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The Social Science Research Council is an independent nonprofit that for 100 years has mobilized social & behavioral science for global policy impact.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined March 2009
Congrats 2025 #AbeFellows Network Collaborative Grantees! Learn below about these projects that address parliamentary transparency, responses to bird flu, gender-based income shocks, and neurodiversity-inclusive learning. 1/5 @ssrc_org @Japanfoundation
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The Social Science Research Council fosters innovative research, nurtures new generations of social scientists, deepens how inquiry is practiced within and across disciplines, and mobilizes necessary...
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Each month, Frontiers in Social & Behavioral Science celebrates new work in our founding associations' flagship journals. Read all of the featured articles here: https://t.co/mx8XZFOhjX
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At the 100th anniversary of the Council’s founding, we honor its founders and celebrate the breadth and depth of modern social and behavioral science. Every month we will feature an article from the...
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In @apsrjournal, Christian Cox, Derek A. Epp, Michael E. Shepherd find, in a panel dataset of over 10 million rural residents, that local hospital closures are linked to lower voting rates in national elections. https://t.co/iHDMge8tln
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Each month, Frontiers in Social & Behavioral Science celebrates new work in our founding associations' flagship journals. Read all of the featured articles here: https://t.co/mx8XZFOP9v
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At the 100th anniversary of the Council’s founding, we honor its founders and celebrate the breadth and depth of modern social and behavioral science. Every month we will feature an article from the...
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In @AEAjournals AER, Joseph S. Shapiro and Reed Walker estimate the benefits and costs of air pollution regulation in U.S. markets and find that benefits outweigh costs tenfold. https://t.co/xBDeAjT1z9
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“Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
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New research from @AIdisclosures has mapped of 2,874 Model Context Protocol servers, showing concentration risks and a surge in agentic browsing — with implications for APIs, local MCPs, and market design. Read more: https://t.co/SJucgeQN0N
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The concentration risk is real. We explore remedies in local servers, disclosures, and more open APIs Full analysis: https://t.co/gFy2CmYtMZ
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In September 2011, those same contributors reflected on what they wrote and to explore what had changed and what remained the same since 9/11.
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In the days immediately following September 11, 2001, the Council invited a wide range of leading social scientists from around the world to write short essays for an online forum,...
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In November 2001, in the immediate wake of 9/11, the SSRC asked social scientists to bring theoretical and empirical knowledge to bear on its events and aftermath. These reflections can be read here:
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Terrorist attacks on and since September 11th have stimulated public soul-searching, military and diplomatic responses, and efforts to reform public policy. Both the attacks and responses to them...
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NEW on Kujenga Amani 📚 | "Resource-Based Resistance and Galamsey’s Grip on Ghana’s Security Future" by Dr. Titilope F. Ajayi (2017 & 2019 Next Gen / 2019 APN CWG). Read more: https://t.co/Xxo5y77Ip4
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The @ssrc_org, in partnership with @SloanFoundation, has launched a Research Rescue Fund to provide emergency grants for economics-related research projects that have had NSF funding terminated. Read more about this initiative here: https://t.co/FjIPnl7zDE
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is dramatically reducing its vital support for basic science. Principal Investigators who were conducting or facilitating economic research under a grant...
In recent months the NSF has significantly reduced research funding. We're partnering with @SloanFoundation to launch a Research Rescue Fund, a citizen-led initiative to rescue societally valuable economics research. Learn more: https://t.co/bYLKcIeSPL
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📣Upcoming webinar! On 9/25 at 3PM ET, @Stefanie_DeLuca is presenting at an @SSRC_org webinar on results from the @JPAL funded study, Creating Moves to Opportunity, which investigated housing mobility & neighborhood choice in the US. 🔗Register today:
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.@WilliamJBroad, writing in the @nytimes, recently cited Andrews' 2017 Items article in a history of autocratic suppression of scientific inquiry: https://t.co/vC0CQnuUo1
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Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics.
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“What can we learn of political interference in the domain of intellectual freedom, and how have academics attempted to cope with such assaults from past authoritarian regimes?” Read historian James Andrews on authoritarian constraints on science: https://t.co/ihj34l2539
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Over the past thirty years, my research has engaged the social and cultural history of science in Russia and the USSR and how science enters the public realm in authoritarian...
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"It is generally accepted among environmental geographers that there is no such thing as a natural disaster." Read Neil Smith on Katrina, and the social and economic calculus of who lives and dies during "natural" disasters: https://t.co/iyVQLPBG3d
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It is generally accepted among environmental geographers that there is no such thing as a natural disaster. In every phase and aspect of a disaster—causes, vulnerability, preparedness, results and...
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Dr. Silindile Mlilo, a 2024 Next Gen fellow, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, "Political Subjectivities in Post-colonial States: Identity and Belonging Among Botswana’s non–Tswana Migrant Descendants.” Read her interview: https://t.co/QiMHqcUCBI
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NEW | David McMahan (@FandMCollege) continues our "Karmic historiography" forum. He observes, "The unique psychic state of our era, the scrolling mind, is fashioned to keep the light of critical thought low and the wire of impulse hot." https://t.co/EZ3rJpkDeU
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I stand in line at the grocery store, my jittery trigger-thumb summoning successive apparitions of image, sound, and text that stream incessantly into my downcast eyes. They excite, terrify, amuse,...
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Each month, Frontiers in Social & Behavioral Science celebrates new work in our founding associations' flagship journals. Read all of the featured articles here: https://t.co/mx8XZFOhjX
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At the 100th anniversary of the Council’s founding, we honor its founders and celebrate the breadth and depth of modern social and behavioral science. Every month we will feature an article from the...
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In @AmHistReview, an article by @ngeorge00 explores the life and beliefs of a Lebanese diplomat, espousing the idea that counter-revolutionism and anti-colonialism equally shaped the history of the Global South. https://t.co/KeEyg9hEl5
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A new policy brief from @AIdisclosures (by Isobel Moure @timoreilly @IlanStrauss) argues that as AI models become commodities, open protocols, backed by open APIs, are needed to facilitate data sharing. Read more: https://t.co/fOmqldGmeg
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The SSRC makes available interdisciplinary research to inform policy, academic discourse, and the public. These publications are freely accessible and include policy working papers to essays for the...
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