Layla Bouzoubaa

🎓 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.

🚨Job Alert: Postdoc in Computational Social Science
Come work with us! Fantastic team, exciting department and vibrant city! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out 😊Only 6 more days to apply!

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New open-access paper by Ellen Berrey, Nathan Kim, Kristen Bass, and me over at Socius --

We analyzed over 16,000 news articles using a machine-assisted system, yielding a dataset of 5,553 higher ed protest events, and university and police responses.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 Ultimate test of #NLP bluesky:

I need emergency reviewers for NAACL submissions on encoders (one multilingual, one for sentence embeddings). Help a desperate editor abandoned by the ACs! Author response starts tomorrow, so that's a true emergency.

If you're my hero, lmk your openreview profile.

1/ Introducing ᴏᴘᴇɴꜱᴄʜᴏʟᴀʀ: a retrieval-augmented LM to help scientists synthesize knowledge 📚
@uwnlp.bsky.social & Ai2
With open models & 45M-paper datastores, it outperforms proprietary systems & match human experts.
Try out our demo!
openscholar.allen.ai

We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year!

Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS --
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Are your digital affairs in order? A new pro-bono clinic can help CU’s Digital Legacy Clinic helps people take steps to preserve their own legacy or manage the virtual heirlooms of loved ones who have died.

WE HAVE LAUNCHED A NEW CLINIC FOR END-OF-LIFE TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT! Led by Dr. Jed Brubaker, our research team at CU Boulder now offers free consultation for anyone doing end-of-life planning for their own data or managing data of their loved ones. Please share! 🎉

www.colorado.edu/today/2024/1...

Academic friends, if you participated in a doctoral consortium during your PhD, which was your favorite and why?

Stigma is a primary barrier to treatment seeking. But how does that stigma manifest?
Stay tuned :) more on felt stigma coming soon 🤓

➡️ First, structural stigma is created through laws & policies.
➡️ Those fuel the second kind of stigma — social stigma, in which society dehumanizes & judges people for using drugs.
➡️ Third is self-stigma — this shame is one of the main reasons people use drugs alone & die. Stigma is a killer‼️

Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack?

Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented!

go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d

Here's the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 starter pack! Includes past guests and friends of the show.

@emilymbender.bsky.social @whatulysses.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/3BjnHmd

Hello blue sky it’s still Free Palestine all day, feel free to share resources below 👇

Informative recap of EMNLP papers related to multilingual models and low resource languages! Thanks @catherinearnett.bsky.social

I wish I could have been there! 🥹