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A CASBS jewel
In 2025 CASBS celebrates 70 years of its Ralph W. Tyler Collection – books conceived, begun, drafted, or completed by fellows while in residence as fellows. If you’re a social & behavioral sciences fan, the collection's classics will absolutely blow you away
More here: bit.ly/3JUl5vV
In 2025 CASBS celebrates 70 years of its Ralph W. Tyler Collection – books conceived, begun, drafted, or completed by fellows while in residence as fellows. If you’re a social & behavioral sciences fan, the collection's classics will absolutely blow you away
More here: bit.ly/3JUl5vV
During this Thanksgiving week, will you get together with a relative you just can't stand? Or with a frenemy?
If so, you & they should read this one together. Three minutes of your time. It will soothe the blood pressure.
If not, well, kindly read it anyway. 🦃
👉 casbs.stanford.edu/news/friends...
If so, you & they should read this one together. Three minutes of your time. It will soothe the blood pressure.
If not, well, kindly read it anyway. 🦃
👉 casbs.stanford.edu/news/friends...
A Friendship of Sociology
The mutual admiration between David Stark and Bob Scott started in 1970. It continued, recently, at CASBS.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
During this Thanksgiving week, will you get together with a relative you just can't stand? Or with a frenemy?
If so, you & they should read this one together. Three minutes of your time. It will soothe the blood pressure.
If not, well, kindly read it anyway. 🦃
👉 casbs.stanford.edu/news/friends...
If so, you & they should read this one together. Three minutes of your time. It will soothe the blood pressure.
If not, well, kindly read it anyway. 🦃
👉 casbs.stanford.edu/news/friends...
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🔊 Submit a nomination for the 2026 Sage-CASBS Award
CASBS & @sagepub.com partner on an award recognizing outstanding achievement in the behavioral & social sciences & advancing our understanding of pressing social issues
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CASBS & @sagepub.com partner on an award recognizing outstanding achievement in the behavioral & social sciences & advancing our understanding of pressing social issues
Details, eligibility & nomination portal: casbs.stanford.edu/news/nominat...
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
🔊 Submit a nomination for the 2026 Sage-CASBS Award
CASBS & @sagepub.com partner on an award recognizing outstanding achievement in the behavioral & social sciences & advancing our understanding of pressing social issues
Details, eligibility & nomination portal: casbs.stanford.edu/news/nominat...
CASBS & @sagepub.com partner on an award recognizing outstanding achievement in the behavioral & social sciences & advancing our understanding of pressing social issues
Details, eligibility & nomination portal: casbs.stanford.edu/news/nominat...
We love sharing this one every so often. In September 2016, historian Brenda Stevenson & humanities giant Arnold Rampersad found themselves in the same CASBS fellows class.
But they shared a history that went back 40 years.
We sat them down to get the story.
👉 casbs.stanford.edu/news/convers...
But they shared a history that went back 40 years.
We sat them down to get the story.
👉 casbs.stanford.edu/news/convers...
A Conversation with Brenda and Arnold
By Mike Gaetani
casbs.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
We love sharing this one every so often. In September 2016, historian Brenda Stevenson & humanities giant Arnold Rampersad found themselves in the same CASBS fellows class.
But they shared a history that went back 40 years.
We sat them down to get the story.
👉 casbs.stanford.edu/news/convers...
But they shared a history that went back 40 years.
We sat them down to get the story.
👉 casbs.stanford.edu/news/convers...
A copy of the NEW BOOK by former CASBS fellow Eduardo Mercado, "Why Whales Sing," which began to take form during his fellowship, has entered the Center's world renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 📚
About this @hopkinspress.bsky.social book: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
About this @hopkinspress.bsky.social book: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A copy of the NEW BOOK by former CASBS fellow Eduardo Mercado, "Why Whales Sing," which began to take form during his fellowship, has entered the Center's world renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 📚
About this @hopkinspress.bsky.social book: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
About this @hopkinspress.bsky.social book: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Statistical models can fail via spurious correlations. Machine learning algorithms predict w/o explaining. In her CASBS fellows seminar, Elena Esposito elucidated mechanisms & social consequences of combing the methods across contexts (precision medicine, personalized insurance, precision policing)
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Statistical models can fail via spurious correlations. Machine learning algorithms predict w/o explaining. In her CASBS fellows seminar, Elena Esposito elucidated mechanisms & social consequences of combing the methods across contexts (precision medicine, personalized insurance, precision policing)
We report the passing of 1958-59 CASBS fellow Seymour Perlin, the noted psychiatrist who contributed significantly to the study of suicidology, aging, community mental health & medical ethics. George Washington Univ. established a lectureship in his name.
