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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
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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.
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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.
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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
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
How can families understand school quality? Developed with Blueprint Labs, NYC’s value-added scores estimate a school’s contribution to student learning. Affiliate @instrument_hull says these scores are a good measure for middle and high schools. cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/…
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
Congratulations to Blueprint Labs Co-Director Nikhil Agarwal (@agarwal_econ) on his election as a Fellow of the Econometric Society (@econometricsoc). Elected by his peers, he is one of 30 Fellows named this year, bringing the total elected since 1931 to 1,284.
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
Cheers to a great discussion at our Starr Forum: Housing the World: Inequality, Informality, and the Future of Cities. For those who are interested, here is a recording of the event: youtu.be/EGeTTsSLvCg
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MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
How does an evaluation's design impact a study's credibility?
When researchers design a study—including randomized evaluations—they rely on assumptions, like the assumption that people in a study are split into truly random groups. The credibility of any impact evaluation depends on whether those assumptions are plausible in a given context. J-PAL Research and Training Lead Michala Riis-Vestergaard explores what those assumptions are, why they matter, and how to assess them across different evaluation designs.
povertyactionlab.org/blog/6-…
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
Join us this week for Reporting from Contemporary Italy: Q&A with Jason Horowitz, New York Times Europe Correspondent.
As Rome Bureau Chief for the New York Times for the last eight years, Jason Horowitz reported from the front lines of Italy and the Mediterranean region. In his new book The Italian Job: A Memoir of an American Reporter in Rome, he shares an insider’s view of politics and culture in Italy today, including the rise of Giorgia Meloni and the election of the first North American Pope.
🗓️ October 14, 2026 | 5:00 – 7:00 pm ET
📍 Building 2-105
🌐 Learn more at bit.ly/ReportingfromContempo…
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MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
Economists Robert E. Hall PhD ’67 and Michael Woodford PhD ’83 share Nobel prize: The MIT alumni are honored for work that illuminates how government policy can spur growth in response to economic downturns. news.mit.edu/2026/robert-hal…
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
Through the @MIT Concourse program, first-year students study the humanities alongside their math and science GIRs. It's a place, says senior Johnnie Jones VI, where "magic happens." @MIT_SHASS
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MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
We’ve lost an icon. Margaret Hamilton, a computer science pioneer best known for her work at MIT leading development of the flight software for the Apollo missions to the moon, has died at 90. Read about her legacy via MIT News: news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-h…
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MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
Electricity access is essential for growth, but household connections alone haven't been enough to boost jobs and incomes.
New J-PAL blog: how pairing power with support for firms could build productive demand, and why rigorous evidence matters: bit.ly/4gYICJC
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
Health systems have spent decades expanding access to care—but access to what kind of care matters.
A randomized evaluation in Nigeria shows: posting recently graduated doctors to rural facilities closed the rural-urban infant mortality gap.
bit.ly/4ARVJnV
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
We are pleased to announce that SSP Research Affiliate Fiona Cunningham has been awarded the 2025 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award for Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security (Princeton University Press, 2025).
🎉Congratulations, Fiona!
The award, presented by @mershoncenter for International Security Studies, is conferred on a first book in English that makes an exceptional contribution to the understanding of international, national, or human security. Learn more: mershoncenter.osu.edu/news/f…
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MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
Medicare's voluntary bundled payment program cut spending by $324 per patient. But hospital bonuses exceeded those savings, leaving Medicare with net losses of $171 million over four years.
New research from Affiliate @instrumenthull and co-authors: blueprintlabs.mit.edu/resear…
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
I’m looking forward to this conversation with @jonkabatzinn in New York City on October 14, hosted by Steve Stein. We’ll talk about what happens when we begin to accept “pretend empathy” from machines, and why we need to protect what makes our relationships human. Join us in person at All Souls or via livestream. Register here: wisdomfeed.thrivecart.com/ar…
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences retweeted
We're pleased to highlight Wright Smith PhD '26 who is on the job market.
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