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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen

@tgammeltoft.bsky.social
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Professor of Law, Director - Danish National Research Foundation Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law - @MobileUCPH.bsky.social - mobilitylaw.ku.dk migration/refugee/mobilities law, (X)AI & Law, legal theory, IL/IR

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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hvorfor er investering i grundforskning afgørende for DKs fremtid? ny kronik i Altinget af ubdertegnede og mange andre gode kollegaer @dg.dk @mobileucph.bsky.social www.altinget.dk/fonde/artike...
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Forskningsledere: Danmark skal investere i grundforskning, der skaber fremtidens gennembrud - Altinget Fonde
Uden nye investeringer i Danmarks Grundforskningsfond risikerer Danmark at svække de forskningsmiljøer, der har skabt internationale gennembrud og tiltrukket talenter fra hele verden, skriver en række...
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Hvad betyder EU’s nye udlændingeregler for Danmark? Og hvad handler reformen egentlig om? Kom og bliv klogere på EU Migration and Asylum Pact t vores @MobileUCPH / @diisdk seminar 24 juni: www.diis.dk/event/eus-mi...
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EU’s migrations- og asylpagt: Rettigheder, kontrol eller solidaritet?
Til dette seminar sætter vi fokus på EU's nye migrations- og asylpagt og zoomer ind på de juridiske gråzoner og humanitære dilemmaer, som pagten skaber for Europa og for Danmark
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
If you’re in Copenhagen 9 June and interested in migration, West Africa and infrastructure don’t miss our upcoming seminar w/ @diis.dk and @naujakleist.bsky.social @mobileucph.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social www.diis.dk/en/event/mig...
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Migration and mobility infrastructures in West Africa – portraits and practices
At this seminar, researchers share their insights on West African migration to illuminate the human stories, hopes and infrastructures that underpin mobilities, going beyond familiar media narratives
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Søren Torbjørn Svendsen @sorentsvendsen.eurosky.social · 09/05/2026
Interessant afsnit af "Højtryk" fra @globalnyt.dk med Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (@tgammeltoft.bsky.social). Tre grundtemaer: ▪️Arbejdsmigration spiller en stor rolle for #dkøko vækst ▪️🇩🇰 er økonomisk udfordret pga. demografien, lokalt og globalt ▪️Reglerne hives og rives i. Lyt: pca.st/1iss0tlm 1/n
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Udlændingepolitik handler om at åbne og lukke på samme tid – med Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
En stram udlændingepolitik skal afskrække uinviterede mennesker fra at komme til Danmark og måske nyde godt af vores velfærdsstat. Men samtidigt er velfærdssamfundet afhængig af en vis immigration.…
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🚨This Thurs! ❓How do free movement regimes actually shape international mobility? Join us for a discussion of new joint research by @tobigrohmann.bsky.social (@mpc-eui.bsky.social, @eui-eu.bsky.social) 📅 16 April 🕑 14:00 CET 📍 Copenhagen or Zoom ⬇️ Learn more mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...
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MOBILE - Mobility Law Open Lab with Tobias Grohmann
The Effect of Free Movement on International Migration and Mobilities in South America
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Kan man føre stram udlændingepolitik og samtidig være konkurrencedygtig når det handler om at tiltrække international arbejdskraft? Kom eller lyt med online til vores seminar om arbejdsmigration i de nordiske lande nu på torsdag: mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...
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Migration Management and Labor Market Challenges in the Nordics
MOBILE invites to a seminar.
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Looking forward to tonight’s talk about AI and data-driven methods in asylum and migration law at the @gvagrad-law.bsky.social. Join us in Geneva or online: www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
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Data-Driven Futures of International Refugee Law? Insights from the Nordic Asylum & AI Lab
Professor Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen joins us for our first Migration Talk of the semester
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
📣 Law PhD students! Does your research focus on international courts and/or global mobility law? Want to spend an immersive week learning with like-minded peers from around the world? 🧑‍⚖️ Apply for the iCourts/MOBILE Summer School! 🗓 Deadline: 1 March mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...