➡️ www.sagelbloomfield.com/obituaries/s...
➡️ www.sagelbloomfield.com/obituaries/s...
Seymour Perlin Obituary November 20, 2025 - Sagel Bloomfield Danzansky Goldberg Funeral Care Inc
View Seymour Perlin's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
www.sagelbloomfield.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
We report the passing of 1958-59 CASBS fellow Seymour Perlin, the noted psychiatrist who contributed significantly to the study of suicidology, aging, community mental health & medical ethics. George Washington Univ. established a lectureship in his name.
➡️ www.sagelbloomfield.com/obituaries/s...
➡️ www.sagelbloomfield.com/obituaries/s...
Congrats to former CASBS director @mlevi.bsky.social - her TED Talk on "How Labor Unions Shape Society" recently surpassed 2 million views 👊
www.ted.com/talks/margar...
www.ted.com/talks/margar...
Margaret Levi: How labor unions shape society
The weekend. Social Security. Health insurance. What do these things have in common? They all exist thanks to the advocacy of labor unions. Political economist Margaret Levi explains how these organiz...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Congrats to former CASBS director @mlevi.bsky.social - her TED Talk on "How Labor Unions Shape Society" recently surpassed 2 million views 👊
www.ted.com/talks/margar...
www.ted.com/talks/margar...
Hey that's us.
"Thinking in Systems: Problems of Organization at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Society for General Systems Research, 1950-7," by Libby O'Neil in @histhum.bsky.social @sagepub.com
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"Thinking in Systems: Problems of Organization at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Society for General Systems Research, 1950-7," by Libby O'Neil in @histhum.bsky.social @sagepub.com
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November 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Hey that's us.
"Thinking in Systems: Problems of Organization at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Society for General Systems Research, 1950-7," by Libby O'Neil in @histhum.bsky.social @sagepub.com
➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"Thinking in Systems: Problems of Organization at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Society for General Systems Research, 1950-7," by Libby O'Neil in @histhum.bsky.social @sagepub.com
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Congrats to 2002-03 CASBS fellow Beth Simmons 🙌
Congratulations to Professor Beth Simmons, who was recently named President-Elect of @apsa.bsky.social! A leading scholar of international relations, Simmons is only the second Penn faculty member to hold this role.
Read more: https://penncareylaw.news/4p4XJT1
Read more: https://penncareylaw.news/4p4XJT1
President of the American Political Science Association
Prof. Beth Simmons was named APSA’s president for the 2026-27 term.
www.law.upenn.edu
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Congrats to 2002-03 CASBS fellow Beth Simmons 🙌
A CASBS jewel
In 2025 CASBS celebrates 70 years of its Ralph W. Tyler Collection – books conceived, begun, drafted, or completed by fellows while in residence as fellows. If you’re a social & behavioral sciences fan, the collection's classics will absolutely blow you away
More here: bit.ly/3JUl5vV
In 2025 CASBS celebrates 70 years of its Ralph W. Tyler Collection – books conceived, begun, drafted, or completed by fellows while in residence as fellows. If you’re a social & behavioral sciences fan, the collection's classics will absolutely blow you away
More here: bit.ly/3JUl5vV
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
A CASBS jewel
In 2025 CASBS celebrates 70 years of its Ralph W. Tyler Collection – books conceived, begun, drafted, or completed by fellows while in residence as fellows. If you’re a social & behavioral sciences fan, the collection's classics will absolutely blow you away
More here: bit.ly/3JUl5vV
In 2025 CASBS celebrates 70 years of its Ralph W. Tyler Collection – books conceived, begun, drafted, or completed by fellows while in residence as fellows. If you’re a social & behavioral sciences fan, the collection's classics will absolutely blow you away
More here: bit.ly/3JUl5vV
How has war shaped American democracy?
