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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 13h

"To be invited to this interdisciplinary fellowship environment is really cool... I’m pretty stoked about it."

- @coreydfields.bsky.social (quoting Confucius...)

college.georgetown.edu/news-story/s...

Sociology Professor Corey D. Fields Named to Prestigious Behavioral Sciences Fellowship at Stanford - College of Arts & Sciences

Fields will be working on a book project that explores recent discourse in the U.S. around issues of public health and racial inequality.

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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 1d

Proud and, given all the other incredibly smart and cool stuff on the shelves in the Tyler Collection at @casbsstanford.bsky.social, frankly kind of humbled to have our book join the ranks 🙏🏼

@michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @madva.bsky.social

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 1d

A copy of the NEW BOOK @mitpress.bsky.social, "Somebody Should Do Something," has entered the Center's world renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection! 📖

Two of its authors, @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social (2019-20) & @dryan149.bsky.social (2018-19), worked on the book during their CASBS fellowships 😏 🙌

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 1d

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Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 1d

congrats to my friend Maisha Winn of @stanfordeducation.bsky.social and fellow from @casbsstanford.bsky.social on her latest book, Futuring Black Lives: Independent Black Institutions and the Literary Imagination

A MUST READ!!

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 2d

We cracked the code. How to grow 10 years intellectually in one biological year

Be a CASBS fellow. Catherine Ramírez explains

APPLY for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS fellowship. DEADLINE Oct 31

Info & link to application portal: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZq...

CASBS fellowship: Catherine Ramírez

YouTube video by CASBS

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 1d

A copy of the NEW BOOK @mitpress.bsky.social, "Somebody Should Do Something," has entered the Center's world renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection! 📖

Two of its authors, @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social (2019-20) & @dryan149.bsky.social (2018-19), worked on the book during their CASBS fellowships 😏 🙌

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 1d

Oct. 20 | @utlonghorns.bsky.social

Using survey panel data from Taiwan, CASBS fellow Wen-Chin Wu speaking at Univ. of Texas on the question of whether military training increases willingness to fight, & if so through what mechanisms

Details: liberalarts.utexas.edu/cts/events/m...

Military Training and Willingness to Fight: The Case of Taiwan - Dr. Wen-Chin Wu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Abstract of Presentation: Does military training increase willingness to fight, and through what mechanisms? Using panel survey data from Taiwanese conscripts in 2024, we examine attitudes before an...

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 2d

Can AI dialogues improve psychological well-being? CASBS faculty fellow @robbwiller.bsky.social among the coauthors of a new paper that tests whether brief, structured dialogues grounded in psych research can reliably help

Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...

See Robb's explanatory thread 👇

Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 2d

🚨New WP!🚨

Structured AI Dialogues Can Increase Happiness and Meaning in Life

In a preregistered RCT, four psychology-grounded #AI chatbots improved well-being across several outcomes.

Co-authors: Jonas Schoene, Johannes Eichstaedt, Aadesh Salecha, Sonja Lyubomirsky

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 2d

We cracked the code. How to grow 10 years intellectually in one biological year

Be a CASBS fellow. Catherine Ramírez explains

APPLY for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS fellowship. DEADLINE Oct 31

Info & link to application portal: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZq...

CASBS fellowship: Catherine Ramírez

YouTube video by CASBS

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 2d

Oct 24 | 1:45pm | Stanford campus

CASBS fellow Deepa Fernandes delivers the keynote address at the day-long Provostial Fellows Symposium on "Power, Voice, and Place: Perspectives on Race Across Disciplines"

Full schedule & registration link: facultydevelopment.stanford.edu/provostial-f...

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 3d

We're sad to learn about the passing of 1987-88 CASBS fellow Clause Offe, "among the most prominent theorists in modern social science and one of the most cited authors in political sociology"

Institute for Human Sciences remembrance: www.iwm.at/news/claus-o...

Claus Offe in Memoriam

Claus Offe served as professor of political sociology at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin until 2015. He began his academic career in the intellectual environment of the Frankfurt School as a...

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 3d

A copy of the NEW BOOK by Maisha Winn, "Futuring Black Lives," developed substantially while Maisha was in residence as a 2022-23 CASBS fellow, has entered into the Center's renowned Ralph W Tyler Collection 📚

About this Vanderbilt Univ. Press book: www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650791...

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 4d

We're sad to learn of the passing of 1987-88 CASBS fellow David Berliner, a renowned educational psychologist & public intellectual who influenced generations of scholars

ASU obit: news.asu.edu/20251002-art...

Berliner's CASBS work: casbs.stanford.edu/people/david...

Remembering David C. Berliner: Scholar, gadfly, mentor and defender of public education | ASU News

Two bored 18-year-olds walk into a bar.That is, in fact, almost how the career trajectory of one of the most influential and admired education scholars in America began.Not long after he turned 18, Da...

