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...

The #Dataverse2024 Plenary opening. Our morning panel tackles "Building Together." UNC research and data leaders discuss challenges, opportunities, and futures across the data ecosystem. #Dataverse2025 #repositories #data #AI #UNC @iqss.bsky.social

Sharing social media and potentially sensitive content? Take a look at our Dataverse use case from Dataverse at #ASU repository. #Dataverse2025 #Data #curation #socialmedia

Sharing Geospatial Data in a Dataverse Repository? Follow best practices and utilize the proper features #Dataverse2025 #Borealis #repositories #curation #Geospatialdata

Curation consideration in sharing social media data

@localcontexts.bsky.social use case for the Dataverse Integration #Dataverse2025 #Dataverse #Repositories #Data #curation

Congratulations to the @Harvard.edu Class of 2025! It's bittersweet to see them leave, but we are excited to see what graduating IQSS community members have ahead of them on their respective journeys. Some of our affiliates share their post-grad plans. www.iq.harvard.edu/news/whats-n...

Graduating IQSS affiliate Elizabeth Thom's work at Harvard explored the American welfare state and political behaviors in economically struggling communities. Read about her work in this profile from @gsas.harvard.edu‬. gsas.harvard.edu/news/empower...

During her time at Harvard, IQSS graduate affiliate Katherine Irajpanah has examined restraint in political violence and US #foreignpolicy, in this graduate profile from @gsas.harvard.edu‬ .

IQSS affiliate Sahil Chinoy's academic journey has taken him from data journalism at @nytimes.com through engineering and physics, and now to his graduation this month from @gsas.harvard.edu with a PhD in economics. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

A great look from the #Harvard Gazette at the remarkable 50-year career of IQSS affiliate Arthur Kleinman, the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of #Anthropology, after teaching his final class this semester. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Have you registered yet for the Center for Geographic Analysis Conference? The 2025 hybrid conference, "The Geography of Digital Twins," and virtual Symposium on #Spatiotemporal Data Science is coming up on Thurs May 22–Sat May 24. Free for #Harvard ID holders. gis.harvard.edu/event/2025-c...

Amazing new hobby just dropped: creating new social media accounts whenever I start a new job. Anyway, Harvard's Center for Geographic Analysis is now on LinkedIn if you want to give us a follow 😀 www.linkedin.com/posts/harvar...

Congratulations to Devika Jain, #GIS Data Science Project Manager at the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) at IQSS, who has been recognized as one of 2025's Geospatial World Forum Rising Stars! geospatialworld.net/rising-stars...

Registration is open for the 2025 #Dataverse Community Meeting! Visit the meeting page for information on the agenda, speakers, and more.

At 4:30pm: Luis Martínez looks at how manufacturing firms weather the loss of a key trade partner with "Losing Venezuela: Trade Collapse and the Performance of Colombian Exporting Firms" at the last spring Alesina Seminar. www.iq.harvard.edu/event/luis-m...

Learn the basics of cartography and map design, and get an intro to ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online with Friday's Cartography Workshop, led by the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA). gis.harvard.edu/event/cartog...

Starting at 12pm ET: Ransi Clark (California Institute of Technology) presents "The saturation dangers in multi-decade democracy studies" at this week's #AppliedStats Workshop: www.iq.harvard.edu/event/ransi-...

Wednesday at 12:00 pm ET: Naijia Liu proposes a 2-stage approach to correct for missing confounders at this week's #AppliedStats workshop. #statistics #causalinference www.iq.harvard.edu/event/monica...

This week at IQSS: Workshops on collective bargaining, confounder data, and the VRA of '65—plus multiple training opportunities in #Dataverse & FASRC.

Dataverse 6.6 is out! Along with bug fixes, new features with the latest #Dataverse release include Payara and Solr infrastructure updates, version notes, and harvesting from #DataCite.

This year, IQSS turns 20! We were excited to see so many members of the IQSS Community come together to celebrate two decades of research, innovation, and partnership--and we look forward to new achievements to come.

Starting at 12 pm ET: Jacob Brown (#BostonUniversity) presents "Causes and Extent of Increasing Partisan Segregation in the U.S. – Evidence from Migration Patterns of 212 Million Voters" at this week's #AppliedStats workshop.

Today at 12pm ET: the #AppliedStats Workshop continues with visiting assistant professor of government Libby Jenke as she presents "Visiting Assistant Professor of Government" projects.iq.harvard.edu/applied.stat...

Starting at 12 noon ET: Danny Ebanks looks at systematic problems and ways to address them with "Topic Models #Estimators Are Statistically Inconsistent and Substantively Misleading: Evidence and Solutions” at this week's APRW:

Today at 12pm: Matt Graham examines vote-switching and voter turnout with "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in Defense of Democratic Principles" at the Working Group in Political Psychology and Behavior. polpsych.hsites.harvard.edu/event/matt-graham-exit-voice-and-loyalty-defense-democratic-principles