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Nilou Salehi

@nilou.bsky.social
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hci+ai co-founder/co-ceo @Across AI prof @UC Berkeley gif whisperer | 🐱🐱 mom 👩🏻‍🏫 niloufar.org 👩🏻‍💻 across.ai | bsky.app/profile/across-ai.bsky.soc…

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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Cool!!
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
You might be interested in this paper we wrote a while back. The effects are particularly harmful for people with histories of disordered eating: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
One way to work around the administrative overhead of too many grants is to apply for larger pots of money but do it collaboratively with more senior professors who have experience. I personally didn't take any military or NIH funding, just NSF, industry, and foundations.
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Little cat resting outside a rug store in Esfahan, Iran. 🐈😊
White cat resting on some yarn
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Hi friends! Let me know if you'd like to catch up in/around #neurips2024
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 05/12/2024
After selling his startup to IBM, this founder wants to bring ‘agentic memory’ to enterprise data
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After selling his startup to IBM, this founder wants to bring ‘agentic memory’ to enterprise data
Not everyone agrees on what an “AI agent” actually is, but they are all still the rage. At a broad level, these so-called “agents” promise to go several steps beyond a mere chatbot, making decisions and taking actions on people’s behalf. Some might help…
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Me too!
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I'll be there Tue-Wed 👋🏼
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Hanna Wallach @hannawallach.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Two exciting internship opportunities at @msftresearch.bsky.social in 2025!!! 🎉 With FATE in NYC: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... With STAC (and collaborators in FATE) in NYC or Redmond focusing on AI evaluation and measurement: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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Search Jobs | Microsoft Careers
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
These look amazing!
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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Congratulations!
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...

At least one item on his wishlist has been granted: Bluesky has decided to quadruple the size of its contract workforce of content moderators from 25 to 100, the company told Platformer. The move comes in response to Bluesky’s rapid growth since this month’s US presidential election, which triggered a fresh exodus of users away from Elon Musk’s X and over the weekend took the platform past 22 million total users.
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Turns out most of the drs who did have chatgpt didn't really use it. They treated it as a search engine. Also, drs were overly confident in their own intuitions. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/h...
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ChatGPT Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot.
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Really interesting new paper out of Stanford medicine. On a new set of previously unseen diagnoses, chatgpt scored an average of 90% + explained its reasoning. Doctors randomly assigned to use the chatbot got 76%. Those randomly assigned not to use it got 74%. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Large Language Model Influence on Diagnostic Reasoning
This randomized clinical trial evaluates the diagnostic performance of physicians with use of a large language model compared with conventional resources.
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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 13/11/2024
I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me. go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Palestinian starter pack
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
❤️❤️❤️
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This app is finally giving early Twitter days and I'm here for it, hiii friends it's been too long 🥲
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This is awesome!!
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Maybe if it's about people who do relevant research you would still get more or less the same people but it wouldn't visibly group them by identity more by interest and what they talk about.
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Peter W🤓 @wang.social · 15/11/2024
I want to create an incubator that funds atproto/bluesky experimental projects to the tune of $5k-$10k dev grants. I am sorely tempted to call it “Chemtrails”, because it seeds the ATmosphere Hit me with your best ideas!
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Irene Chen @irenetrampoline.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Fairness definitions differ across groups! For white respondents, fairness = "proximity'' to assigned school. For Hispanic or Latino parents, fairness = "same rules'' for everyone. Cool work by @nilou.bsky.social + students
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
mental health break? you bet it did
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Dunno if I’m doing this right,,, but lemme know what accounts need to be added to the #BlackExcellence Starter Pack. Journalists, Professors, Scientists, Musicians, Writers,,,
Flavor Flav’s Black Excellence Starter Pack with LeVar Burton, Questlove, Dionne Warwick, and more.
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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Ok here are some amazing Social Computing researchers (mostly post-phd for scope). They work on making platforms, like this one, better. go.bsky.app/869xER3
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Omg how did she grow up like that
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Work led by Tonya Nguyen
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
New #CSCW2024 paper in which we found that people's definitions of fairness for an algorithmic distribution system (school choice) differ across socioeconomic groups. These definitions of fairness shape how fair they see the system, controlling for their own outcome. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Definitions of Fairness Differ Across Socioeconomic Groups & Shape Perceptions of Algorithmic Decisions | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Understanding how people perceive algorithmic decision-making is remains critical, as these systems are increasingly integrated into areas such as education, healthcare, and criminal justice. These pe...
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Same same
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Your dog is so cute 😍 and those fall colors
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Experiencing severe #CSCW2024 fomo, hi friends 👋🏼 Also, this is cool new by Merrie Morris "prompting considered harmful" cacm.acm.org/opinion/prom...
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Prompting Considered Harmful – Communications of the ACM
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Emily Tseng @emtseng.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I’m at #CSCW2024, which feels like the right place to use Bluesky for the first time! I’m recruiting PhD students to UW HCDE who want to think about digital safety from a sociotechnical lens.
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
We ran a controlled experiment in which 65 physicians were shown sentences from a real emergency discharge instruction and their Google translations. The group that saw a QE model calibrated to medical communication was almost two times better at deciding when to rely on the translation.
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Many models produce outputs that are hard to verify for an end-user. Our new #emnlp2023 paper won an outstanding paper award! 🏆🎉 We show that providing a quality estimation model, can make a user better at deciding when to rely on the model. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2310.169...
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
Hisham Awartani, one of three Palestinian students who were shot in Vermont, is paralyzed from the waist down his mother says in a statement to CNN. I have verified with GoFund Me that this fundraiser has been setup by his family. Donate Here www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 30/11/2023
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The "Was I a Good Dog?" Death and the Dog meme, but it is overlaid with the skeleton from the "Is Henry Kissinger Even In This Thing" meme, and the text reads:

