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Layla Bouzoubaa

@laylab.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate @ Drexel University, Info. Sci. 🇲🇦 Studying lived experiences of people who use #drugs, #stigma, #harmreduction through mixed methods, #NLProc. Public health background. Aspiring wine connoisseur & proud cat lady 🐱🐱🐱

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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”
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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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...
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Trump administration rolls back $2 billion mental health, addiction grant cuts
Sweeping cuts to mental health and addiction programs worth more than $2 billion are being reversed. After a political backlash from Republicans and Democrats, the grant money will be restored.
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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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
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Reddit and TikTok - with the help of AI - are reshaping how researchers understand substance use
Chatter in social media communities sheds light on a hidden population of substance users.
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Robin Blythe @rbly.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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
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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/11/2025
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
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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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.
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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
‘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!
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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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?
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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Me: “lemme just do this quick feasibility check…” My study: “what if I revealed five new constructs instead?” #academicsky
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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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
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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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...
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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
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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🚨 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
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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
Aerial photo of UW campus with Mt. Rainier in the background
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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Thanks to @asm.org and colleagues for stadning up for public health. Call Congress today and demand Kennedy's resignation asm.org/press-releas...
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.
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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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 🤗
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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Hot take: AI therapy chatbots are medical devices and should be regulated by the FDA.
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Sword Vixen, Still Standing @threetails.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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.
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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Update on hidden prompts in papers targeting LLM reviews: ICML 2025 PCs react. icml.cc/Conferences/...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/08/2025
"[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." 🔥🔥🔥
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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I’m so excited that EACL next year will be in my favoritist place, my Morocco 🇲🇦❤️!!
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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🎓 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...
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Katherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com · 07/03/2025
if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12
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Pietro Coletti @pietro-coletti.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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
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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 ...
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Yelena Mejova @yelenamejova.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
📢 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
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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
For #philly, Philabundance has food banks all over and has opportunities to get involved www.philabundance.org
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Nonprofit Food Bank and Charity in Philadelphia | Leading the Fight Against Hunger
Our mission is to end hunger for good in the greater Philadelphia area. Learn about who we are, our initiatives and how you can help.
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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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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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...
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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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
a screenshot of the cstructure platform interface with a casual DAG and the Lalonde study design loaded
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LaQueef Skeetfield•♡ @callipygiancandy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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
Page 1 of the article.Page 2 of the article.
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David Giltinan 👾🗣️🎙️ @davidsaysthat.com · 28/11/2024
Please keep the Palestinians on this platform in your hearts, especially on this day of all days.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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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Dylan Paltra @dpltr22.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🚨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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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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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Anna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
📢 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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Akari Asai @akariasai.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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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brendan o’connor @brenocon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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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Details - Assistant/Associate Professor - Natural Language Processing (NLP) | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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Dylan Thomas Doyle, PhD. @dylantdoyle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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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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.
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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Academic friends, if you participated in a doctoral consortium during your PhD, which was your favorite and why?
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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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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Guy Felicella @guyfelicella.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
➡️ 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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Emilio Ferrara @emilioferrara.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hello blue sky it’s still Free Palestine all day, feel free to share resources below 👇
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Irene Chen @irenetrampoline.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Informative recap of EMNLP papers related to multilingual models and low resource languages! Thanks @catherinearnett.bsky.social
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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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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