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📢 Applications Open! Join the 2026 Summer Academy on Large Language Models for Social Science at Columbia University 🗓 May 26 – June 5, 2026 📅 Apply by March 20, 2026 #LLM #SocialScience #AIResearch #ComputationalSocialScience #NLP

Monday's PENN POPULATION STUDIES COLLOQUIUM 3/23 | 12 - 1PM | PSC Commons (McNeil 403) Mao-Mei Liu of @UCBerkeley presents Nurturing Diversity in Science as Resistance READ MORE: bit.ly/4rUc1b8

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How Playing Games May Save People’s Lives: The Growing Use of Gamification in Health Motivates People to Exercise More and Take Other Actions to Improve Their Physical Well-Being - @PennLDI cites work by Waddell, Volpp, Damraurer, Karlawish & Halpern ... ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/resea…

“Why does cash save lives in Tanzania but barely move the needle in Texas?” In @TheAtlantic, LDI Fellows @AaronRichterman and Harsha Thirumirthy outline the conditions that make cash transfer programs work. ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/resea…

🥳Congratulations to LDI Fellow @LindaAiken_Penn of @PennNursing! She is the recipient of the 2026 President’s Award from @ANANursingWorld. Aiken is being honored for her work that has radically transformed international nursing standards. Read more: bit.ly/4ur6ri8

For patients with limited English proficiency (LEP), hospital work environment may play a role in readmission disparities. In NJ hospitals with poorer nurse work environments, higher LEP volume was associated with 6% higher odds of 7-day readmission. bit.ly/4lzXRth

Benchmarks of LLM common sense overwhelmingly rely on correct labels to report an accuracy score. But what if your "ground truth" genuinely differs from mine? In a new @PNASNexus paper, @DuncanJWatts, @MarkWhiting and I explore the implications of this intriguing question. 🧵⤵️

President Trump says new child savings accounts can build #generationalwealth, but @Wharton economist @OS_Mitchell emphasizes that consistent contributions and #longterminvesting are key to realizing meaningful rewards. bit.ly/3MY32q8

Self-control can predict life outcomes just as strongly as IQ. Teachers, how are students in your school managing the temptation of cell phones? → phonesinfocus.org #PhonesInFocus #AngelaDuckworth #Education #Teachers #PhonePolicies

Incoming Skyline Scholar Hanming Fang's (@HanmingF) recent research reveals that China's fertility decline is driven by what women want, not what the government permits. Read the latest SCCEI China Brief for research insights: sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/c…

Leaving Kingston today after a wonderful week-long research trip with my @penncareylaw students for my seminar on Reproductive Rights & Justice in Jamaica.

This paper has been a long time coming — I started working on it as a senior undergrad, and six years later, it's finally out in Science Advances today! 🎉 Trapped in declining occupations: Barriers to worker mobility in a changing economy science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Don't miss Monday's PENN POPULATION STUDIES COLLOQUIUM! MON | 3/16 | 12 - 1PM | McNeil 403 Leigh Senderowicz (@LSenderowicz) of @UWMadison Taking the Population Control Out of Reproductive Health Measurement bit.ly/4rgLQdB

Don't miss Monday's PENN POPULATION STUDIES COLLOQUIUM! MON | 3/16 | 12 - 1PM | McNeil 403 Leigh Senderowicz (@LSenderowicz) of @UWMadison Taking the Population Control Out of Reproductive Health Measurement bit.ly/4rgLQdB

📣 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Join us at the 2026 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at Penn, from June 15–26! ℹ️ More info: sicss.io/2026/penn. ⏳ Deadline: Friday, March 6, 2026, at 11:59 pm EST. #SICSS #ComputationalSocialScience

Two more days to apply for the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at Penn! We look forward to welcoming you to Philadelphia. sicss.io/2026/penn/apply

There are more than 100 working papers by @PennPSC researchers in the Population Center Working Papers Series! TAKE A LOOK: pop.upenn.edu/working-papers…

RESCHEDULED! Van de Walle prize winner @emilygcurran “Parenthood Penalties in Same-Sex Couples: How Parental Status Shapes Paid Work Specialization in American Couples” Monday, February 23, 2026 12 – 1PM | PSC Commons | McNeil 403 LEARN MORE: bit.ly/4aRreCk

Sharing our research there - and here too!