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The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences

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A research center at Penn Engineering, working to foster research and innovation in interconnected social, economic and technological systems.

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 15h
CONGRATULATIONS to GRASP's own Dr. Vijay Kumar on receiving the 2026 A.C. Eringen Medal at the Society of Engineering Science 2026 Annual Technical Meeting in recognition of sustained outstanding achievements in Engineering Science! Link: socengsci.org/eringen-medal/ #GRASP #GRASPLab #EringenMedal
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Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 12/10/2026
Why is it so hard to let go of things? Annenberg’s Emily Falk, a neuroscientist who studies decision making, explains in a new essay for the @nytimes.com:
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Opinion | Neuroscience Can Make Decluttering Easier
Decluttering is a challenge for many Americans, but neuroscience indicates we can make the process easier on ourselves and our loved ones.
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Annenberg Public Policy Center @appc.upenn.edu · 11/10/2026
The Neuroscience of Decluttering: @upenn.edu neuroscientist Emily Falk (@falklab.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu @appc.upenn.edu) writes about letting go -- and how your imagination and connection to others can help. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/o...
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Opinion | Neuroscience Can Make Decluttering Easier
Decluttering is a challenge for many Americans, but neuroscience indicates we can make the process easier on ourselves and our loved ones.
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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
CONGRATULATIONS to Kumar Lab members Yuwei Wu, Jinyuan Zhang, Jonathan Diller, and Dr. Vijay Kumar on receiving Best Paper Award at the Foundation Models in Multi-Robot Systems workshop! Read more: zhourobotics.github.io/fm-mrs/ #GRASP #GRASPLab #BestPaperAward
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The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences @warrencenter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This Wednesday, Warren Center affiliates Eric Bradlow, Chris Callison-Burch, Robert Ghrist, Bhuvnesh Jain, and Duncan Watts will speak on a panel to examine the many dimensions of AI risk, their broader social implications, and the options for mitigating them. ai.upenn.edu/many-di...
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The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences @warrencenter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How can we accelerate individual and collective intelligence? "The goal [is] finding the right balance between interaction and independence, so that people can learn from one another without converging too quickly on the same ideas," says Damon Centola. chibe.upenn.edu/blog...
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The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences @warrencenter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“We are excited to partner with Penn Carey Law on this new Certificate, which reflects a simple but urgent reality: every discipline is being reshaped by artificial intelligence,” says Warren Center affiliate and Penn Engineering Dean Vijay Kumar. www.law.upenn.edu/li...
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The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences @warrencenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To reflect the expanding landscape of digital media design, Penn Engineering has introduced the Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Visual and Interactive Computing beginning this fall. Read more here: www.engineering.upen...
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Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 02/10/2026
New research from the Social Action Lab examined HIV prevention policies across the United States:
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State HIV Prevention Policies May Benefit Racial and Ethnic Groups Unequally
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Alex Engler @alexengler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@penn-mediated.bsky.social is at the #CJ2026 and would love to chat with folks. Come to our workshop where you can run your own LLM audit (today at 3:30) or I'm giving a talk tomorrow on the broader needs for scientific and longitudinal monitoring of LLM politics (in Parallel Talks 1 at 1:30).
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Population Studies Center @pennpsc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In the latest PENN POP STUDIES NEWSLETTER: NEW BOOKS 📚 from @angeladuckworth.bsky.social and Damon Centola NEWS🗞️ featuring @femonomics.bsky.social, @dsmandell.bsky.social FALL EVENTS 📅 🍂 And so much more! READ IT HERE: bit.ly/47cJ951
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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Check out this incredible work by @jorittmo.bsky.social and @jwvogel.bsky.social showing distinct functional axes of aging and AD!!
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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Check out our new fully processed test retest open data resource on myelin-sensitive imaging! Huge congrats to the amazing @stevenmeisler.com and @tsalo.bsky.social + a superb team.
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Community for Rigor @comm4rigor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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 · 01/10/2026
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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Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics @pennchibe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dr. Damon Centola: I hope people will stop asking only, “Who are the right people to put in the room?” and start asking, “How should we connect them?” chibe.upenn.edu/blog/the-sec...
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The secret to smarter teams? How you connect them, says Dr. Centola in new book - Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE)
Dr. Centola's book "Goodthink" gives behind-the-scenes details of some of the most successful systems of collective intelligence.
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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
YouTube video by Vijay Kumar
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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
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 co...
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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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Aaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A blog post on some neat work with @zstevenwu.bsky.social and Martin Bertran: www.amazon.science/blog/why-don...
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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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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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