I am an Associate Professor at Oxford Internet Institute, a Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College, and a research affiliate at MIT Sloan School of Management.

My work lies at the intersection of computational (data science) and cognitive psychology. I study how information spreads on social media and how ties are formed on social networks. My work has been published in leading journals such as Nature, Nature CommunicationsPNAS, CHI proceedings, Psych Science, JPSP, and JEP:G and has been covered in major media outlets including The Washington Post, the Telegraph and the Financial Times. I have received UK Department of Science, Innovation, and Technology, Meta, Google, and British Academy.

For my recent work see my Google Scholar

Email: mohsen.mosleh@oii.ox.ac.uk

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Highlights

Mosleh, Allen, Rand “Divergent patterns of engagement with partisan and low-quality news across seven social media platforms” PNAS 2025

Mosleh, Eckles, Rand, “Dispositions toward triadic closure: Field experimental evidence” PNAS 2025

Renault, Mosleh, Rand “Republicans are flagged more often than Democrats for sharing misinformation on Xs Community Notes” PNAS 2025

Mosleh, Yang, Zaman, Rand “Is Trade-offs between reducing misinformation and politically-balanced enforcement on social media” Nature 2024

Mosleh, Rand “Measuring exposure to misinformation from political elites on Twitter” Nature Communications 2022

Mosleh, Martel, Eckles, Rand “Shared Partisanship Dramatically Increases Social Tie Formation in a Twitter Field Experiment” PNAS 2021

Mosleh, Pennycook, Arechar, Rand “Cognitive reflection correlates with behavior on Twitter” Nature Communications 2021

Pennycook*, Epstein*, Mosleh*, Arechar, Eckles, Rand “Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online” Nature 2021

Mosleh, Kyler, Cohen, Rand, “Globalization and Fall and Rise of Cognitive Control Nature Communications 2020

Stewart, Mosleh, Diakonova, Arechar, Rand, Plotkin “Information Gerrymandering and Undemocratic Decisions” Nature 2019