Stephanie Brandl
@stephaniebrandl.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in NLP (Fairness, Interpretability and lately interested in Political Science) at the University of Copenhagen ✨ Before: PostDoc in NLP at Uni of CPH, PhD student in ML at TU Berlin
My broader take on all three German state elections and why focusing only on the success of the far right is both incomplete and self-defeating.
Look again – there’s more to Germany’s election trends than far-right success | Cas Mudde
Defeatist narratives abound. Yet Germany’s latest elections suggest voter dissatisfaction is benefiting the left as well as the right, says the political scientist Cas Mudde
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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
Jetzt brauchen wir erst recht mehr Solidarität, um dem Terror und Hass entgegen zu treten.
📢 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
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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📢 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 👀
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....
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...
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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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...
SODAS Data Discussion 2 (Spring 2026)
SODAS is delighted to host Jo Lukito and Jeanet Sinding Bentzen for the Spring 2026 Data Discussion series!
sodas.ku.dk
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.
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 ☀️
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 🙏
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
I am looking for 2 emergency reviewers for the ARR Ethics, Bias & Fairness track. Please DM me if you are available 🙏
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
Ilias Chalkidis@kiddothe2b.bsky.social · last yr.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
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
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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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
Ilker Kesen@ilkerkesen.bsky.social · last yr.📢New preprint: We introduce 📏Cetvel, a unified benchmark for evaluating language understanding, generation, and cultural capacity of LLMs in Turkish🇹🇷 #AI #LLM #NLProc Joint work with Abrek Er, @gozdegulsahin.bsky.social, @aykuterdem.bsky.social from KUIS AI Center.
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!
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.
Die Menschen mit der Yacht wollen dir einreden, dass die Menschen mit dem Schlauchboot das Problem wären.
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.
Excited to see this being presented @euripsconf.bsky.social in Copenhagen ✨
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...
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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Hey, wer das @ndaktuell.bsky.social noch lesen möchte, hat jetzt die Gelegenheit die Zeitung zu retten. genossenschaft.nd-aktuell.de/spenden
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
Maria Antoniak@mariaa.bsky.social · 2y agoIf you are working as an AC or SAC for ARR and would like to join some kind of *unofficial* Slack channel to ask each other questions and figure out this process together, please comment in this thread or send me a message. #ACL2025
📣 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 · last yr.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...
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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#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...
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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