Join the Dataverse Project team and DataCite for a collaborative webinar: Configure Your Dataverse Repository to Register DataCite DOIs April 15 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm UTC Registration required - datacite.org/event/config... @datacite.org #Dataverse #software #repositories #openaccess

Dataverse 6.10 is here! github.com/IQSS/dataver... #Dataverse #software #openscience #repositories

The preliminary program is now available for the Dataverse Community Meeting in May. You still have time to register! dataverseorg.bsky.social #DCM26 #Dataverse #DataScience dcm2026.com/preliminary-...

Starting at 12:00 ET: Issa Dahabreh ( @hsph.harvard.edu) uses external data to improve #clinicaltrials without affecting unbiased randomization, presenting "Augmenting Randomized Trials" at this week's #AppliedStats workshop. appliedstatsworkshopgov3009.hsites.harvard.edu/event/issa-d...

Thurs at 4:30pm: @harvardkennedy.bsky.social assistant professor Gautam Nair presents "Group-targeted wealth transfers reduce #inequality and intergroup conflict but trigger policy backlash" in this week's Alesina Seminar #politicaleconomy #india www.iq.harvard.edu/event/gautam...

Looking to build up your #Rprogramming skills? Learn how to use R for #spatialanalysis in this week's workshop from the @cga-harvard.bsky.social. #GIS #geostatistics #programming #Harvard gis.harvard.edu/event/gettin...

Weds at 12:00 ET: #Yale assistant professor @melodyyhuang.bsky.social presents "Relative Bias Under Imperfect Identification in Observational #CausalInference" at this week's #AppliedStatistics workshop. #politicalscience #statistics appliedstatsworkshopgov3009.hsites.harvard.edu/event/melody...

The preliminary program is available! #2026DCM 👉 View the Program: dcm2026.com/preliminary-... 2). Extended Early Bird discount! You now have until March 9th (23:59 CET) to secure the discounted rate. 👉 Register here: dcm2026.com/registration/ #Dataverse #software #openaccess

The preliminary program is available! #2026DCM 👉 View the Program: dcm2026.com/preliminary-... 2). Extended Early Bird discount! You now have until March 9th (23:59 CET) to secure the discounted rate. 👉 Register here: dcm2026.com/registration/ #Dataverse #software #openaccess

There's still time to register at the early bird rate for #Dataverse2026! This year's #Dataverse Community Meeting, co-organized with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, takes place May 12–15 in Barcelona. @dataverseorg.bsky.social dcm2026.com/registration/

Thursday at 4:30pm ET: London Business School professor Elias Papaioannou presents "The Industrial Revolution and Forced Labor in Colonial Africa" in this week's Alesina Seminar. www.iq.harvard.edu/event/elias-...

Wednesday at 12pm ET: Wenqi Shi proposes a privacy-preserving approach to meta-analysis for new target populations, presenting "Meta-analysis through Low-Rank Basis Hunting" at this week's #AppliedStats workshop. appliedstatsworkshopgov3009.hsites.harvard.edu/event/wenqi-...

Coming up on Feb 24: @crhistianjoel.bsky.social presents "From classrooms to regions: the scale of inequality and educational aspirations" in the next brown bag presentation from @cga-harvard.bsky.social. #gis gis.harvard.edu/event/classr...

Tyler VanderWeele, Loeb Professor of Epidemiology and director of the Human Flourishing Program at IQSS, has been appointed by Pope Leo to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. #socialscience #flourishing #Harvard www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/pope...

Today at 4:30 pm: UChicago scholar Victoria Mooers examines socially shared political information within voter districts, presenting "Social Networks and Voter Information" at this week's Alesina Seminar. #elections #socialmedia #voting www.iq.harvard.edu/event/victor...

12pm Wednesday: @gse.harvard.edu professor @andrewdeanho.bsky.social presents a measurement error model to reconcile data from different tests with "Two Watches: Measurement Error Models for Estimating Educational Progress from Discrepant Test Score Trends." www.iq.harvard.edu/event/andew-...

