Institute for Quantitative Social Science @ Harvard

Andew Ho (Applied Stats Workshop) | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science Breadcrumbs

12pm Wednesday: @gse.harvard.edu professor @andrewdeanho.bsky.social presents a measurement error model to reconcile data from different tests with "Two Watches: Measurement Error Models for Estimating Educational Progress from Discrepant Test Score Trends."
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The art of the online interface | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science 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…

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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Elisabeth Kempf (Alesina Seminar) | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science Breadcrumbs

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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Joris Frese (European University Institute) | Applied Statistics Workshop Gov 3009 Breadcrumbs

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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The Urgent Need for More Data-Driven LGBTQ Storytelling Takes Centerstage During the 2026 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting In Davos

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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Events | Center for Geographic Analysis Breadcrumbs

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

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."

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/

🌐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

Job Opportunities 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…

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.

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.

Dataverse Software 6.9 Release | The Dataverse Project Breadcrumbs

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 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…

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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Science needs contrarians, and contrarians need support — Harvard Gazette Institute of Quantitative Social Science initiative tailored to researchers exploring provocative ideas.

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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Intellectual Diversity, Flourishing and the Pursuit of Truth Pathways to increasing diversity: We need each other to correct our thinking.

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...

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…

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:

www.grid.harvard.edu/mind-2-market

Guilherme Duarte (Harvard) | Applied Statistics Workshop Gov 3009 Breadcrumbs

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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Mind2Market | Harvard Grid About

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

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…

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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Mind2Market | Harvard Grid About

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

Applied Statistics Workshop (Gov 3009) | Applied Statistics Workshop Gov 3009 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.…

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.

appliedstatsworkshopgov3009.hsites.harvard.edu

Jesse Schreger (Alesina Seminar) | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science Breadcrumbs

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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Rohit Bhattacharya (Williams College) | Applied Statistics Workshop Gov 3009 Breadcrumbs

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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Memorious: Building Infinite Memory with AI | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science What if humans could have perfect, infinite memory? Harvard researchers Spandan Madan and Gabriel Kreiman set out to reinvent human memory using AI technology, with guidance and support from the IQSS…

What if humans could have perfect, infinite memory? Harvard researchers Spandan Madan and Gabriel Kreiman, founders of Memorious, set out to reinvent human memory using #AI technology with guidance and support from the IQSS Startup Foundry.

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Matilde Bombardini (Alesina Seminar) | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science Breadcrumbs

Join us Thursday as @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social professor Matilde Bombardini presents "Climate Politics in the United States" for this week's Alesina Seminar on Political Economy:

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Will Dobbie (Harvard) | Applied Statistics Workshop Gov 3009 Breadcrumbs

At this week's #AppliedStats workshop, @harvardkennedy.bsky.social professor Will Dobbie presents "The Role of Beliefs in Driving Racial Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from the U.S. Pretrial System". Join us today at noon.
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Upcoming Events | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science Breadcrumbs

This week at IQSS: Workshops on media credibility, climate politics, and more.

www.iq.harvard.edu/calendar