Over 100 years ago, the SSRC was founded in order to mobilize social scientists towards studying solutions to social problems during a moment marked by political polarization, immigration restrictions, technological change, and racial, religious, and gender discrimination.

Where the Sun Rises Square: Mass Incarceration and the Binds of Reform in Brazil, by David Thompson @anthrodave.bsky.social, an anthropologist and previous fellow of the DPDF and IDRF, will be published by Stanford University Press on November 25. Learn more: www.sup.org/books/anthro...

The second part of Sensing the Social @immanentframe.bsky.social highlights responses to the first part’s scholarly exchanges. This essay by Paul Christopher Johnson discusses Black religion and its relationship to ritual, science, and medicine. tif.ssrc.org/2025/10/12/m...

Sensing the Social @immanentframe.bsky.social features conversations between STS and religion scholars. In this piece, Robyn D'Avignon and Levi McLaughlin discuss their work in West Africa and Japan "blurring the boundaries between secular and non-secular worlds." tif.ssrc.org/2025/10/12/s...

Sensing the Social, a new project by @immanentframe.bsky.social, features writing by eighteen scholars of science studies and religious studies whose work reflects wide-ranging expertise, preoccupations, and approaches, anchored in the work of Bruno Latour. tif.ssrc.org/category/sen...

"Of the roughly 4.6 million Californians between the ages of 16 and 24, more than 10% are considered disconnected, meaning they’re neither working nor in school." @latimes.com highlights youth disconnection research by the SSRC’s @measureofamerica.bsky.social:

This month in Barcelona, three Just Tech Fellows from our 2023-2025 cohort will be speaking on panels at the @mozilla.org Festival, an open source festival for a healthier internet. Learn more about this cohort of intellectual and tech justice leaders: just-tech.ssrc.org/just-tech-fe...

New Forum | Jonathan C. Gold coedits and introduces "Karmic historiography," an essay series that "draws on Buddhist concepts to create fresh perspectives on contemporary and historical issues." tif.ssrc.org/2025/08/06/k... @immanentframe.bsky.social @ssrc.org #polrel #polisky

AI technologies contribute substantially to corporate performance and risk, but investors lack information. A new policy note from @ai-disclosures.bsky.social proposes bringing AI governance within the SEC's disclosure regime, modeled on 2023 cybersecurity rules. www.ssrc.org/publications...

The SSRC has deep experience designing events and programs that bridge silos and build innovation networks connecting researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders, fostering productive new collaborations that link knowledge to practice. Learn more: www.ssrc.org/how-we-work/...

Doctoral candidate Ashleigh Washington recently published this short essay at @ssrc.org, drawing from her research on New York City Administration for Children Services (ACS)'s quiet deployment of AI tools & long-standing practices of biomedical surveillance. Check it out!

“The result is a rich, thought-provoking series of reflections on the relevance of notions of karma to historical analysis, with a particular focus on this moment.” Read Thomas Lewis on @immanentframe.bsky.social's karmic historiography series: tif.ssrc.org/2025/10/24/k...

Applications are now open for the 2026 African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics fellowships. Apply now to advance your research, strengthen your networks, and shape Africa’s peacebuilding future. Please share widely! Deadline: Jan 16, 2026 Learn more: ssrc.org/programs/afr...

🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨 ➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation ➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India ➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months ➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms hopeful findings👇🏽

We are excited to announce that our African Peacebuilding Network and Next Gen program is evolving into the African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics (APDD) program. Read more about this exciting change below: www.ssrc.org/news/2025/10...

This past weekend, the SSRC partnered with @wallacefoundation.bsky.social for a Peer Learning Convening on the theme “Retooling for Impact: Adapting Strategy and Practice for the Future.”

We're also offering free demos of DATA2GO.NYC to show interested users the tool’s new indicators and other features. You can sign up now for a demo on either October 9th, 12-1pm or October 15th, 1-2pm. Learn more and register: measureofamerica.org/d2g-landing/. Feel free to share with your networks!

Participants will get to create their own projects using data that are relevant to their needs. The program will consist of four workshops from October 29th to November 19th. Applications are open and close on October 20th—sign up for free now: forms.gle/j6vruXg2Mt9P...

Measure of America is hosting a second round of our Technical Assistance Data Clinic for NYC nonprofits. This free, interactive program is designed to empower New York City nonprofit leaders to use data to better target their services, increase their impact, and communicate their results.

The new karmic historiography forum by @immanentframe.bsky.social knits together epistemology, social history, and psychology, drawing on Buddhist ethical concepts to highlight fresh perspectives on contemporary and historical issues. Read more: tif.ssrc.org/category/exc...

In the APA's American Psychologist, a large-scale meta-analysis identifies the treatment and patient characteristics of U.S. service members and veterans who drop out of psychotherapy. psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

We are thrilled to share that the African Peacebuilding Network and Next Gen Social Sciences in Africa have received a $4.2m grant from @carnegiecorp.bsky.social. 840 fellowships to date are advancing African scholarship, peacebuilding research, and doctoral training: www.ssrc.org/news/2025/09...

In @amanthro.bsky.social, Kristina Nielsen’s investigation of India’s business process outsourcing industry considers the impacts of workers forced to remove their regional accents to meet industry standards. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New policy brief from @ai-disclosures.bsky.social (by Sruly Rosenblat, Ilan Strauss, Tim O'Reilly & Isobel Moure) maps how Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol is reshaping the AI developer ecosystem and assesses emerging risks of concentration and gatekeeping. Read more: www.ssrc.org/publications...