IQSS is developing LOOP, a new desktop #application that will provide a direct, streamlined connection between the @harvarddataverse.bsky.social and Sid, simplifying how researchers move, manage, and analyze their data. #researchcomputing www.iq.harvard.edu/news/2026/02...

Thursday at 4:30pm: HBS associate professor of finance Elisabeth Kempf examines growing #political segregation in corporate leadership with "The Political Polarization of Corporate America" in this week's Alesina Seminar. www.iq.harvard.edu/event/elisab...

Thursday at 3:30 pm: @harvardcmes.bsky.social fellow Evangeline McGlynn discusses the use of open source intelligence in wars and other violent conflicts, presenting "Open Data/Opaque Analysis: Examining #OSINT Use in Conflict," hosted by @cga-harvard.bsky.social. gis.harvard.edu/event/open-d...

Starting at 12pm ET: @fresejoris.bsky.social presents "Type I Error Inflation in Unexpected Event During Survey Designs" at this week's #AppliedStats Workshop. appliedstatsworkshopgov3009.hsites.harvard.edu/event/joris-...

At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, IQSS faculty affiliate Iris Bohnet joined a panel discussion on representation hosted by the Female Quotient. glaad.org/the-urgent-n...

Interested in working on your #GIS skills? There's still room in upcoming training sessions offered by the Center for #Geographic Analysis--starting with "Introduction to GIS" on Jan 30. Visit the CGA calendar for details and to sign up! gis.harvard.edu/events

The Workshop in #AppliedStatistics is back for the Spring Term at 12:00 noon ET! Today, Susan Dynarski (@dynarski.bsky.social) presents "A Pathway to Mobility: Shifting Low-Income Students To Higher-Quality Degrees."

Congratulations to Dr. Cynthia Dwork! 🎉 IPAM congratulates Dr. Dwork on receiving the 2026 Japan Prize for contributions to ethical digital systems, including differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. Catch the latest news and updates from IPAM: www.ipam.ucla.edu/news/

🌐BSC is proud to host the Dataverse Community Meeting 2026. This year’s theme is “Advancing data and dataverse: #AI, interoperability, and sensitive data”. ☑ The Call for papers is now open! bsc.es/4oC @dataverseorg.bsky.social I @iqss.bsky.social I @harvard.edu I @mercecrosas.bsky.social

OpenDP is hiring! There are two opportunities to join the team, as Research Associate or Senior Data Privacy Software Developer. Visit the OpenDP site for full details: opendp.org/job-opportun...

Happy New Year from IQSS! We look forward to what 2026 will bring--new partnerships, new initiatives, and making impactful advances in social science research.

As we wrap up the semester, we are grateful for the students, scholars, and staff of the IQSS Community who shared their research and insights to advance our understanding in the latest #SocialScience issues.

The latest Dataverse software release brings a quickstart guide, #DataCite scaling, and other new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Read the full update on #Dataverse 6.9 at: dataverse.org/news/2025/12...

OpenDP at IQSS offer opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, and established professionals in the 2026 OpenDP Summer Program--applications are due Feb 1! More details at: opendp.org/2025/12/15/o...

The Extraordinary Claims, Extraordinary Evidence (ECEE) program at IQSS offers support to faculty for research that challenges dominant positions and assumptions. This new piece from the @Harvard.edu Gazette explains how. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Tyler VanderWeele, director of the Human Flourishing Program at IQSS, makes a case for viewpoint diversity and how increased interaction among different perspectives can help universities better pursue truth and human flourishing. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/huma...

OpenDP at IQSS has announced the launch of the Differential Privacy Deployments Registry, which will empower users to share details of their #differentialprivacy deployments and to develop best practices. The accompanying white paper is open for public comment until Dec 5. opendp.org/2025/11/25/l...