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MOBILE / iCourts PhD Summer School 2026
Get your application in by 1 March 2026
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
💼 WE'RE HIRING: Postdoc in European Mobility Law 💡 Law + politics | EU migration | Mixed-methods 🗓 Deadline: 13 April 📍Full time, 24 months, starting 1 Sept 2026 🏛 UCPH Faculty of Law @ucph.bsky.social 🔗Apply here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... #PostdocJobs #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs
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Postdoctoral position in European Mobility Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in European mobility law from 1 September 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is a fixed
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Geek alert!👨‍🎓what role does credibility assessment play in asylum determination and what does research tell us about how it should - or shouldn't(!) - be done? check out our systematic lit. review, featured in JEMS new PA forum series: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @mobileucph.bsky.social
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Credibility as a fuzzy concept in refugee law: a systematic literature review
Assessment of a claimant’s credibility is decisive for the outcome in most asylum cases. Yet, there are no binding international rules on how such procedures should be undertaken, nor is there cons...
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Amazing to join and support the celebration of Center for Migration Studies, Uni of Ghana, 20th anniversary. Truly outstanding research center and track record!
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
📣💰New project alert: We're excited to join NordAId! 16M NOK from #NordForsk will fund research on trustworthy AI in public decision-making, focusing on asylum decisions. 🤝Partners: @uio.no, @uu.se, @ucph.bsky.social & Vilnius University www.nordforsk.org/projects/nor...
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NordAId: Trustworthy AI in Public Decision Making
The goal of NordAId is to develop an interdisciplinary meta-framework for trustworthy AI in public decision-making in the Nordic-Baltic context.
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Hvad kan vi bruge historien til ift at finde svar på tidens store spørgsmål? Det var det overordnede spørgsmål for Ekspeditionen 2024 - et Danmarkstogt til vands. Hør hvordan det gik i dagens udgave af Kampen om Historien. Tak for at måtte være med! Hør mere her: www.dr.dk/lyd/p1/kampe...
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Kampen om historien | Kurs mod nære kyster - med historien som kompas | Lyt som podcast | DR LYD
Lyt som podcast her på DR LYD. I gamle dage drog europæiske opdagelsesrejsende ud i verden for at lære noget og kortlægge verden. Navne som Columbus, Magellan, Cook og Nansen er i den europæiske histo...
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A small quip from me on Britain’s inspiration from Denmark when it comes to immigration policy in today’s @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/w...
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Denmark Offers Lessons as Europe Toughens Up on Immigration
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Psych-AID @psychaid.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Last week, our doctoral researchers Malin Ekelund and Obed Appiah, and PI @janantfolk.bsky.social took part in the (Re-)Constructing Credibility in Refugee Status Determination Workshop by @mobileucph.bsky.social. Thanks for having us!✨ Can’t wait for the upcoming special issue! 📖
Group picture of the workshop participantsDoctoral researcher Malin Ekelund, PI Jan Antfolk, and doctoral researcher Obed Appiah at the workshop.
