Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn @ossimokryn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Last week at CHIWORK’26 Emily Hou presented our paper, “From 911 to Hospital: Challenges and Opportunities for AI Integration in Emergency Medical Services,” joint work with Marelyn Gonzalez, Andrew Kun, Orit Shaer, and me. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in collaboration! 020
Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn @ossimokryn.bsky.social · 11/12/2025I spoke this week about online misinformation and why protecting our cognition matters. Crises narrow our thinking, repetition amplifies narrow frames, and absence shapes our perspective. These dynamics make societies vulnerable. Real resilience begins with protecting cognition under stress. 040
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Darwin's regrets: "If I had to live my life again I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect and more probably to the moral character" 28117
Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn @ossimokryn.bsky.social · 08/12/2025I used to write “the authors”, and now I keep talking about “the paper”. Recently, it feels like adding “ChatGPT hallucinated here, and here”. 020
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) Mokrynderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/12/2025The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow 507385317427
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynPatricia Kahr @pkahr.bsky.social · 05/06/2025📣 Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals 📣 #IUI2026 is looking forward to your contribution! Bring your ideas and discuss them with fellow researchers in Paphos, Cyprus, from March 22-26, 2026. 🚨 Proposal Deadlines: Aug 22 (Workshops) and Oct 17 (Tutorials)🚨 iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/call-fo...iui.hosting.acm.orgCall for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals | IUI 122
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynJay Patel @infotainment.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Papers might as well declare "Data available upon victory in a duel." 711620
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynProf Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 15/05/2025🤖📢 AI chatbots often make science sound more certain than it is. A new study found large language models like ChatGPT-4o overgeneralise scientific research - sometimes 73% more than the original papers. Even when asked to be accurate. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #SciComm #AI 🧪doi.orgGeneralization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research | Royal Society Open ScienceArtificial intelligence chatbots driven by large language models (LLMs) have the potential to increase public science literacy and support scientific research, as they can quickly summarize complex sc... 1155
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 15/05/2025"o3, show me a photo of the most stereotypical X and LinkedIn feeds as seen on a mobile device. Really lean into it." 614415
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynHiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Had great conversations with Jeremie Fish in his podcast: Profiles in American Funded Research open.spotify.com/episode/2hxm... youtu.be/vzU3mXkBcAgopen.spotify.comS1Ep13 Interview with Hiroki SayamaProfiles in American Funded Research · Episode 021
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynHiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 04/04/2025My artwork got featured in this very nice article by Katie Liu www.binghamton.edu/news/story/5...binghamton.eduArt of Science exhibit to open during Research Days - Binghamton NewsDozens of Binghamton researchers shared images that capture the artistry of their scientific work for this year’s contest 0102
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 30/03/2025"I am happy to take any questions" 2955
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynDaniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 19/03/2025🤩 We're at exactly 2^8 #CHI2025 preprints now! So have a byte of CHI here: 🍱🍜 medium.com/human-center...medium.comCHI’25 Preprint CollectionLooking for current research on HCI + AI? Here’s a list. 093
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Since both believed to some extent in inheritance of acquired traits, the fundamental difference between Lamarck and Darwin (aside from mechanism, natural selection vs use and disuse) is that Lamarck believed in the power of Life and Darwin believed in the power of Death 6403
Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn @ossimokryn.bsky.social · 09/03/2025🚀 Ever noticed something just feels off? 🤔 Inspired by the understanding that our brains are wired to focus on surprises, we developed Learning via Surprisability (LvS)—a novel transformation approach for timelines that excels at detecting anomalies: 🔗 arxiv.org/pdf/2503.04502arxiv.org 120
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Not everybody knows that Cyndi Lauper wrote "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" about scientists #theconferencetoendallconferences 2181
Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn @ossimokryn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025We are planning an exciting and interactive workshop with fantastic keynote speakers. Join us at Cagliari, Italy, on March 24th! 020
