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Dan & Michael talked about their book "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change" on an episode of the CASBS podcast, Human Centered. Both worked on the book during their respective CASBS fellows ships (Dan, 2018-19; Michael, 2019-20) 😏
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Fmr CASBS fellows @dryan149.bsky.social & @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social continue their conquest of global media @sxsw.com today. (Next: a screenplay of their book "Somebody Should Do Something" will be optioned soon 🕶️)
Can't catch them at SXSW? Not to worry. Listen to them on the CASBS podcast ➡️ 🧵
Great to catch up w/2016-17 CASBS fellow Tara Behrend @behrend.bsky.social this week! Tara was on the hill to host a listening session about future research needed on how people & organization systems interact w/technology to foster well-being & performance
Seen here by her fellowship year study 👻
We think our responses to/judgments of others reflect objective characteristics of those others. But how we respond gives insight about emotions we value & that varies among cultures, as CASBS fellow Jeanne Tsai explains in an illuminating piece @sfchronicle.com
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
BE HERE AS A 2026-27 CASBS PRACTITIONER FELLOW
Deadline 10 April 2026
Practitioner fellows' work applies behavioral science insights – this includes journalists, policy professionals, consultants & other non-academics
Learn more & access the practitioner fellowship application:
➡️ bit.ly/4rq66cy
Terrific gift from 1980-81 CASBS fellow David Levering Lewis 👏
ANNOUNCING THE 2026-27 CASBS FELLOWS CLASS
The class will take residence in early September and is comprised of 36 scholars representing 19 U.S. institutions and 11 international institutions and programs.
Read the full announcement and meet the fellows.
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A view from CASBS, 2 March 2026, 5:52pm
Can one achieve absolute representations, unrestricted by the effects of one's cognitive situation?
Too easy. In his CASBS fellows seminar, Lanier Anderson unpacked Nietzsche's 'perspectivism' to evaluate his claim that human cognitive perspectives are always rooted in affective & motivational life
An excerpt from the acknowledgments of "Laboring in the Shadows," the new book by @biancajontae.bsky.social 🤗
Now, Bianca's awesome shout-out is way longer than this and thanks a ton of her 2023-24 fellow fellows. And Woody Powell & Sarah Soule too. You'll see when you get your copy of the book 😏
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A copy of the NEW BOOK by @biancajontae.bsky.social , "Laboring in the Shadows," partly written during Bianca's 2023-24 CASBS fellowship, has entered our renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 📚
About this @stanfordpress.bsky.social book: www.sup.org/books/sociol...
Check Bianca's CASBS shout-out 🧵
A copy of the NEW BOOK coauthored by @johndiamondphd.bsky.social , "Despite the Best Intentions" (2nd ed.), developed in part during John's 2023-34 CASBS fellowship, has entered into the Center's renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 📚
About this Oxford Univ. Press book: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Congrats to CASBS fellow Dan Ho, winner of the Miriam Aaron Roland Volunteer Service Prize 👏👊🙌
By partnering with government agencies and engaging students in real-world policy challenges, Ho models how universities can advance knowledge while serving the public.
haas.stanford.edu/news/daniel-...
Friday | online | CASBS fellow @ellenernstkossek.bsky.social
Recent setbacks in women’s rights are “a stark reminder that we’ve got plenty of work to do to actually achieve gender equality.”
Two-time CASBS fellow ESTELLE FREEDMAN among the eminent figures reflecting on the past & future of the feminist movement in the NYT
➡️ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/w...
Body cameras conceal reality as easily as they reveal & impact perceptions of civilians depicted in footage. Gen AI only complicates things. Writing @globeopinion.bsky.social CASBS fellow @sristovska.bsky.social argues for establishing clearer guidelines on how video can be used as evidence in court
Exactly 50 years ago, Edward Said famously wrote most of his landmark book "Orientalism" as a CASBS fellow.
Consider giving a listen to this recent CASBS podcast episode featuring a panel of four CASBS fellows reflecting on the book's continued impact & influence 🎙️🎧⬇️
So great to see cultural anthropologist & 2016-17 CASBS fellow Noelle Stout at the Center yesterday! Here's Noelle haunting the study - #3 - that she occupied during her fellowship year 👻
On Polymarket, transactions are visible but identities are not. This invites not only insider trading but also, as recent events suggest, potential betting directly on & profiting from geopolitical violence, as CASBS fellow @rajivsethi.bsky.social explains
➡️ rajivsethi.substack.com/p/trading-on...
Agreed, Cameron! We look forward to entering Simukai's forthcoming book into our world renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 😏
All about the Tyler Collection: casbs.stanford.edu/news/tyler-c...
We can identify key building blocks of org/group/community resilience, but each confronts organizational blockers, explains Everett Harper. In an age of polycrises, we need a synthesis with the capacity to hold multiple models of the future simultaneously, as he sketched in his CASBS fellows seminar
'A good theory is a Picasso painting. Empirical work is more like fixing a tractor - you just need the stupid thing to run.'
My podcast with the great labor economist and Nobel Prize laureate David Card is out!
Playing from 20:50
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🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE
1996-97 CASBS fellow David Card chats w/2024-25 fellow @dyligent.bsky.social on the innovative empirical work on the labor market effects of immigration, minimum wages & education that earned Card the Nobel Prize in economics in 2021
🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#davi...
We're very sad to learn of the passing of historian and 2021-22 CASBS fellow Kevin Mumford.
The Univ. of Illinois history department published this remembrance of him 🙏
history.illinois.edu/news/2026-02...
So awesome when fellows from different CASBS classes connect & bond on just about anything. But this recent connection between 2021-22 fellow @netakv.bsky.social & 2025-26 fellow @noshir.bsky.social - and the reason underlying it - is very special 🤗
So great to see a new review of the book "Gen Z, Explained" by the National Assoc. of Student Financial Aid Administrators:
➡️ bit.ly/4cNbq69
The @uchicagopress.bsky.social book is the product of a multi-year, multidisciplinary CASBS project. Revisit our book release announcement:
➡️ bit.ly/4rtmb26
It's happened to thousands of people for more than seven decades. Smart people know they'll get a little smarter by spending some time at CASBS.
Bernie knows it.
Here he is at the Center's entrance on Friday with CASBS deputy director Sally Schroeder and CASBS director Lara Tiedens.
There often are hidden/unclear meanings conveyed by myriad forms of expression. In an info-rich environment, how to interpret that info in a world of diverse perspectives? @rajivsethi.bsky.social is delving into these thorny issues in a book, parts of which he discussed in his CASBS fellows seminar
2026 is the 30th anniversary of the publication of "Border Visions" by renowned anthropologist Carlos Vélez-Ibañez
During his 1993-94 CASBS fellowship, Carlos discovered why the Center "as a place for serious and sustained scholarship has no peer" - many fellows share the sentiment
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CASBS fellow @rajivsethi.bsky.social emitted exceedingly strong expert vibe (CASBS branding, no doubt) in his Thursday appearance on the PBS Newshour @pbsnews.org discussing prediction markets - a hot topic now but something Rajiv has studied for two decades
WATCH: www.youtube.com/live/2iBPeOZ...