We've lost an incredible champion of the social and behavioral sciences. RIP Ken Prewitt, former CASBS fellow (1983-84), CASBS board member, and winner of the third Sage-CASBS Award (2015). After 2015, Ken generously continued to visit the CASBS hill, meeting with fellows and organizing workshops.

A copy of the NEW BOOK "Revolutionary Natures," edited by @mmuscolino.bsky.social during his 2023-24 CASBS fellowship year, has entered into the Center's world renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 📚 🙌 About this @uwapress.uw.edu book: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

A terrific cross-cohort collaboration between CASBS fellows @noamgidron.bsky.social (2024-25) and Yotam Margalit (2020-21) in @foreignpolicy.com on the strategic shift that has enabled Binyamin Netanyahu to amass and retain power over the decades

Sad to learn of the passing of 1981-82 CASBS fellow Dagfinn Føllesdal, renowned for reconciling what are known as the analytic (Anglo-American) & continental (European) traditions in philosophy Stanford tribute: news.stanford.edu/stories/2026... Daily Nous: dailynous.com/2026/03/02/d...

New post on the pressures squeezing American higher education open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

Thank you, @rajivsethi.bsky.social . Rajiv is very modest, as he offered very thought provoking, if not generative, comments and ideas in his conversation with Matt Jackson on our podcast...✌️

Here we see CASBS fellow @noshir.bsky.social , no doubt prepping to co-lead, with Lara Tiedens, CASBS's 2026 Summer Institute in AI Methods for Social Scientists from July 26-31... Noshir will be ready 🍦😎 ☀️

This week, CASBS threw a party for interim director Lara Tiedens as thanks for her stellar leadership this year. (Her service concludes 6/30.) Speeches. Champagne. A tasty spread. And the unveiling of Lara's official portrait, soon to hang alongside portraits of other directors in CASBS history 🥳 🙏

So great to host fmr CASBS fellow (2008-09, 2015-16) & political psychologist Rose McDermott in conversation w/current fellow Sean Wong for a podcast recording We'll publish the episode in the fall. Until then, check out our 88 episodes, the latest published today 😏 👂 🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast

🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE "Network Science's Chief Economist" Former CASBS fellow @jacksonmatthewo.bsky.social chats w/current fellow @rajivsethi.bsky.social on Matt's foundational work & empirical applications of the economics of networks & new work w/LLMs 🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#matt...

Former CASBS fellow & current board member Rob Jackson's book "Into the Clear Blue Sky" is a sustained rallying cry focused on methane because it’s the only greenhouse gas that could be restored to preindustrial levels in our lifetimes Thoughtful review @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

From 2 yrs ago, @natematias.bsky.social discusses really interesting research at @casbsstanford.bsky.social youtu.be/yTeDqKWmReE?...

Edmund Phelps, 1969-70 CASBS fellow & 2006 Nobel Prize winner, has died 🙏 Phelps famously encountered fellow 1969-70 fellow John Rawls at CASBS. A passage from Phelps's 2023 memoir, "My Journeys in Economic Theory" (2023) captures how CASBS facilitates interactions that exert influence for decades.

The NSF's SBE Directorate is at risk of being eliminated. Officials have chosen to dismantle SBE without notice, explanation, Congressional consultation or approval, or stakeholder input. 📢 Visit our #SaveSBE page, containing resources you can use to help ➡️ cossa.org/action-cente...

EVENT VIDEO 📹 The 2026 Sage-CASBS Award Lecture by Hazel Rose Markus Markus spoke on The Hidden Power of Cultural Defaults Watch @sagepub.com CEO Blaise Simqu present Markus w/the award prize & plaque after the talk. We thank Sage for making the award possible 😘 www.youtube.com/watch?v=es5X...

