Layla Bouzoubaa
@laylab.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate @ Drexel University, Info. Sci. 🇲🇦 Studying lived experiences of people who use #drugs, #stigma, #harmreduction through mixed methods, #NLProc. Public health background. Aspiring wine connoisseur & proud cat lady 🐱🐱🐱
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Almost exactly 1 year ago I joined this platform! A little more about me: I am currently trying to understand felt stigma by people who use drugs from self disclosed posts using computational methods and narratology. I am presenting my paper on countering stigma directed towards pwud today at #EMNLP
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laylab.bsky.social
This a great quick read and, most importantly, a reminder for #AcademicSky ! On that note, if anyone has any good references for mentorship, I welcome them 🙏🏼: www.science.org/content/arti...
I didn't think I needed mentorship training—but it reshaped my approach
“I have noticed students are now quicker to ask for help,” this Ph.D. student writes
www.science.org
laylab.bsky.social
🚨 Opportunities from @athnlp.bsky.social : @annarogers.bsky.social shared a PhD opening @ ITU for anyone interested in peer review and LLM + a postdoc @ AAU on real-world LLM evaluation #NLProc #AcademicSky
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mellymeldubs.bsky.social
Job alert! 🌸🏔️ The UW iSchool is hiring for *two* TT faculty positions, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. It's pretty here!

Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline).

Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020
Aerial photo of UW campus with Mt. Rainier in the background
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epiellie.bsky.social
Some of y’all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal.

Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
Thanks to @asm.org and colleagues for stadning up for public health. Call Congress today and demand Kennedy's resignation
asm.org/press-releas...
ASM Issues Joint Statement Calling For Secretary Kennedy Resignation
The American Society for Microbiology joined national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations to call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Protecting public health is our responsibility as physicians, scientists and patient advocates. It is also the responsibility of our elected officials, and we call for their support at this critical moment to protect the health of the nation.
laylab.bsky.social
Already on the mailing list!
laylab.bsky.social
Btw Alberto, I taught info viz for the first time this year and leaned heavily on The Truthful Art. Hope I did you proud 🥹 thanks for this resource
laylab.bsky.social
If I can sneak away for a couple days, I’ll be there ! It’s be good to visit and reconnect with my UM family and
@homahm.bsky.social 🤗
albertocairo.com
The Computation+Journalism Symposium will take place on December 11-12 at the University of Miami. Join us: cplusj2025.com

The deadline to submit a talk, workshop, or panel is September 7th: cplusj2025.com/submissions/

We've already announced several speakers. More coming soon!
Screenshot of the C+J website, including the dates, December 11 and 12, and the two keynotes, Attila Batorfy and Homa Hosseinmardi
laylab.bsky.social
Yesss. This precisely why i think things (in the us) will never change. Unis, in large part, don’t reward translational efforts. Just more and more papers that feed the publication monster. I wish there were more incentives to write blogs or workshops or podcasts to help make knowledge less siloed
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epiellie.bsky.social
Hot take: AI therapy chatbots are medical devices and should be regulated by the FDA.
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threetails.bsky.social
If you know an unhoused person, and you could house them, now'd be a good time to do your part because the government is about to make them the scapegoats for all crime. I did my part. Most of the people I helped off the streets or out of insecure housing before I left the US are still housed.
atrupar.com
Bondi: "Let me be crystal clear: crime in DC is ending and ending today."
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chriswolfvision.bsky.social
Update on hidden prompts in papers targeting LLM reviews: ICML 2025 PCs react.

icml.cc/Conferences/...
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abeba.bsky.social
"[LinkedIn] is a digital motor pool full of self-appointed visionaries doing donut in the mud, yelling about scaling, optimising, and disrupting, while actively failing to comprehend anything larger than their own reflection in a ring light." 🔥🔥🔥
garethwatkins.bsky.social
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
laylab.bsky.social
I’m so excited that EACL next year will be in my favoritist place, my Morocco 🇲🇦❤️!!
marcelyzboito.bsky.social
EACL 2026 will happen in Morocco! Prof. Aline Villavicencio, from University of Exeter, will serve as the general chair!
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iaugenstein.bsky.social
🎓 Looking for PhD opportunities in #NLProc for a start in Spring 2026?

🗒️ Add your expression of interest to join @copenlu.bsky.social here by 20 July: forms.office.com/e/HZSmgR9nXB

Selected candidates will be invited to submit a DARA fellowship application with me: daracademy.dk/fellowship/f...
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
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katherinejwu.com
if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12
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yelenamejova.bsky.social
📢 CfP: #ICWSM2025 Workshop on
#Data for the Wellbeing of the Most #Vulnerable

👉 #AI #NLP #epidemiology #demography #sociology #humanitarian #datascience
submit your abstract, or short or long paper by
⏰ March 31
sites.google.com/view/datafor...

w/ @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social + Daniela Paolotti
laylab.bsky.social
For #philly, Philabundance has food banks all over and has opportunities to get involved www.philabundance.org
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roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social
To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms).

I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
laylab.bsky.social
new paper is up! we look at drug-related hashtags on tiktok to see how they are used and their content. what we find? no, #tiktok users are NOT using the platform to promote harmful behavior but rather to provide support for those in #recovery, advocate for #harmreduction
arxiv.org/abs/2501.16123
From #Dr00gtiktok to #harmreduction: Exploring Substance Use Hashtags on TikTok
The rise of TikTok as a primary source of information for youth, combined with its unique short-form video format, creates urgent questions about how substance use content manifests and spreads on the...
arxiv.org
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travisgerke.bsky.social
A collaborative platform for causal DAGs is here! We released the beta version of cStructure today; try it out at cstructure.dev. A low code canvas to identify adjustment sets, bind and annotate data, analyze with in-browser Jupyter notebooks, and LLM kickstarters #causalinference #stats #episky
a screenshot of the cstructure platform interface with a casual DAG and the Lalonde study design loaded
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callipygiancandy.bsky.social
dear Joe Biden--
a writer of the The Anti-Drug Abuse Act and creator of the “100-1” rule (five-year mandatory minimum sentence for trafficking in 500 grams of powder cocaine or five grams of crack),

where are the pardons and reparations for the Black communities your policies annihilated?