Institute for Quantitative Social Science @ Harvard

Institute for Quantitative Social Science @ Harvard

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Harvard's home for social science research. Links: https://iq.juicer.page Website: https://www.iq.harvard.edu

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Institute for Quantitative Social Science @ Harvard
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Dataverse 6.12 is now available, with new API capabilities, performance and security improvements, and a range of bug fixes. github.com/IQSS/dataver... #Dataverse #ResearchData #OpenData #OpenScience

github.comRelease v6.12 · IQSS/dataverseDataverse 6.12 Please note: We are investigating an issue (#12724) where we suspect that new installations on PostgreSQL 16 will fail but it works fine on PostgreSQL 17. (Upgrading an existing Data...
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How will the November midterms shake out? IQSS director Gary King, IQSS research associate Danny Ebanks, and @caltech.edu professor @jnkatz.bsky.social built an interactive forecast for US House and Senate seats on the ballot. gking.harvard.edu/electit/ #Elections #AmericanPolitics #Forecasting

gking.harvard.eduElectIt: forecasts for all US House and Senate seats in the 11/3/2026 electionBy Danny Ebanks, Jonathan N. Katz, and Gary King. We make these forecasts (including all data, methods, and procedures) public because academics learn by making themselves vulnerable to being proven wrong.

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New 2026 US House & Senate election forecasts, using available political science knowledge & our methods from “If a Statistical Model Predicts That Common Events Should Occur Only Once in 10,000 Elections, Maybe It’s the Wrong Model” with @DannyCEbanks and @Jonathan_N_Katz. GaryKing.org/electit

garyking.orgElectIt: forecasts for all US House and Senate seats in the 11/3/2026 electionBy Danny Ebanks, Jonathan N. Katz, and Gary King. We make these forecasts (including all data, methods, and procedures) public because academics learn by making themselves vulnerable to being proven w...
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IQSS affiliate Mina Cikara joins a panel on intergroup cooperation — why groups that could fight sometimes cooperate instead, in people, zebras, even ants. current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/expl... #Psychology

current.fas.harvard.eduExploring why different groups of people, zebras, and even ants make niceCooperation can make us stronger, building alliances and increasing the availability of resources. A recent symposium hosted by the Human Evolutionary Biology Initiative brought together researchers to...
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See the latest #2026elections forecast for the US House and Senate in an interactive page published by IQSS director Gary King's team. GaryKing.org/electit #USSenate #USHouse #Elections #DataScience #PoliticalScience

garyking.orgElectIt: forecasts for all US House and Senate seats in the 11/3/2026 electionBy Danny Ebanks, Jonathan N. Katz, and Gary King. We make these forecasts (including all data, methods, and procedures) public because academics learn by making themselves vulnerable to being proven w...
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What does holding a grudge cost you? Tyler VanderWeele, faculty director of the Human Flourishing Program at IQSS, tells @cbsnews.com how forgiveness has measurable benefits. www.cbsnews.com/video/lettin... #Flourishing #SocialScience #Psychology

cbsnews.comLetting go: Why holding onto grudges can be damagingStudies have shown that people who hold grudges have greater levels of cardiovascular trouble, and higher levels of depression and anxiety. But according to one survey, four out of five adults harbor...
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Why hasn’t AI triggered mass layoffs? IQSS affiliate Raffaella Sadun ( @raffasadun.bsky.social) weighs in on why adopting AI has not yet meant the job losses many predicted. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... #AI #FutureOfWork #Harvard

news.harvard.eduWhy AI hasn’t triggered mass layoffs — yet — Harvard GazetteArtificial intelligence can do some jobs already, but experts say CEOs have good reasons to keep humans on the payroll.
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IQSS affiliate Benjamin Schneer ( @benschneer.bsky.social) finds voters respond to the individual candidate, not the name above them on the ballot. www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese... #Elections #SocialScience

