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Romina Mahinpei
@rmahinpei.bsky.social
PhD Student @ Princeton CS | HCI + CSS
New preprint! We introduce a new benchmark, SciConBench, with 9.11k scientific questions derived from Cochrane Systematic Reviews. We find evidence that frontier AI agents **cannot** synthesize scientific conclusions well. A thread 🧵 w/ @hayoungjung.bsky.social & others!
📝Excited to share our new preprint, “AI Assistance for Discretionary Work: Increasing Feedback Provision in Higher Education”: arxiv.org/abs/2606.03095 A thread 🧵 1/8
🚨New preprint!🚨 arxiv.org/abs/2606.03095 In a randomized field experiment in a 300-level machine learning course, teaching assistants received AI-assisted feedback drafts after grading student submissions. Did AI help them provide more feedback when feedback was optional? A thread 🧵
Hey Bluesky friends, please check out and let us know what you think of 🌳 Bonsai, a new tool to create custom Bluesky feeds getbonsai.org Story: www.cs.princeton.edu/news/what-ha... Presented at #CHI2026 by @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social and @mariannealq.bsky.social
Bonsai
Bonsai is a research system that replaces black-box engagement models with intentional, natural language-based curation.
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🛍️Major AI companies are increasingly embedding sponsored content into chatbot conversations. Across two preregistered experiments (N=2,012), we test how effectively AI can steer consumers toward sponsored products in a realistic shopping scenario. 📝https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04263