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MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
Meet the researchers behind the evidence. 🌍
J-PAL’s Affiliate Spotlight series profiles researchers from our global network, sharing their work, their research journeys, and their efforts to address global poverty.
Discover their stories: bit.ly/4iCY27q
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MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
Prediction markets have become increasingly visible in political coverage, especially after the 2024 election.
Their rise has fueled questions about whether they could eventually rival traditional polling.
Experts caution that the two tools measure fundamentally different things.
🔗 Learn more: undark.org/2026/05/05/predic…
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
Undark’s November 2026 issue is here! 🗞️
Our cover story looks at life after cancer treatment, where being cancer-free can still leave survivors managing long-term health effects and a medical system that does not always know what comes next.
This month, Undark also explores how AI is changing migratory bird tracking, how virtual reality is entering difficult conversations in medicine, why engineers sometimes have to push things to the breaking point to keep people safe, and more.
🔎 See what’s inside the November issue: undark.org/
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
Science gets interesting when the answer refuses to settle down.
Entanglements: The Undark Podcast follows the questions that remain open even after the research has piled up.
Catch up on the latest conversations from Undark!
🔊 Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, and SoundCloud.
🔗: undark.org/podcast/
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
In Mali, 70% of farmers had to travel outside their village to buy seed and fertilizer. Farmers want inputs and dealers want to sell, yet the market is missing.
Researchers explain how one-day village input fairs, run by a social enterprise, could help: bit.ly/4yXZxlm
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
The search for alien life can begin surprisingly close to home.
Across Italy, scientists are studying some of Earth’s harshest environments to understand what life might look like on Mars or elsewhere in the universe.
🔗: undark.org/2026/09/25/italy-…
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
Do you have a charter school research question but no partner site? The Charter School Research Collaborative has facilitated over 100 matches, and our next matchmaking session is on November 19. Spaces are limited: reserve yours today! #EconTwitter forms.gle/Qt36138GvbWpzKxF6
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
Five LIDS PIs named 2026 #AI2050 Fellows!
Congrats to Senior Fellow @m_sendhil and Early Career Fellows @alex_damian_, @baileyflan, @Micro_Yunha, and @manish_raghavan! The @schmidtsciences initiative supports research tackling #AI's toughest challenges. bit.ly/4Ai7gfj
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
Could #AI chatbots influence how Americans vote?
@MITLIDS PI @charapod & @MITPoliSci's @AdamBerinsky spoke with @CNN about how popular AI chatbots answer questions about the midterms—and why the chatbot voters choose matters. cnn.com/2026/10/30/business/…
@MIT_SCC @MITSloan @MIT_SHASS
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
@AdamBerinsky says "promising recent work demonstrates that evidence-based dialogues with a chatbot can durably reduce belief in conspiracy theories and other beliefs that are not supported by the balance of publicly available evidence."
news.mit.edu/2026/qa-hey-ai-… @MIT_SHASS
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
Books bring us into conversation—with ideas, with their authors, and with one another. I’m delighted to have Artificial Intimacy included in The HotList, a shared fall reading list organized by Seth Godin. Thank you, Seth, for bringing us together and helping our books find new readers. Explore the collection, click on a cover, and find your next read: thehotlist.org
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
Delighted to share that our study of multi-dimensional representation in South Africa with Sarah Lockwood, Phil Martin and Vino Naidoo is now out in the @EPSRjournal cambridge.org/core/journals/…
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
In Egypt, 51% of employed workers have more education than their jobs require. 90% of unemployed respondents have a minimum acceptable wage above what they would likely earn in the informal private sector.
Read the Egypt Impact Lab's findings: bit.ly/3Wr7uls
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
In our upcoming Wednesday Seminar, Amy McAuliffe will discuss the Intelligence Community's (IC) mission and features of a "proper" IC-policy relationship, drawing on her experience as a senior CIA executive. Learn more: ssp.mit.edu/events/2026/the-…
🗓️10/28 at noon ET
📍MIT community can join in person at E40-496
📡Bookmark the livestream
youtube.com/live/8j-nDSh5W4M…
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
We invite you to join a timely discussion at our upcoming Starr Forum: AI and Global Power: Democracy, Competition, and Control with Jake Sullivan, former US national security advisor, and Deb Roy, professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT, and director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC).
🗓️ November 18, 2026 | 4:30 – 6:00pm ET
📍 Building E51, 115, Wong Auditorium
🌐 Learn more and RSVP at bit.ly/AIandGlobalPower
Free & open to the public. Refreshments will be served after the event in the main lobby.
@StudiesMit4226 @MIT_SHASS @MITPoliSci @medialab @jakejsullivan @dkroy #nationalsecurity #AI #geopolitics #democracy #techpolicy
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
We’re 5 days away from the launch of our Homelessness Evaluation Resource Hub, developed with @LEO’s @PhillipsEcon . Register now for our virtual launch event to learn how the Hub can inform your work paving evidence-informed paths to housing stability. mit.zoom.us/webinar/register…
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MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
We cordially invite you to attend our upcoming Focus on Eurasia event, Innovation on Steroids: What are we Learning from the Ukraine War?
Erik Lin-Greenberg's research examines how emerging military technology affects conflict dynamics and the regulation and use of force. His book, The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft (Cornell University Press), explores how remote warfighting technologies are reshaping international politics. In other ongoing projects, he explores how technology and public opinion influence international politics and decisions on the use of force.
Gene Keselman has held leadership positions in a range of start-ups: he is the co-founder of ServDAO and formerly co-founder of Esports One and the Foundation for Innovation and Discovery (FINND), where he is now a board director. He sits on the Reagan Institute’s National Security Industrial Base Advisory Board, supports numerous startups as a board advisor and has also been a space and defense industry consultant. As a military officer in the Air Force Reserves, Colonel Keselman works as the senior Reservist and Director, Strategic Incubation & SSG Reserve Program for the Chief of Staff of the Air Force’s Strategic Studies Group (SSG).
🗓️ October 26, 2026 | 4:30 – 6:00 pm ET
📍 Building 3, 270
🌐 RSVP to attend in-person or online at bit.ly/InnovationOnSteroids.
@StudiesMit4226 @MIT_SHASS @MITPoliSci @CornellPress @MITSloan
@eriklg @GeneKeselman
#ukraine #war
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
In rural Ghana, a US$3 cash offer raised verified Covid-19 vaccination by 12.3 percentage points, a 43% increase.
A US$10 offer had no effect.
Researchers suggest matching incentives to vaccination's real costs: too much cash may breed suspicion instead of uptake. bit.ly/3VXN3wo
