"Researchers can't access social media data anymore." But one of the richest open datasets available today, Community Notes, remains surprisingly understudied. We analyse its first four years and release a research-ready dataset, code, interaction networks, and a comprehensive literature review!

💥New | Gendered AI design reflects and reinforces society’s biases ✍️ @tahayasseri.bsky.social & @cuihaosabrina.bsky.social #Sociology #AI #GenderedDesign

Gendered AI design reflects and reinforces society’s biases - LSE Impact

When AI tools are designed with a gender, they don't just encode gendered values they also encourage users to engage with them in biased ways.

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A large-scale analysis of Grokipedia, the world’s first AI-written encyclopedia, found that Grokipedia selectively draws on more right-leaning news sources. The study was conducted by Saeedeh Mohammadi and @tahayasseri.bsky.social at @soham-centre.bsky.social. See link to full press release ⬇️

Calling all gender and AI researchers - this is definitely one for the diary 👩‍💻 @tcddublin.bsky.social @soham-centre.bsky.social

SOHAM@soham-centre.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What does gender-based analysis reveal about AI? 🤔A Gender and AI Symposium, hosted by Dr Jenny Carla Moran, will take place on 3rd June 2026 in the Trinity Long Room Hub. See ⬇️ to register and ⬇️ to see the full programme.

Paper out in @pnas.org We compared ~18,000 matched articles between Wikipedia and Grokipedia, xAI’s AI-generated encyclopedia. While many pages closely mirrored Wikipedia, a substantial subset diverged markedly in content, sourcing, and political orientation, especially in religion and history.

What does gender-based analysis reveal about AI? 🤔A Gender and AI Symposium, hosted by Dr Jenny Carla Moran, will take place on 3rd June 2026 in the Trinity Long Room Hub. See ⬇️ to register and ⬇️ to see the full programme.

New work by @cuihaosabrina.bsky.social and @tahayasseri.bsky.social is now available in Computers in Human Behavior Reports. The findings suggest that people may project gender biases onto AI managers, with potential implications for future human–AI interactions. Read the paper ⬇️

Same decision, different judgment. If people project the same gender biases onto AI managers, what does that suggest about our future interactions with AI? Read our work ⬇️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ch... @tahayasseri.bsky.social @soham-centre.bsky.social @tcdsociology.bsky.social

New preprint with Ruiqing (Rachel) Han & @cuihaosabrina.bsky.social on how people evaluate AI managers. One finding surprised us: adding a face shifts evaluation from performance to social perception. Take note AI system designers: interface choices are not neutral. @tcdsociology.bsky.social

Chapter 6: @lauraknelson.bsky.social from UBC Sociology on computational inductive research. The chapter makes a strong case that unsupervised methods don’t replace theory: they reshape how we generate & validate it. Induction, abduction, deduction, combined with transparency & reproducibility.

Taha Yasseri@tahayasseri.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Chapter 5: @martinarvidsson.bsky.social, Hedström, Jarvis & @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social on the intersection of Analytical Sociology and Computational Social Science. Computational tools are most powerful when used to identify and test mechanisms, not just describe or predict aggregate patterns.

Preprint: Collaboration improves community-based content moderation, but only when political identities stay implicit. We tested whether you can combine @wikipedia.org model & Community Notes: complicated! w/ Gabriela Juncosa, Saeedeh Mohammadi & @msamahita.bsky.social @wikiresearch.bsky.social

Wikipedia is a fascinating case study in collective intelligence, and a rare example of the internet working as intended. @tahayasseri.bsky.social had a great conversation with @bernyoung.bsky.social on @ABC Radio Nightlife this week about Wikipedia as it turns 25. @tcdsociology.bsky.social

ICYMI -- Delighted that the Handbook of Computational Social Science is finally out. Amazing cast of coauthors, with special thanks to @tahayasseri.bsky.social for leading the effort. Happy Holidays! www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now! @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

We have an opening for a PhD position at SOHAM to work on a very cool project (COOLNET)! Supervised by Guillaume Falmagne, Ph.D. and Prof @tahayasseri.bsky.social, they will work on large-scale multiplayer video games to study and compare mechanisms that foster global cooperation in social dilemmas.

SOHAM's Dr Jenny Carla Moran is organising a symposium on "Gender and AI". Send your abstract before the New Year's Eve! Read more at: www.tcd.ie/ahss/news-an...

A big welcome to our new members Dr Guillaume Falmagne and Dr Jenny Carla Moran. Read more at: www.tcd.ie/soham/news-a...

A few updates on our Grokipedia analysis: we expanded our sample to 20,000 most edited articles on Wikipedia. Linguistic & stylistic differences are the same as reported before (Generally, Grokipedia articles are longer, more difficult to read, and less referenced.) @wikiresearch.bsky.social

Have you ever wondered if human behaviour changes when we are interacting with artificially intelligent machines? Listen to our Prof @tahayasseri.bsky.social on how we exploit artificial intelligence: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/fut...

Extra: How we exploit artificial intelligence | Newstalk

Guest: Taha Yasseri, Director of the Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines at Trinity...

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We're hiring 2 Assistant Professors of Sociology: Gender and Sexuality and Environmental Sociology. At @tcdsociology.bsky.social, we aspire to be a method-agnostic group of solution-oriented sociologists. Join our welcoming community at @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social. Deadline 1 Dec. Link in the comment.

#Grokipedia: Elon Musk is right that @wikipedia.org is biased, but his AI alternative will be the same at best theconversation.com/grokipedia-e...

Grokipedia: Elon Musk is right that Wikipedia is biased, but his AI alternative will be the same at best

Musk’s new WIkipedia rival aims to offer the same service but without the political bias.

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New preprint: From Birdwatch to CommunityNotes, from Twitter to X: four years of community-based content moderation. Includes a complete literature review, preliminary analysis, and a gigantic dataset #researchgoldmine arxiv.org/abs/2510.09585

Professor @tahayasseri.bsky.social from @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social joined "The Internet is Crack" podcast to discuss how AI shapes our societies and the challenges of regulating it. youtu.be/pgnRSeVlD3g?...

#49 Data and AI: A Conversation with Professor Taha Yasseri

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Professor @tahayasseri.bsky.social from @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social joined "The Internet is Crack" podcast to discuss how AI shapes our societies and the challenges of regulating it. youtu.be/pgnRSeVlD3g?...

#49 Data and AI: A Conversation with Professor Taha Yasseri

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Thank you to Prof @tahayasseri.bsky.social for kickstarting our Autumn Public Lecture Series last night! Next up, @tcdphilosophy.bsky.social will look at the ethics of AI on Thurs 2 Oct. Join the waitlist or explore other events in this series: tinyurl.com/5d54a8up

🌍 Join us for #HACID Webinar #4: Gender & Diversity in Hybrid Collective Intelligence 🧠🤖 🗓 Sept 29, 2025 | ⏰ 18:00 CEST Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/71775f...

This is an important and very well-written paper! I don’t usually praise papers I co-author, but in this case, Michele has done a stellar job! @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @researchireland.ie should be very proud of their PhD students! osf.io/preprints/so...

A big welcome to all the new members joining SOHAM this term. Read about them here: www.tcd.ie/soham/news-a... @marinaschenkel.bsky.social @azeezhamzat.bsky.social @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

🌞Take a look at our School Alumni Summer Newsletter now with Sociology highlights from the launch of our @soham-centre.bsky.social Research Centre to symposiums and book launches as well as amazing achievements from the wider School! Read here: tinyurl.com/y2nea3wf @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

The @soham-centre.bsky.social team is busy at @ic2s2.bsky.social this year. Do come by for a chat. #ic2s2