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynHiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Check out the updated speaker list of #NERCCS2025! nerccs2025.github.io Abstract submission deadline: February 28, 2025 Limited amount of travel support is also available. Come to Binghamton!nerccs2025.github.ioNERCCS 2025: Eighth Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems 084
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 04/02/2025You: But I don't know what to do with a super-smart AI capable of conducting graduate-level research. Me: 99711
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynGod @skeetofgod.bsky.social · 03/02/2025There, there. Don't you fret. Just seven more years and it'll all be over.bbc.comYR4: the asteroid with a tiny chance of hitting EarthThe asteroid named YR4 has a 1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 656100381113
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 04/02/2025Here’s a paper we did about this pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...pubs.acs.orgAir Pollution, Greenhouse Gas, and Traffic Externality Benefits and Costs of Shifting Private Vehicle Travel to Ridesourcing ServicesOn-demand ridesourcing services from transportation network companies (TNCs), such as Uber and Lyft, have reshaped urban travel and changed externality costs from vehicle emissions, congestion, crashe... 15520
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Science is like a candle in the dark. Anyone seeking to extinguish it threatens to take us back the dark ages. 321449170
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynJoel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 28/01/2025This is putting people’s lives at risk. More than at risk. Write to your representatives. Show up at protests. Donate your time or your money. This is not the time to sit on the sidelines. 062
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynDaniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 22/01/2025We just extended the submission deadline for the HAI-GEN workshop at #IUI2025. Please submit your work by Fri Jan 24, AoE! hai-gen.github.io/2025/ @ossimokryn.bsky.social, @wernergeyer.bsky.socialhai-gen.github.ioHAI-GEN Workshop at IUI 20256th Workshop on Human-AI Co-Creation with Generative Models 082
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 22/01/2025How to make a presentation? Don't save the best for last! Right from the start, describe your main question and a summary of your big idea. Everyone is listening at those first few minutes but they'll only continue to listen if you grab their attention. 16311
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynMike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 20/01/2025we’re gonna get executed behind an abandoned Party City by complete fucking dorks 231008111
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynCNN @cnn.com · 18/01/2025As a reward for finishing first in qualifying at a ski jumping World Cup event, organizers presented the male winner with 3,000 Swiss francs ($3,290), and the female winner with towels and shampoo.cnn.comIn this ski World Cup event, the men’s winner won more than $3,000. The women got towels and shampoo. | CNNAs a reward for finishing first in qualifying at a ski jumping World Cup event, organizers presented the male winner Jan Haerl with 3,000 Swiss francs ($3,290), and the female winner Selina Freitag wi... 47295101
Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn @ossimokryn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025First day of #netscix2025. You can follow this link to watch it live. Excited to present my keynote in just a couple of hours! www.youtube.com/live/frY8luh....youtube.comYouTubeShare your videos with friends, family, and the world 000
Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn @ossimokryn.bsky.social · 11/01/2025The purring you didn’t know you needed for your weekend 030
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Edith Heard: "I looked on the microscope and it was incredible, I had never imagined that there would be an enrichment.. And so in a way you need both you need the hypotheses [..] But then you need to have the open mind to pick up the unexpected observations and follow them up." 142
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 19/12/2024George Church (@geochurch.bsky.social) on embracing the outlier: "There'd be one point this way the heck off of a scatterplot... you could come up with a filter.. or you could drill down on that point and figure out what's different.. it could tell you there's something novel here" 132
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025I enjoyed talking with @heyira.bsky.social on @scifri.bsky.social about "AGI" (and its different meanings). Listen here: www.sciencefriday.com/segments/wha...sciencefriday.com‘Artificial General Intelligence’ Is Apparently Coming. What Is It?For years, AI companies have said that AGI is coming soon. But what does the term mean, and what is the science behind it? 0547
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynPetal Mokryn @petalmokryn.bsky.social · 29/12/2024E. g. computation can come in both in forming a system’s “prior” on its environment, and in using observed data to compute more data before carrying out inferential belief updating. And Jaynes’ approach to the latter can be formalized in terms of a system’s resistance to updating beliefs. 11/ 141
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynPetal Mokryn @petalmokryn.bsky.social · 29/12/2024This post & its part I predecessor form an interesting duo. Part I relies on fundamentally stochastic models, and Part II on deterministic computation, and has some severe criticism on the use of stochastic methods to describe emergence. 1/ 152
