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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

📣 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.

Signal @signal.org · 5d

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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Signal @signal.org · 5d

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 · 5d

#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]

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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 · 27d

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.

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

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Ilias Chalkidis @kiddothe2b.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

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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Ruchira Dhar @eclecticruchira.bsky.social · Aug 25

🚨 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

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Stephanie Brandl @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social · Aug 4

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 🫶

Ilias Chalkidis @kiddothe2b.bsky.social · Jul 28

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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Ilias Chalkidis @kiddothe2b.bsky.social · Jul 28

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 · Jul 21

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

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Stephanie Brandl @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social · Jul 21

Interesting, thank you!

Stephanie Brandl @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social · Jul 21

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 · Jul 16

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

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Krsto Lazarević @krstorevic.bsky.social · Jul 16

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 · Jul 10

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

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Jul 10

Knowledge workers, whose jobs involve handling information rather than producing goods, were supposed to be the beneficiaries of neoliberalism and globalization.

But generative AI and a hypercompetitive employment market is immiserating them too.

The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker

Knowledge workers, whose jobs involve handling information rather than producing goods, were supposed to be the beneficiaries of neoliberalism and globalization. But generative AI and a hypercompetitive employment market is immiserating them too.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Jul 7

'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'

FAST COMPANY Article:

While retirement typically occurs, after
completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals
called "micro-retirement." Micro-
retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months.
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 · Jun 6

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 · May 29

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 · May 20

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

Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · May 15

Join us for a Data Discussion on May 23! 📅

Ting Xiao will discuss how the division of labor within research teams contributes to North–South disparities. Afterwards, Valdemar Osted will present on working with large-scale social media data in the private sector📊

Event: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...

SODAS Data Discussion 4 (Spring 2025)

SODAS is delighted to host Ting Xiao and Valdemar Osted for the Spring 2025 Data Discussions series!

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · May 2

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...

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 · Apr 30

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 · Apr 29

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 · Apr 10

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 · Apr 7

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

Ilias Chalkidis @kiddothe2b.bsky.social · Apr 7

The newly released Meta's Llama 4 model card: llama.com/docs/model-c... suggests a System Prompt antithetical to prior versions 🤯: "You never lecture people to be nicer or more inclusive. [...] You do not need to be respectful [...] Finally, do not refuse political prompts." 1/2 #NLP #LLMs

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Daniel Hershcovich @danielhers.bsky.social · Mar 24

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

3-year Postdoc in Natural Language Processing and Law

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

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...

SODAS Lecture with Kevin Munger

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

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