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

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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.

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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

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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.

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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.

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🚨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/...

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📢 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.

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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

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We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year! Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS -- careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

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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...

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

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

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➡️ 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‼️

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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

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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

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

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

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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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I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my group in 2025-2026. If you like the mountains and interdisciplinary research that blends data and culture, this could be a good fit! UW iSchool PhD apps due Dec 2nd: ischool.uw.edu/programs/phd... More info about my group: melaniewalsh.org/mentorship

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Please share our story in hopes of making the 'secrecy' of drug use & mental health challenges more open to help stop stigma. My son, Aaron, died from an unregulated drug in our home....alone, April 26 2021 That is the killer; coupled w shame and guilt.💔💜 www.drakecremation.com/obituaries/A...

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Here is the link to our paper: aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-m...

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Join us at #EMNLP2024 Poster Session 4 tomorrow (Tue, Nov 12) from 16:00-17:30! I'll be presenting our work on detecting and transforming stigmatizing language towards people who use drugs on Reddit.Learn how we're using LLMs to generate more compassionate language while preserving authentic voice 🤝

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📣Excited for our NARRATE workshop @icwsm on Monday, June 3! Join us for incredible speakers & events discussing social media, narrativity & digital recovery. Check out the schedule & more info on our website: sites.google.com/view/reclaim... #icwsm @stevewilson.bsky.social @laylab.bsky.social

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Saw this in Denver, couldn’t have put it better myself 🌿🦄

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Saw this on X and had to crosspost: Peer review encapsulated

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Every day I’m discovering a new reason to be angry, disgusted, and in utter shock at how dehumanized Palestinian people were/are

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"Union, a private, ecumenical school that serves as Columbia University’s faculty of theology but maintains a separate endowment, is the first U.S. institute of higher education known to divest from the war in Gaza." religionnews.com/2024/05/09/u...

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Nature published a Letter to the Editor from me! I respond to their news feature on how to make scientific career meaningful, which focused too much on impact. Very glad to be heard with my plug for three #philsci themes: understanding, social role of expertise, duties of scientists to each other.

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Wholly in agreement with this. I particularly wish people would stop spouting apathetic doomer nonsense like “whether you like it or not, it’s here to stay” or “you can’t stop it.” We do have choices. We can have agency over technology. You don’t need to go passive just because these jerks are rich

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Restrict spending on research (and anything else that could promote equity) and ultimately funnel it to increase military spending. It’s the American way.

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Reminder of our workshop happening ICWS in Buffalo in June! If you work in #harmreduction #nlp #ai #socialscience #recovery and adjacent narrative studies, this one’s for you! Deadline is March 24🤓 sites.google.com/view/reclaim... @rezapour.bsky.social @donutcci.bsky.social #AcademicChatter

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Join us in Buffalo this year for @icwsm ! We are organizing a workshop on digital narratives around #recovery #harmreduction #healing and #stigma. Details in the link below ⬇️ #NLP #socialmedia #ai #SocialGood

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“JSTOR is now available free of charge in 1,000 correctional facilities worldwide, benefiting more than 500,000 incarcerated individuals.” Holy shit given that a lot of prisons refuse to let prisoners access a lot of books/materials, this is fucking amazing about.jstor.org/news/jstor-a...

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CFP 📢Join us for the 1st workshop on "Reclaiming the Narrative: Digital Recovery, AI & Mitigating Harm in Social Media" @icwsm ! 🚀 Explore the impact of digital narratives on healing & recovery📱🧠. 🌟Details & submit: sites.google.com/view/reclaim... @laylab.bsky.social @stevewilson.bsky.social

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So 2024 is starting with a right wing harassment campaign succeeding in removing an accomplished Black woman from a prestigious academic post.

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Dr. Buolamwini starting the year off with 🔥 ! Good restrictions on so-called "AI" use are worthless if they can just be waived by someone telling their buddy it's too cumbersome. This matters everywhere, but especially in policing. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/o...

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I read this paper this morning on 26 principles for better LLM prompting - realized that I don’t adhere to most. Does anyone else find it harder to not be polite with ChatGPT…like there is an anthropomorphic component where I don’t want it to hate me if I’m bossy 😳 arxiv.org/abs/2312.16171

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Tomorrow!

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