Layla Bouzoubaa
@laylab.bsky.social
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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Layla Bouzoubaa
@laylab.bsky.social
· Nov 12
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
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
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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...
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
www.science.org
October 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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
September 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🚨 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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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
Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline).
Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020
September 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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
Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline).
Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020
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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.
Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.
September 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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.
Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.
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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.org/press-releas...
September 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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.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 🤗
@homahm.bsky.social 🤗
The Computation+Journalism Symposium will take place on December 11-12 at the University of Miami. Join us: cplusj2025.com
The deadline to submit a talk, workshop, or panel is September 7th: cplusj2025.com/submissions/
We've already announced several speakers. More coming soon!
The deadline to submit a talk, workshop, or panel is September 7th: cplusj2025.com/submissions/
We've already announced several speakers. More coming soon!
August 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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 🤗
@homahm.bsky.social 🤗
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Hot take: AI therapy chatbots are medical devices and should be regulated by the FDA.
August 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Hot take: AI therapy chatbots are medical devices and should be regulated by the FDA.
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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.
Bondi: "Let me be crystal clear: crime in DC is ending and ending today."
August 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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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Update on hidden prompts in papers targeting LLM reviews: ICML 2025 PCs react.
icml.cc/Conferences/...
icml.cc/Conferences/...
July 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Update on hidden prompts in papers targeting LLM reviews: ICML 2025 PCs react.
icml.cc/Conferences/...
icml.cc/Conferences/...
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"[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." 🔥🔥🔥
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
August 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"[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 🇲🇦❤️!!
EACL 2026 will happen in Morocco! Prof. Aline Villavicencio, from University of Exeter, will serve as the general chair!
August 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I’m so excited that EACL next year will be in my favoritist place, my Morocco 🇲🇦❤️!!
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🎓 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...
🗒️ 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...
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
🎓 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...
🗒️ 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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if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12
March 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12
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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
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
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 ...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
January 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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
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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📢 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
#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
February 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
📢 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
#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
January 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
For #philly, Philabundance has food banks all over and has opportunities to get involved www.philabundance.org
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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.
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
January 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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.
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
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
arxiv.org/abs/2501.16123
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...
arxiv.org
January 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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
arxiv.org/abs/2501.16123
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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
December 2, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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
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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?
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?
December 2, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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?
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?
Reposted by Layla Bouzoubaa
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
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
December 2, 2024 at 9:07 AM
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
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
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Please keep the Palestinians on this platform in your hearts, especially on this day of all days.
Reiterating that there are more Gazans here and they are more persistent in posting their links because there has essentially been no flour in all of South Gaza for well over a week. It is also cold. Please treat them how you’d want people to treat you or your family in a famine.
November 28, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Please keep the Palestinians on this platform in your hearts, especially on this day of all days.
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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.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
November 28, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.