"It's time to go." "Was I a good meme?" "No. I'm told you were the best"
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prodepressant @tanenbring.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
People critical of celebrating Kissinger's passing should understand that in a way it's honoring him, given how much he adored death.
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
🥹
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Henry Kissinger “was complicit in millions of deaths — and never showed remorse for his decisions.” www.huffpost.com/entry/henry-...
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Henry Kissinger, America’s Most Notorious War Criminal, Dies
The titan of American foreign policy was complicit in millions of deaths — and never showed remorse for his decisions.
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
I thought of you when I heard the news
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 27/11/2023
You have GOT to be fucking kidding me with this
Tweet from 11/27/2023 the daily beast UPDATED | Jason Eaton, the suspect accused of shooting three Palestinian college students, was arraigned and is being held without bail. 

“Jason has had a lot of struggles in his life but he is such a kind and loving person,” his mother told us.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
The deepfake crisis for women and girls has grown tremendously. It isn’t mentioned in most AI discourse, even though it’s the primary use of deepfakes by far. Now, it is being used to victimize dozens of teen girls. The perpetrators include their male classmates www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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For teen girls victimized by ‘deepfake’ nudes, there is little recourse
The FBI has warned that technology used to create pornographic deepfake photos and videos was improving and being used for harassment and sextortion.
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Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Omg so good 😅
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 25/10/2023
FOIA documents: ICE used a tool called GOST to decide if US visa applicants' social media posts are "derogatory" to the US, as part of immigration enforcement (Joseph Cox/404 Media) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Researchers of online misinformation (and related topics) aren’t “buckling” to politically-motivated attacks. Our critical work to understand and address online deception and manipulation continues. But only with the support of our colleagues and institutions. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/uw-m...
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UW misinformation researchers will not buckle under political attacks | Opinion
As the 2024 election approaches, misinformation researchers at the University of Washington say they won't be deterred by those seeking to undermine their work.
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