Great start to the summer at the @ecreadmm.bsky.social working group on emotion, affect, and media. Wonderful new colleagues!

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Image of library book display labeled:

“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm

I’m generally pleased when something I write comes out but it’s very sad that I had to write this and the Trump administration’s attacks on libraries have intensified since I submitted it.

Lovely to see my friend, @drpaulryan.bsky.social being honoured with a well-deserved @sociologyireland.bsky.social Lifetime Achievement Award at #sai2025 this evening.

Celebrating children around the world this #children’sday!

Sociodemographic biases in medical decision making by large language models - Nature Medicine A panel of nine LLMs was exposed to simulated clinical cases with switched sociodemographic features exploring ethnic, social, sexual orientation and gender dimensions and showed differences in recommendations for patient treatment, referral and follow-up based only on these features.

A study in Nature Medicine exposed LLMs to simulated clinical cases with switched sociodemographic features exploring ethnic, social, sexual orientation and gender dimensions and showed differences in recommendations for patient treatment, referral and follow-up based only on these features. 🔒

#NationalLibraryWeek
#LiteracyMatters

“I was still the weirdo but now cool”: the impact of Hallyu on affective experiences of racialization among Chileans of Korean descent South Koreans arrived in Santiago, Chile in the 1970s to establish businesses in textile manufacturing, apparel retail, and general merchandise. This paper examines how the arrival of Hallyu (Korea...

#koreandiaspora
My friend and a couple of her colleagues just published this paper on the Korean diaspora in #Chile
Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Z9KA7...