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pentagon trying to force Anthropic to make killbots and threading to crush them unless they comply is among the most dangerous things this admin is doing. HOWEVER it’s hilarious that Elon is practically begging to make antiwoke Skynet and the WH is like “no haha Claude is better”

Thanks to public pressure, 2B in vital mental health and addiction funds are to be reinstated - advocacy still matters #drugsky www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

I used to assume that when people who use drugs went online, it was mostly about dysfunction. I was wrong. There is rawness,support, safety, connection. I wrote this piece to challenge our assumptions and share how AI helped push our understanding further. #academicsky #drugsky tinyurl.com/4r7em5wx

WHY do people ask you for a 5-7 point response scale, then during analysis just dichotomise the responses? Why make respondents deal with the cognitive burden of actually thinking through their beliefs when you're just going to squash it down anyway? I see it every day! It's stupid! #statsky #episky

Learning more about the pervasiveness of stigma in the clinical settings at #AMIA2025 makes me feel we need to be doing more to listen and trust patients while also making considerations in the models we deploy. Great piece.

if you are considering submitting an application for this position, you still have just under 2 weeks to do so any and all suitable candidates, please apply. everyone else, pls share with your networks

Highlight from #AMIA2025 Day 2 is from the keynote from Dr.Kedar Mate: What can we do by next Tuesday? I love this reminder that we should be setting goals that can be bold and specific so that we can actually attain them. It’s actionable and helps us identify what to prioritize.

‘Wellness’ and ‘court’ are two words that should never be found together. More evidence of the failures of the Parker administration for a population that needs support the most. The visualizations are awesome tho!

Today’s #AMIA2025 highlight was a storytelling workshop by @kbjohnsonmd.bsky.social and @gezzerortegamdmph.bsky.social hit close to home! We use storytelling to teach, to design, to communicate. But ensuring patient stories are actually heard is still an open problem. 🤔 Where do we go from here?

Me: “lemme just do this quick feasibility check…” My study: “what if I revealed five new constructs instead?” #academicsky

I’ll be headed to Atlanta this week for #AMIA2025 with a poster: “Phenotypes of Stigma Expressed by People Who Use Drugs on Reddit.” Looking to meet others thinking about health, AI, and social impact… and to see what life after the PhD might look like 👀 hmu #HealthInformatics #NLP #AcademicSky

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

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.

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

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 🤗

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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/...

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...

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

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