"The two hardest problems in computer science are: (i) people, (ii), convincing computer scientists that the hardest problem in computer science is people, and, (iii) off by one errors." - Elon’s propaganda machine

1/7🔔New research!🔔 Alcoholism is terrible! But we often drink with our friends, whom we value deeply. In that case, can alcohol always be so bad? We found the social aspects of drinking to be crucial for understanding alcohol's relation with well-being🥂journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

How to combine the theories grounded in suicidality literature with simple-yet-effective idea of perplexity of language models to extract evidence of suicide risk from text? Check out our work at CLPsych workshop colocated with eaclmeeting at Malta #EACL2024 #NLProc

⏳#HuCLLM2024 Submission deadline reminder: 20 days to go!⌛️ 📅Direct Submissions due May 10, 2024📅 CFP: hucllm-workshop.github.io/#Call%20for%20… PS: #NLProc follow Workshop on Human-Centered Large Language Modeling for all updates on Human-Centered Large Language Modeling Workshop! To be held at #ACL2024 this year in Bangkok 🇹🇭

news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/using… Putting together a decade of learnings on getting more accurate regional well-being assessments from social media into a single pipeline! Lead by Sid Mangalik with @sal_giorgi johannes Eichstaedt World Well-Being Prj

🤖🤔Introducing a book-in-progress: Thinking Machines, Pondering Humans jasonjeffreyjones.substack.com/p/introducing-…

Exciting and rewarding to edit the ICWSM 2024 Special Issue of Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media with Sarah Shugars and Yini Zhang! 😃to see the articles published today and looking forward to presentations at the conference next week! All manuscripts published 💎 open access: journalqd.org/issue/view/vol…

For decades, social scientists have studied verbal behavior from a words-as-attention perspective. In American Psychologist, Ryan Boyd and I chart a path forward for studying NLP in a more thoughtful and accurate manner to match behavioral theories. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-…

*Human* Context in LLMs? How would you complete the following phrases? “I am ___” “I am going to ___” Would LLMs be able to complete these in *your* context? #NLProc Come hear about our vision of Large Human Language Models tom Jun 18 NAACL HLT 2025. Room: Don Alberto 2 10am

The language of trust in social media: open.substack.com/pub/jasonjeffr… Paper just out in Frontiers of Comp Soc Psych with @sal_giorgi Jason Jeffrey Jones and other folks from World Well-Being Prj

Harsh Trivedi represented the Department of Computer Science at the White House OSTP launch event to celebrate the first allocation NAIRR Pilot. Learn more about Harsh's project with Prof. Balasubramanian by clicking this link: bit.ly/3YrYyeQ Stony Brook University SBU College of Engineering & Applied Sciences

Thrilled that Tuhin Chakrabarty will be joining Stony Brook University and our growing NLP community in just one year! Check out Tuhin's work if you are interested in LMs and creativity and related generative AI work! scholar.google.com/citations?hl=e…

🏆 ACL Best Resource Paper Award: AppWorld: A Controllable World of Apps and People for Benchmarking Interactive Coding Agents by Trivedi et al. #NLProc #ACL2024NLP

#NLProc come join us tomorrow for our 1st edition of the workshop ACL 2025! We have fantastic lineup: keynote speakers Cristian Danescu-N-M Barbara Plank Daniel Hershcovich Vered Shwartz & panelists Barbara Plank Vinodkumar Prabhakaran Vered Shwartz Snigdha Chaturvedi @KaylaJ91 Debora Nozza! #ACL2024NLP

Join Stony Brook University's Department of Computer Science on November 8th as we welcome Lyle Ungar, UPenn, who will be delivering a lecture on "Measuring Cultural Variation using Natural Language Processing." #LanguageProcessing #ExplainableAI #ComputerScience @AI_SBU SBU College of Engineering & Applied Sciences

🚨New Paper🚨 LGBTQ Visibility Measured Consistently and Persistently in US Twitter Bios from 2012 through 2023. Estimates based on *200,000 daily observations*! High precision and resolution measurement of personal identity. #OpenAccess #RStats #DataViz doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2…

It’s been a privilege to work with an amazing multidisciplinary team of co-authors on this project Sandra Matz @sal_giorgi H. Andrew Schwartz Jochen Menges. The paper is open access. Happy to see this one finally out in print! /fin psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-…

We are looking for someone to start in the Summer / Fall '25! Please send us your applications by March 7 for full consideration.

Great venue for interdisciplinary LLM/NLP and mental health work. The special issue is in a reputable journal for mental health research. I'm excited to be a part!

Honored + excited to join Vanderbilt University's new College of Connected Computing and bring HLAB into its next phase in Nashville, working where AI meets psychology and health. vanderbilt.edu/ccc RE: H. Andrew Schwartz joins College of Connected Computing computing.vanderbilt.edu/2025/09/13/h-a…