The gravitational pull of CASBS is undeniable. @ahsfarmer.bsky.social is among a few of last year's fellows who already have visited in recent weeks, though now as 'ghosts' in their former studies...👻

📣 Inaugural report from @visualevidencelab.bsky.social, directed by CASBS fellow @sristovska.bsky.social With insights from 20 experts, it identifies key challenges w/video access, interpretation & AI, and proposes ways of improving legal processes regarding the use of video & AI tools as evidence

🎙️NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE "In Edward Said's Shadow" Said wrote most of Orientalism at CASBS in 1975-76. CASBS fellows Shane Dillingham, Thomas Blom Hansen, @camillahawth.bsky.social & @ssinnar.bsky.social discuss the enduring influence of Said's landmark book 🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#edwa...

Biases & context shape how we view videos, but courts lack guidelines about videos as evidence. Now w/AI & deepfakes, "we’re adding another layer of complexity to a system that hasn’t even fully addressed the challenges of authentic video,” says CASBS fellow @sristovska.bsky.social in @thenation.com

Two-time CASBS fellow (1982-83, 1994-95) Albert Camarillo was on the hill for lunch today and was swarmed by a bunch of fellows who recognized him. Legend. Here's Al by the study he occupied during his second fellowship - #32 - lookin' like a million bucks🫰

The spectacle has little to do w/national security, writes 2024-25 CASBS fellow A.S. Dillingham in this crisp piece @lrb.co.uk Moreover, Shane's own experience suggests some are coerced or forced into trafficking...

Among 'historic heartland' Muslim countries & other Muslim countries we see weak or strong religious infrastructures & more/less cohesion among Muslim scholars of religious law & theology. How to explain variations? @profpjones.bsky.social unveiled a dazzling theory during her CASBS fellows seminar

2025 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of "From Teenage to Young Manhood" by Daniel & Judith Offer The Offers wrote most of the book during Daniel's 1973-74 fellowship. CASBS, of course, is renowned for helping scholars view their own work in a broader perspective... 😏 #CREATEDatCASBS

Congrats to CASBS fellow @sristovska.bsky.social, director of the new Visual Evidence Lab @colorado.edu The lab releases its inaugural report next week 📰

2024-25 CASBS fellow @maureeneger.bsky.social visited us last week & attempted to re-occupy her fellowship office. (#OccupyCASBS is a thing with former fellows; we have public safety on speed dial.) We reminded Mo that she's now a 'ghost' of study #40, so, she's already in it and always will be 👻👻

I was happy to moderate this conversation on how Orientalism, the masterpiece of Palestinian American intellectual Edward Said, revolutionized academic inquiry around the world. Said's message to speak to power resonates even louder today.

Deadline this Friday to apply for a 2026-27 CASBS fellowship!

Nominations open for 2026 Sage-CASBS Award In partnership w/ @sagepub.com, the award recognizes outstanding achievement in the behavioral & social sciences that advances our understanding of pressing social issues Details, eligibility & access nomination portal: casbs.stanford.edu/news/nominat...

🎙️NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE "In Edward Said's Shadow" Said wrote most of Orientalism at CASBS in 1975-76. CASBS fellows Shane Dillingham, Thomas Blom Hansen, @camillahawth.bsky.social & @ssinnar.bsky.social discuss the enduring influence of Said's landmark book 🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#edwa...

His cohort fellows would believe it, but few others know that 2017-18 CASBS fellow Hsienming "Ming" Lien is among the most popular fellows of the past decade (by exhibition, not competition). His afternoon tea sessions are legend! 🫖 Ming visited us last week, shown here by his fellowship year study

How to achieve population impact on early child abuse? Predictors vary across families & contexts, but Ken Dodge knows it's about nurturing human connections & "a cultural way of doing business." Certain interventions work, but how to scale them? He unpacked the dynamics in his CASBS fellows seminar

A fellow in spring; a ghost by fall. 2024-25 fellow @decelles.bsky.social returned to the hill this week as a former fellow, haunting the study (#12) she occupied just months ago...👻

Nominations are open for the 2026 Sage-CASBS Award in partnership with @casbsstanford.bsky.social. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in the behavioral and social sciences that advances our understanding of pressing social issues. Submit a nomination: casbs.stanford.edu/news/nominat...

