Jasmijn Bastings
@jasmijn.bastings.me
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Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Interested in equitable, fair and inclusive AI, especially the intersection of gender and language (technology). She/her. 🌐 jasmijn.bastings.me
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"Amplifying Trans and Nonbinary Voices: A Community-Centred Harm Taxonomy for LLMs" is online: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon... We explore LLM responses that may negatively impact the transgender and nonbinary (TGNB) community and introduce a proof-of-concept toolkit to help identify them #NLProc
Amplifying Trans and Nonbinary Voices: A Community-Centred Harm Taxonomy for LLMs
Eddie L. Ungless, Sunipa Dev, Cynthia L. Bennett, Rebecca Gulotta, Jasmijn Bastings, Remi Denton. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Lon...
aclanthology.org
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gitt-workshop.bsky.social
@bsavoldi.bsky.social taking us back in time at #GITT2025 ⌚⏳ focusing on the first discussions of gender bias in language technology as a socio-technical issue. No, the problem hasn't been fixed yet. But what has happened?
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mxeddie.bsky.social
I've created a survey on ethics resources. Anyone in UK who does research with LLMs, in academia or industry, building models or using them as tools, is eligible. Takes 10 mins and there's the chance to win £100 voucher.

Survey: lnkd.in/eFRsqpT2

(V1 of the guide is here arxiv.org/abs/2410.19812)
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
Survey of researchers in academia, industry and third sector who deploy LLMs as part of their work (e.g. because they evaluate LLMs, finetune LLMs, use LLMs to summarise data etc).
edinburghinformatics.eu.qualtrics.com
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mmitchell.bsky.social
👉 👈 Meta announced that they're changing their models to reduce "left-leaning [political] bias"--that means leaning them to the political "right". Lots to unpack about what that might mean. So I ran a quick "shot in the dark" study...and found a *political right* bias in Meta models. Some notes.🧵
Barchart showing meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B, meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B, meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct. Each model has two bars, a blue one saying PRO-LEFT and a red one saying PRO-RIGHT. The PRO-RIGHT bars on higher than the PRO-LEFT in all of them.
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This is a really good piece on why the UK supreme court ruling is so problematic.
quinnae.com
As ever, Liberal Currents answered the call. Here, I respond to the legal atrocity that is the UK Supreme Court ruling, and argue that the meme of "sex-based rights" smuggles illiberal ideas into the heart of civil rights law, suicide bombing the very idea of equality.
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fbk-mt.bsky.social
📢 Come and join our group!
We offer a fully funded 3-year PhD position:

📔 Automatic translation with large multimodal models: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...

📍Full details for application: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...

📅 Deadline May 12, 2025

#NLProc #FBK
Reserved topic scholarships | Doctoral Program - Information Engineering and Computer Science
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I heard another fake Hannah Arendt quote on the radio. Since in the current times we might hear more of her to make sense of what is going on, here is a nice piece on what she actually said on lies & people not believing anything anymore: hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/o...
On Fake Hannah Arendt Quotations
This article discusses a mis-attributed quote to Hannah Arendt circulating on social media, exploring why such alterations occur and their potential consequences. Berkowitz argues that while simplifie...
hac.bard.edu
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My heartfelt condolences to everyone who knew and loved Felix. He was such a bright thinker. Such a loss.
romapatel.bsky.social
such a monumental loss to everyone who knew him, both in research and other capacities. i first met felix as a very junior phd student and the mentorship, advice and kindness he brought forward cannot be put into words. please share and rsvp if you want to, and are able to come: pp.events/felix
lampinen.bsky.social
Felix Hill was such an incredible mentor — and occasional cold water swimming partner — to me. He's a huge part of why I joined DeepMind and how I've come to approach research. Even a month later, it's still hard to believe he's gone.
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tylerachang.bsky.social
We scaled training data attribution (TDA) methods ~1000x to find influential pretraining examples for thousands of queries in an 8B-parameter LLM over the entire 160B-token C4 corpus!
medium.com/people-ai-re...
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christophmolnar.bsky.social
Even as an interpretable ML researcher, I wasn't sure what to make of Mechanistic Interpretability, which seemed to come out of nowhere not too long ago.

But then I found the paper "Mechanistic?" by
@nsaphra.bsky.social and @sarah-nlp.bsky.social, which clarified things.
Screenshot of the paper.
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lauraruis.bsky.social
How do LLMs learn to reason from data? Are they ~retrieving the answers from parametric knowledge🦜? In our new preprint, we look at the pretraining data and find evidence against this:

Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives LLM reasoning ⚙️🔢

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