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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 17h

Fmr CASBS director (2014-22) @mlevi.bsky.social will deliver the inaugural Margaret Levi Lecture in-person @snfagora.bsky.social on Oct 24

"The Organization of a Community of Fate: Solidarity, Networks, and Technology in the Service of Crossing Divides"

Details: www.eventbrite.com/e/margaret-l...

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

Congratulations to 2001-02 CASBS fellow Joel Mokyr, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress" 👏

Mokyr's work at CASBS: casbs.stanford.edu/people/joel-...

Mokyr is the 31st CASBS fellow to win a Nobel

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Breaking News: The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for their work on how technology drives growth.

Three Share Nobel in Economics for Work on How Technology Drives Growth

Joel Mokyr was awarded half of the prize, and Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt shared the other half.

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

Recombinant innovation

Megachurches are 21st century organizations. Not businesses disguised as churches, as many assume, but churches disguised as businesses. So argued @davidcstark.bsky.social during his fellows seminar in CASBS's main meeting room, a Minichurch of Scholarly Belonging of sorts...

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

Fellowship in action | 9 Oct. 2025

This could be you. Apply for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS fellowship. Deadline: Oct. 31

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

Fellows on fellowship in their own words in a suite of short videos: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...

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

"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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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...

liberalarts.utexas.edu

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

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 · 7d

🚨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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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...

www.iwm.at

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

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.

www.princeton.edu

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 11d

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 · 11d

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 · 12d

🎙️ 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 · 14d

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 · 14d

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

Center for Political Studies @umisrcps.bsky.social · 14d

👀 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 · 14d

#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 · 15d

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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