Talal Rahwan
@talalrahwan
Associate Prof. @NYUAbuDhabi, interested in Computational Social Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Graph Theory
Grateful for the opportunity to deliver a keynote @IC2S2 discussing racial & gender disparities in academia, editorial conflicts of interest, and citation manipulation #NYUAD #ComputationalSocialScience #SciSci #ScienceOfScience #IC2S2
🚨 TikTok’s Recommendation favors Republicans! 🚨 We built 323 fake accounts, watched 394K videos, and uncovered the political tilt in TikTok’s recommendations Your "For You" Page isn’t just for you—it's shaping how you see politics See our arXiv paper: arxiv.org/abs/2501.17831
🧵@jevinwest and I recently wrote a commentary: "Search engines post-#ChatGPT: How generative artificial intelligence could make search less reliable." We discuss 6 critical issues as search engines transition from "helping" you find the answer to "answering" your question.
Ever wondered why all AI-generated Middle Eastern men look like Aladdin?👳♂️ Beards, Brown skin, Turbans, etc. Our new Scientific Reports paper shows that Stable Diffusion reinforces gender stereotypes and racial homogenization. rdcu.be/ejgN5
My prediction is this pre-print [if it holds through peer-review] will be *very* important if China takes over Taiwan in the next four years. Tik Tok's algorithm showed more pro-Trump content to Democrats than pro-Harris content to Republicans in 2024. arxiv.org/abs/2501.17831
🚨 Our research reveals TikTok's partisan tilt! 🚨 We conducted 323 algorithmic audit experiments with "sock puppet" accounts in TX, NY, & GA during the 2024 U.S. election race: 🔴 GOP-seeded accounts got 11.8% more party-aligned content 🔵 Dem-seeded accounts saw 7.5% more…
Check out Nature's coverage of our PNAS paper on postdoc success!
More than 40% of postdoctoral researchers leave academia, according to a study of some 45,500 researchers’ careers go.nature.com/40o25Kq
Check out our PNAS paper examining postdocs and their careers
What is the significance of #postdoc training? What factors drive the success (as measured by citations) of early career scientists? Should they shift their #research focus or move to a more prestigious institution post-PhD to excel in #academia? In our newly published brief…
Our latest paper @SciReports shows that the U.S. and China produce more impactful AI research when collaborating together #SciSci #ScienceOfScience @NYUAbuDhabi with collaborators @shahanmemon, @alshebli, @profjamesevans
📢 Excited to share our latest publication in @Nature @SciReports "China and the U.S. produce more impactful #AI research when collaborating together." 🇺🇸🤖🇨🇳 in collaboration with @alshebli, @profjamesevans, & @talalrahwan 🧵1/12 @UW @uwnews @NYUAbuDhabi @DSI_UChicago…
2. Those who happen to get a hit paper during their postdoc are more likely to stay in academia. 3. Of those who stay in academia, those who change their topic a bit (but not too much) perform better as early-year faculty. 3/3 @shahanmemon @YueranD009 @alshebli @talalrahwan
Our paper just got covered by @Nature. We went under cover and contacted a "citation boosting" service. We managed to buy citations that appeared in a Scopus-indexed journal, providing conclusive evidence that citations can be bought in bulk!! nature.com/articles/d4158…
Feeling incredibly humbled to announce that our PhD student, @hazemibr_ has received two prestigious awards for his remarkable work. This achievement reflects the exceptional collaboration of our team at NYU Abu Dhabi. Proud to be part of this inspiring team. @NYUAbuDhabi
Our PhD student @hazemibr_ just got two awards @IC2S2: the Best Poster Award (about Big Tech dominance) AND the Best Presentation Award (about ChatGPT's performance on homework assignments) 🥳🎉@NYUAbuDhabi Here are the papers: shorturl.at/mU5EF, shorturl.at/m5DOC.
Phenomenal keynote by @talalrahwan 👍🏻
Keynote speech @IC2S2 by @talalrahwan on gender bias in journal editorship. Sociology is the only field in which women are not underrepresented in journal editors ☺️@NYUSociology @NYUAbuDhabi @nyushanghai
Keynote speech @IC2S2 by @talalrahwan on gender bias in journal editorship. Sociology is the only field in which women are not underrepresented in journal editors ☺️@NYUSociology @NYUAbuDhabi @nyushanghai
🔥 Meet "PoLYTC," the ultimate political lean-o-meter detector for YouTube videos! 🎉 Using 11.5M video titles, PoLYTC nails political leanings with 75% accuracy and 77% F1-score! 🎯 Say goodbye to guesswork and hello to informed watching! 🚀 #YouTube #AI journalofbigdata.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…
In human-bot interactions, we show that altruism is influenced by the bot's perceived Experience (i.e., ability to feel) while trust is influenced by the bot's perceived Agency (ability to act) @NYUAD @SciReports with @Kurtgray @baalaaraaju @MayadaOudah nature.com/articles/s4159…
"The capacity to purchase citations in bulk is a new and worrying development." My latest story—about a research team that went "undercover" to buy citations for a fictional scientist. @ScienceMagazine #AcademicChatter science.org/content/articl…
.@NYUniversity #researchers Hazem Ibrahim, @McLiu98, @YasirZaki82, @TalalRahwan @NYUAbuDhabi created a @GoogleScholar account for a fake author and identified instances in which citations were purchased for fake papers from a third-party #service. bit.ly/48eqHqP