We're sad to learn of the passing of Nancy Chodorow, a 1980-81 CASBS fellow whose work on gender and feminism bridged the fields of sociology and psychoanalysis More @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social news: news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/16/i...

CASBS fellows often choose their offices (called 'studies' here) for specific reasons, or get inspired once they see the list of former fellows (‘ghosts’) who occupied their studies throughout CASBS history. Yes, Elena Esposito chose study #31. But the ghosts within it may have chosen her first...👻

2025 is the 30th anniversary of the publication of "Representational Ideas" by Richard Watson Watson drafted the book during his 3rd CASBS fellowship in 1991-92; he also was a fellow in 1967-68 & 1981-82 So, yeah, Watson knew very well that CASBS indeed is the place to be... 😏 #CREATEDatCASBS

In his CASBS fellows seminar, Dan Ho killed two birds w/one stone. He described past & ongoing work on AI & state capacity reform - especially bureaucracies - & related public-academic partnerships AND he easily got in his 10k steps for the day, continuously pacing the room up & down & back & forth

Nominations open for 2026 Sage-CASBS Award In partnership w/ @sagepub.com, the award recognizes outstanding achievement in the behavioral & social sciences that advances our understanding of pressing social issues Details, eligibility & access nomination portal: casbs.stanford.edu/news/nominat...

In his CASBS fellows seminar, @ralphwedgwood.bsky.social outlined work on a new ethical theory embracing a non-consequentialist value pluralism. So cool Ralph referenced fmr CASBS fellows Harsanyi, Rawls, Nozick, Chang Too bad others mentioned - Bentham, Kant, Mill, Plato, etc. - never were fellows

Cool to see 2018-19 CASBS fellows Peter Loewen & @bartbonikowski.bsky.social among the collaborators on this piece @foreignaffairs.com

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Congrats to 2008-09 CASBS fellow @christiandavenport.bsky.social 👊🙌👏

In an essay @intereconomics.bsky.social, CASBS fellow @iangoldin.bsky.social shows how migration brings strong economic benefits in the short term & even greater long-term benefits as it contributes to innovation, investment & economic dynamism It sets the stage for his 'migration bargain' proposal

CASBS fellows often choose their offices (studies) for specific reasons, or get inspired once they see the list of former fellows (‘ghosts’) who occupied their studies over CASBS history. Two ghosts in study #16 inspired Olukunle Owolabi. He reflects in this short essay: medium.com/@casbs/a-202...

CASBS serves as an ideas accelerator. Former fellow Kim Williams explains... First: you gotta be a CASBS fellow So: APPLY for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS fellowship. DEADLINE: Oct 31 Info & link to application portal: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-... www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPyD...

Fmr CASBS director (2014-22) @mlevi.bsky.social will deliver the inaugural Margaret Levi Lecture in-person @snfagora.bsky.social on Oct 24 "The Organization of a Community of Fate: Solidarity, Networks, and Technology in the Service of Crossing Divides" Details: www.eventbrite.com/e/margaret-l...

Congratulations to 2001-02 CASBS fellow Joel Mokyr, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress" 👏 Mokyr's work at CASBS: casbs.stanford.edu/people/joel-... Mokyr is the 31st CASBS fellow to win a Nobel

Recombinant innovation Megachurches are 21st century organizations. Not businesses disguised as churches, as many assume, but churches disguised as businesses. So argued @davidcstark.bsky.social during his fellows seminar in CASBS's main meeting room, a Minichurch of Scholarly Belonging of sorts...

Fellowship in action | 9 Oct. 2025 This could be you. Apply for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS fellowship. Deadline: Oct. 31 Info & link to application portal: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-... Fellows on fellowship in their own words in a suite of short videos: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...

