Layla Bouzoubaa

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

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...

🚨 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

Aerial photo of UW campus with Mt. Rainier in the background

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

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.

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.

Thanks to @asm.org and colleagues for stadning up for public health. Call Congress today and demand Kennedy's resignation
asm.org/press-releas...

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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

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 🤗

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

Hot take: AI therapy chatbots are medical devices and should be regulated by the FDA.

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.

Update on hidden prompts in papers targeting LLM reviews: ICML 2025 PCs react.

icml.cc/Conferences/...

"[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." 🔥🔥🔥

I’m so excited that EACL next year will be in my favoritist place, my Morocco 🇲🇦❤️!!

🎓 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...

if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12

PhD Position in mathematical modelling of infectious diseases and climate change Climate change is reshaping our world, and its impact on the spread of infectious diseases is profound. Rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasingly frequent extreme weather ...

I’m looking for a PhD student to work at the intersection of modelling infectious diseases and climate change.

Deadline of applications: 31st of May, but applications are evaluated on a rolling basis.

Please repost and help me spread the words!

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/311728

📢 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

For #philly, Philabundance has food banks all over and has opportunities to get involved www.philabundance.org

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.

@rezapour.bsky.social @afsanehrazi.bsky.social @muqiguo.bsky.social

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...

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

a screenshot of the cstructure platform interface with a casual DAG and the Lalonde study design loaded

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

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?

i see several things wrong with this passage 😳 please tell me this screenshot is from an article from 1986...

Page 1 of the article.

Page 2 of the article.

New ✍️ from @sarialtschuler.bsky.social, Ian Huntington, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, and me!

An interdisciplinary reflection in The Lancet on the shifting narrative roles of clinicians amidst increased use of automated medical scribes and increased patient access to notes.

#nlp #mlsky #healthcare

Please keep the Palestinians on this platform in your hearts, especially on this day of all days.

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row.

“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

If it weren’t attached to a genocidal history, thanksgiving would be a lovely holiday. People gathering to declare gratitude and eat a meal without the need to exchange gifts or buy anything besides food.

We can’t have nice things under settler colonialism. May all the empires fall.