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The invisible handshake: How friends of friends become friends on social media

15 July 2025

New research from the Oxford Internet Institute and MIT Sloan School of Management research shows that having shared connections directly contributes to social media users connecting with one another online.

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LLMs in medicine require new forms of risk management, according to Oxford researchers

7 July 2025

Whether it is merely long-term hype or near-term reality, Large Language Models (LLMs) in medicine are well-positioned to engage with a wide range of medical tasks and be used for medical research purposes.

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How can we solve the housing crisis with better data?

4 July 2025

Dr Fabian Braesemann explores how rental levels in Vienna responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and asks what we can learn from Vienna to solve the global housing crisis.

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From algorithmic fairness to LLM values, Oxford researchers offer paths to more human-centred AI at FAccT

20 June 2025

OII researchers are set to attend the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT) 2025.

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Four OII Academics Win Teaching Excellence Awards from the Social Sciences Divisional Board

17 June 2025

Dr Adam Mahdi, Dr Ana Valdivia, Professor Greg Taylor, and Professor Kathryn Eccles are among the teaching faculty recognised for teaching excellence at Oxford.

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New study finds Republicans flagged for posting misleading tweets twice as often as Democrats on X/Twitter’s Community Notes

17 June 2025

New research from the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University, in partnership with researchers at Panthéon-Sorbonne and MIT Sloan School of Management, reveals partisan differences in sharing of misinformation on the social media platform X.

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Do language models have an issue with gender?

9 June 2025

The Oxford Internet Institute’s Franziska Sofia Hafner explores whether language models are perpetuating gender stereotypes.

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AI’s limited understanding of gender puts health equity at risk

21 May 2025

Oxford researchers reveal how AI language models encode a flawed and binary understanding of gender, posing significant risks for transgender, nonbinary, and even cisgender individuals.

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How the social media debate on teen mental health is missing the point

13 May 2025

Expert Comment: Professor Andy Przybylski explains how the social media debate on teen mental health is missing the point.

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Dramatic rise in publicly downloadable deepfake image generators

7 May 2025

New Oxford study uncovers explosion of accessible deepfake AI image generation models intended for the creation of non-consensual, sexualised images of women.

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Adolescents with mental health conditions use social media differently than their peers, study suggests

6 May 2025

One of the first studies in this area to use clinical-level diagnoses reveals a range of differences between young people with and without mental health conditions when it comes to social media – from changes in mood to time spent on sites.

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13 ways gaming affects your mental health – for better and worse

30 April 2025

New Oxford study offers roadmap for understanding video games’ complex impact on wellbeing

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