This Wednesday: hear pitches from Harvard researchers, including teams from the IQSS Startup Foundry, about the latest AI projects ready to become ventures and looking for partners. Register at the link for the Mind2Market Demo Day on Dec 5: www.grid.harvard.edu/mind-2-market

Starting at 12:00: Postdoctoral researcher Guilherme Duarte presents "Judge-Based IVs: Empirical Tests for Exclusion and Monotonicity, and a Cautious Approach to ATE Bounds and LATE" at the final #AppliedStats workshop of the semester. appliedstatsworkshopgov3009.hsites.harvard.edu/event/guilhe...

See the latest AI innovations emerging at @Harvard.edu and find opportunities to collaborate on new ventures at the Mind2Market AI Demo Day on Wednesday, 12/3, featuring projects from the IQSS #Startup Foundry and the SEAS GRID Accelerator. You can register here: www.grid.harvard.edu/mind-2-market

IQSS affiliates Alisha Holland and Julia Minson are among the newest faculty members to become affiliates of the Bloomberg Center for Cities. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Join the IQSS #Startup Foundry and SEAS GRID Accelerator for the Mind2Market AI Demo Day on Wednesday, Dec 3! See quick pitches and research spotlights, and meet teams looking for partners to elevate cutting edge @Harvard.edu AI projects into ventures. Register: www.grid.harvard.edu/mind-2-market

Starting at 12:00 pm ET: @Harvard.edu assistant professor of economics Rahul Singh presents "Program Evaluation with Remotely Sensed Outcomes" at this week's #AppliedStats workshop. appliedstatsworkshopgov3009.hsites.harvard.edu

Today at 4:30 pm: Jesse Schreger (Columbia Business School) uses LLMs to identify instances of governments applying geoeconomic pressure, at today's Alesina Seminar. www.iq.harvard.edu/event/jesse-...

Starting at 12:00 noon: Rohit Bhattacharya presents "Opportunities for Principled Use of AI for Causal Inference" in this week's Applied Stats Workshop. appliedstatsworkshopgov3009.hsites.harvard.edu/event/rohit-...

What if humans could have perfect, infinite memory? Harvard researchers Spandan Madan and Gabriel Kreiman, founders of Memorious, set out to reinvent human memory using #AI technology with guidance and support from the IQSS Startup Foundry. www.iq.harvard.edu/news/2025/09...

Join us Thursday as @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social professor Matilde Bombardini presents "Climate Politics in the United States" for this week's Alesina Seminar on Political Economy: www.iq.harvard.edu/event/matild...

At this week's #AppliedStats workshop, @harvardkennedy.bsky.social professor Will Dobbie presents "The Role of Beliefs in Driving Racial Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from the U.S. Pretrial System". Join us today at noon. appliedstatsworkshopgov3009.hsites.harvard.edu/event/will-d...

This week at IQSS: Workshops on media credibility, climate politics, and more. www.iq.harvard.edu/calendar

Today at 4:30 pm: Aakaash Rao (Dept of Economics) explain the difference between what campaign ads focus on and what news media covers, presenting "What Drives Political Attention?" for this week's Alesina Seminar on Positive Political Economy. www.iq.harvard.edu/event/aakaas...

This Week at IQSS: join us for workshops on political ads, LLMs, & tweets. www.iq.harvard.edu/calendar

New paper from IQSS affiliates and co-authors Stephen Ansolabehere, Jacob R. Brown, Ryan D. Enos, Ben Shair, Tyler Simko, David Sutton: "City-Defined Neighborhood Boundaries in the United States" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new and innovative project from IQSS affiliate Latanya Sweeney's Public Interest Lab: MyPrivacyPolls aims to create genuinely secure communication channels for those who need to speak up. #PrivacyTech #Whistleblowers #DataProtection www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

In quantitative #socialscience, data can be the key to a problem, but the solution can lie in the bigger picture. In a @Harvard.edu‬ Gazette article, IQSS affiliate @dustintingley.bsky.social‬ explores climate change #publicpolicy and the people behind the numbers. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...