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Community for Rigor @comm4rigor.bsky.social · 14h

We're hiring a Senior Curriculum Developer to join the Community for Rigor (C4R)! The role includes everything from developing to revising curriculum to assessing educational content and teaching C4R materials in classrooms and at conferences. Interested? Apply today! buff.ly/Rh3bKpJ

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Senior Curriculum Developer - Community for Rigor - Kording Lab

University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school…

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

CONGRATULATIONS to GRASP's own Pei-An Hsieh (ESE PhD) and Fengjun Yang (CIS PhD '26) and their advisors, Dr. M. Ani Hsieh and Dr. Nikolai Matni, on receiving the IROS 2026 Best Student Paper Award!!! Read the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2607.12275 #GRASP #GRASPLab #BestStudentPaperAward #IROS2026

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Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 17h

The Media Bias Detector integrates large language models with near-real-time news scraping to analyze political lean, tone, topics and major events across hundreds of articles per day, enabling new ways to inform voters and study selection and framing bias in the modern news landscape:

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AI Helps Detect Media Bias, Informing Voters and News Consumers

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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Check out this awesome work by @goliashf.bsky.social -- now out in PLOS Biology -- showing that development of intrinsic neural timescale aligns with the cortical hierarchy defined by the S-A axis in multiple datasets.

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The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences @warrencenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A leadership gift will advance legal education and scholarship at the intersection of law and technology at Penn Carey Law. “This gift allows CTIC to deepen its work at exactly the moment when it matters most,” says Warren Center affiliate Christopher Yoo. penntoday.upenn.edu/...

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University of Pennsylvania @upenn.edu · 29/09/2026

A leadership gift from the Perry and Donna Golkin Family Foundation will advance legal education and scholarship at the intersection of law and technology at Penn Carey Law. Read More: bit.ly/4xQrhrs

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Penn Engineering @pennengineering.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Penn Engineering’s Digital Media Design program will transition to Visual and Interactive Computing in Fall 2026, expanding opportunities in generative AI, immersive media, and health imaging. bit.ly/4hlE9zC

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Annenberg Public Policy Center @appc.upenn.edu · 25/09/2026

How does communication shape public policy? The Annenberg Public Policy Center invites @upenn.edu faculty, grad students, & postdocs to apply for research grants on this. See the flyer below. @asc.upenn.edu @penngse.bsky.social @sas.upenn.edu @pennmindcore.bsky.social @pennsp2.bsky.social

A flyer advertising the APPC research grant opportunity with a QR code and email address to learn more.

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The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences @warrencenter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Join Community for Rigor on Monday-Wednesday this week for their conference focused on scientific rigor! The agenda features talks and panels with rigor experts and practitioners, including Warren Center faculty affiliate Konrad Kording www.c4r.io/conference

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The GRASP Lab is going to IROS 2026! Check out this program to see what our lab members will be up to at the conference: grasp.upenn.edu/news/grasp-l... #GRASP #GRASPLab #IROS2026 #GRASPatIROS

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On Monday, GRASP researchers will be presenting "Flatness-Preserving Residual Learning for Real-Time Tight Quadrotor Formation Flight" at IROS 2026 as a finalist for the Best Paper / Best Student Paper Award! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF26...

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The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences @warrencenter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Warren Center faculty affiliate Benjamin Lee explains to The Philadelphia Inquirer how data centers are impacting consumers’ electricity bills. www.inquirer.com/con...

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

GRASP's Kumar Lab developed an indoor exploration framework that uses learning to predict unseen area environments to plan Safe Efficient Exploration for Aerial Robots (SEER). Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZBk...

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Congrats to CASBS fellows selected as 2026 Guggenheim Fellows 🙌👏 Damon Centola | Jamie Kreiner | @allisonpugh.bsky.social |@robbwiller.bsky.social | @dziblatt.bsky.social @guggfellows.bsky.social announcement: www.gf.org/stories/anno...

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Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy (MEDIATED) @penn-mediated.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do algorithms drive online polarization? A review by Duncan Watts and coauthors finds the evidence is inconclusive. What users seek out matters too, though platforms aren't off the hook. infodem.upenn.edu/research-com...

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Research Compendium - Center on Media, Technology and Democracy

News, announcements, and insights from the Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy.

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Researchers at the GRASP Lab have developed a planner that can construct environments, plan motion in the environments, and combine the planners seamlessly. Video: youtu.be/xLHHDw3IQr4?... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPResearchers

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Design and Evaluation of Motion Planners for Quadrotors

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The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences @warrencenter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Helmed by Warren Center faculty affiliate Bhuvnesh Jain, new AI offerings—from a broad crash course to specialized department trainings—aim to help Penn faculty become more comfortable with evolving technologies. omnia.sas.upenn.edu/...

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Motivation To Act And Social Connection Sustain Everyday Climate Change Conversations" | Preprint of a new article led by @penncssm.bsky.social post-doc Ovidia Stanoi: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences @warrencenter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Authors self-ranking their own submissions could be a stronger predictor of future citations than peer-reviewed scores, according to a new study from Warren Center affiliate Weijie Su and Wharton professor Bingxin Zhao. penntoday.upenn.edu/...

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MindCORE at the University of Pennsylvania @pennmindcore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Join us next Friday for Hany Farid on "Deepfakes and the Democratization of Deception" faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu/hany-farid @warrencenter.bsky.social @upenndddi.bsky.social @pennengineering.bsky.social @sas.upenn.edu @upenn.edu

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Penn Engineering @pennengineering.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Penn Engineering’s new MSE in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence brings together data science, AI and a systems perspective, preparing students to build, analyze and responsibly apply intelligent systems across disciplines. Applications for Fall 2027 are now open. bit.ly/4yGcO2j

Left: Susan Davidson, Weiss Professor in CISe and co-director of the MSE-DSAI program. Right: Linh Phan, Professor in CIS and co-director of the MSE-DSAI program.

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Community for Rigor @comm4rigor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Are you interested in collaborating with C4R? NIH recently published a highlighted topic on “Enhancing Scientific Rigor, Transparency, and Replicability”. Ideas include: Incorporating rigor education into scientific conferences, workshops or training programs. please reach out: community@c4r.io.

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Samar Haider @samarhaider.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New paper out in Science Advances @science.org! News organizations shape public understanding through the choices they make about what to cover and how to cover it. How can we measure these differences across publishers systematically and at scale? We present the Media Bias Detector!

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The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences @warrencenter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Busting the myth of “groupthink,” Warren Center faculty affiliate Damon Centola's new book is a powerful look at how our ability to influence one another can accelerate individual and collective intelligence. www.penguinrandomhou...

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Exciting Research Director position for someone with the (maybe impossible) combination of scientist, engineering manager, fundraiser, and administrator. If that's you, this is an amazing way to have an impact! wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

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Research Director - Penn Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy

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Annenberg Public Policy Center @appc.upenn.edu · 15/09/2026

For more on Mike's current work @upenn.edu: www.asc.upenn.edu/research/cen...

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Communication Neuroscience Lab

Our mission is to increase health and happiness for people and the planet.

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Annenberg Public Policy Center @appc.upenn.edu · 15/09/2026

🎉 👏 Congrats to @asc.upenn.edu PhD student Mike Brumm, formerly a senior producer/writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, on his latest Emmy wins! Mike's at @falklab.bsky.social @appc.upenn.edu studying what happens to political information when it enters the late-night joke machine.

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MindCORE at the University of Pennsylvania @pennmindcore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Mindspan Institute is a new non-profit research institute aimed at building novel tools to analyze the human brain, and scaling them to study its molecules and wiring. The institute is co-directed by Ed Boyden (MIT) & Konrad Kording (UPenn). And they are hiring: www.mindspan.org/jobs

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Mindspan Institute

A non-profit creating and applying tools to characterize the molecules and wiring of the human brain, as well as to interpret how they contribute to brain functions and dysfunctions, openly sharing to...

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Aaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Codex and Claude Code have a neat auto approve feature where 1) it doesn't ask for permissions, but 2) you get to feel safe. Well --- do you? The premise is it is asking an agent for permission. But if you don't trust the driver agent, why should you trust the review agent?

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The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences @warrencenter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Machine learning, at its core, is about generalization, not memorization," write AWS Applied Scientist Martin Bertran Lopez and Warren Center faculty affiliate Aaron Roth for Amazon Science. www.amazon.science/b...

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Amazon Science @amazon.science · 10/09/2026

Years of iterating against the same benchmarks should, by textbook logic, produce overfitting. It largely doesn't. New research explains why: strategies that generalize can be expressed in too compact a form to allow memorization, while the ones that overfit don't survive a compression.

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Why don’t machine learning research agents overfit?

New research indicates that AI agents learn compressible models of data, which don’t have enough space to enable memorization.

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Join us TOMORROW for the GRASP Research Overview Day 2 Seminar starting at 10:30AM - 11:45AM. For more info on the seminar, visit: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminar #GRASPResearch

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Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 10/09/2026

Data centers. Dating apps and Love Island. Anti-violence campaigns targeting local youth. Read these stories and more on our website: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

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Alex Engler @alexengler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Friends, countrymen, lend me your shares! We are hiring a *𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫* to lead a *𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦* as we build Penn MEDIATED into the first† public-facing data science institute for the information ecosystem (think the Urban Institute or CSET, but for media and information technology).

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The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences @warrencenter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Tomorrow, join the Penn Engineering ASSET Center for a full-day symposium celebrating its ongoing partnership with Amazon Web Services. The program will feature talks from Penn faculty members, including Warren Center affiliates Surbhi Goel, Hamed Hassani, and Aaron Roth. asset.engineering.up...

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Community for Rigor @comm4rigor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There's still time to register for C4R26! Keynote speaker Simine Vazire will explore what's psychology's reproducibility movement can teach us about building a research culture that rewards rigor, and transparency. 📅 September 28-30, 2026 📍 Philadelphia, PA 🎟️ Free with RSVP 🔗 buff.ly/0revg0B

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The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences @warrencenter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Across two surveys of Black Americans, researchers studied how social relationships and self-identity relate to code switching. “We saw that people’s perceptions of their Black identity were related to their perception of how much they tend to switch,” says Emily Falk. penntoday.upenn.edu/...

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ted Satterthwaite's brilliant #Flux2026 Linda Spear Mid-Career Award talk made it crystal clear why he won this honor. We all know he is a productive genius but to hear it condensed in a thirty-minute overview was kind of mindblowing. So well-deserved! 👏 @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social

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MindCORE at the University of Pennsylvania @pennmindcore.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One week from today! Excited for the long weekend ahead, but then excited to return to our favorite event of the year. Join us for the panel, lunch; and of course, there will be swag.

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Community for Rigor @comm4rigor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Registration for C4R26 is still free and open! The agenda is live 👀 3 talks 3 workshops 5 games 1 conference dedicated entirely to rigor! 📅 September 28-30 📍 Philadelphia, PA 🎟️ Free with RSVP 🔗 buff.ly/0revg0B

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CSSLab at Penn @csspenn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

👩‍💻🧑‍💻👨‍💻 Want to apply LLMs to text analysis in your research? Join Timothy Dörr and Baird Howland tomorrow for a hands-on workshop! 💻 No prior computational experience needed. Food will be served! 📅 Sept. 9, 2–5 PM 📍 ASC 300 @asc.upenn.edu 💻 Bring a laptop & Google account! No installation needed!

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The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences @warrencenter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

How can higher education scale its reach without sacrificing academic rigor or student outcomes? In this episode of An Educated Guest, Warren Center affiliate Vijay Kumar discusses the changing landscape of engineering, robotics, and academic leadership. podcasts.apple.com/u...

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Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy (MEDIATED) @penn-mediated.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Emily B. Falk’s paper shows that explaining why a story matters to you or someone you know can reliably boost sharing of accurate news. infodem.upenn.edu/research-com...

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Research Compendium - Center on Media, Technology and Democracy

News, announcements, and insights from the Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy.

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Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy (MEDIATED) @penn-mediated.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Chris Callison-Burch and Delip Kumar show that search-enabled LLMs still get roughly half of academic citations wrong, leaning on internal memory over the sources they actually retrieve. infodem.upenn.edu/research-com...

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Research Compendium - Center on Media, Technology and Democracy

News, announcements, and insights from the Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy.

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Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy (MEDIATED) @penn-mediated.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Is Google AI killing the open internet? Danaé Metaxa’s new research suggests it might be: reduced publisher visits, yet readers aren’t getting a better experience. This and a lot more in our Research Compendium! (1/7) infodem.upenn.edu/research-com...

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Community for Rigor @comm4rigor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rigor is more fun together! What better way to test your rigor prowess than with a little friendly competition at C4R26? This year, we’re going beyond talks and workshops with games designed to get people thinking, debating, laughing, and cheering each other on. Come ready to play!

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The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences @warrencenter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In this story from the Penn Today archives, Warren Center faculty affiliate Bhuvnesh Jain and team trace NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's unlikely path from spy satellite to cosmic voyager. penntoday.upenn.edu/...

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