A very big congratulations to Warren Center affiliate Aaron Roth for receiving the 2025-26 George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award! Roth has been recognized for his fundamental contributions to formalizing, quantifying, and enforcing data privacy and algorithmic fairness.

📢 Our last TCS+ talk of the season will be Wed, Dec 3 (10am PT, 1pm ET, 19:00 CET): Natalie Collina (@ncollina.bsky.social), from UPenn, will tell us about "Swap regret and correlated equilibria beyond normal-form games"! RSVP to receive the link (one day before the talk): forms.gle/utLgSxLpqvpx...

Congratulations to @PennPSC researcher Dolores Albarracín (@dalbarra.bsky.social), who has been honored with the 2025 Career Contribution Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (@spspnews.bsky.social). https://bit.ly/3JhYg57

We were grateful to welcome Stanford Professor Jennifer Eberhardt for a thought-provoking presentation on racial bias. The seminar—co-hosted with @pennchibe.bsky.social, the Quattrone Center, @appc.upenn.edu, & @pennmindcore.bsky.social—drew a large crowd from the Penn community.

Examining how people’s brains respond to persuasive messages in ads or articles can help reveal what makes those messages stick. “Decision-making is driven by brain activity in predictable brain systems,” says Warren Center affiliate Emily Falk. penntoday.upenn.edu/...

#PenNLINC is recruiting a clinical coordinator / lab manager!!! Looking for someone who is good with both people + code, wants to learn to acquire + analyze imaging data. Alumni in this role have written 1st author papers + gone to top grad programs. Website: www.pennlinc.io Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir

Professors: Running a class with research projects? You and your TAs will never have enough time to carefully guide every student through gap, hypotheses, experiment, data analysis, etc. I think every larger course running research projects should use this.

Let's compare our world models. I find that different people seem to have rather distinct internal world models. E.g. I personally have neither visual imagination nor an inner voice, found it weird others do. Here is a quick google forms to check idea: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Emily discusses how different regions of the brain shape the big and small decisions we make every day with Marty Moss-Coane on @whyy.org. Listen to the podcast here: whyy.org/episodes/the...

For CIS Prof. Chris Callison-Burch, today’s AI boom reflects 25 years of work across symbolic AI, statistical ML and generative models. Now, as director of Penn Engineering’s MSE-AI Online, he’s preparing the next generation of AI leaders. https://bit.ly/43J9A16

Huge congrats to Warren Center affiliate Surbhi Goel, who has been named a 2025 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow. This award will fund her research to understand unpredictable errors resulting from the “black-box” nature of many AI systems. blog.seas.upenn.edu/...

On The Road to Accountable AI, I spoke with @bradrcarson of @americans4ri, about why politics is inescapable for AI's future, the prospects for bipartisan agreement in the US, and how to navigate the challenges of AI policy. Listen at apple.co/accountable, or your favorite podcast platform.

I think almost all scientific projects should be planned carefully. And I think an app can dramatically improve that. So I wrote an app for that (free for now, if you can fund this let me know). I tested it quite a bit (>8000 users in beta so far). try it: planyourscience.com

Ahead of the busy Thanksgiving travel period and expected long security lines, Penn Today spoke with Warren Center faculty affiliate Gad Allon about the need for long-term solutions to reliability and infrastructure issues. penntoday.upenn.edu/...

Working on an abstract and could use some help? Join us on Tuesday, December 2 for a virtual abstract-writing workshop led by our P.I. Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social Register for free at

Despite decades of research, we still don't know how the brain integrates the features of an object into a coherent whole or whether artificial systems perform similar binding. Tomorrow, @KordingLab will give a seminar on "How Brains and Machines Solve the Binding Problem." ai.upenn.edu/penn-ai...

Penn AI Seminar feat. Konrad Kording (PSOM, SEAS) 11-18-25, 12-2 pm Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/how-brains...

Benefit-Cost Analysis and the Law SBCA Professional Development Workshop November 18 & 21, 2025 | 11:00 am-2:00 pm ET buff.ly/063ep8G Meet our presenter Cary Coglianese.

Oliver Patel, head of AI Governance at AstraZeneca, joins me this week on The Road to Accountable AI to share enterprise AI governance frameworks built from his experience. Listen to the full episode at https:apple.co/accountable, or your favorite podcast platform.

New @brookings.edu paper w. @kordinglab.bsky.social : Artificial Intelligence Saturation & the Future of Work. Wages can ↗️&↘️with #AI automation, as humans are pushed into physical jobs. In the longer run, intelligence saturation limits benefits from #AI. www.brookings.edu/articles/art... #EconSky

In Konrad Kording and Ioana Marinescu's new Brookings Institution paper, they consider how to model an economy with rapidly increasing intelligence capital but slowly increasing physical capital in order to generate meaningful predictions of AI’s wage and output impacts.

How does the Internet govern itself? 🌐 In Advanced Introduction to Internet Governance and Regulation, Prof. Christopher Yoo and Alexander R. Mueller L’21 examine how voluntary, multistakeholder cooperation keeps the Internet open, stable, and secure. https://penncareylaw.news/4hPwTMg

In a new @brookings.edu paper we argue that we should not just divide into capital and labor, but also into intelligence and physical when modeling the economy (attention, economics speak): www.brookings.edu/articles/art...

Postdoctoral Researcher Positions!

AI is growing exponentially at a timescale of months while the economy is growing at a timescale of decades. How should we model the economy with rapidly increasing intelligence tech and slowly increasing physical tech? New AI+econ paper.