Welcome (back) to CASBS, @bethdesombre.bsky.social A treat to host 2023-24 CASBS fellow Beth DeSombre for lunch & a photo by her CASBS-year study! Beth also is a renowned singer-songwriter. She even recorded a song about CASBS; find a link to it in the spring 2024 CASBS newsletter: bit.ly/4nEYmn0

📣 Great news from our friends and colleagues @ssrc.org

CASBS fellows often choose their offices (called studies here) for specific reasons, or get inspired once they see lists of their studies' occupants (ghosts) throughout CASBS history @ellenernstkossek.bsky.social has a very notable reason for choosing and occupying study #35 during the 2025-26 year

A beautiful day for lunch on the hill. So glad 2023-24 visiting scholar Sammy Barkin came back for a visit to enjoy it with us... Here's Sammy by the study he occupied during his CASBS year 👻

This series, co-commissioned by former CASBS fellow Catherine Ramírez, should spark conversations. See what you think...

Marriage exists in almost all human societies but takes varied forms. Why? How did it evolve? In our final research seminar of the 2025-26 year, CASBS fellow Mary Shenk advanced a new evolutionary history of marriage, integrating cultural & biological anthropology, evolutionary biology & demography

VIDEO 📹 On May 7, Hazel Rose Markus delivered the 2026 Sage-CASBS Award Lecture. Earlier that day, in CASBS's library reading room, Markus sat down for an interview conducted by Sage CEO Blaise Simqu. Have a look... Video of Hazel's award lecture coming soon 😏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5k1...

Fun to revisit this. In 2005-06, James Banks, a giant in multicultural education, was a CASBS fellow. His daughter, sociologist Patricia Banks, was a 2018-19 fellow. When we brought them together, they discovered their work aligned in ways they didn't realize 🤗 ➡️ casbs.stanford.edu/news/family-...

VIDEO 📹 Watch CASBS's May 6 event on what immigrant cities teach us about democracy, hosted w/Stanford's Institute for Advancing Just Societies Features 2025-26 CASBS fellow @iangoldin.bsky.social , Welcoming America Exec Dir Rachel Perić & IAJS dir Tomás Jiménez www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEpg...

A delight to welcome 2023-24 CASBS fellow Barbara (Ara) Keys back to our hilltop today. Of course, we brought Ara to the study (#33) she occupied during her fellowship year... FYI, Ara's book "Super K" drops in October 😏 Preview: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-...

Congrats to CASBS fellow @ellenernstkossek.bsky.social , co-recipient of the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Work and Family Researchers Network. It recognizes Ellen's enduring contributions to the work-family community 👏🙌🤩 Citation by @wfrn.bsky.social : wfrn.org/lifetime-ach...

May 19 | 1:30pm PT | in-person & online CASBS fellow @wwc557.bsky.social speaking on "Taiwanese Support for Self-Defense" at @hooverinstitution.bsky.social Wen-Chin will draw on survey evidence to examine the determinants of Taiwan’s public resolve Details & RSVP: www.hoover.org/events/taiwa...

We're sad to learn of the passing of 1986-87 CASBS fellow Robert M. Rose, former Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences @utmbhealth.bsky.social "His research left a lasting mark on how medicine understands stress." The Daily News obit: www.galvnews.com/obituaries/r...

🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE "The Micro-mechanisms Influencing Social Interactions" 2024-25 CASBS fellow @decelles.bsky.social uncovers the micro-dynamics contributing to interaction outcomes, enabling the crafting of corrective solutions. Katy chats w/ @johnmarkoff.bsky.social 🎧 bit.ly/49mq4yK

Among professional elites, "greedy work" - marked by long hours, unpredictable timing & constant availability - cause negative health, gender & family impacts & income inequalities. In her CASBS fellows seminar, Mary Kate Stimmler explored potential remedies at individual, firm, & structural levels

Direct your attention to this piece @issuesinst.bsky.social coauthored by 2020-21 CASBS fellow Gwen Ottinger 👀

The spring 2026 convening CASBS's board of directors included a panel discussion w/three current fellows - Ken Dodge, Ram Fishman, & Dan Ho - discussing issues & challenges related to producing & implementing social science w/social impact. CASBS interim director Lara Tiedens served as moderator 🤸

A capacity crowd gathered on Thursday to hear Hazel Rose Markus deliver the 2026 Sage-CASBS Award Lecture on "The Hidden Power of Cultural Defaults." It was pretty awesome. Video and photos coming soon to prove it 😏

Trust-building in prediction markets Polymarket's main prediction market seeks re-entry into the U.S. Approval must be conditioned on some form of identity verification, writes CASBS fellow @rajivsethi.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com . Rajiv outlines three approaches www.ft.com/content/c461...

