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Taha Yasseri

@tahayasseri.bsky.social
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Workday Full Prof & Chair of Technology & Society at Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin. Director of the Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines. tahayasseri.com

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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After a little break, the weekly chapter highlights are back. This week: @mikethelwall.bsky.social on computational text sentiment analysis. A particularly useful chapter because it goes beyond methods to ask what sentiment scores actually mean and when they can mislead us.
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Randy Kemp @rlkemp21.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
AI is reshaping the workplace, not replacing jobs, new research finds phys.org/news/2026-09...
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AI is reshaping workplace, not replacing jobs, new research finds
Artificial intelligence is changing work in Ireland for the better, according to a new study led by Taha Yasseri, Workday Professor of Technology and Society at Trinity's School of Social Sciences & P...
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Anastasia Menshikova @anmen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Our new @poeticsjournal.bsky.social paper disentangles the role of within-individual and compositional changes in shifting political meaning-making on social media following focus events like terrorist attacks: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Together with @mhbodell.bsky.social
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CRT Foundations of Data Science @crt-datascience.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The CRT Team are delighted to congratulate Saeedeh Mohammadi on successfully passing her PhD Viva! Her PhD thesis is titled "Human and Machine Collective Intelligence for Content Moderation." Well done Saeedeh! 🎉@researchireland.ie @tahayasseri.bsky.social
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Chapter 20: @diyiyang.bsky.social & @calebziems.com on Learning with Weak Supervision for CSS Clear & timely introduction to methods that help researchers overcome 1 of biggest bottlenecks in CSS: lack of labelled data. From distant supervision to data augmentation, semi-supervised learning & LLMs!
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diginomica @diginomica.com · 09/03/2026
How you treat an AI agent determines the results you'll get, says Professor Taha Yasseri. Phil Wainewright was at a recent Workday event in London to find out why, and here he shares more findings from the Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines: bit.ly/4rjH9iU
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Trust in science seems compatible with believing almost anything, so long as it is expressed in plausibly scientific terms, write Michele d'Errico and Taha Yasseri. theconversation.com/why-do-some-...
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Why do some people who trust in science also believe in scientific conspiracy theories?
Trust in science seems compatible with believing almost anything, so long as it is expressed in plausibly scientific terms.
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Chapter 19: @lajello.bsky.social on Learning the Social Pragmatics of Language. A thought-provoking chapter arguing that CSS should move beyond syntax and semantics to study intentions, relationships, and social action expressed through language. A compelling vision for next generation of NLP & CSS.
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Chapter 18: @janlo.de on Exploring Theory with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation. Showing how agent-based models can move CSS beyond prediction toward explanation, revealing how simple behavioural rules can generate complex social phenomena such as segregation, polarization, and filter bubbles.
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"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!
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Chapter 17: Andreas Flache @mrnkzr.bsky.social & Michael Mäs on Agent-Based Models & Networks. A thoughtful chapter arguing that computational social science needs both large-scale empirical & and mechanism-based simulations to explain how individual interactions produce collective phenomena.
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TCD Social Sciences & Philosophy @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Today marks the beginning of Ireland's EU Presidency! Watch our video series 'Ireland as EU President' at the link below & see what Ireland can bring to the table over the next six months. www.tcd.ie/ssp/research... @tahayasseri.bsky.social @farbod-a.bsky.social @tcdeconomics.bsky.social
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Chapter 16: Stephanie Zonszein, PM Aronow, & @cdsamii.bsky.social on estimating causal effects in the presence of network spillovers. A clear introduction to one of the key methodological challenges in CSS: how to identify causal effects when one person's treatment changes someone else's outcome.
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TCD Social Sciences & Philosophy @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Can Ireland keep AI under control?🧐 In our final video of the 'Ireland as EU President' series, Professor @tahayasseri.bsky.social explains why Ireland is the perfect candidate for steering the future of AI regulation in Europe 👇 @tcdsociology.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
💥New | Gendered AI design reflects and reinforces society’s biases ✍️ @tahayasseri.bsky.social & @cuihaosabrina.bsky.social #Sociology #AI #GenderedDesign
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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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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Many are familiar with Friendship Paradox (“your friends are more popular than you, on average “). But did you know FP holds when you swap mean for the median? Yes, MOST friends are more popular than you. This opens networks up to some mind blowing consequences
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Chapter 15: @kristinalerman.bsky.social on the Strong Friendship Paradox. Showing how the structure of social networks systematically biases our perceptions of reality. When our friends are not representative of the population, rare behaviours and opinions can appear surprisingly common.
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Chapter 14: @bolozna.bsky.social on multilayer social networks. A great introduction to one of the most important recent developments in network science: moving beyond single-layer graphs to represent the multiple social contexts and relationships that shape human behavior. Social life is layered!
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Chapter 13: @jsaramak.bsky.social & @pholme.bsky.social on temporal networks of social interactions. A fascinating chapter showing why static network snapshots often miss the most important thing: the timing and order of interactions. Social networks are dynamic processes, not just fixed structures.
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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Who'd have thought Grokipedia had a rightward political bias — especially on pages about religion, history, and literature and art? 🤔 And as a bonus, it is harder to read! The analyzed Grokipedia articles in this study were more wordy, complex, and contained fewer references per word.
