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In the latest episode of Penn Engineering's Innovation & Impact podcast, Warren Center affiliate Vijay Kumar sat down with Tsu-Jae Liu, President of the National Academy of Engineering and a pioneering force in semiconductor technology. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watc...

Beyond delighted to see this awesome paper from superstar Audrey Luo now out. See her wonderful thread below re: two highly-replicable axes of white matter development in youth.

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Congratulations to Neil Fasching, Annenberg's doctoral student, who successfully defended his dissertation today!
 
Fasching's dissertation is titled "Partisan Airwaves: Quantifying Misinformation and Toxicity in Political Podcasting."
 
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Two Warren Center affiliates were part of an advisory committee that created a roadmap for regulating AI in Pennsylvania. Cary Coglianese and Richard Berk spent over a year studying how other states are responding, assessing AI's role across major sectors. penntoday.upenn.edu/...

“You need to be able to understand other people's ideas and perspectives to bring out the best, most ingenious solutions,” says Tsu-Jae King Liu, President of the National Academy of Engineering. Episode 9 of "Innovation & Impact" is live. https://bit.ly/3OyMgOJ

Transforming community health and social connections in rural areas of the US | Penn Today Dolores Albarracín, the Amy Gutmann Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, has long studied how to curb disease and improve health.

Dolores Albarracín, the Amy Gutmann Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, has long studied how to curb disease and improve health.

Sometimes you gotta split the difference. From Aaron Roth's (@aaroth.bsky.social) plenary talk at #ALT2026

February 22, 2026 On February 6, four direct descendants of President Theodore Roosevelt wrote to United States senators to ask them to vote against a measure that opens up the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BW...

Shout out to Heather Cox Richardson (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) for quoting from The Regulatory Review (@theregreview.bsky.social) in a recent Substack piece of hers. Hat tip to my valued colleague Eric Orts (@ericorts.bsky.social) for pointing me to this. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Evolution, Reward, Curiosity: The Three Sources of Learning Signals Learning requires training signals; where are they from?

Wrote a blog post on where the training signals for the brain come from. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

A five-year effort led by Warren Center affiliate Dolores Albarracín has worked to combat the spread of HIV and hepatitis C on the frontlines of the substance use and methamphetamine crisis, primarily in Appalachia and the rural Midwest. Find out more: penntoday.upenn.edu/...

Cary Coglianese on the Tariff Ruling and the Rule of Law Cary Coglianese describes the Supreme Court’s decision as a clear affirmation of the rule of law. In his view, the ruling reflects the Court’s willing...

Prof. Cary Coglianese (@cary-coglianese.bsky.social) weighs in on the 6–3 SCOTUS ruling in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, holding that the IEEPA does not authorize presidential tariffs — a decision he calls an important affirmation of the rule of law. https://penncareylaw.news/4rtSCNO

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Congratulations to Warren Center affiliate Surbhi Goel, who has been named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow! This fellowship recognizes early-career scholars whose creativity, innovation and research accomplishments distinguish them as leaders in their fields. www.seas.upenn.edu/s...

Pennsylvania Commission Releases Report on Current and Potential Impact of AI Across the Commonwealth • News & Events • Penn Carey Law - Pennsylvania News Beep Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science

Pennsylvania Commission Releases Report on Current and Potential Impact of AI Across the Commonwealth • News & Events • Penn Carey Law

https://www.newsbeep.com/us-pa/118297/

Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science
Prof. Cary Coglianese served…

Cary Coglianese on the Tariff Ruling and the Rule of Law Cary Coglianese describes the Supreme Court’s decision as a clear affirmation of the rule of law. In his view, the ruling reflects the Court’s willing...

The Supreme Court’s decision in the tariff case should be seen as a victory for the rule of law. www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/18...

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Hi bluesky! I was wondering whether you know of any papers that discuss how much easier it is to do a replication study with agentic AI (eg Codex/Claude Code). In the absence of code, it seems like that's a great way to test whether the models reported in a paper were the ones that were fit, etc.

This job has become the ultimate case study for why AI won’t replace human workers | CNN Business Radiology has come up multiple times as an example of a field that’s been impacted by AI without replacing the need for human workers.

Warren Center faculty affiliate René Vidal views AI as particularly useful for capturing high-quality MRI scans with fewer measurements. That speeds up the process and allows more patients to be seen in the same amount of time.

George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow Baird Howland Analyzes the News With AI

Baird Howland (Ph.D. ‘25) looks at prominent narratives in the news media and how they shape Americans’ worldviews:

Prof. René Vidal’s group at the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Laboratory explored this problem in their recent publication titled “SECA: Semantically Equivalent and Coherent Attacks for Eliciting LLM Hallucinations”...
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Diana Mutz Elected National Academy of Sciences Councilor

Diana C. Mutz, Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and the School for Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Council:

A big congratulations to Warren Center affiliate Weijie Su for receiving the 2026 COPSS Presidents' Award, which is considered the highest honor of Statistics and Data Science! The recognition is for his work on the statistical foundations of generative AI and other areas. community.amstat.org...

Amid rising concerns over data centers, Penn’s supercomputer aims for sustainability Located approximately 30 miles from Penn’s campus, Betty was designed to handle artificial intelligence programs that can interpret large datasets and produce increasingly refined results. 

I spoke with The Daily Pennsylvanian about @upenn.edu's supercomputer and data centers.

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YouTube video by 6abc Philadelphia World's first electronic computer born at University of Pennsylvania

As part of its spotlight on Pennsylvania “firsts,” 6abc highlights ENIAC, the world’s first electronic computer, born at Penn. Shown by Penn Engineering’s Paul Shaffer. This Sunday marks ENIAC’s 80th anniversary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb2afLoljf8

How Retailers Can Effectively Target Fashion and Beauty Consumers Braze’s head of retail and e-commerce industry marketing Meredith Mitchell, 111Skin’s CMO Michael Edelmann, Wharton Business School’s marketing professor Peter Fader and BoF’s Yasmine Dahlberg unpack how fashion and beauty brands can build stronger consumer relationships in 2026 and beyond.

“In this day and age, consumers are skeptical, [questioning] what’s in it for them. So it’s really important for [brands] to appeal to them at a very base level, that it’s not just about discounts and so on, it is about connection,” says Warren Center affiliate Peter Fader.

In a @hbr.org article, Co-Director @angeladuckworth.bsky.social, Team Scientist Lyle Ungar, and collaborators ask:

How does Gen Z use AI, and what are the implications for education and the workplace?

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