PhD Candidate @ Drexel University, Info. Sci. 🇲🇦 Studying lived experiences of people who use #drugs, #stigma, #harmreduction through mixed methods, #NLProc. Public health background. Aspiring wine connoisseur & proud cat lady 🐱🐱🐱https://bsky.app/profile/laylab.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/laylab.bsky.social/post/3mchzqhhvbk2dThanks to public pressure, 2B in vital mental health and addiction funds are to be reinstated - advocacy still matters #drugsky https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5677714/trump-administration-mental-health-addiction-grant-cuts-restored15 Jan 2026 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:cem2vinbmnfnlpqpzywkp47i/app.bsky.feed.post/3mchzqhhvbk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/laylab.bsky.social/post/3mcfilfcdls25I used to assume that when people who use drugs went online, it was mostly about dysfunction. I was wrong. There is rawness,support, safety, connection. I wrote this piece to challenge our assumptions and share how AI helped push our understanding further. #academicsky #drugsky tinyurl.com/4r7em5wx https://theconversation.com/reddit-and-tiktok-with-the-help-of-ai-are-reshaping-how-researchers-understand-substance-use-241730?utm_medium=article_clipboard_share&utm_source=theconversation.com14 Jan 2026 16:31 +0000at://did:plc:cem2vinbmnfnlpqpzywkp47i/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcfilfcdls25https://bsky.app/profile/laylab.bsky.social/post/3m5z47k3kjc2zLearning more about the pervasiveness of stigma in the clinical settings at #AMIA2025 makes me feel we need to be doing more to listen and trust patients while also making considerations in the models we deploy. Great piece. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Nov 2025 20:37 +0000at://did:plc:cem2vinbmnfnlpqpzywkp47i/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5z47k3kjc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/laylab.bsky.social/post/3m5tp45mmqk2uHighlight from #AMIA2025 Day 2 is from the keynote from Dr.Kedar Mate: What can we do by next Tuesday? I love this reminder that we should be setting goals that can be bold and specific so that we can actually attain them. It’s actionable and helps us identify what to prioritize.17 Nov 2025 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:cem2vinbmnfnlpqpzywkp47i/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5tp45mmqk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/laylab.bsky.social/post/3m5tkrjapzc2r‘Wellness’ and ‘court’ are two words that should never be found together. More evidence of the failures of the Parker administration for a population that needs support the most. The visualizations are awesome tho! [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Nov 2025 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:cem2vinbmnfnlpqpzywkp47i/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5tkrjapzc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/laylab.bsky.social/post/3m5pnbu4dxc26Today’s #AMIA2025 highlight was a storytelling workshop by @kbjohnsonmd.bsky.social and @gezzerortegamdmph.bsky.social hit close to home! We use storytelling to teach, to design, to communicate. But ensuring patient stories are actually heard is still an open problem. 🤔 Where do we go from here?16 Nov 2025 02:15 +0000at://did:plc:cem2vinbmnfnlpqpzywkp47i/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5pnbu4dxc26https://bsky.app/profile/laylab.bsky.social/post/3m5n3tqcmak2oMe: “lemme just do this quick feasibility check…” My study: “what if I revealed five new constructs instead?” #academicsky https://media.tenor.com/oTeBa4EVepMAAAAC/business-cat-working.gif?hh=320&ww=25615 Nov 2025 01:58 +0000at://did:plc:cem2vinbmnfnlpqpzywkp47i/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5n3tqcmak2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/laylab.bsky.social/post/3m5clmlibns2iI’ll be headed to Atlanta this week for #AMIA2025 with a poster: “Phenotypes of Stigma Expressed by People Who Use Drugs on Reddit.” Looking to meet others thinking about health, AI, and social impact… and to see what life after the PhD might look like 👀 hmu #HealthInformatics #NLP #AcademicSky10 Nov 2025 21:41 +0000at://did:plc:cem2vinbmnfnlpqpzywkp47i/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5clmlibns2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/laylab.bsky.social/post/3m2acxt5mxc2bThis a great quick read and, most importantly, a reminder for #AcademicSky ! On that note, if anyone has any good references for mentorship, I welcome them 🙏🏼: https://www.science.org/content/article/i-didn-t-think-i-needed-mentorship-training-it-reshaped-my-approach02 Oct 2025 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:cem2vinbmnfnlpqpzywkp47i/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2acxt5mxc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/laylab.bsky.social/post/3lyifb5hbu22y🚨 Opportunities from @athnlp.bsky.social : @annarogers.bsky.social shared a PhD opening @ ITU for anyone interested in peer review and LLM + a postdoc @ AAU on real-world LLM evaluation #NLProc #AcademicSky10 Sep 2025 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:cem2vinbmnfnlpqpzywkp47i/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyifb5hbu22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/laylab.bsky.social/post/3lxfeenvsv22uIf I can sneak away for a couple days, I’ll be there ! It’s be good to visit and reconnect with my UM family and @homahm.bsky.social 🤗 [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2025 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:cem2vinbmnfnlpqpzywkp47i/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxfeenvsv22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/laylab.bsky.social/post/3lw7wxjkjsc2rI’m so excited that EACL next year will be in my favoritist place, my Morocco 🇲🇦❤️!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Aug 2025 18:30 +0000at://did:plc:cem2vinbmnfnlpqpzywkp47i/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw7wxjkjsc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/laylab.bsky.social/post/3lgt2fexims2xFor #philly, Philabundance has food banks all over and has opportunities to get involved www.philabundance.org [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jan 2025 18:09 +0000at://did:plc:cem2vinbmnfnlpqpzywkp47i/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgt2fexims2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/laylab.bsky.social/post/3lgsrbvc5es2gnew paper is up! we look at drug-related hashtags on tiktok to see how they are used and their content. what we find? no, #tiktok users are NOT using the platform to promote harmful behavior but rather to provide support for those in #recovery, advocate for #harmreduction arxiv.org/abs/2501.16123 https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.1612328 Jan 2025 15:26 +0000at://did:plc:cem2vinbmnfnlpqpzywkp47i/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgsrbvc5es2g