rckingoriain.bsky.social
@rckingoriain.bsky.social
Professor of sociology, JA-expat and GAA-Camogie mam.

https://maynoothuniversity.ie
Great start to the summer at the @ecreadmm.bsky.social working group on emotion, affect, and media. Wonderful new colleagues!
June 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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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?
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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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
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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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.
May 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Lovely to see my friend, @drpaulryan.bsky.social being honoured with a well-deserved @sociologyireland.bsky.social Lifetime Achievement Award at #sai2025 this evening.
May 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Celebrating children around the world this #children’sday!
May 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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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. 🔒
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.
go.nature.com
April 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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April 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM