The next video in our @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Data Centers and Community Impact Workshop series is titled: 🔵Data Centers as Developmental Projects: How CA Communities Can Respond 🔶Douglas Carstens, Managing Partner, Carstens, Black & Minteer LLP 📺Watch video here: youtube.com/watch?v=6Fxu...

Data Centers as Developmental Projects: How CA Communities Can Respond - Doug Carstens

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📣 Fresh Off the Press: Our Latest Newsletter Has Arrived! The latest edition of the @caltechlcssp.bsky.social newsletter is live, and we're excited to share important updates to help you stay informed and connected. 👉 Take a look and read it here: lcssp.caltech.edu/more/lcssp-n...

📖 Read the public dialogue on @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Research Affiliate Ramit Debnath's PRISM project @cam.ac.uk / @ai.cam.ac.uk collaboration with Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council! 🔶 Public dialogue on PRISM project: t.co/UpHDQzOty6

ai@cam@ai.cam.ac.uk · 2w ago

NEW REPORT 🚨📚 What does the public want from #AI in local government? Our new report draws on public dialogue with Cambridgeshire residents. The conversation is changing. The question is no longer whether to use AI, but where it can make a real difference. ➡️ www.ai.cam.ac.uk/reports/publ...

🔊Read the newest issue of @americanscientist.org including article from @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social, @caltech.edu, "Elections in the Age of AI." 🗳️🤖 www.americanscientist.org/article/elec...

American Scientist@americanscientist.org · 4w ago

If all the voting technology advances since the 2000 election are examined from a social perspective, one point remains clear: New technologies need to have public trust for elections to be seen as fair and valid.

📢New in our Data Centers and Community Impact: A Workshop for Local Leaders series: 🔵Navigating the AI Data Center Boom: Trends Across U.S.🔵 Sarah Friedman, Co-Founder, Better Data Center Project 📺Watch on @caltechlcssp.bsky.social YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=7e1L...

📖 Read PolMeth 2026 paper presented by caltechlcssp.bsky.social Co-Director rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social, "AI-Authored Prebunking Against Election Rumors: Evidence from Articles and Chatbots," with Mitchell Linegar, Betsy Sinclair, & profsanderlinden.bsky.social: lcssp.caltech.edu/research/ai-...

📢Call for papers in cross- @natureportfolio.nature.com special collection being edited by caltechlcssp.bsky.social Research Affiliate Ramit Debnath, cam.ac.uk! For submission details and deadline: www.nature.com/collections/...

Managing cascading and non-linear climate risks

This cross-journal Collection focuses on complex climate risks, including cascading impacts, compound events and tipping-point risks.

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🚨New paper from @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Board Member @cfranken.bsky.social, @caltech.edu & @nasajpl.bsky.social, "Airborne Observations Reveal Underestimated Riverine Methane Emissions Across the Amazon," in Geophysical Research Letters. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

🔊New blog from @caltechlcssp.bsky.social's Postdoc Scholar @rcenteno.bsky.social, @caltech.edu: 🟠The Racial Gap in Voter Confidence: How Trust in Ballot Counting Varies Across Racial and Ethnic Groups🟠 lcssp.caltech.edu/more/lcssp-b... See details on project with @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social:

Raquel Centeno@rcenteno.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨 new research alert! 🚨 Check out the latest @caltechlcssp.bsky.social blog summarizing my new project with @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social 👇 We use the 2024 CMPS to provide newly precise estimates of voter confidence across racial & ethnic groups, demonstrating a racial gap in voter confidence 🗳️

Learn more about our @caltechlcssp.bsky.social event, Data Centers and Community Impact: A Workshop for Local Leaders, held on the @caltech.edu campus on June 15, 2026. This event will help ensure that research is informed by the real-world needs of communities in our region.🤝⚡🏙️

Caltech@caltech.edu · 3w ago

On June 15, Caltech brought together local government officials, researchers, and community stakeholders at the Resnick Sustainability Center for a workshop on the growing impact of AI data centers on California communities. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

🔊Read the latest preprint from @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Research Affiliate Ramit Debnath, @cam.ac.uk, "Hyperlocal Monitoring of Urban Activity Reveals Responses to Heat Exposure," showing how telecom data can reveal where people are actually present during hot periods. arxiv.org/abs/2607.07417

📢 New in our Data Centers and Community Impact: A Workshop for Local Leaders series: 🔵 Why Do Voters Dislike Data Centers? 🔵 Featuring @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social & Alex Halsey of @caltechlcssp.bsky.social 📺 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWRI... 📖 Learn more: www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

🏆So exciting that this joint paper received the Best Paper Award at the 2026 @icmlconf.bsky.social! Big congratulations to lead author @caltechlcssp.bsky.social's Postdoc Scholar Rafal Kocielnik and Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social, and the entire team! arxiv.org/abs/2606.12730

🎉Another proud moment: caltech.edu Undergraduate Student Etienne Casanova presented the oral talk and poster for joint research with caltechlcssp.bsky.social Co-Director rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social & LCSSP Postdoc Rafal Kocielnik this week at the icmlconf.bsky.social! arxiv.org/abs/2606.00467

In the latest #ElectionScienceFieldNotes Substack article, @caltechlcssp.bsky.social's Co-Director, @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social explains why election officials must strengthen cybersecurity and prepare now for the 2026 midterms. #ElectionSecurity #AI electionscience.substack.com/p/keeping-an...

Keeping an Eye on AI Threats

Updates from Five Eyes

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🎉Congratulations to @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Board Member Richard Murray, @caltech.edu on his joint project, “Too Distant, Too Uncertain, Too Unforgiving: Assuring Autonomous Space Explorers We've Yet to Trust,” being selected as a new study topic by KISS Caltech! 🚀 www.caltech.edu/about/news/n...

👏Proud moment for @caltechlcssp.bsky.social: LCSSP postdoc scholar Rafal Kocielnik will present joint research with @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social and others at the @icmlconf.bsky.social! icml.cc/virtual/2026... icml.cc/virtual/2026... icml.cc/virtual/2026... 📌 #LLMs #MachineLearning #ResponsibleAI

🎉 Congratulations to @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Research Affiliate Beatrice Magistro, @northeasternu.bsky.social on the publication of her first book, Who Thinks Like an Economist? How the Economist Mental Model Shapes Political Decisions! 🔷 Enter code WTLAE26 at checkout: tinyurl.com/52ewhj9j

@caltechlcssp.bsky.social Research Affiliate Adam Wierman, @caltech.edu spoke at our June workshop, highlighting what local leaders should know about impacts on water, energy grids, and air quality. 📺 Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_fd... 💡 Insights: scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/artif...

🎉Congrats to caltechlcssp.bsky.social's rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social & Rafal Kocielnik, pengruihan.bsky.social, Peiyang Song, Myrl Marmarelis, Ramit Debnath, & @caltech.edu's @fearbrain.bsky.social & @anima-anandkumar.bsky.social on their @icmlconf.bsky.social paper becoming an oral presentation!

Rethinking Psychometric Evaluation of LLMs: When and Why Self-Reports Predict Behavior

Anticipating LLM behavioral tendencies from low-cost psychometric probes is critical for safe deployment, but only if self-reports (SR) reliably predict behavior. Recent work documented substantial SR...

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👏 Congratulations to @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social, LCSSP Postdoc Scholar Teaching Fellow Rafal Kocielnik, & @caltech.edu Undergrad Etienne Casanova on their @icmlconf.bsky.social 2026 paper being selected for oral presentation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Itk...

Do AI Models Follow Our Definitions? | ICML 2026 Oral

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Congratulations to @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Research Affiliate Ramit Debnath, @cam.ac.uk on the collaboration and development of PRISM, an AI tool that could tell councils which social housing tenants are most at risk, before a potential crisis hits. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

New research from @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Research Affiliate @zernickagoetz.bsky.social, @caltech.edu & collaborator Qi Chen, @utah.edu reframe self-organization not as a mysterious byproduct of biological complexity, but as something closer to a physical inevitability.

Caltech@caltech.edu · last mo.

How did life make the leap from single cells to coordinated, multicellular organisms? And how do genetically identical cells still perform a version of that feat every time an embryo begins to take shape? www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

🔊New paper by @caltechlcssp.bsky.social's @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social, @melinamuch.bsky.social‬, Daniel Ebanks, @sarakangaslahti.bsky.social, Jean Kossaifi, Anqi Liu, & @anima-anandkumar.bsky.social. See below for more information: bsky.app/profile/meli... (specific highlight of a finding)

Melina Much@melinamuch.bsky.social · last mo.

New paper out in Computational Communication Research We analyze 8.4 million English-language #MeToo tweets from 2017–2019 to study how consciousness-raising cultivates activated senses of identity online. www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

Catch the latest update from caltechlcssp.bsky.social Board Member Christian Frankenberg, caltech.edu and nasajpl.bsky.social, on his AtmosTransport.jl project and the outcome! 🔗https://github.com/RemoteSensingTools/AtmosTransport.jl

@caltechlcssp.bsky.social Research Affiliate, Danny Ebanks, @iqss.bsky.social at @harvard.edu presented at the Harvard RCD Summit 2026. See below for more information:

Institute for Quantitative Social Science @ Harvard@iqss.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The IQSS data science team was at the Harvard RCD Summit 2026 on Tuesday, where Sonia Barbosa, Danny Ebanks, William Horka, and Devika Jain shared how we support data science and research data management at Harvard. #Harvard #RCDSummit #DataScience #Dataverse

Arthur Lupia (MS ’88, PhD ’91) returned to @caltech.edu to speak on trust and credibility in science on May 26, 2026. Proud to see this alum leading work so closely aligned with the @caltechlcssp.bsky.social’s mission! Article: www.caltech.edu/about/news/c... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAh7...

🔊New journal article out by @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social and LCSSP Research Affiliate Beatrice Magistro, @northeasternu.bsky.social, "Causal Beliefs and the Potential for Political Backlash Against AI." 🔶Read it here: academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

@caltechlcssp.bsky.social Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow, Rafal Kocielnik will be part of today's panel in the @caltech.edu 2025-2026 Student Faculty Colloquium, "The Importance of Humanity in the AI Era." For more details: www.caltech.edu/campus-life-...

📣New paper from @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Research Affiliate, Ramit Debnath, @cam.ac.uk! Read "Resisting Epistemic Loss in AI Image Generation" in @cp-patterns.bsky.social: www.cell.com/patterns/ful...