Stephanie Brandl

SODAS Data Discussion 3 (Fall 2025) SODAS is delighted to host Daniel Juhász Vigild and Stephanie Brandl for the Fall 2025 Data Discussion series!

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...

Hey, wer das @ndaktuell.bsky.social noch lesen möchte, hat jetzt die Gelegenheit die Zeitung zu retten.
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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

📣 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.

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...

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. ...

#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...

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

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.

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...

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

🚨 New Paper: Our latest work “Beyond Technocratic XAI: The Who, What & How in Explanation Design” was accepted to
AIES 2025 🎉🥳. Thanks to @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social and Ninell Oldenburg for being amazing co-authors! Read the preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2508.09231

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 🫶

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

Thanks for the reference! Yeah I am also wondering if instead we need new terminology for the bigger LLMs.

Interesting, thank you!

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?

eurips.cc A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark

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...
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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.

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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'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'

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

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

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/...

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

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…

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...

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

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.

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

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

3-year Postdoc in Natural Language Processing and Law

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

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

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...

Come work with us!

Assistant prof. Clara Vandeweerdt is hiring a three-year post-doc on a project using machine learning and survey experiments to understand who advocates for climate action in the media, and why it matters. 👩‍💼

Job call here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Open positions and projects ### Open semester and Master's projects If you're an AU student looking for a semester project, a Bachelor project, or an MS thesis project, please refer to [this list](projects). ### Prospective PhD ...

I am recruiting 2 PhD students for Fall'25 @csaudk.bsky.social to work on bleeding-edge topics in #NLProc #LLMs #AIAgents (e.g. LLM reasoning, knowledge-seeking agents, and more).

Details: www.cs.au.dk/~clan/openings
Deadline: May 1, 2025

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