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
Before: PostDoc in NLP at Uni of CPH, PhD student in ML at TU Berlin
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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
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 🫶
This was a fun (and very educational) PolSci🤝NLP project 🫶
Excited to see this being presented @euripsconf.bsky.social in Copenhagen ✨
🌟 New Paper Alert: EvalCards 🌟
Excited to share our new paper, “EvalCards: A Framework for Standardized Evaluation Reporting”is accepted for presentation at the @EurIPSConf workshop on "The Science of Benchmarking and Evaluating AI" .
Excited to share our new paper, “EvalCards: A Framework for Standardized Evaluation Reporting”is accepted for presentation at the @EurIPSConf workshop on "The Science of Benchmarking and Evaluating AI" .
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Excited to see this being presented @euripsconf.bsky.social in Copenhagen ✨
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Postdoc application deadline 19 Nov.
Join us in Copenhagen - probably the best NLP group in the world 💚
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Join us in Copenhagen - probably the best NLP group in the world 💚
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Postdoc application deadline 19 Nov.
Join us in Copenhagen - probably the best NLP group in the world 💚
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Join us in Copenhagen - probably the best NLP group in the world 💚
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Hiring NLP Postdoc @DIKU_Institut, Copenhagen. Rethink long-horizon LLM alignment toward measurable outcomes for consumers with agentic systems to fight food waste. 2-year position. Start 1 Mar 2026. Apply by 19 Nov 2025.
Apply: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…#NLPL#LLML#AIForGoodod
Apply: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…#NLPL#LLML#AIForGoodod
https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Hiring NLP Postdoc @DIKU_Institut, Copenhagen. Rethink long-horizon LLM alignment toward measurable outcomes for consumers with agentic systems to fight food waste. 2-year position. Start 1 Mar 2026. Apply by 19 Nov 2025.
Apply: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…#NLPL#LLML#AIForGoodod
Apply: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…#NLPL#LLML#AIForGoodod
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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...
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!
sodas.ku.dk
October 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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...
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...
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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
genossenschaft.nd-aktuell.de/spenden
October 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Hey, wer das @ndaktuell.bsky.social noch lesen möchte, hat jetzt die Gelegenheit die Zeitung zu retten.
genossenschaft.nd-aktuell.de/spenden
genossenschaft.nd-aktuell.de/spenden
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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
If 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
Heard from other new SACs that they’d also like a place to ask questions and support each other. Is there already an official ARR Slack workspace? Or an existing channel in the ACL workspace? Should we make something? Seems like it would be more efficient than emailing or posting here. #ACL2025
October 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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
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📣 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.
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...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
📣 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.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
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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...
signal.org
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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...
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. ...
netzpolitik.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
#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...
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...
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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.
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
jobportal.ku.dk
September 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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.
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.
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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...
arxiv.org
August 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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
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🚨 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
AIES 2025 🎉🥳. Thanks to @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social and Ninell Oldenburg for being amazing co-authors! Read the preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2508.09231
August 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🚨 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
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 🫶
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
August 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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 🫶
This was a fun (and very educational) PolSci🤝NLP project 🫶
Reposted by Stephanie Brandl
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
July 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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
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?
"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?
July 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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?
"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 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...
eurips.cc
Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website:
blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n...
eurips.cc
eurips.cc
A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark
eurips.cc
July 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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...
eurips.cc
Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website:
blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n...
eurips.cc
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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.
July 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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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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
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.
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.
jacobin.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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.'
The word is 'vacations.'
July 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
'Vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
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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
June 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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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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/...
github.com/tpimentelms/...
May 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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/...
github.com/tpimentelms/...
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Join us this Friday for the final session of this spring’s Data Discussions! 💡
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...
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!
sodas.ku.dk
May 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Join us this Friday for the final session of this spring’s Data Discussions! 💡
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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...
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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...
Read the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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
We look forward to the Spring Reception starting at 4 PM!
@lpirch.bsky.social @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social @harrygav.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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
We look forward to the Spring Reception starting at 4 PM!
@lpirch.bsky.social @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social @harrygav.bsky.social
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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.
April 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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.