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Selective divergence between Grokipedia and Wikipedia articles | PNAS
The launch of Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia developed by xAI, was presented as a response to perceived ideological and structural biases...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Selective divergence between Grokipedia and Wikipedia articles www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin @tcdsociology.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Professor @tahayasseri.bsky.social and PhD candidate Saeedeh Mohammadi have published new research on Grokipedia and its structural biases. 🗣️ ✍️Read the article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social @soham-centre.bsky.social
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SOHAM @soham-centre.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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 ⬇️
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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Kicking off day 2 of Machine+Behavior: @tahayasseri.bsky.social moderating a discussion with speakers Kinga Makovi and Eric Schulz.
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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.
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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.
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Chapter 12: @fedebotta.bsky.social from @exetercompsci.bsky.social on online images and computational social science. A fascinating chapter on how images shared online can help us study politics, misinformation, culture, & collective behaviour and why visual data deserves a much bigger place in CSS.
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Chapter 11: Luis-Daniel Ibáñez, Johanna Walker & @elenasimperl.bsky.social on open data in computational social science. Why open data is not just a technical issue, but also a question of sustainability, impact, politics, and bias. Useful data is more than available data. @aiatkings.bsky.social
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Chapter 10: @feloe.bsky.social & @vanatteveldt.com on social media data donation and digital tracking. A very useful chapter on how digital traces can be integrated into social science research, not as a replacement for surveys and other methods, but as a powerful complement.
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Join us on Thursday, 30 April, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @tahayasseri.bsky.social 🔹 A New Sociology of Humans and Machines 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...
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International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Taha Yasseri
"A new sociology for humans and machines" Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Taha Yasseri, Trinity College Dublin. The seminar is open to the public. Language...
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Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin @tcdsociology.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We are delighted to announce an ONLINE Information Session for our MPhil in Race, Ethnicity and Conflict. 💫 📅 Thurs, 23 April ⏰ 3pm 💻 via Zoom Register via: tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Chapter 9: Kiran Garimella on using WhatsApp data for computational social science. An important chapter on why WhatsApp deserves far more attention in CSS, not only because of its scale, but because it opens a window onto digital life beyond the usual Western, open-platform focus.
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Hao Cui @cuihaosabrina.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
As AI systems take on managerial roles, do human biases follow? Fair AI isn’t just a technical problem — it’s a human one. Read our new research with @tahayasseri.bsky.social @soham-centre.bsky.social ⬇️ lnkd.in/e3idgSZk
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Chpater 8: @dirkhovy.bsky.social, M Gerondeau & J Globisz on text data and natural language processing. A very useful chapter on why text is such a rich source for CSS, and how NLP can help with exploration, prediction, and generation; if used thoughtfully and with clear research goals.
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Delighted to host the inaugural lecture of the etc. Series Dr. Rilla Khaled, Director of @tag-centre.bsky.social & Associate Professor at @concordia.ca, will speak on “Real (talk) > True (talk): Making space for making”, reflecting on nearly a decade of work on design practice and research.
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Chapter 7: @kwelle.bsky.social of @gesis.org & @indiiigo.bsky.social of Mannheim on using social media data in CSS. Social media provides rich digital traces of human behavior, but also raises serious methodological & ethical challenges, from platform bias to reproducibility. A great guide!
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Hao Cui @cuihaosabrina.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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
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CRT Foundations of Data Science @crt-datascience.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Our Researcher of the week is @ucddublin.bsky.social #PhD #Student Faezeh Fadaei. Faezeh's work is on "Gender Dynamics and Homophily in a Social Network of LLM Agents" Check out Faezeh's video: vimeo.com/1167656753 @researchireland.ie @tahayasseri.bsky.social
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SOHAM @soham-centre.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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.
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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.
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
In Chapter 4, Ralph Schroeder of @oii.ox.ac.uk argues that CSS needs a stronger theory, not just better data. He proposes an AI-driven model of media agenda-setting that links media visibility, public attention, and political change. A big step toward cumulative media theory.
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
What happens when 20,000+ LLM agents interact autonomously on a social media platform for a full year? We studied Chirper (a Twitter-like world for AIs) and found: gendered language is fluid, not fixed networks still show strong gender homophily both selection and social influence shape AI societies
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Chapter 3: @helenmargetts.bsky.social & Cosmina Dorobantu on how CSS can improve public policymaking, from better detection and prediction to ethical, accountable use of AI in government. A powerful case for impact beyond academia. doi.org/10.4337/9781... @oii.ox.ac.uk @lsedatascience.bsky.social
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
1) thank you . 2) the eBook is 42 euros, and the paperback will be out soon with the same price as the paperback. The Handbook is nearly 1000 pages and 42 euros for the paperback is very reasonable, don't you think?
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Chapter 2: Duncan Watts & @davidlazer.bsky.social reflect on how the field has evolved from early simulation models to today’s large-scale data and experiments, and ask how can computational social science move from producing insights to having real societal impact? @nunetsi.bsky.social
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CS2Italy @cs2italy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
1) Due to popular demand, the abstract deadline has been extended to 👉Jan 30👈 -- plz share! 2) We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker -- Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social Chair of Technology and Society @ Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin ▶️ cs2italy.org
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Tomorrow @wikipedia.org turns 25! Happy birthday to everyone who reads and edits it, and to one of the most important projects in the modern information landscape. Here is the list of the most viewed and most edited articles of "all time". @wikiresearch.bsky.social
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SOHAM @soham-centre.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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
Image of laptop showing podcast from ABC Nightlife's This Week In History radio show
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