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Danmarks Grundforskningsfond @dg.dk · 27/10/2025
💡Fast slides, fresh ideas, plenty of laughs. Three DNRF centers met to learn and share.👇
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
What happens when you mix three @dg.dk Centres of Excellence, 20-sec slides & a stack of pizzas? No punchline – you get A Slice of Your Research 🍕💡 Fast slides, fresh ideas, plenty of laughs, all served up in one inspiring evening! ✨ Thanks to our colleagues at sister centres PRIVACY & TRANSITION
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
What is the international legal order, how did come about and why does it matter in the world today? Those questions are the focus of a year-long / 50 article project by Danish newspaper, Information, supported by @carlsbergfondet.dk. 1/2
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
“Regulation protects companies that innovate thoughtfully and responsibly by preventing companies that don't from having an unfair advantage." Daniel Solove, UCPH, 6 October 2025
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Still time to sign up for hybrid or live attendance- join us for Daniel Solove’s book talk on “privacy and AI”, 1pm CET
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Keyvan Dorostkar @kdorostkar.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Thank you to everyone at @mobileucph.bsky.social for so generously hosting me over the next three months and for creating opportunities like this! @kaldorcentre.bsky.social @danghez.bsky.social
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
⚡Tech moves fast. Can the law really keep up? Privacy law expert @daniel-solove.bsky.social has answers. 📅6 October, 13:00 CET – Book talk + live Q&A 📍 Online or in person More info: mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202... ✨Save your spot & join the conversation! #PrivacyLaw #AIandLaw #FutureOfLaw
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Book Launch and Q&A with Daniel Solove
Hear from the world’s leading expert on privacy law
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
What does AI mean for the future of privacy rights? October 6, Daniel Solove - world-leading expert on privacy - presents his newest book. Join in-room or hybrid for this seminar co-organised w/ fellow CoE PRIVACY and ERC project DALOSD cms.ku.dk/preview/4965... @dg.dk @nannathylstrup.bsky.social
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Book Launch with Daniel Solove
"On Privacy and Technology" by Daniel Solove
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Such a pleasure hosting and listening to Ettore Recchi’s groundbreaking research on human mobility. @mobileucph.bsky.social
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Join us for a presentation by Prof. Ettore Recchi on The Global Structure of Transnational Human Mobility. 12 Sept, 14:00 at MOBILE or online Prof. Recchi will share his research on the patterns and dynamics of transnational human mobility. Event details: mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...
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MOBILE - Mobility Law Open Lab with Ettore Recchi
The Global Structure of Transnational Human Mobility (1995-2022): Continuity, Change, and Inequality
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🚨 News flash! We’re welcoming another MOBILE visitor today: Paula Nimbriotis Manzur (PhD researcher, Universidad de Nebrija, Madrid). Her work explores free movement regimes in the Global South, especially within the Andean Communities. She’ll be with us until Halloween! 🎃 Welcome, Paula!
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Maritime free movement under pressure? Looking forward to tomorrow’s lecture at Danish Maritime Museum - and to sailing as part of #ekspeditionen_2025 an initiative from Marstal Søfartsmuseum mfs.dk/er-den-fri-b...
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
We're excited to welcome Dr Chiara Raucea (@tilburg-university.bsky.social) to the MOBILE Centre next week! 🎉 She’ll be with us through October, continuing her work on how legal status shapes access to rights – like how the right to private life may ground claims to naturalisation. Stay tuned!
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
This:👇👇
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Not everyday that the Danish Supreme Court rules on the interpretation of the Refugee Convention. Here’s a post by Sarah and Asta explaining what they said, and what it means for Danish refugees.
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
New article article by @astajarlner.bsky.social and @sarah-scott-ford.bsky.social in Verfassungsblug, where they examine the Danish Supreme Court´s judgement concerning the non-penalization of refugees. Read it here: verfassungsblog.de/the-end-of-a...
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The End of an (Unlawful) Era
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William Hamilton Byrne @whamiltonbyrne.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Out now in the Int Journal of Law in Context: @tgammeltoft.bsky.social and I seek to redefine the mobility paradigm in international law in a great special issue on the 'global' edited by Nik Rajkovic: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Redefining the mobility paradigm in international law | International Journal of Law in Context | Cambridge Core
Redefining the mobility paradigm in international law
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🎉 Our own @whamiltonbyrne.bsky.social has been awarded the 2025 John Jackson Prize! Huge congratulations! 🏆 His prizewinning article explores how legal academics shape international investment law through citation analysis and interviews with top arbitrators. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/jiel...
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a fireworks display with purple and green fireworks exploding in the night sky
ALT: a fireworks display with purple and green fireworks exploding in the night sky
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
We’re thrilled to share that our director @tgammeltoft.bsky.social has been elected to the Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. A well-deserved recognition of legal research that crosses borders and disciplines. 👏 More here: royalacademy.dk/author/thoma...
