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Jun 2026
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Article | Open Access

Scientists Might Be Reaffirming the Relevance of Human Oversight as AI Lands in Labs

Digital Discovery 120:1 (2026)

Authors
Renan Gonçalves Leonel da Silva
Li Du
Gil Eyal

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Jan 2026
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Article | Open Access

Exploring Mediation of Assistive Wayfinding Technologies Through Professional Organizations for People Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness 120:1 (2026)

Authors
Jenny Fondren
Cristian Capotescu
Gil Eyal
Gaurav Jain
Jennifer Laird
Nicole Lum
Brian S. Smith

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Dec 2025
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Article | Open Access

The Tensions of Academic Freedom as a Practice in the 21st Century

Sociologica Vol. 19 No. 3 (2025)

Authors
Gil Eyal

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Aug 2025
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Article | Open Access

Contested Illness and Alternative Expertise Networks in Global Health: Post-COVID Syndrome in Brazil

Sociology of Health and Illness 47:7 (2025)

Authors
Renan Gonçalves Leonel da Silva
Amanda Curi
Gil Eyal
Larry Au
Cristian Capotescu

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Nov 2024
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Article | Open Access

Trust is a Verb!: A Critical Reconstruction of the Sociological Theory of Trust

Sociologica 18:2 (2024), 169–191

Authors
Gil Eyal
Larry Au
Cristian Capotescu

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Apr 2024
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Article | Open Access

Trust vs Trustworthiness: Smart Cities in the Age of AI 

Smart Cities World (April 18, 2024)

Authors
Cristian Capotescu
Gil Eyal

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Jan 2024
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Article | Print & Digital

How People Decide to Trust in Science

American Scientist Volume 112 (January-February 2024)

Authors
Larry Au
Cristian Capotescu
Gil Eyal
Sophie Sharp

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Jan 2024
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Article | Print & Digital

The Role of Autonomous Experimentation in Biomedical Sciences and Health Innovation

SSRN (January 2024)

Author
Renan Gonçalves Leonel da Silva

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Jan 2024
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Article | Print & Digital

Prediction and Explainability in AI: Striking a New Balance

Big Data & Society 11, no. 1 (2024)

Authors
Aviad Raz
Bert Heinrichs
Netta Avnoon
Gil Eyal
Yael Inbar

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Aug 2023
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Article | Open Access

Long Covid Requires a Global Response Centred on Equity and Dialogue

Global Health Action 16:1 (first published online August 15, 2023)

Authors
Larry Au
Cristian Capotescu
Amanda Curi
Renan Leonel Goncalves da Silva
Gil Eyal

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Aug 2023
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Article | Open Access

"Is Your Accuser Me, or Is It the Software?” Ambiguity and Contested Expertise in Probabilistic DNA Profiling

Social Studies of Science (first published online August 2, 2023)

Authors
Hannah Pullen-Blasnik
Gil Eyal
Amy Weissenbach

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May 2023
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Article | Open Access

The TrustWorkers Project: Challenges and Methods of Building Trust into Public Scholarship

Public Philosophy Journal 5:1 (2023), 1-11

Authors
Cristian Capotescu
Elizabeth Cohn
Gil Eyal
Judelysse Gomez
Jack LaViolette
Danielle Tomson

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May 2023
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Book Chapter | Print & Digital

Sociology of Expertise as Public Sociology

Research Handbook of Public Sociology (Edward Elgar Publishing)

Author
Gil Eyal

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Oct 2022
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Book | Print & Digital

The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics

Oxford University Press (2023)

Authors
Gil Eyal
Thomas Medvetz

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Oct 2022
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Roundtable Proceedings | Open Source

The Science of Trust: Future Directions, Research Gaps, and Implications for Health and Risk Communication

Journal of Communication in Healthcare (October 2022)

Authors
Renata Schiavo
Gil Eyal
Rafael Obregon
Sandra Quinn
Helen Riess
Nikita Boston-Fisher

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SEP 2022
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Journal Article | Open Access

Long Covid and Medical Gaslighting: Dismissal, Delayed Diagnosis, and Deferred Treatment

SSM - Qualitative Research in Health Vol. 2 (December 2022)

Authors
Larry Au
Cristian Capotescu
Gil Eyal
Gabrielle Finestone

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SEP 2022
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Commentary | Open Access

Community Health Workers’ Critical Role in Trust-Building Between the Medical System and Communities of Color

American Journal for Managed Care 29:10 (October 2022)

Authors
Cristian Capotescu
Tashi Chodon
James Chu
Elizabeth Cohn
Gil Eyal
Rishi Goyal
Olusimbo Ige
Jack LaViolette
Lula Mae Phillips
Sarah Mallik
Paulette Spencer
Danielle Lee Tomson

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Journal Article | Open Access

Mistrust in Numbers: Regulatory Science, Trans-Science and the Crisis of Expertise

APR 2022

Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 10:1 (2022).

Author
Gil Eyal

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NOV 2021
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Journal Article | Open Access

Whose Advice is Credible?: Claiming Lay Expertise in a Covid-19 Online Community

Qualitative Sociology 45 (March 2022)

Authors
Larry Au
Gil Eyal

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APR 2021
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Commentary | Open Access

Futuri Nel Presente. La Pandemia e la Crisi Dell’Expertise

Le Parole e Le Cose² (2021)

Author
Gil Eyal

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JAN 2021
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Commentary | Open Access

Futures Present: The Pandemic and the Crisis of Expertise

Pandemic Discourses (New School for Social Research Online)

Author
Gil Eyal

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NOV 2019
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Book cover titled 'The Crisis of Expertise' by Gil Eyal with an image of a microscope, next to a smiling man wearing glasses and a gray shirt in front of a bookshelf.

Book | Print & Digital

The Crisis of Expertise

Polity Press. 1st Edition. November 2019

Author
Gil Eyal

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MAY 2019
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Journal Article | Sage Access

Trans-Science as a Vocation

Journal of Classical Sociology Vol 19, Issue 3

Author
Gil Eyal

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