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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Looking forward to seeing you.

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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Likewise, looking forward to seeing you here.

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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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.

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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

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 🧵>>

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EMNLP 2026 AI Reviewing Experiment

EMNLP 2026 is running an AI Reviewing Experiment to collect feedback from authors about the quality of AI reviews of their submissions. This experiment is taking place on an opt-in basis, in which aut...

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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

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

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ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

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!

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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

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

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Home - Coalition for Independent Technology Research

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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

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

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Anne Lauscher @a-lauscher.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

🚨 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.

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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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...

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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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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

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!

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Morteza Dehghani @mdehghani.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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

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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🎓 Plus, huge congrats to @laylab.bsky.social for presenting her thesis proposal at the Websci Doctoral Consortium! Feeling super proud of our team, especially our brilliant undergrads and PhD students who led, published, and presented such impactful work.

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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🧒 Youth Online Safety in News w/@afsanehrazi.bsky.social,@elhamagk.bsky.social , @md.ekstrandom.net , and Matt Namvarpour, 📰 3.9K+ articles (2002–2024) 📈 Focus shifted to tech platforms & bullying 💬 Sentiment more negative over time 📌 Trends linked to policy & events 👉 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🤖 Deception: Human vs. AI w two amazing STAR undergrads Minh Trinh & Samiha Zarin🌟 📚 GPT-3.5/4o = more formal, polished lies 🙋‍♀️ Humans = more social, casual deception ⚠️ LLMs still carry subtle biases A cool dive into the language of deceit 👉 More: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🎬 Impact of Science Documentaries w/ @ariapessian.bsky.social and collaborators: 📊 New taxonomy for measuring impact 📝 Annotated Amazon reviews 🤖 ML + LLMs used to analyze public sentiment 🌍 Science storytelling = powerful! 👉 More: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Won Best Poster Award #websci2025 🏆

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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

📘 Stance on Affirmative Action (AA) via Reddit with @ariapessian.bsky.social 🔍 Analyzed Reddit posts on AA 🧠 LLMs built nuanced stance labels ⚖️ Moral values like Fairness shaped narratives 🗣️ Most users were skeptical of current AA policies 👉 More: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🚀 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 👇🧵

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David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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/

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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2025

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.

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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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World Meteorological Organization @wmo-global.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

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.

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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...

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Call for PhD Symposium – 17th ACM Web Science Conference 2025

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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

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.📲✨

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Dan Jurafsky @jurafsky.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

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...

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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Don’t forget noise canceling headphones 🎧

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Fernando Diaz @841io.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

🎉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...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

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"

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

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

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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!

A photo of Boulder, Colorado, shot from above the university campus and looking toward the Flatirons.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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

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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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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Thanks for creating this. Would you be able to add me too. I also suggest @stevewilson.bsky.social and @mariaa.bsky.social to be added.

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Julia Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn2.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

📣 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!

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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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Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

New here? Interested in AI/ML? Check out these great starter packs! AI: go.bsky.app/SipA7it RL: go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg Women in AI: go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg NLP: go.bsky.app/SngwGeS AI and news: go.bsky.app/5sFqVNS You can also search all starter packs here: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

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Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

🎇 PhD student internships in Computational Social Science at Microsoft Research NYC 🎇 These are 12 week, in person internships with some combo of Dan Goldstein, Jake Hofman, & David Rothschild Early (January - April) start dates somewhat preferred jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Could you add me too? Thanks for starting this.

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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

We are hosting the 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science in Sweden 🚀The IC2S2'25 website is LIVE, and submissions are OPEN! 📍Norrköping | July 21-24, 2025 Call for Abstracts (until Feb 24) Call for Tutorials (until Jan 17) 🔗Explore details & submit: ic2s2-2025.org

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

A starter pack for #NLP #NLProc researchers! 🎉 go.bsky.app/SngwGeS

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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 02/06/2024

📣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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Reclaiming the Narrative - Program

Workshop Schedule

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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

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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Reclaiming the Narrative

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DONUTS CCI @donutcci.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Howdy 👋 We are the Data, Ontology, Networks, Usability, Textuality, and Safety (DONUTS) Collaboratory @ Drexel College of Computing and Informatics led by @afsanehrazi.bsky.social @rezapour.bsky.social John Seberger! Here is where you can find us: 🌐: donutscolab.com 🐦: twitter.com/DONUTSColab

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Data Ontology Networks Users Textuality Safety

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