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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
This week's newsletter recaps the #SHASS75 symposium, explores research into AI and voter behavior, shares information about primordial black holes, and more. mailchi.mp/mit/shass-weekly-… @MITPoliSci @mit_cmsw @MIT_Sciwrite @MITEcon
ALT (Pictured from left) MIT professors Eric Klopfer, Norvin Richards, and Stephanie Seed, Senior Lecturer Sara Ellison, Institute Professor Suzanne Berger, Lecturer Takako Aikawa, and Professor Will Broadhead beneath a screen displaying an "MIT SHASS 75" banner with the SHASS logo.
“More voters may simply be shifting away from voting on Election Day,” @MITelectionlab director @cstewartiii told @axios' rJosephine Walker. axios.com/local/twin-cities/… @MITPoliSci
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/…
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MIT students! Submit your Burchard Scholars Program applications today and join a distinguished group of students who've made significant contributions in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Applications due 12/1! bit.ly/3VGIyWM
ALT This image is a promotional graphic for the Burchard Scholars program. It features the text “Distinguish yourself. Apply to become a 2027 Burchard Scholar” with a deadline of December 1. The background shows overlapping clock faces and numbers. A sidebar explains the program as an opportunity for MIT sophomores and juniors excelling in humanities, arts, or social sciences.
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
ARTEMIS is the newest offering within @JPAL_NA's Economics Pathways program, which broadens and strengthens the pipeline of economics researchers by providing support to aspiring scholars at every stage. news.mit.edu/2026/j-pal-nort… @MITEcon @JPAL @HowardU
Prof. Bailey Flanigan is among five MIT faculty named AI 2050 Fellows by Schmidt Sciences for a project focusing on gathering structured public input that lawmakers can use when making complex decisions.
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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
"...political actors associated with the Administration will attempt to delegitimize or overturn its work,” @cstewartiii says of election administration. @Slate cites the paper in a story about America's midterms. slate.com/news-and-politics/… @MITPoliSci @MITelectionlab
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/…
In this #SHASS75 video, filmed during the Perception, Cognition, and Expression session, @MITphilosophy professor Justin Khoo describes philosophy's unique position at the intersection of a variety of disciplines.
“I like to say that I do the same thing the computer vision folks do, but instead I do it for hearing,” MIT profesesor Paris Smaragdis. news.mit.edu/2026/making-mac… @MIT_SCC @MITEngineering @MIT_MTA @MITEECS
This week's newsletter features a DEDP student and his work on improving public policy interventions, a new direction for an @mitlibraries initiative, and more. mailchi.mp/mit/shass-weekly-… @MITEcon @MIT_CIS @JPAL_NA @JPAL
ALT MIT Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) student Lyonel Tanganco
.@MIT_MTA prof Emily Richmond Pollock penned a chapter, "Musical Exchange and Soft Power," for the "Cambridge Companion to Music and Fascism," published by @CambridgeUP. music.mit.edu/news/associate…
“At this point, at least for some students, homework is no longer a valid evaluation of their learning,” @mit_cmsw prof @eklopfer told @Newsweek. newsweek.com/berkeley-profes…
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
