Shadi Rezapour

✈️ 🇭🇺 At #EMNLP2026 in Budapest! Excited to share two papers, hear what others are working on, and catch up with familiar faces (and meet new ones!). 🤖 Trust and distrust in GenAI 📍 Mon, 9:00–10:30 | G7–8 🩺 Cancer misinformation on Reddit 📍 Tue, 9:00–10:30 | Hall H Say hi if you are around! ☕👋

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.

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...

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!

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.

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.📲✨

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...

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...

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!

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

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

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...

🎇 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...

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

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

📣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

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

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

Join us in Buffalo this year for @icwsm ! We are organizing a workshop on digital narratives around #recovery #harmreduction #healing and #stigma. Details in the link below ⬇️ #NLP #socialmedia #ai #SocialGood

CFP 📢Join us for the 1st workshop on "Reclaiming the Narrative: Digital Recovery, AI & Mitigating Harm in Social Media" @icwsm ! 🚀 Explore the impact of digital narratives on healing & recovery📱🧠. 🌟Details & submit: sites.google.com/view/reclaim... @laylab.bsky.social @stevewilson.bsky.social

We respectfully submit that the Court should craft rulings in these cases that leave ample room for responsible legislative and regulatory efforts aimed at mandating meaningful platform transparency and access to data. It is essential that such efforts survive constitutional scrutiny. 8/

The IC2S2 organizing team is thrilled to launch the website and post the call for abstracts and tutorials for the 2024 conference, to be held here at Penn July 17-20. * Tutorial proposals due January 19th, 2024 * Abstracts due February 24th, 2024 URL: ic2s2.org

🚨 Come work with us! The Dept. of Information Science at Drexel CCI (drexel.edu/cci/) is hiring multiple faculty in human-centered AI, responsible AI, information integrity, and social/organizational aspects of AI. Deadline is Dec. 10. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

We've opened public registration for Text as Data 2023! Slots are limited, but if interested sign up from the TADA website: https://tada2023.org

Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!