Institute for Quantitative Social Science @ Harvard
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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
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IQSS is developing LOOP, a new desktop application that will provide a direct, streamlined connection between the Harvard Dataverse and Sid, simplifying how researchers move, manage, and analyze…
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February 5, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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
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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.
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February 5, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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.
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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.
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February 5, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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.
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Starting at 12pm ET: @fresejoris.bsky.social presents "Type I Error Inflation in Unexpected Event During Survey Designs" at this week's #AppliedStats Workshop.
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February 4, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Starting at 12pm ET: @fresejoris.bsky.social presents "Type I Error Inflation in Unexpected Event During Survey Designs" at this week's #AppliedStats Workshop.
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At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, IQSS faculty affiliate Iris Bohnet joined a panel discussion on representation hosted by the Female Quotient.
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The Urgent Need for More Data-Driven LGBTQ Storytelling Takes Centerstage During the 2026 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting In Davos
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January 29, 2026 at 4:01 PM
At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, IQSS faculty affiliate Iris Bohnet joined a panel discussion on representation hosted by the Female Quotient.
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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!
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January 28, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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
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."
January 28, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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."
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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/
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/
January 23, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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/
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/
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🌐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!
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This year’s theme is “Advancing data and dataverse: #AI, interoperability, and sensitive data”.
☑ The Call for papers is now open!
bsc.es/4oC
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January 14, 2026 at 12:17 PM
🌐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
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:
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Research Associate The OpenDP Project at Harvard University seeks to hire a Research Associate to work with faculty directors Gary King and Salil Vadhan and the OpenDP Community to formulate and…
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January 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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:
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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.
January 1, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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.
December 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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:
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December 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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:
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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:
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OpenDP Summer Program: Apply Now!
We are thrilled to announce that applications are now open for the OpenDP Summer Program! We have opportunities available for undergraduates, graduate students, and established professionals in…
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December 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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:
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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.
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Science needs contrarians, and contrarians need support — Harvard Gazette
Institute of Quantitative Social Science initiative tailored to researchers exploring provocative ideas.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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.
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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...
Intellectual Diversity, Flourishing and the Pursuit of Truth
Pathways to increasing diversity: We need each other to correct our thinking.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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.
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Launching the Differential Privacy Deployments Registry
At the Eyes-Off Data Summit and the 2025 OpenDP Community Meeting, we and collaborators announced the launch of the Differential Privacy Deployments Registry—a public-facing repository of real-world…
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December 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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.
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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:
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December 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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
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.
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Guilherme Duarte (Harvard) | Applied Statistics Workshop Gov 3009
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December 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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.
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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
You can register here: www.grid.harvard.edu/mind-2-market
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November 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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
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.
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Eighteen faculty named as affiliates of Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University
Eighteen faculty members from six Harvard Schools and departments have accepted two-year faculty affiliations at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, joining 51 current faculty…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
IQSS affiliates Alisha Holland and Julia Minson are among the newest faculty members to become affiliates of the Bloomberg Center for Cities.
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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
Register: www.grid.harvard.edu/mind-2-market
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November 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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
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.
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The Applied Statistics Workshop is a forum for graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars to present and discuss methodological or empirical work in progress in an interdisciplinary setting.…
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November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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.
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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.
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Jesse Schreger (Alesina Seminar) | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science
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November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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.
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Starting at 12:00 noon: Rohit Bhattacharya presents "Opportunities for Principled Use of AI for Causal Inference" in this week's Applied Stats Workshop.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Starting at 12:00 noon: Rohit Bhattacharya presents "Opportunities for Principled Use of AI for Causal Inference" in this week's Applied Stats Workshop.
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