Jemima Kang
jemimakang.bsky.social
Jemima Kang
@jemimakang.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. Interested in mental health, computational social science, social media, and NLP.
Reposted by Jemima Kang
I am deeply grateful to my PhD supervisors, Nick Haslam and Kat Vylomova, and to my collaborators, Haim Dubossarsky and Raphaël Merx, for their valuable contributions to these frameworks.

Links to papers:
1) SIBling: aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon...
2) LSC-Eval: arxiv.org/abs/2503.08042
A Multidimensional Framework for Evaluating Lexical Semantic Change with Social Science Applications
Naomi Baes, Nick Haslam, Ekaterina Vylomova. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2024.
aclanthology.org
July 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Thank you so much! That’s also great to hear you’re finding similar trends in your work.
May 27, 2025 at 3:41 AM
(5/5) To do so examined over 478,000 Reddit posts over a ten-year period and found that conversations in online communities on ADHD and autism are becoming increasingly alike – in language, membership and topics of conversation.
May 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
(4/5) In our new study we explored whether ADHD and autism have become more closely connected in our culture, and why this convergence may be occurring.
May 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
(3/5) In parallel with these changes, there has been a shift in how the two conditions are understood by many people, inspired in part by the neurodiversity movement.
May 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
(2/5) Genuine rising rates and greater awareness are two possibilities. Another major factor is changes introduced in the DSM-5 which permitted dual diagnosis for the first time.
May 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
(1/5) ADHD and autism are in the news as never before.

Media attention is at an all-time high, demand for diagnostic assessments has risen substantially, and clinical services are experiencing unprecedented pressure.

What’s behind the rise in these two conditions?
May 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM