lynnette ng
@quarbby
exploring creativity / Societal Computing PhD Student at @SCSatCMU / heart transplant / IG: Littlebabypenguin
Hello! So I disappeared because more than 40 days ago I went into end stage heart failure. I was supported by machines. By God’s Grace, I received a perfect heart and just finish a heart transplant Day 5.
“how is Adam?” “He decays but he never quits”
Everyone asks "Who/What is Adam?" No one asks "HOW is Adam?"🥲
Announcing AuraSight, from the latest CASOS Summer Institute to generate realistic social data. Go read our fictional world, agent development, interaction construction and content creation, all LLM-powered. (actually, check out the cute drawings we drew!) bit.ly/4o1dfzM
The coolest and most comprehensive research group website! Congrats @feedkoko!!
The SMOL Project website is finally live :) smolproject.com We do cool things with social media and digital trace data!
📢Not sure about Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)🤔? Then join @wing_nus for our open-to-all, free public lab rotation course Aug–Nov '25. Offered live to UTC+8, then u/l to YT ▶️. 👀 our past LLM course ("Past Semesters") 👉 wing-nus.github.io/cs6101 @tag ppl who should join!
As I start to conceptualise my thesis, I need to remind myself that it isn’t a full stop. It’s a comma, a pointer to something bigger. And I need to write that story.
A short email saying “I loved your piece” can mean more than you think. In academia, small acts of recognition go a long way. Tell people when their work moves you. It might make their day—and yours. The Beauty of Recognizing Each Other’s Work alans-newsletter-844318.beehiiv.com/p/the-beauty-o…
I can’t believe I’m saying this: our work received a Best Paper Award at #CHIL2025!! So so excited and grateful 🥰 Looking forward to day 2 of the conference with these awesome people :)
I’m really excited to share the first paper of my PhD, “Learning Disease Progression Models That Capture Health Disparities” (accepted at #CHIL2025)! Link and summary in thread✨1/
The hospital releases me from weekly follow ups but I fall sick from a flu. My body needs to stop fighting itself, I need to write my thesis…
How to tell if a trending slogan is a coordinated campaign? We present a new campaign dataset & detection method in Large Engagement Networks for Classifying Coordinated Campaigns and Organic Twitter Trends @ICWSM & Density-aware Walks for Coordinated Campaign Detection @ECMLPKDD
Thank you @IAMCRtweets for this honor. Thanks to my fabulous co-authors for imagining this work into being with me.
We are super excited to announce that #CNM’s Assistant Professor Dr Kokil Jaidka has won the International Association for Media and Communication Research’s (IAMCR) Decolonising the Digital Award 2025! Join us in extending our warmest congratulations!
If you’re in #icwsm, go find ming Shan. He’s out of activities/ friends cuz I promised to go w him but I had a surgery.
Flying to attend @icwsm 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark now! Let's talk about memes, social problems, and MAYBE have a few Danish pastries 🇩🇰✨ #ICWSM2025
Come attend and check out my pets!! (Aka my little agents)
Will AI revolutionize Network Science? Come and find out at this year's CASOS and @IDeaSCMU Center's Summer Institute! Registration is still open for the week-long event August 4-8th at Carnegie Mellon University. Find out more at cmu.edu/cas.../events/…
New paper: "Large Language Models & Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective" (D. Krakauer, J. Krakauer, M. Mitchell). We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from perspective of what emergence means in complexity science. ⬇️
One of my datasets is adapted into a data challenge by MORS! It is for stance detection towards a video & an entity in the vid. Check out the challenge & pls complete all the "future work" I didn't know how to solve: bit.ly/3FUdP11 Original paper: bit.ly/3HyY3Jw
Hey #AcademicTwitter : can anyone recommend a tool if I want to search for all papers on a topic between timings and download their citations? For a meta analysis review. Thanks!!
Will #AI rigidly hold the moral values of its original decision or adapt as #ethics dilemmas become more complex? Across 3,302 five-step #moralDilemmas, 9 #LLMs often shifted priorities as stakes rose (e.g., care → fairness). Some violated transitivity. doi.org/10.48550/arXiv…
99% of doctors don’t measure this but 99% of the patients notice the variance. I whined for years as a child that the ECG looks different but I was dismissed… until my heart stopped completely 😭
after tracking 14,672 hearts for decades, researchers discovered something that could predict disease 5-10 years before symptoms appeared. yet 99% of doctors never measure it. hearth rate variability (HRV), one of the most important biomarkers to track 1/