hks.harvard.eduDoes the top of the ticket influence down-ballot races?Research indicates that top-of-the-ticket candidates may not influence how voters view down-ballot candidates as much as conventional wisdom suggests.
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IQSS affiliate Mahzarin Banaji finds LLMs amplify human biases rather than mitigate them. A recent experiment saw an LLM advise girls to pursue stereotypical careers and to ask for lower salaries than what it advised boys. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... #AI #ImplicitBias #MachineLearning #Harvard

news.harvard.eduOne effort to safeguard humanity: AI “constitutions” — Harvard GazetteBerkman Klein Center heard calls to keep models “honest, helpful, harmless.” It’s a work in progress.
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The Center for Geographic Analysis conference will be held October 2–3, 2026, at the Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard. Check out the preliminary program and other details at the link—there's still time to register! gis.harvard.edu/2026-cga-con... #GIS #GeographicAnalysis #SpatialData

gis.harvard.edu2026 CGA Conference: Celebrating Geographic Analysis: Past, Present, and FutureOur annual conference will be held this year on October 2nd and 3rd, 2026. This conference is one of CGA’s signature events, attracting spatial researchers and practitioners from across campus and around the globe. Our 2026 conference will be no exception, except for one key detail: it will also be our 20th birthday!

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Great to see this project thrive and grow. #dataverse

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With the launch of the UDelaware Dataverse (dataverse.udel.edu), we now have 150 Dataverse installations worldwide! We’re thrilled by how much the platform has grown and look forward to making data even more discoverable and shareable for researchers. @dataverseorg.bsky.social @udelaware.bsky.social

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Multilingual research: IQSS affiliates Andrea Nasuto, Stefano Iacus, and Devika Jain with Francisco Rowe present an open-source #LLM framework classifying tweets across languages for real-time, large-scale analysis, in @nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SocialScienceResearch #DataScience

nature.comLarge language models identify immigration attitudes in online discourse regardless of language - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Large language models identify immigration attitudes in online discourse regardless of language
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The Murray Archive, part of @Dataverseorg.bsky.social, is one many IQSS programs helping scholars to advance new ideas. We're proud of the role IQSS played in @Nature.com's recognition of @Harvard.edu's leadership in social science research. www.iq.harvard.edu/news/2026/07... #Harvard #SocialScience

iq.harvard.eduNature Index Ranks Harvard #1 in Social Science Research, Highlighting IQSSNature Index 2025 ranks Harvard as #1 in the world in its first ever ranking of top social science research institutions, primarily crediting IQSS and IQSS’ Henry A. Murray Research Archive for the decision.
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Harvard, and IQSS in particular, ranks #1 globally in @nature.com's social science research index. As Harvard’s hub for the social sciences, IQSS—and the Murray Research Archive at IQSS—is proud to play a central role in supporting and driving that research. www.nature.com/nature-index...

nature.comNature Index 2025: The world’s top 10 institutions for social-sciences researchAmerican institutions lead the way in this newly added Nature Index subject.
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IQSS affiliate Mahzarin Banaji, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Harvard Department of Psychology, is among the Andrew Carnegie Foundation's 2026 Class of Great Immigrants. current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/mahz... #Harvard #Immigrants #ImplicitBias #Psychology

current.fas.harvard.eduMahzarin Banaji, Gregory Nagy named ‘Great Immigrants, Great Americans’For more than 20 years, the Andrew Carnegie Foundation has marked Independence Day by recognizing a group of naturalized U.S. citizens whose contributions have strengthened the nation. The 2026 class…
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In his recent Graduate English Address at Harvard Commencement, IQSS affiliate Andrew O'Donohue reflected on lessons from his study of democracy and courts abroad—and on why universities and democracy depend on one another. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... #Harvard #Commencement2026 #Democracy

news.harvard.eduLessons from ancient, modern, quantum worlds — Harvard GazetteStudent speakers focus on celebrating difference while embracing ties that bind.

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At Dataverse Community Meeting 2026, we will explore how the @openairegraph.bsky.social helps repositories become more connected and more useful for researchers through AI-driven enrichment, duplicate detection, and more. 
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