

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Decoding Alignment: A Critical Survey of LLM Development Initiatives through Value-setting and Data-centric Lens

AI Alignment, primarily in the form of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), has been a cornerstone of the post-training phase in developing Large Language Models (LLMs). It has also been...

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Stephanie Brandl @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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 🫶

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Ilias Chalkidis @kiddothe2b.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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

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Stephanie Brandl @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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?

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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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

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A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark

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Krsto Lazarević @krstorevic.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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.

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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/07/2025

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

FAST COMPANY Article:

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completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals
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Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:

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Helena Steinhaus @helenasteinhaus.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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

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Tiago Pimentel @tpimentel.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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/...

Inline citations with only first author name, or first two co-first author names.

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

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

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

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...

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Deconstructing screen time: The connections between digital use, dissatisfaction, and disconnection

With the global permeation of digital technologies, concern has grown over the disadvantages of time spent on digital devices. Previous literature has…

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 30/04/2025

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

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 29/04/2025

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.

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Isra Salazar @israsalazar.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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

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Stephanie Brandl @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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

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Daniel Hershcovich @danielhers.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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

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3-year Postdoc in Natural Language Processing and Law

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

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...

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SODAS Lecture with Kevin Munger

SODAS Lecture on the effects of TikTok on the evaluation of politicians with Kevin Munger.

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