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Nari Yoo
@nariyoo.bsky.social
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assistant professor of social work @umich.edu. | mental health/mental health services equity, (im)migrants, technology, geospatial analysis, computational social science
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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lauraknelson.bsky.social
At long last, I can post my team's summer project: applied modules to teach how ML/AI tools are changing social science and humanities research: ubcecon.github.io/praxis-ubc/

Highlights:

LegalBERT to analyze anti/pro-immigrant sentiment in 19th c. BC law: ubcecon.github.io/praxis-ubc/d...
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Praxis - Embedding Driven Text Analysis of Crease’s Stance Towards Chinese Immigrants
This notebook aims to demonstrate how machine learning can assist with historical and other humanity research.
ubcecon.github.io
September 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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anildash.com
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic

www.404media.co/the-200-site...
March 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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naomithyden.bsky.social
Are you interested in analyzing small samples from marginalized communities and aren't sure how?

My new commentary in AJE's collection on Methods in Social Epidemiology lays out rec's for researchers, public health practitioners, and data owners.

DM your email address if you need access.
Insufficient sample size or insufficient attention to marginalized populations? A practical guide to moving observational research forward
Naomi Harada Thyden; Insufficient sample size or insufficient attention to marginalized populations? A practical guide to moving observational research for
doi.org
February 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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asjadnaqvi.bsky.social
#Stata #bimap is updated to v2.2 with major functionality improvements:

- Better legend control.
- Option "geopre()" allows layers below the bimap.
- Some options renamed.

More info:
github.com/asjadnaqvi/s...

Up soon on #SSC!
February 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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dalemaglalang.bsky.social
Proud to announce the completion of our study, "Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Strength Survey." We surveyed a total sample of N=1,256 LGB individuals in the U.S. with almost equal racial quota sampling.
February 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
nariyoo.bsky.social
I am co-organizing this online speaker series about Data Science for Social Good (DSSG)!

Please spread the word to #SWTech academics and practitioners 🔎
jaeyeonkim.bsky.social Jae Yeon Kim @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social · Jan 23
I am currently developing an online speakers series where academics and practitioners can learn from each other about using data for good. Please take the following one-minute survey to let me know if you want to participate in this speakers series: forms.gle/Sd3kwX4aRweh...
Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) Online Speakers Series
Hello. I'm Jae Yeon Kim, an incoming public policy faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill and ex-data science at Code for America. I am currently developing an online speakers series where academics and practiti...
forms.gle
February 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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jbsinger.bsky.social
On January 30, 2025 Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners will vote to change the state statute that governs continuing education requirements to eliminate "cultural diversity" and instead require CEs on "distinct populations." #SocialWork
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January 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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dalemaglalang.bsky.social
Nari is a rockstar! Any social work school would be very lucky to have her as faculty!
nariyoo.bsky.social Nari Yoo @nariyoo.bsky.social · Nov 28
Hi all🦋 I am a PhD candidate on the job market @nyusilver.bsky.social! My research focuses on mental health and access to care among immigrants/ethnic minorities, digital mental health, and computational methods. I hope to reconnect with folks on #academictwitter and make new connections here!
November 28, 2024 at 2:57 AM
nariyoo.bsky.social
Hi all🦋 I am a PhD candidate on the job market @nyusilver.bsky.social! My research focuses on mental health and access to care among immigrants/ethnic minorities, digital mental health, and computational methods. I hope to reconnect with folks on #academictwitter and make new connections here!
November 28, 2024 at 2:51 AM
nariyoo.bsky.social
I've written a post on using web scraping 👩‍💻 for social work research. It covers tools, methods, examples, ethics, and learning resources for collecting data.

Please take a look if you are interested in computational approaches in social work research😊 #SWtech

nariyoo.com/web-scraping...
Web Scraping Basics for Social Work Researchers: Methods and Applications
Understanding the use of API for data collection Many websites offer Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that provide structured access to their data. Utilizing APIs is often more straightfor…
nariyoo.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:38 AM
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asjadnaqvi.bsky.social
🚀Launching the
@Stata
#geoboundary 🌎🌍🌏 package that allows users to pull #administrative ADM0-ADM5 (availability can vary) #boundaries for any #country, or for the whole #world. 🗺️

github.com/asjadnaqvi/s...
Up soon on SSC!
GitHub - asjadnaqvi/stata-geoboundary: A Stata package for administrative boundary data
A Stata package for administrative boundary data. Contribute to asjadnaqvi/stata-geoboundary development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 27, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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profhalloran.bsky.social
In case we do, I put together a social work academic Starter Pack. I’m sure I’ve unintentionally omitted folks who are already here, but I’ll keep updating.
October 18, 2024 at 4:44 PM