I’ll be at #IC2S2 this week! I will be presenting two papers from my lab, led by my amazing students @laylab.bsky.social & @elhamagk.bsky.social. If you’re interested in narratives,mental health, stigma, or NLP, let’s connect! Looking forward to catching up with old friends, and meeting new people.

Can we please stop pretending AI can replace peer review? If I wanted my paper reviewed by a model, I could have done it already. I want my community to read it and provide feedback. That's the whole point of peer review. Science depends on expert scrutiny and accountability—not automated judgment.

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 3w ago

I did not submit anything to #EMNLP2026, which is probably part of why I missed this when it was first posted in May, but I want to say now that I am utterly appalled that @aclmeeting.bsky.social & @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social are engaging in this nonsense. 2026.emnlp.org/ai-reviewing... A thread 🧵>>

I did not submit anything to #EMNLP2026, which is probably part of why I missed this when it was first posted in May, but I want to say now that I am utterly appalled that @aclmeeting.bsky.social & @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social are engaging in this nonsense. 2026.emnlp.org/ai-reviewing... A thread 🧵>>

We addressed *15* points of a reviewer, only to be told: “Thank you for the clarification. I found the explanations somewhat lengthy and difficult to follow” That is not feedback. That is a refusal to engage and do your work. Exhausting,disappointing, deeply frustrating. #ARR #ACL #EMNLP2026 #NLProc

The paper acceptance notifications will be out by the 6th of April, AoE. The PCs are working hard throughout the holiday season to finalize the decisions. Apologies for the delay!

If you're a researcher of social media, content moderation, trust and safety, algorithmic accountability, etc. and you're not working for a platform company, please join us and help in the collective defense of this important work: independenttechresearch.org

Last paper of the year 🎉 Our paper on phenotypes of stigma is out in Social Science & Medicine. Using NLP and social media data, we reveal stigma patterns often missed by other methods. Shout out to my PhD students@laylab.bsky.social @elhamagk.bsky.social 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.so... #AcademicSky #NLP

🚨 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.

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.

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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!

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

🚀 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 👇🧵

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/

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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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.

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...

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 · 2y ago

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

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...

🎉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...

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 · 2y ago

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

Presenting our work “Two-stage graph-augmented summarization of scientific documents” today at #EMNLP #NLP4Science aclanthology.org/2024.nlp4sci...

Two-Stage Graph-Augmented Summarization of Scientific Documents

Rezvaneh Rezapour, Yubin Ge, Kanyao Han, Ray Jeong, Jana Diesner. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Science (NLP4Science). 2024.

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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

📣 I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2025 at the University of Maryland College of Information. Consider applying if you're interested in language, society/politics, and computers! Deadline Dec 3: ischool.umd.edu/academics/ph... And pls share with anyone who may be interested!

Doctor of Philosophy in Information Studies (PhD) - College of Information (INFO)

This doctoral program prepares students to address the hardest social and technical problems of today and tomorrow.

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

Words Matter: Reducing Stigma in Online Conversations about Substance Use with Large Language Models

Layla Bouzoubaa, Elham Aghakhani, Rezvaneh Rezapour. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2024.

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Layla Bouzoubaa@laylab.bsky.social · 2y ago

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 🤝

EMNLP 2024 proceedings link aclanthology.org/events/emnlp... #nlp