As the SSRC enters its second century of work, President Anna Harvey reflects on what we know about how to pursue research that both advances basic science and helps to solve important problems. https://lnkd.in/e4CJ8-NW
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The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is an independent, international, nonprofit organization founded in 1923. It fosters innovative research, nurtures new generations of social scientists, deepens how inquiry is practiced within and across disciplines, and mobilizes necessary knowledge on important public issues. The SSRC is guided by the belief that justice, prosperity, and democracy all require better understanding of complex social, cultural, economic, and political processes. We work with practitioners, policymakers, and academic researchers in the social sciences, related professions, and the humanities and natural sciences. We build interdisciplinary and international networks, working with partners around the world to link research to practice and policy, strengthen individual and institutional capacities for learning, and enhance public access to information.
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Please join us in person on August 26, at 6:30 pm with Shannon McGregor, Jonathan Corpus Ong, and Heidi Tworek, for Platforms and Elections: the Global State of Play, a discussion on how well governments and social media companies are safeguarding democracy. https://lnkd.in/gJwfM__h
Platforms and Elections: the Global State of Play
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"These frameworks don’t adequately consider how AI risks may also originate in how companies compete for market share and profits." Read about the new Social Science Research Council project led by Tim O'Reilly to develop AI principles for the private sector: https://lnkd.in/eWAjUZJ5
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SSRC Mercury Project grantee Charles Senteio, PhD, LCSW, MBA studies how to reduce the “invisible” health costs of vulnerable populations. Here he explains how funders' choices of how to structure research consortia can likewise lower the invisible costs of innovation. https://lnkd.in/eywT3qNf
The “Invisible Benefits” of the Mercury Project Research Consortium – Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
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Introducing the SSRC's AI Disclosures Project! Led by noted technology innovator Tim O'Reilly and economist Ilan Strauss, the AI Disclosures Project will focus on developing best practices for firms’ disclosures about their uses of AI models, ensuring that stakeholders have access to consistent, accurate, and transparent information about how AI models are being developed and deployed. Learn more about the project here: https://lnkd.in/gtbGZxzr #ResearchToSolveProblems
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The Inter-American Foundation Research Fellowship Program offers applicants an opportunity to advance rigorous field-based research on actionable questions about community-led development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Please share this opportunity with your networks! https://lnkd.in/gA4xB9QW #ResearchToSolveProblems
The Inter-American Foundation Research Fellowship Program
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A step in the right direction for the residents of Queens, and another example of how the SSRC's Measure of America uses data to help partners and policymakers improve people's lives.
Last week, the Mayor and City Council finalized the city’s budget. The budget included $25 million to help build a new trauma center in the Rockaway peninsula. This people-centered investment builds on a groundswell of attention following a 2019 DATA2GO.NYC research collaboration between Measure of America, The Trace, and THE CITY. We found a severe lack of trauma coverage in Southern Queens. Following the release of this piece, Queens borough president candidates pledged to address this inequity once elected. Then, in 2023, the state contributed $150 million to construct a trauma hospital in Jamaica. It’s great to see additional life-saving investments in trauma care in Queens. Thank you to The Helmsley Charitable Trust for your support of this work. Read about the budget and the reporting on trauma care in Queens here: https://lnkd.in/ens7r_K9 https://lnkd.in/eWKSfE9F https://lnkd.in/e7sQ-emb Tracy Perrizo Laura Laderman Maya Miller Sean Campbell
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Introducing the 2024 Just Tech Fellows! These ten leaders will tackle complex issues at the intersection of technology and society. Our Just Tech program foregrounds questions of power, equity, and the public impact of new technologies while imagining and creating more just technological futures. Congratulations to Todd Whitney, Miliaku Nwabueze, Danielle Wood, Romi Morrison, Petra Kuppers, Julian P., Dorothy Santos, Ph.D., Lauren Lee McCarthy, Catherine Knight Steele, and Kriangsak Teera-Hong, PhD! #JustTechFellowship #JustTech
Announcing the 2024–2026 Just Tech Fellows
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Congratulations to these SSRC #MercuryProject grantees on an impressive megastudy with more than *3.6 million* participants, which resulted in increased Covid and flu vaccinations! More on all of the research projects here: https://lnkd.in/eTBdUXjH
🚨New Paper Out in Nature🚨 To simplify & speed up COVID vaxxes in mid-2021, the White House announced free Uber & Lyft rides to vax sites. Great idea, right? We ran a HUGE experiment: Do free round-trip Lyft rides to pharmacies boost vaccination? Here's what we learned: Experts and non-experts were bullish that offering free round-trip rides to pharmacies for vaxxes would more than double low booster vax rates in fall ‘22. But gifting free Lyft rides to and from pharmacies in text reminders about boosters did no more than sending vax reminders alone. What did encourage vaccination? Our 3.66 million person megastudy tested 7 different types of reminder messages as well as reminders offering free round-trip rides to the pharmacy. Reminders led to a 21% (1.05 pctg pt) increase in COVID boosters and an 8% increase in flu shots. We had a 3-way tie for the best reminder message. #1 Encouraged patients to make a vaccination plan and suggested a specific day of the week, time of day and pharmacy location for an appointment (picked to match when/where the patient had received their last vax). Also tied for the rank of top-performer in our megastudy was a reminder communicating that there were high current infection rates in a patient’s county. And finally, a reminder that appeared to be sent directly by the pharmacy team at the patient’s most frequently visited pharmacy. Read the full (open access) Nature Portfolio paper here: https://lnkd.in/e4n2RHmS Huge thanks to the amazing staff at the Behavior Change for Good Initiative who made this project possible (particularly Sean F. Ellis and Dena Gromet), to our wonderful partners at CVS Pharmacy (Maryann Beauvais, Jonathon Bellows and Cheryl Marandola), to our funders (e.g. Social Science Research Council #MercuryProject) and to the excellent referees at Nature (and Mary Elizabeth Sutherland) who gave us great feedback. Thanks also to my faculty collaborators Angela Duckworth (❤️), John List (who moved mountains to make this work possible), Kevin Volpp, Mitesh Patel (who had the idea to do this test!), Neil Lewis, Jr., Ron Berman, and Christophe Van den Bulte (who perfected all our stats!). And to my amazing PhD student collaborator Rob Kuan. The Wharton School | University of Pennsylvania | Cornell University | University of Chicago | Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics | Behavior Change for Good Initiative
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SSRC-Arnold Ventures Criminal Justice Innovation Fellow Emma Rackstraw found that popular police reality shows increase featured departments' low-level arrest rates by 20%. During her fellowship, she'll study how those shows affect recruiting outcomes. https://lnkd.in/eA4vvM3C
CJI Fellow Emma Rackstraw on the effects of police reality TV shows and post-incarceration employment – Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
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