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A new excerpt published by Just Tech features the final book chapter from Trust Fall @sarahmosseri.bsky.social (@ucpress.bsky.social) on workplace relations in the NYC ride-sharing circuit. Read more: just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/orc...
Orchestrated Alliance: Exposing the Trust Fall in the NYC Ride-hail Circuit
Sarah Mosseri’s recent book, <i>Trust Fall: How Workplace Relationships Fail Us</i>, examines how both office and interactive service workers rely on interpersonal ties as improvised infrastructures f...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
A new excerpt published by Just Tech features the final book chapter from Trust Fall @sarahmosseri.bsky.social (@ucpress.bsky.social) on workplace relations in the NYC ride-sharing circuit. Read more: just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/orc...
This new interview @wallacefoundation.bsky.social highlights the work of ARCC Fellow, Silvia Rodriguez Vega, in documenting the organizational history and practices of the San Francisco-based Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP).
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Building Narrative Power
A conversation about how the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project anchors its community
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December 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This new interview @wallacefoundation.bsky.social highlights the work of ARCC Fellow, Silvia Rodriguez Vega, in documenting the organizational history and practices of the San Francisco-based Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP).
wallacefoundation.org/resource/art...
wallacefoundation.org/resource/art...
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Thrilled to have an excerpt of my book on the @ssrc.org Just Tech platform! just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/orc...
Orchestrated Alliance: Exposing the Trust Fall in the NYC Ride-hail Circuit
Sarah Mosseri’s recent book, <i>Trust Fall: How Workplace Relationships Fail Us</i>, examines how both office and interactive service workers rely on interpersonal ties as improvised infrastructures f...
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December 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Thrilled to have an excerpt of my book on the @ssrc.org Just Tech platform! just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/orc...
@alex-powers.bsky.social, associate director of @measureofamerica.bsky.social, discussed MOA's new report on youth disconnection, "Building Bright Futures in Greater Houston," on @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social this morning:
www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/sho...
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Young people and Houston’s economy (Dec. 4, 2025) | Houston Public Media
As Houston grows, are large portions of the city’s younger population missing out on the economic opportunities? A recent report digs into that question.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
@alex-powers.bsky.social, associate director of @measureofamerica.bsky.social, discussed MOA's new report on youth disconnection, "Building Bright Futures in Greater Houston," on @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social this morning:
www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/sho...
www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/sho...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
NEW: @measureofamerica.bsky.social has released "Youth Disconnection in The Rapides Foundation Service Area 2025," the latest edition in their series focusing on opportunity youth in rural central Louisiana produced in partnership with the Rapides Foundation.
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Youth Disconnection in The Rapides Foundation Service Area, 2025 - Measure of America: A Program of the Social Science Research Council
Youth Disconnection in The Rapides Foundation Service Area 2025 provides an in-depth look at youth disconnection in The Rapides Foundation Service Area (TRFSA), which includes parishes in Central Loui...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
NEW: @measureofamerica.bsky.social has released "Youth Disconnection in The Rapides Foundation Service Area 2025," the latest edition in their series focusing on opportunity youth in rural central Louisiana produced in partnership with the Rapides Foundation.
measureofamerica.org/youth-discon...
measureofamerica.org/youth-discon...
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.
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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...
Learn more: www.sup.org/books/anthro...
Where the Sun Rises Square | Stanford University Press
Brazil's prison population, estimated at 90,000 in 1990, has exploded to over 650,000, the third highest in the world behind the US and China. Systematically targeting poor, Black communities, Brazil'...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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...
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.
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Making heads and making gods in the factory of religion
These conversations were stimulating and inspiring. What follows is a deliberately undisciplined series of thoughts (see Henry Cowles and Caleb Smith here) evoked by the conversations. The invitation ...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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...
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."
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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."
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Science and religion across Senegal and Japan
Robyn d’Avignon: Levi, the prompt for our conversation suggests that dialogue between science and technology studies (STS) and religious studies has been minimal because of scholarly adherence to a na...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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...
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.
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Sensing the Social
If science studies and religious studies were convened absent a narrative of secularity, what knowledge would emerge from their encounter?
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November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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...
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:
@latimes.com highlights youth disconnection research by the SSRC’s @measureofamerica.bsky.social:
Half a million young Californians aren't in school or work. Most are men
Half a million young Californians aren’t in school or work. Most are men
If you ask Jodeah Wilson how his life got off track, he’ll say it’s all about money.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"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:
@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...
Just Tech
The Just Tech Platform is a forum, catalogue, and showcase for researchers and practitioners at the nexus of technological development, inequity, and social justice.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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...
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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."
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#polrel #polisky
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Karmic historiography
A lawyer friend explained it to me this way: Since the 1980s, lawyers with specialized expertise and exclusive relationships—especially those involved in high-stakes deals like mergers and acquisition...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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
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@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.
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A new policy note from @ai-disclosures.bsky.social proposes bringing AI governance within the SEC's disclosure regime, modeled on 2023 cybersecurity rules.
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Governing AI Through SEC Disclosure: Materiality Standards and Incident Reporting—Lessons from Cybersecurity
The SSRC makes available interdisciplinary research to inform policy, academic discourse, and the public. These publications are freely accessible and include policy working papers to essays for the g...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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...
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/...
Learn more: www.ssrc.org/how-we-work/...
October 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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/...
Learn more: www.ssrc.org/how-we-work/...
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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!
Biomedical Surveillance in the Child Welfare System
Over the past several years, New York City’s Administration for Children Services (ACS) has been one among many child protection agencies to introduce AI tools. In this essay based on her research 2024 Data Fluencies Grantee Ashleigh Washington looks at how ACS’s tactics, including use of algorithms, create a tech-enabled biomedical surveillance apparatus targeting the most disadvantaged families.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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...
Read Thomas Lewis on @immanentframe.bsky.social's karmic historiography series: tif.ssrc.org/2025/10/24/k...
Karma, history, and the humanities
The “Karmic historiography” essay forum represents a convergence of two vital currents in contemporary humanities scholarship: first, an interest in enabling an intellectual space that has been domina...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“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...
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...
Deadline: Jan 16, 2026
Learn more: ssrc.org/programs/afr...
October 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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...
Deadline: Jan 16, 2026
Learn more: ssrc.org/programs/afr...
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🚨 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 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👇🏽
October 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🚨 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 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...
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October 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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...
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.”
October 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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.”
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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!
DATA2GO.NYC - Measure of America: A Program of the Social Science Research Council
DATA2GO.NYC is a free, interactive tool that lets you explore over 400 indicators related to human well-being and inequality across New York City's nearly 200 neighborhoods.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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!
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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...
DATA2GO.NYC Data Clinic Application
Thank you for your interest in our Data Clinic! We will begin reviewing applications on a rolling basis, and the deadline to submit your application is Monday, October 20, 2025.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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...
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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.
October 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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.