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fresh audio product: • Neil Sehgal on the durability of slaveholder wealth, via a look at Congress • Emily Jashinsky <Emily Jashinsky> with a conservative’s view of the election • Melissa Lyon on the effects of teachers’ strikes leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S24…

Using AI for mental health evaluation in schools? See this report in Cincinnati Express by Betsy Kim featuring our research on how depression varies across races - doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… #mentalhealth #ai #depression #LLMs cincinnati.com/story/news/202…

We're hiring a postdoc Penn to advance data science methods for behavioral health and psychology! Full details here: bit.ly/penn_postdoc_n… You will work with an amazing interdisciplinary team Penn Engineering AI World Well-Being Prj Penn LDI Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ Penn Med Transformation & Innovation Please apply / RT!

🚨 LLMs must grasp implied language to reason about emotions, social cues, etc. Our Google DeepMind paper presents the Implied NLI dataset. Targeting social norms 🌎 and conversational dynamics 💬, we enhance LLM understanding of real-world implication! arxiv.org/abs/2501.07719

Does #shame manifest differently across #cultures? Yes. Can LLMs identify #norms behind shame? Yes. Are women shamed more than men? Yes!!! Can #LLMs identify when someone is shamed? arxiv.org/abs/2402.11333 #NAACL2025

I'll be giving a talk at UC Berkeley on February 12th. Join me! UCBerkeley Psychology psychology.berkeley.edu/events/thomas-…

How can we ensure AI systems stay safe and aligned in the context of long-term personal interaction with AI agents? New research with Hannah Rose Kirk, summerfieldlab @summerfieldlab.bsky.social , Bertie Vidgen & Scott Hale aims to answer this question!

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 📄: the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) at Penn will be held for the fourth time this year! We welcome Ph.D. students, post-docs and early-career faculty to Philadelphia from June 30 to July 17 2025. Website: sicss.io/2025/penn

1/8 Balance ⚖️ vs. Harmony ☯️: Two emerging well-being constructs often sloppily used interchangeably. But they’re distinct. Balance = broad life domains ⚖️ Harmony = relationships🧘 We asked 15,275 people across 154 nations to show it. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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#NAACL25 How can we learn human preferences across cultures? Check out our study using shame and pride to extract normative expectations across cultures for adapting LLMs. aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-lon…

#NAACL25 #C3NLP How do cultures differ in their mental health struggles? Do they seek professional help or emotional comfort? Check out our study on cross-cultural differences in mental health expressions on Reddit. aclanthology.org/2025.c3nlp-1.1… #mentalhealth #depression #llm

Thrilled to share that our work has received the Outstanding Paper Award C3NLP #NAACL2025! 🎉 Huge congratulations to Sunny Rai & Khushi Shelat for leading this collaborative effort, and thanks to Jeffrey (Young-Min) Cho for delivering an amazing talk on behalf of his co-authors! 🙌🏽

#NAACL2025 How to compare cultural differences with social media data in scale? Our work uses lexica to annotate X 🇺🇸 & Weibo 🇨🇳 posts with valence (😄☹️) & arousal (🔥❄️) scores, revealing cross-cultural differences in emotional expression. aclanthology.org/2025.findings-…

Thrilled to share that our work has received the Outstanding Paper Award C3NLP #NAACL2025! 🎉 Jeffrey (Young-Min) Cho Khushi Shelat Sharath Chandra Guntuku

If you are working on AI agents, consider submitting here! It is non archival and an excellent opportunity to receive feedback and showcase your work Conference on Language Modeling