So cool that former CASBS fellows @margaretomara.bsky.social (2014-15) @edwardwalker.bsky.social (2021-22) have joined the board of SSRC 👏🙌👊

LATER TODAY: We bust out the hardware for 2026 Sage-CASBS Award winner Hazel Rose Markus 😏

Timely event yesterday at CASBS on what immigrant cities can teach us about democracy, featuring CASBS fellow @iangoldin.bsky.social , Rachel Perić, Exec Dir of Welcoming America & Tomás Jiménez, Faculty Director of Stanford's Institute for Advancing Just Societies 📹 video & 📷 photos coming soon 😏

Happening Thursday ⚡

Congrats to 2023-24 CASBS fellow @cerenbudak.bsky.social, selected as a 2026 Fellow by @carnegie.org 🙌 Carnegie Corp announcement: www.carnegie.org/awards/andre...

Wednesday's event at CASBS serves as the fourth Robert A. Scott Lecture. Bob will be there. There's no denying we love Bob. bsky.app/profile/casb...

Attendees are in for a real treat on Wednesday 😏

So great to host eminent political scientist & fmr CASBS fellow David Laitin for a conversation w/current fellow Olukunle Owolabi recorded for the CASBS podcast. We'll release the episode in a few months. In the meantime, check out the awesome new episode we published last week: bit.ly/49mq4yK 🎙️🎧😏

Taiwanese citizens respond to China's military threat & diplomatic coercion differently. Why the divergences? @wwc557.bsky.social has an argument related to the determinants of in-group/out-group identity perception. He'll make the case in a book & outlined it during his recent CASBS fellows seminar

Congratulations to CASBS fellows elected as 2026 Members of the American Philosophical Society 👏🙌👊🤩 @amphilsociety.bsky.social announcement: www.amphilsoc.org/elected-memb...

If only you could have working conditions as pleasant as those that @cristianimachado.bsky.social enjoys every day #SEENatCASBS

In this 2025 keynote talk on democracy and participation in organizations at a joint @stanfordpacs.bsky.social & ESSEC Business School forum, Woody Powell is just nailin' it. Totally en fuego on the architecture of participatory styles & configurations 🔥 🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM-m...

🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE "The Micro-mechanisms Influencing Social Interactions" 2024-25 CASBS fellow @decelles.bsky.social uncovers the micro-dynamics contributing to interaction outcomes, enabling the crafting of corrective solutions. Katy chats w/ @johnmarkoff.bsky.social 🎧 bit.ly/49mq4yK

Unreliable sources tell us that Rob Jackson's appearance on the CASBS podcast was the deciding factor in his election to the National Academy of Sciences this week. Listen for yourself 🎧 "MAKE THE ATMOSPHERE GREAT AGAIN" | Rob Jackson in conversation w/ @lraymond.bsky.social ➡️ bit.ly/4j0XPIC 🎙️

Congratulations to CASBS fellows elected as 2026 members of the National Academy of Sciences 👏🙌💯 @nasonline.org announcement: www.nasonline.org/news/2026-na...

CASBS event | May 6 What can Immigrant Cities Teach Us about Democracy? Join CASBS fellow @iangoldin.bsky.social & Rachel Perić, Exec Dir of Welcoming America, in conversation w/ Tomás Jiménez, Faculty Director of Stanford's Institute for Advancing Just Societies DETAILS & RSVP: bit.ly/4sJXA9L