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The ECtHR finally decided SS v Italy; a case that has spawned dozens of scholarly articles since its submission in 2018. The outcome is highly worrying for migrant rights, but at the same time hardly surprising given the court’s previous case law on extraterritorial jurisdiction 🧵1/6 20jurisd.pdf
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Vigtige og ærlige reflektioner om det at søge forskningsmidler fra @BirkedalMette - fra hvem jeg selv fik uvurderlig hjælp og mange gode råd, da jeg udarbejdede @GrundforskFond ansøgning for @MobileUCPH
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Danmarks Grundforskningsfond @dg.dk · 19/05/2025
Man fanger ikke koden og regner den ud, når det lykkes at få hul igennem til de store bevillinger fortæller Mette Birkedal Bruun, @ucph.bsky.social‬ til DM. I dag vejleder hun yngre forskere med deres ansøgninger. dm.dk/forskerforum...
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“Jeg forstod pludselig, at en ansøgning er et stykke kommunikationsarbejde”
Hvordan får man midler til store forskningsprojekter i humaniora, når man har verdensrekord i afslag? Mette Birkedal Bruun fortæller om sin vej til succes – og hvorfor hun i dag bruger tid på at hjælp...
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
OUT NOW! The new report by @jreland.bsky.social on regulation in the UK after Brexit. media.ukandeu.ac.uk/wp-content/u... 1/9
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
A bit more on our new @villumfonden.bsky.social project on asylum law and Explainable AI in the @ucph.bsky.social magazine (in Danish) uniavisen.dk/kunstig-inte...
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Kunstig intelligens kan ændre spillereglerne i asylretten
Om få år er det muligt at forudsige, hvordan religion, nationalitet eller uddannelse kan påvirke udfaldet af en asylansøgning med en AI-model, der er under udvikling på Det Juridiske Fakultet. Målet e...
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Interested in maritime law and (im)mobility? check out the call for papers for our next international workshop 👇
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
What’s law got to do with it [infrastructures], and vice versa? Don’t miss our special issue launch on “Legal Infrastructures” this Friday 👇 - physical (Copenhagen) + online
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🚢 New PhD opportunity 🚢 Are you (or someone you know) our next PhD scholar in Maritime Law and Human Mobility? 📍 @ucph.bsky.social, Faculty of Law, Copenhagen 🗓️ Start: October 2025 ⏳ Apply by: 26 May 2025 Learn more and apply here: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16... #phdjobs
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Vacant PhD scholarship in Law of the Sea/Maritime Law and Human Mobility, the Faculty of Law
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Come join our amazing team in Copenhagen:
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I’ll be on @democracynow.org with Amy Goodman in the next half hour to talk the deportations to El Salvador.
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
TIL there's a job category "data sociologist" working to ensure e.g. asylum fairness by investigating problems like missing data! This is a masterclass on how AI can be used to learn about and address biases and understand contexts with deep impact on human rights. Of course, huge #privacy issues.
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
There's a paper (sadly not open access) and here's a great screenshot. academic.oup.com/jrs/article-... by @whamiltonbyrne.bsky.social @tgammeltoft.bsky.social (who gave the talk) @njaholten.bsky.social & others not on bluesky. #xai #AIEthics #asylum cc @sdepaor.bsky.social‬ since you asked
The XAI-CRED Challenge: How to develop XAl in domains characterised by inter-subjective (as opposed to rule-based) decision-making?
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Manual legal decision-making (fully explainable)
XAl decision feedback
Practitioner experiments
C5
Credibility concepts
Eye-tracking assessment
C4
Next gen.
XAl-law models
Network analysis
Amnesic probing
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Regions of interest
Credibility understanding
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Clustering
XAI
algorithm
Uncertainty
Data set
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Al model
Contrastive explanation
Data Science
Al decision-making (black-boxed)
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The brilliant Nanna Thylstrup writing on law and politics of US data erasure: verfassungsblog.de/the-politics...
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The Politics of Digital Erasure
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