2026/9/21 – Our work Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review (forthcoming, preprint linked here) is featured in the recent Science news features Ready for the Robot Reviewers? (by Jeffrey Brainard, linked here) on AI as peer reviewers. 

2026/05/22 — EST389 (Introduction to Data Science and Responsible AI), Spring 2026

• • Our Spring 2026 EST389 course, Introduction to Data Science and Responsible AI, has officially concluded.

2026/05/12 — Health Communication Summit, Tuscaloosa, AL

• • I was invited to attend the Health Communication Summit at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, organized by Dr. Rebecca Ivic, Associate Dean for Research in the College of Communication & Information Sciences.

2026/05/01 — SUNY AI & Society Spring Convening, Albany, NY

• • I delivered a faculty lightning talk at the SUNY AI & Society Spring Convening in Albany, NY, where I shared my research on women’s contributions to AI inventions and their role in advancing human-centered and women-centered AI technologies.

2026/04/28–04/29 — International Network on Digital Labor (INDL) North America Symposium on Labor and AI, Yale University, New Haven, CT

• • I presented my ongoing research, “Gendered Labor in the Making of AI: Evidence from U.S. Patents,” at the INDL North America Symposium on Labor and Artificial Intelligence at Yale University.

  • I also chaired a session in the symposium’s doctoral colloquium.

2026/03/29–04/02 — iConference 2026, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

• • Tugce Gundogdu, our undergraduate research assistant at George Mason University, presented our paper, “Local News at a Distance: Psychological Distance and the Formation of News Deserts,” at iConference 2026 in Edinburgh, UK.