In @asanews.bsky.social's ASR, interviews with currently incarcerated or recently released men provide insight into why and when people in prison politically mobilize, in a study by David Jonathan Knight. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Applications and nominations are now open for the next President of the Social Science Research Council. Appointment expected in early 2026. Learn more & apply: www.ssrc.org/social-scien...

In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, Christian Cox, Derek A. Epp, Michael E. Shepherd find, in a panel dataset of over 10 million rural residents, that local hospital closures are linked to lower voting rates in national elections. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In @aeajournals.bsky.social AER, Joseph S. Shapiro and Reed Walker estimate the benefits and costs of air pollution regulation in U.S. markets and find that benefits outweigh costs tenfold. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

New research from @ai-disclosures.bsky.social has mapped of 2,874 Model Context Protocol servers, showing concentration risks and a surge in agentic browsing — with implications for APIs, local MCPs, and market design. Read more: asimovaddendum.substack.com/p/read-write...

In November 2001, in the immediate wake of 9/11, the SSRC asked social scientists to bring theoretical and empirical knowledge to bear on its events and aftermath. These reflections can be read here: items.ssrc.org/category/aft...

The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University is now accepting applications for residential fellowships for the 2026-27 academic year!

Apply for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS residential fellowship. Deadline: Oct 31, 2025 More more info & link to application portal: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-... Watch former fellows talk about it in their own words in a suite of 17 short, awesome videos:: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...

Years of exit surveys suggest you likely will enjoy the best year of your career Apply for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS residential fellowship. Deadline: Oct 31, 2025 More info & link to application portal: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-... Fellowship videos: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...

Our research, referenced in the article, shows that among young adults 22–24 years old, young women are disconnected at a higher rate than young men, 15.2% compared to 13.8%, and have steeper on-ramps to well-paying jobs that don’t require a bachelor’s degree. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Educatio...

Measure of America research on youth disconnection informed a @csmonitor.bsky.social article highlighting Las Vegas programs working to reduce the city’s 14.8% disconnection rate. Director Kristen Lewis drew attention to girls & young women, who can be overlooked in conversations about reconnection.

“What can we learn of political interference in the domain of intellectual freedom, and how have academics attempted to cope with such assaults from past authoritarian regimes?” Read historian James Andrews on authoritarian constraints on science in the recent past: items.ssrc.org/insights/war...

"It is generally accepted among environmental geographers that there is no such thing as a natural disaster." Read Neil Smith on Katrina, and the social and economic calculus of who lives and dies during "natural" disasters: items.ssrc.org/understandin...

In @historians.org American Historical Review, an article by Nathaniel George explores the life and beliefs of a Lebanese diplomat, espousing the idea that counter-revolutionism and anti-colonialism equally shaped the history of the Global South. academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

Hurricane Katrina landed #20YearsAgoToday, killing over a thousand people and destroying much of New Orleans. Here's a small piece I wrote for @ssrc.org about the racial perception of this disaster (featuring a quote from the then-obscure junior senator from Illinois): items.ssrc.org/understandin...

A new policy brief from @ai-disclosures.bsky.social (by Isobel Moure, @timoreilly.bsky.social, and Ilan Strauss) argues that as AI models become commodities, open protocols, backed by open APIs, are needed to facilitate data sharing. Read more: www.ssrc.org/publications...

Twenty years post-Katrina, the issues our 2006 essay series examined—the impacts of disinvestment, privatization, environmental neglect, and more—remain urgent. A social science examination of how disasters reveal systemic failures: items.ssrc.org/category/und...

New Forum | Jonathan C. Gold coedits and introduces "Karmic historiography," an essay series that "draws on Buddhist concepts to create fresh perspectives on contemporary and historical issues." @immanentframe.bsky.social @ssrc.org tif.ssrc.org/2025/08/06/k... #polrel #polisky

In @amanthro.bsky.social, Mallory E. Matsumoto finds that in Guatemala, local practices generate forms of disruption, resistance, and refusal that challenge institutional constraints. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Learn about this ‪@ssrc.org‬ @sloanfoundation.bsky.social initiative to provide financial support for societally valuable economics research that was formerly funded by the NSF. The application deadline is rolling. Grantseekers should apply ASAP!

SSRC alum Celine Parreñas Shimizu (1999 Sexuality Research Fellowship Program Dissertation Fellow) has been named the new dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Congratulations, Dean Shimizu! newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/cel...

In @amstatnews.bsky.social, the spatial modeling of record-breaking temperatures in Spain shows the effects of global warming and other geographic factors on the frequency of these events. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to share my peer-reviewed article: “Rethinking Marriage: Blurring the ‘Legal’ and the ‘Social’” @lsijournal.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org This article examines alternate legal reasoning to reimagine law and evidentiary protocols from the ground-up. doi.org/10.1017/lsi....

How do we tackle thorny tech & society issues? Together. @alltechishuman.bsky.social, one of the SSRC’s fiscally sponsored projects, has developed a highly participatory, democratizing approach to technology’s role in society. Read more: alliance.hosting.nyu.edu/editorial/ch...

In @asrjournal.bsky.social, ten years of mixed-methods data analyzed by @greermellon.bsky.social on hiring outcomes in Florida and California school districts suggests that partisan affiliation does not affect superintendent hiring outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

A new open access volume, from workshops convened via @ssrcmtp.bsky.social: "Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right" explores how digital platforms and political structures converge to threaten democracy. Read via @oupacademic.bsky.social. global.oup.com/academic/pro...