"To be invited to this interdisciplinary fellowship environment is really cool... I’m pretty stoked about it." - @coreydfields.bsky.social (quoting Confucius...) college.georgetown.edu/news-story/s...

Proud and, given all the other incredibly smart and cool stuff on the shelves in the Tyler Collection at @casbsstanford.bsky.social, frankly kind of humbled to have our book join the ranks 🙏🏼 @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @madva.bsky.social

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We cracked the code. How to grow 10 years intellectually in one biological year Be a CASBS fellow. Catherine Ramírez explains APPLY for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS fellowship. DEADLINE Oct 31 Info & link to application portal: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZq...

A copy of the NEW BOOK @mitpress.bsky.social, "Somebody Should Do Something," has entered the Center's world renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection! 📖 Two of its authors, @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social (2019-20) & @dryan149.bsky.social (2018-19), worked on the book during their CASBS fellowships 😏 🙌

Oct. 20 | @utlonghorns.bsky.social Using survey panel data from Taiwan, CASBS fellow Wen-Chin Wu speaking at Univ. of Texas on the question of whether military training increases willingness to fight, & if so through what mechanisms Details: liberalarts.utexas.edu/cts/events/m...

Can AI dialogues improve psychological well-being? CASBS faculty fellow @robbwiller.bsky.social among the coauthors of a new paper that tests whether brief, structured dialogues grounded in psych research can reliably help Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... See Robb's explanatory thread 👇

We cracked the code. How to grow 10 years intellectually in one biological year Be a CASBS fellow. Catherine Ramírez explains APPLY for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS fellowship. DEADLINE Oct 31 Info & link to application portal: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZq...

Oct 24 | 1:45pm | Stanford campus CASBS fellow Deepa Fernandes delivers the keynote address at the day-long Provostial Fellows Symposium on "Power, Voice, and Place: Perspectives on Race Across Disciplines" Full schedule & registration link: facultydevelopment.stanford.edu/provostial-f...

We're sad to learn about the passing of 1987-88 CASBS fellow Clause Offe, "among the most prominent theorists in modern social science and one of the most cited authors in political sociology" Institute for Human Sciences remembrance: www.iwm.at/news/claus-o...

A copy of the NEW BOOK by Maisha Winn, "Futuring Black Lives," developed substantially while Maisha was in residence as a 2022-23 CASBS fellow, has entered into the Center's renowned Ralph W Tyler Collection 📚 About this Vanderbilt Univ. Press book: www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650791...

We're sad to learn of the passing of 1987-88 CASBS fellow David Berliner, a renowned educational psychologist & public intellectual who influenced generations of scholars ASU obit: news.asu.edu/20251002-art... Berliner's CASBS work: casbs.stanford.edu/people/david...

Challenges. Battles. A quest to solve mysteries. Finding community. Uncertain futures. Joys. Superpowers. A family's journey Time is of the essence for Deepa Fernandes to write the trade book that’s been percolating. She poignantly explained why in our kickoff fellows seminar of the fellowship year

Sad to learn of the passing of 1973-74 CASBS fellow Julian Wolpert, renowned for pioneering the use of quantitative approaches to understanding social & behavioral dimensions of geography Princeton obit: www.princeton.edu/news/2025/10... Wolpert's work at CASBS: casbs.stanford.edu/people/julia...

NEW in CASBS's partnership w/ @laviedesidees.bsky.social Literary criticism & Big Data - video interview w/2024-25 CASBS fellow Mark Algee-Hewitt on how machines help literature scholars & intellectual historians explain the life of concepts, aesthetics & genres booksandideas.net/Humanities-a...

Oct 6 | 12pm PT | Online CASBS fellow @ellenernstkossek.bsky.social presenting @harvardkennedy.bsky.social on how employers need to consider how job characteristics influence the differential benefits of work-life interventions More info & RSVP: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/advan...