2024-25 CASBS fellow @ssinnar.bsky.social writes on "The Supreme Court & the Unaccountable Racialized Security State" in the new issue of Dædalus, the publication of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Open access: www.amacad.org/daedalus/sup...
2024-25 CASBS fellow @ssinnar.bsky.social writes on "The Supreme Court & the Unaccountable Racialized Security State" in the new issue of Dædalus, the publication of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Open access: www.amacad.org/daedalus/sup...
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
How has war shaped American democracy?
2024-25 CASBS fellow @ssinnar.bsky.social writes on "The Supreme Court & the Unaccountable Racialized Security State" in the new issue of Dædalus, the publication of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Open access: www.amacad.org/daedalus/sup...
2024-25 CASBS fellow @ssinnar.bsky.social writes on "The Supreme Court & the Unaccountable Racialized Security State" in the new issue of Dædalus, the publication of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Open access: www.amacad.org/daedalus/sup...
A CASBS jewel
In 2025 CASBS celebrates 70 years of its Ralph W. Tyler Collection – books conceived, begun, drafted, or completed by fellows while in residence as fellows. If you’re a social & behavioral sciences fan, the collection's classics will absolutely blow you away
More here: bit.ly/3JUl5vV
In 2025 CASBS celebrates 70 years of its Ralph W. Tyler Collection – books conceived, begun, drafted, or completed by fellows while in residence as fellows. If you’re a social & behavioral sciences fan, the collection's classics will absolutely blow you away
More here: bit.ly/3JUl5vV
The Tyler Collection: CASBS's Gift to the Social Sciences
The renowned book collection celebrates 70 years and 2,000 volumes. Discover its gems and fellows' favorites.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
A CASBS jewel
In 2025 CASBS celebrates 70 years of its Ralph W. Tyler Collection – books conceived, begun, drafted, or completed by fellows while in residence as fellows. If you’re a social & behavioral sciences fan, the collection's classics will absolutely blow you away
More here: bit.ly/3JUl5vV
In 2025 CASBS celebrates 70 years of its Ralph W. Tyler Collection – books conceived, begun, drafted, or completed by fellows while in residence as fellows. If you’re a social & behavioral sciences fan, the collection's classics will absolutely blow you away
More here: bit.ly/3JUl5vV
So great to see 2019-20 CASBS fellow Brian Arthur on the hill last week. He lunched with current fellow Ian Goldin, then we brought him by his fellowship year office -- yup, he's a ghost in study #9 👻
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
So great to see 2019-20 CASBS fellow Brian Arthur on the hill last week. He lunched with current fellow Ian Goldin, then we brought him by his fellowship year office -- yup, he's a ghost in study #9 👻
A copy of the NEW BOOK by 2023-24 CASBS fellow Micah Muscolino, "Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People," has entered into the Center's renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 📖
About this @uwapress.uw.edu book: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
And check out Micah's awesome shout-out in the book (🧵)
About this @uwapress.uw.edu book: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
And check out Micah's awesome shout-out in the book (🧵)
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
A copy of the NEW BOOK by 2023-24 CASBS fellow Micah Muscolino, "Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People," has entered into the Center's renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 📖
About this @uwapress.uw.edu book: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
And check out Micah's awesome shout-out in the book (🧵)
About this @uwapress.uw.edu book: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
And check out Micah's awesome shout-out in the book (🧵)
NEW in CASBS's partnership w/@laviedesidees.bsky.social & its English language site Books & Ideas
VIDEO INTERVIEW w/2024-25 CASBS fellow Katerina Linos on how international institutions like the EU adapt & even expand capacity in the face of pressing global issues
booksandideas.net/Expanding-In...
VIDEO INTERVIEW w/2024-25 CASBS fellow Katerina Linos on how international institutions like the EU adapt & even expand capacity in the face of pressing global issues
booksandideas.net/Expanding-In...