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 5d

Challenges. Battles. A quest to solve mysteries. Finding community. Uncertain futures. Joys. Superpowers. A family's journey

Time is of the essence for Deepa Fernandes to write the trade book that’s been percolating. She poignantly explained why in our kickoff fellows seminar of the fellowship year

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 5d

Sad to learn of the passing of 1973-74 CASBS fellow Julian Wolpert, renowned for pioneering the use of quantitative approaches to understanding social & behavioral dimensions of geography

Princeton obit: www.princeton.edu/news/2025/10...

Wolpert's work at CASBS: casbs.stanford.edu/people/julia...

Julian Wolpert, a pioneer of urban planning and 'permanent giant in geography,' dies at 92

Wolpert championed the use of quantitative approaches to understand the social and behavioral dimensions of geography.

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 6d

NEW in CASBS's partnership w/ @laviedesidees.bsky.social

Literary criticism & Big Data - video interview w/2024-25 CASBS fellow Mark Algee-Hewitt on how machines help literature scholars & intellectual historians explain the life of concepts, aesthetics & genres

booksandideas.net/Humanities-a...

Humanities and Computational Analysis

While we have entered the age of generative AI, it is worth having a look at how computers can help literature scholars and intellectual historians to explain the life of concepts, aesthetics and genr...

booksandideas.net

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 6d

Oct 6 | 12pm PT | Online

CASBS fellow @ellenernstkossek.bsky.social presenting @harvardkennedy.bsky.social on how employers need to consider how job characteristics influence the differential benefits of work-life interventions

More info & RSVP: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/advan...

Advancing Supervisor Support for Flexibility through Training

In this seminar, Prof. Ellen Kossek will share the results from a randomized employer field experiment on training supervisors around work-life balance.

www.hks.harvard.edu

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 7d

🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE

Colin Camerer: Econ's Neurovisionary

@sweiwang.bsky.social chats w/@cfcamerer.bsky.social on his work on the neuroeconomics of habit formation, building & scaling behavioral models, & neuroscience as a wide-open field for economists

🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#coli...

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 9d

We don’t need to blow up the system, but we do need to reclaim it, as fmr CASBS fellow Bob Kaplan explains in this sharp piece @chronicle.com

www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Opinion | How Academic Publishing Exploits Public Science

The National Institutes of Health is right to resist the profiteering private companies.

www.chronicle.com

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 9d

NEW PUB coauthored by CASBS fellow @profpjones.bsky.social 👇

Center for Political Studies @umisrcps.bsky.social · 9d

👀 New from @profpjones.bsky.social @deandulay.bsky.social @anilmenon.bsky.social & @yoniabramson.bsky.social, studying the effects of 🇺🇦 President Zelensky’s historical analogies with survey experiments in four countries – US, UK, Germany, and Israel. Do these appeals impact foreign policy attitudes?

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 9d

#InternationalPodcastDay

Revisit our superb episode on "Deploying Behavioral Science on the Front Lines of Social Protest"

CASBS fellows @eranhalperin75.bsky.social (2022-23) & @robbwiller.bsky.social (2012-13, 2020-21) compare cross-national research findings

➡️ casbs.stanford.edu/podcast-2023...

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 10d

What is CASBS fellowship?

Watch former fellows talk about it in their own words in a suite of short videos: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...

Then APPLY for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS residential fellowship by Oct 31, 2025

Info & link to application portal: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · Jun 24

New Partnership w/Linköping University

The Swedish university will support one fellow per year at CASBS starting w/the 2026-27 academic year. The agreement deepens the Center's global outreach efforts facilitating an annual influx of international talent.

MORE: casbs.stanford.edu/news/new-fel...

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cristianimachado.bsky.social @cristianimachado.bsky.social · 11d

Happy and proud to be part of this wonderful group of scholars. Already learning a lot, and looking forward to an intense academic year!

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 16d

The 2025-26 CASBS class.

Resent them, if you must, for their unbridled beauty.

But love them, you must, for their spectacular talent.

Fellows: casbs.stanford.edu/people/curre...

Visiting scholars: casbs.stanford.edu/people/curre...

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Ian Goldin @iangoldin.bsky.social · 20d

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Can We End Global Poverty? 🌍💰 - with Former Nelson Mandela Advisor Ian Goldin

YouTube video by Moving Europe Podcast

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 14d

You know it's gonna be good when it's an all-CASBS affair - Mike Albertus (CASBS fellow, 2019-20) in conversation with William Howell (2009-10) & Terry Moe (1992-93)... 💯

Michael Albertus @mikealbertus.bsky.social · 14d

My interview with @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social Dean Will Howell and @stanforduniversity.bsky.social Prof. Terry Moe, leading experts on the American presidency, on their important new book The Rise of the Strongman Presidency @princetonupress.bsky.social

michaelalbertus.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

The Rise of the Strongman Presidency

My interview with Johns Hopkins Professor William Howell and Stanford Professor Terry Moe on their new book on the transformation of presidential power

michaelalbertus.substack.com

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