Superb work by the stellar @bsevchik.bsky.social — a new fully processed open data resource focused on exec fxn in psychosis and ADHD. ‼️Also‼️ Brooke is applying to PhD programs now— great time to recruit an absolute star ⭐️ + wonderful human.

We've seen Konrad Kording host this workshop twice, and it really is remarkable how he deftly walks participants through the process of writing a memorable and clear abstract. Sign up if there is stil room.

Truly heroic work by the stellar @cieslakmatt.bsky.social + the HBCD dMRI working group team. Refactored QSIPrep + QSIRecon is the result of nearly 3y of concerted development + testing. It will be a total workhorse for HBCD -- and almost any other dMRI scan. Check it out for your data!!!

Are you in the process of writing an abstract and could use some help? Join us on December 2 for a virtual workshop with our P.I., Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social 🎟️ RSVP at buff.ly/4IJ0Xwu ✨ You can submit an abstract in progress for a chance to have it workshopped live!

A collaborative team led by Warren Center affiliate Ted Satterthwaite and postdoctoral fellow Golia Shafiei has developed Reproducible Brain Charts, a large-scale, open data resource to help researchers link brain development with mental health disorders. penntoday.upenn.edu/...

🚨📣 We’re recruiting a postdoc! 📣🚨 Are you curious about how the environments in which people spend time influence their health? Are you motivated by research that promotes climate action, resilience, and wellbeing? Read more and apply here: www.asc.upenn.edu/node/5905

The first of two @forcconf.bsky.social 2026 deadlines is tomorrow, Nov 11! I hope everyone is putting finishing polishes on their submissions. For everyone else who doesn't want to miss out on the fun at Harvard this summer, there is another deadline in Feb. responsiblecomputing.org/forc-2026-ca...

🎟️ RSVP to the workshop at c4r.io/events and submit your abstract for a chance to have it workshopped with Konrad Kording, live. ➕ Bonus! Participants can use the scientific project planner app, PlanYourScience.com, to kickstart a new study or fine-tune an existing one.

✨ It’s hard to write an abstract. It’s harder to write a glamorous one that tells your story without overselling your results. 🛠️ Join us on Tuesday, December 2 @ 12 pm ET for a live abstract-writing workshop led by our P.I., Konrad Kording. RSVP @ c4r.io/events

If you work at the intersection of CS and economics (or think your work is of interest to those who do!) consider submitting to the ESIF Economics and AI+ML meeting this summer at Cornell: www.econometricsociety.org/regional-act...

Using a pair of pre-election surveys conducted 24 years apart, Warren Center faculty affiliate Diana Mutz found that Americans are talking with more people more frequently about politics, primarily those people they agree with politically. penntoday.upenn.edu/...

We're excited to announce the call for papers for #ICML 2026: icml.cc/Conferences/... See you in Seoul next summer!

Announcing the 7th Learning Theory Alliance mentoring workshop on November 20. Fully free & virtual! Theme: Harnessing AI for Research, Learning, and Communicating Ft @aaroth.bsky.social @andrejristeski.bsky.social @profericwong.bsky.social @ktalwar.bsky.social &more

A new study by the @falklab.bsky.social and colleagues reveals that activity in brain regions associated with reward and social processing can predict the effectiveness of messages:

Maybe we've been approaching AI ethics the wrong way? On this week's episode of The Road to Accountable AI, Ravit Dotan discusses how she shifted her approach, and why AI governance practitioners should be more like chefs. Listen now: apple.co/accountable or your favorite podcast platform.

Congratulations to Warren Center faculty affiliate Dolores Albarracín, who has been honored with the 2025 Career Contribution Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology! www.annenbergpublicp...

This is a new era,” Prof. Cary Coglianese (@cary-coglianese.bsky.social) tells WBUR’s On Point, as AI use in gov’t grows from 150 to 3,000+ cases. “Humans design & use these systems — and they must remain accountable.” https://penncareylaw.news/4oTsNFj

Our paper on algorithmic collusion was featured in a Quanta article! www.quantamagazine.org/the-game-the...

Some fun work connecting no regret algorithms, pricing and collusion, with @aaroth.bsky.social , @ncollina.bsky.social , @jubaz.bsky.social and my advisor Sampath Kannan

“AI governance is a team sport.” On Road to Accountable AI, Caroline Louveaux of Mastercard explains how trust, collaboration, and responsibility drive innovation in the AI era. Listen now: apple.com/accountable accountableai.net

Seeking applications from recent PhDs in neuro, psych, ling, philo, comp sci, or other cog sci discipline, for our MindCORE Fellowship. MindCORE is an interdisciplinary effort at Penn to understand human intelligence and behavior. Apply by Dec 1: mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctora...

Cracking the worm would provide a test bed for how molecular recipes generate neural physiology. And it would allow us to understand how neurons work together to yield emergent brain functions, write @kordinglab.bsky.social and @eboyden3.bsky.social. www.thetransmitter.org/computationa...

(1/2) University of Pennsylvania computational neuroscientist and @neuromatch.bsky.social co-founder @kordinglab.bsky.social shares his advice for career success in neuroscience. “The field has so much of an appetite for new ideas,” he says. #neurosociety #compsci #neuroscience

Since Klaus Krippendorff pioneered the study of content analysis, Annenberg has been at the forefront of computational social science. To this day, our scholars use data to inform decision making across industry, policy, and health care domains, and ultimately, to make sense of the world:

A bit belated, but happy to have our preprint, “An Ecological Theory of Democracy,” out. We consider political party competition in light of classic ecological theory. Led by a talented former undergrad, Riley Fotis, in collaboration with Brendan O’Leary (neither on bluesky). A 🧵 1/