Expanding International Bureaucracy
As multilateral cooperation is increasingly under attack, Katerina Linos challenges certain misperceptions about the role of international institutions, particularly the European Union, and emphasizes...
booksandideas.net
November 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
NEW in CASBS's partnership w/@laviedesidees.bsky.social & its English language site Books & Ideas
VIDEO INTERVIEW w/2024-25 CASBS fellow Katerina Linos on how international institutions like the EU adapt & even expand capacity in the face of pressing global issues
booksandideas.net/Expanding-In...
VIDEO INTERVIEW w/2024-25 CASBS fellow Katerina Linos on how international institutions like the EU adapt & even expand capacity in the face of pressing global issues
booksandideas.net/Expanding-In...
Jeff Spinner-Halev seeks to reconceptualize how we understand democratic equality in a hierarchical world. Is taking a multi-disciplinary view of relational equality a place to start? Jeff is testing this in a new project & he unveiled some preliminary findings during his CASBS fellows seminar...
November 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Jeff Spinner-Halev seeks to reconceptualize how we understand democratic equality in a hierarchical world. Is taking a multi-disciplinary view of relational equality a place to start? Jeff is testing this in a new project & he unveiled some preliminary findings during his CASBS fellows seminar...
Breathtaking in its scope, during his CASBS fellows seminar @iangoldin.bsky.social outlined broad contours shaping his next book on "entangled" global political economy trends of the next few decades
Once he nails down the book's narrative golden thread, he will trademark it as "The Goldin Thread"
Once he nails down the book's narrative golden thread, he will trademark it as "The Goldin Thread"
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Breathtaking in its scope, during his CASBS fellows seminar @iangoldin.bsky.social outlined broad contours shaping his next book on "entangled" global political economy trends of the next few decades
Once he nails down the book's narrative golden thread, he will trademark it as "The Goldin Thread"
Once he nails down the book's narrative golden thread, he will trademark it as "The Goldin Thread"
Huge congrats to CASBS fellow KEN DODGE, announced as recipient of the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society from the American Psychological Association 👏🙌🏆🥳
Announcement: sanford.duke.edu/story/kennet...
Announcement: sanford.duke.edu/story/kennet...
Kenneth Dodge receives Lifetime Contribution Award from APA | Sanford School of Public Policy
The American Psychological Association (APA) has announced it will award Kenneth Dodge, the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psycholog
sanford.duke.edu
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Huge congrats to CASBS fellow KEN DODGE, announced as recipient of the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society from the American Psychological Association 👏🙌🏆🥳
Announcement: sanford.duke.edu/story/kennet...
Announcement: sanford.duke.edu/story/kennet...
2025 is the 60th anniversary of the publication of "Man and International Relations" by J.K. Zawodny
His admiration of fellow 1961-62 fellows who informed & inspired his writing of the book is pure poetry. The CASBS experience tends to bring that out of those who spend a year here
#CREATEDatCASBS
His admiration of fellow 1961-62 fellows who informed & inspired his writing of the book is pure poetry. The CASBS experience tends to bring that out of those who spend a year here
#CREATEDatCASBS
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
2025 is the 60th anniversary of the publication of "Man and International Relations" by J.K. Zawodny
His admiration of fellow 1961-62 fellows who informed & inspired his writing of the book is pure poetry. The CASBS experience tends to bring that out of those who spend a year here
#CREATEDatCASBS
His admiration of fellow 1961-62 fellows who informed & inspired his writing of the book is pure poetry. The CASBS experience tends to bring that out of those who spend a year here
#CREATEDatCASBS
Another day, another NEW PUB coauthored by 2024-25 CASBS fellow @decelles.bsky.social
"Virtually Even" theorizes a status-equalizing process thru which remote workers come to see themselves on an “equal playing field” w/in-person peers.
@informs.bsky.social 👉 pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
"Virtually Even" theorizes a status-equalizing process thru which remote workers come to see themselves on an “equal playing field” w/in-person peers.
@informs.bsky.social 👉 pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Another day, another NEW PUB coauthored by 2024-25 CASBS fellow @decelles.bsky.social
"Virtually Even" theorizes a status-equalizing process thru which remote workers come to see themselves on an “equal playing field” w/in-person peers.
