Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn

I 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.

Darwin'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"

I used to write “the authors”, and now I keep talking about “the paper”. Recently, it feels like adding “ChatGPT hallucinated here, and here”.

It seems a bit contagious. One person (I think the goalkeeper was first) released the frustration this way, and the others then followed almost one by one. Interesting.

I’d love a recommendation on a good academic paper on this aspect for my fake news and manipulation course

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Grant rejected.

📣 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...

Papers might as well declare "Data available upon victory in a duel."

Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research | Royal Society Open Science Artificial 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...

🤖📢 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 🧪

"o3, show me a photo of the most stereotypical X and LinkedIn feeds as seen on a mobile device. Really lean into it."

S1Ep13 Interview with Hiroki Sayama Profiles in American Funded Research · Episode

Had great conversations with Jeremie Fish in his podcast: Profiles in American Funded Research
open.spotify.com/episode/2hxm...
youtu.be/vzU3mXkBcAg

למה שתיסע בכאלו שעות.. אבל אם נוסע בזריחה, ממליצה על הירידה מעוספיה לכיוון האוניברסיטה, פשוט מושלם

Art of Science exhibit to open during Research Days - Binghamton News Dozens of Binghamton researchers shared images that capture the artistry of their scientific work for this year’s contest

My artwork got featured in this very nice article by Katie Liu
www.binghamton.edu/news/story/5...

Thanks! I'd love to join next time — already out of travel funding for this year 😔

"I am happy to take any questions"

CHI’25 Preprint Collection Looking for current research on HCI + AI? Here’s a list.

🤩 We're at exactly 2^8 #CHI2025 preprints now! So have a byte of CHI here: 🍱🍜 medium.com/human-center...

Since 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

I wish I was a biologist

Here is an example — detecting anomalies in 30 years of world mortality reasons

We tested LvS on:
📡 Sensor data with hidden anomalies
🌍 Global mortality trends over multiple years
🗣️ Two centuries of U.S. State of the Union Addresses
The result? LvS efficiently highlights the most important outliers, helping us see the bigger picture instead of just noise.

🚀 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/2503.04502

Not everybody knows that Cyndi Lauper wrote "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" about scientists
#theconferencetoendallconferences

תהנה!

Lol

We are planning an exciting and interactive workshop with fantastic keynote speakers. Join us at Cagliari, Italy, on March 24th!

Check 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!

Mozart’s Requiem works for me when nothing else does

You: But I don't know what to do with a super-smart AI capable of conducting graduate-level research.

Me: