Asst. Professor at @GeorgeMasonU. Formerly @INFOCollegeUMD. Community Informatics, Information Access/Inequality & Socio-Technical. RTs not always endorsement.myeonglee.com Arlington, VAJoined March 2010
A word of gratitude to the anonymous reviewers, the unsung heroes of science.
My lab recently had the great fortune to publish an article in Nature Magazine, one of the most prestigious academic journals. To top that, we even made the cover of the issue, with a witty tagline that summarizes the paper: "Cheat Code: Delegating to AI can encourage dishonest behaviour"
While our research team is enjoying this wonderful moment, we want to shine a light on the people who work diligently behind the scenes: the anonymous peer reviewers.
This paper was immeasurably improved by their rigorous questioning and thoughtful, and constructive feedback. They challenged our assumptions, pushed us to strengthen our data and analysis, replicate our findings in a more realistic domain (tax evasion) and helped us clarify our story. It is no exaggeration to say that their critical input was essential in elevating the work to the level of the journal.
In science, the authors receive the public credit, but the integrity and quality of our work rest heavily on the shoulders of these unsung heroes. They dedicate their time and expertise not for glory, but for the betterment of science itself.
So, to the reviewers who handled our manuscript: thank you. While you remain anonymous to us and the world, please know that your contribution is deeply felt and sincerely appreciated.
And of course, a big 'thank you' to the editor Mary Elizabeth Sutherland for recruiting and collaborating with such knowledgeable and supportive reviewers, and guiding us through this whole process.
Thanks to the team of co-authors: @NCKobis, Zoe Rahwan, Raluca Rilla, Bramantyo Supriyatno, Tamer Ajaj Clara N. Bersch, Jean-Francois Bonnefon.
#Science#Research#PeerReview#Nature#Teamwork#Gratitude
🥳📷TikTok doesn’t just recommend—it socializes. In my research, I show how users institutionalize the For You page, reading it as (1) political profiling, (2) moral arena, (3) informal school. Algorithmic agency is negotiated—not given.
doi.org/10.1177/205630…
🏆🏆🏆 Thrilled to share that our paper “The AI Review Lottery: Widespread AI-Assisted Peer Reviews Boost Paper Scores and Acceptance Rates” received an Honorable Mention Award at @ACM_CSCW 2025 🎉
By analyzing thousands of ICLR peer reviews, we show that papers receiving AI-assisted reviews systematically receive higher scores and are more likely to be accepted.
Thanks to my amazing coauthors for making this possible! @manoelribeiro, @im_td , @VminVsky , @cervisiarius
Received ChatGPT-like reviews? They may have boosted your paper's odds of being accepted!
In a quasi-experimental study of a top AI conference, ICLR, we measured the effect of AI-assisted peer reviews on scores and acceptance rates. (Led by @russogiusep)
arxiv.org/abs/2405.02150
George Mason University and the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry (DOLI) have launched the Mason-DOLI Innovation Lab to advance public sector innovation and enhance occupational safety through AI-enabled predictive analytics.
cec.gmu.edu/news/2025-04/g…
Data, not documents: Moving beyond theories of information-seeking behavior to advance data discovery
Anthony J. Million, Jeremy York, Sara Lafia, Libby Hemphill
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Junior folks thinking about CISE CAREER proposals might want to check out this year's CISE CAREER webinar; see cnsr.ictas.vt.edu/NSF-CISE-CAREE… (and pass this along to folks you think would be interested).
🥳I am so happy to share with you my article on Video Games as Social Institutions. I discuss key criteria for this argument: ubicuous gamification elements, gamer identity (with racial & sexual tenets), resistance, and time-oriented interactions 👇
doi.org/10.1177/155541…
Meta is using Facebook and mobile phone data to produce super-granular household wealth estimates.
Here’s what you need to know about the Relative Wealth Index:
📣New Paper in PNAS: Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
📢 New paper in Nature Human Behavior! A perspective on the field we have been working in the last 10 years: urban mobility data reveals experienced inequalities in cities beyond where people live.
👉 Link: nature.com/articles/s4156…
👉 Open-access: rdcu.be/eabf4
PDF parsing is pretty much solved at scale now.
Gemini 2 Flash's $0.40/M tokens and 1M token context means you can now parse 6000 long PDFs at near perfect quality for $1
Introducing “DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter.”
Today, we release five derived metrics of over 129,000 domains, quantifying their characteristics such as geographical reach and audience partisanship.
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Happy to announce our paper “Media Bias Detector: Designing and Implementing a Tool for Real-Time Selection and Framing Bias Analysis in News Coverage” was accepted at #CHI2025! (My first publication!)
In spirit of the winter holidays I made a little package called mascarade, which automatically generate masks for clusters on UMAP/t-SNE plots. github.com/alserglab/masc… 1/3
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