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Shadi Rezapour

@rezapour.bsky.social

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Assistant prof. of information science at Drexel CCI. computational social science, NLP for social good, narratives, stigma, #NLProc #NLP #NLP4SG Previously at UIUC, Spotify. she/her. shadirezapour.com

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Anne Lauscher @a-lauscher.bsky.social · 18d

🚨 Are you looking for a PhD in #NLProc dealing with #LLMs?
🎉 Good news: I am hiring! 🎉
The position is part of the “Contested Climate Futures" project. 🌱🌍 You will focus on developing next-generation AI methods🤖 to analyze climate-related concepts in content—including texts, images, and videos.

Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · Jul 28

Check out our paper at #ACL2025NLP "From Conversation to Automation: Leveraging LLMs for Problem-Solving Therapy Analysis"🧠🤖We annotate Problem-Solving Therapy using theory-driven strategies and examine autonomy, self-disclosure, and metaphor @elhamagk.bsky.social
📄 aclanthology.org/2025.finding...

From Conversation to Automation: Leveraging LLMs for Problem-Solving Therapy Analysis

Elham Aghakhani, Lu Wang, Karla T. Washington, George Demiris, Jina Huh-Yoo, Rezvaneh Rezapour. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025. 2025.

aclanthology.org

Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · Jul 23

Unfortunately, I am not attending #IC2S2 this year, but my amazing collaborator Mahnaz Roshanaie will be presenting our work: “Navigating Empathy in Human-AI Interactions” (#798) 
🗓️ July 23, 2025 
🕚 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM 
📍 Session: Human-AI Interactions
Catch it if you can!

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Morteza Dehghani @mdehghani.bsky.social · Jun 13

Check up on your Iranian colleagues and students; this is a full-on war!

Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · May 22

🎓 Plus, huge congrats to @laylab.bsky.social for presenting her thesis proposal at the Websci Doctoral Consortium!
Feeling super proud of our team, especially our brilliant undergrads and PhD students who led, published, and presented such impactful work.

Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · May 22

🧒 Youth Online Safety in News w/@afsanehrazi.bsky.social,@elhamagk.bsky.social , @md.ekstrandom.net , and Matt Namvarpour,
📰 3.9K+ articles (2002–2024)
📈 Focus shifted to tech platforms & bullying
💬 Sentiment more negative over time
📌 Trends linked to policy & events
👉 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · May 22

🤖 Deception: Human vs. AI w two amazing STAR undergrads Minh Trinh & Samiha Zarin🌟
📚 GPT-3.5/4o = more formal, polished lies
🙋‍♀️ Humans = more social, casual deception
⚠️ LLMs still carry subtle biases
A cool dive into the language of deceit
👉 More: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · May 22

🎬 Impact of Science Documentaries w/ @ariapessian.bsky.social and collaborators:
📊 New taxonomy for measuring impact
📝 Annotated Amazon reviews
🤖 ML + LLMs used to analyze public sentiment
🌍 Science storytelling = powerful!
👉 More: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Won Best Poster Award #websci2025 🏆

Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · May 22

📘 Stance on Affirmative Action (AA) via Reddit with @ariapessian.bsky.social
🔍 Analyzed Reddit posts on AA
🧠 LLMs built nuanced stance labels
⚖️ Moral values like Fairness shaped narratives
🗣️ Most users were skeptical of current AA policies
👉 More: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · May 22

🚀 The Social NLP Lab had an amazing week at #WebSci2025! We shared our work on AI, language & society, from Reddit to documentaries, deception to youth safety. Here’s a thread on what we presented 👇🧵

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David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · May 15

If you are at #WebSci2025, join our "Beyond APIs: Collecting Web Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory" - a tutorial that addresses the critical challenges of web data collection in the post-API era.

national-internet-observatory.github.io/beyondapi_websci25/

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Science Magazine @science.org · May 8

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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World Meteorological Organization @wmo-global.bsky.social · Feb 11

Women and girls belong in science, and their inclusion fosters innovation.

In 2025, we join the United Nations to celebrate 10 years of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science—a key milestone in advancing gender equality and empowering women globally.

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · Jan 30

I'm co-organizing th Ph.D. Symposium at WebSci'25! Apply by March 10th for a fun and community-filled day!

www.websci25.org/call-for-phd...

Call for PhD Symposium – 17th ACM Web Science Conference 2025

www.websci25.org

Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · Jan 28

Check out our latest research on how TikTok is used to promote harm reduction and raise awareness about substance-related issues/content through the hashtags and posts we examined.📲✨

Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · Jan 28

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...

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Dan Jurafsky @jurafsky.bsky.social · Jan 12

Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Speech and Language Processing

Speech and Language Processing

web.stanford.edu

Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · Dec 30

Don’t forget noise canceling headphones 🎧

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Fernando Diaz @841io.bsky.social · Dec 30

🎉students studying AI and culture🎉

if you had an audience with senior folks from computer science, social science, and the humanities studying AI and culture, what questions would you ask them about the field, careers, skill sets, etc?

students only!

forms.gle/tZY5tJW2gqVd...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Dec 23

Despite media representations to the contrary, "women remain underrepresented among faculty in nearly all academic fields...A large-scale survey of the same faculty indicates that the reasons faculty leave are gendered, even for institutions, fields, and career ages in which retention rates are not"

Science Magazine @science.org · Dec 23

Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.

Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty

Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · Dec 11

Inspired by @wimlds.bsky.social , I looked for a "Women in Machine Learning" starter pack and couldn't find one.
So I created one! May have some mistakes. I'll try to do an AI ethics one next. 🤗
go.bsky.app/LT6CwNN

Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · Nov 27

Congrats!

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · Nov 22

I created two starter packs for Women in AI, as the first filled up 😎

I really hope I’ve added everyone who’s asked to be added, but let me know if you don’t see yourself. Nominations also welcome!

go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg
go.bsky.app/2wr669L

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Nov 19

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics.

Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎

Apply by December 15th!

A photo of Boulder, Colorado, shot from above the university campus and looking toward the Flatirons.

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ACL @aclmeeting.bsky.social · Nov 19

All the ACL chapters are here now: @aaclmeeting.bsky.social @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social @eaclmeeting.bsky.social @naaclmeeting.bsky.social #NLProc

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Nov 18

Started making a list of researchers working at the intersection of healthcare, language, and computation. Please help me add more people!