@informs.bsky.social 👉 pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
"Virtually Even" theorizes a status-equalizing process thru which remote workers come to see themselves on an “equal playing field” w/in-person peers.
@informs.bsky.social 👉 pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
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Have you nominated someone for the 2026 Sage-CASBS award?
In partnership with @casbsstanford.bsky.social, the award recognizes achievement in behavioral and social sciences. The winner receives a cash prize and will give a lecture at CASBS in 2026.
Nominate here: casbs.stanford.edu/news/nominat...
In partnership with @casbsstanford.bsky.social, the award recognizes achievement in behavioral and social sciences. The winner receives a cash prize and will give a lecture at CASBS in 2026.
Nominate here: casbs.stanford.edu/news/nominat...
Nominations Open for 2026 Sage-CASBS Award
casbs.stanford.edu
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Have you nominated someone for the 2026 Sage-CASBS award?
In partnership with @casbsstanford.bsky.social, the award recognizes achievement in behavioral and social sciences. The winner receives a cash prize and will give a lecture at CASBS in 2026.
Nominate here: casbs.stanford.edu/news/nominat...
In partnership with @casbsstanford.bsky.social, the award recognizes achievement in behavioral and social sciences. The winner receives a cash prize and will give a lecture at CASBS in 2026.
Nominate here: casbs.stanford.edu/news/nominat...
NEW PUB | Journal of Experimental Psychology
"Indifferent or impartial? Actor-Observer asymmetries in expressing & evaluating sociopolitical neutrality"
2024-25 CASBS fellow @decelles.bsky.social & coauthors find observers are skeptical of others' neutrality
Paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
"Indifferent or impartial? Actor-Observer asymmetries in expressing & evaluating sociopolitical neutrality"
2024-25 CASBS fellow @decelles.bsky.social & coauthors find observers are skeptical of others' neutrality
Paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NEW PUB | Journal of Experimental Psychology
"Indifferent or impartial? Actor-Observer asymmetries in expressing & evaluating sociopolitical neutrality"
2024-25 CASBS fellow @decelles.bsky.social & coauthors find observers are skeptical of others' neutrality
Paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
"Indifferent or impartial? Actor-Observer asymmetries in expressing & evaluating sociopolitical neutrality"
2024-25 CASBS fellow @decelles.bsky.social & coauthors find observers are skeptical of others' neutrality
Paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
At a convening of our board of directors, CASBS fellow @sristovska.bsky.social presented on public & legal concerns about AI & deepfakes' effects on the integrity & reliability of video evidence
A new report from @visualevidencelab.bsky.social explores some of the thorny issues Sandra discussed (🧵)
A new report from @visualevidencelab.bsky.social explores some of the thorny issues Sandra discussed (🧵)
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
At a convening of our board of directors, CASBS fellow @sristovska.bsky.social presented on public & legal concerns about AI & deepfakes' effects on the integrity & reliability of video evidence
A new report from @visualevidencelab.bsky.social explores some of the thorny issues Sandra discussed (🧵)
A new report from @visualevidencelab.bsky.social explores some of the thorny issues Sandra discussed (🧵)
🔊 Submit a nomination for the 2026 Sage-CASBS Award
CASBS & @sagepub.com partner on an award recognizing outstanding achievement in the behavioral & social sciences & advancing our understanding of pressing social issues
Details, eligibility & nomination portal: casbs.stanford.edu/news/nominat...
CASBS & @sagepub.com partner on an award recognizing outstanding achievement in the behavioral & social sciences & advancing our understanding of pressing social issues
Details, eligibility & nomination portal: casbs.stanford.edu/news/nominat...
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
🔊 Submit a nomination for the 2026 Sage-CASBS Award
CASBS & @sagepub.com partner on an award recognizing outstanding achievement in the behavioral & social sciences & advancing our understanding of pressing social issues
Details, eligibility & nomination portal: casbs.stanford.edu/news/nominat...
CASBS & @sagepub.com partner on an award recognizing outstanding achievement in the behavioral & social sciences & advancing our understanding of pressing social issues
Details, eligibility & nomination portal: casbs.stanford.edu/news/nominat...