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynCasey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Read Dave, who helped build Facebook’s first content policies, on why this week represents such a big step backwards: “The specific examples I called out above have been prohibited on the site since I wrote the first set of hate speech standards in 2009.” 10596149
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynHendrik Heuer @hheuer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Our paper "AI ethics unwrapped: an empirical investigation of ethical principles in collaborative ideation processes" by Christina Cociancig, Hendrik Heuer and Andreas Breiter was just published in the journal AI and Ethics. link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comAI ethics unwrapped: an empirical investigation of ethical principles in collaborative ideation processes - AI and EthicsMotivated by ongoing criticism of the practical operationalization of ethical principles in artificial intelligence (AI) development, this study targets the ethical practice of AI developers in German... 151
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Our current work is making strides towards better definitions, models, & operationalizations of what misinformation (and other related phenomena like rumors & disinformation) is & how it works. We have multiple papers in review building upon the ideas in this article: www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/r...cip.uw.eduFacts, frames, and (mis)interpretations: Understanding rumors as collective sensemakingThe communicative solution to pervasive misinformation is not better facts, but better frames. 1018532
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 20/12/2024If you're following the OpenAI o3 announcements and are curious about the "ARC-AGI" benchmark and why I think solving these tasks by brute-force compute defeats the original purpose, here are some past posts about this from my Substack: (1/3) 1522332
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynKevin Slavin @slavin-fpo.bsky.social · 21/12/2024There’s no strong reason for non-German nationals to have been closely following the rise of the AfD (Alternativ fuer Deutschland) party in Germany, so here are some details to get you up to speed: 184
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynDaniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 19/12/2024📣 Join our 6th "HAI-GEN" workshop on Human-AI Co-Creation with Generative Models at #IUI2025! 👉 Submit a paper, demo or poster by Jan 22: hai-gen.github.io/2025/ with: @ossimokryn.bsky.social, @wernergeyer.bsky.social, Orit Shaer, Justin Weisz, Lydia Chilton, Mary Lou Maher #IUI #HCI #CHI #AI 073
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynGordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Given that we're a week out from U.S. Thanksgiving, I just wanted to reiterate that @tomcostello.bsky.social created a website that uses AI to help debunk conspiracy theories: www.debunkbot.com If you end up trying it out, please let us know how it goes! (cc @dgrand.bsky.social)debunkbot.comDebunkBotInteract with an artificial intelligence model that seeks to persuade you against unsupported beliefs like conspiracy theories. 77426
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynDaniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 29/11/2024📣 Join our 6th "HAI-GEN" workshop on Human-AI Co-Creation with Generative Models at #IUI2025! 👉 Submit a paper, demo or poster by Jan 22: hai-gen.github.io/2025/ with: Orit Shaer, Justin Weisz, @wernergeyer.bsky.social, Lydia Chilton, @ossimokryn.bsky.social, Mary Lou Maher 082
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynNicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Following a week of big emotions, I declare a celebration of a part of your brain that's been on overdrive but you've barely heard of: the Insula! Each day, I'll pass along a fascinating something about the Insula. In 7 days it just might be your new favorite brain region (it's mine). Day 1 ... 311927
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/11/2024 How to write a grant? 1. The application is for the reviewer, not you, the applicant. 2. Communicate in stories. 3. Make your story cohesive—leave no puzzling gaps. 4. Make your story resonate to keep the reviewer reading. 5. Accept chance and noise in peer-review. www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... 329795
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Saying ‘I don’t know’ in talks has become a lost art, unfortunately. Super interesting discussions require us to be open about what we don’t know and what still needs to be explored. Here’s my recipe for answering questions in talks: 210620
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I don’t want to throw shade, but I would like the folks who kept telling us that there’s no evidence pervasive mis- and disinformation have negative impacts to account for the likelihood that prominent spreaders of BS will be running the agencies that protect public health, intelligence, etc. 26701198
Reposted by Osnat (Ossi) MokrynMark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 19/11/2024We also present the 1st evidence that the entire scheme of Special Issues (SIs) is designed to do this. Across publishers, SI articles go faster. W/i groups, higher accept rates too. Is that good or bad? Depends on how much care is put in: 26 SIs per year or 9 SIs per day? Different beasts. 🧵 6/n 1426