DAY 27 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class Loyalty, obligation, betrayal! @aejm.bsky.social will finish a book on the 1649 trial and execution of King Charles I of England to help shed light on the moral imagination of modern politics. Spicy 🔥 More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/aliso...

CASBS is renowned for its convening power. With the addition of a new building in 2023, it further leverages this power to accommodate more social and behavioral sciences-related workshops & conferences. Learn about CASBS Convenes and advancing your ideas and collaborations here 😏 ➡️ bit.ly/45TPGB6

DAY 26 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class Cool name, cool book title. Kah-Wee Lee's book project, "Casino Urbanisms," will explore how licit & illicit channels of money have reshaped urban landscapes & territorial governance of Asian metropoles More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/kah-w...

The first arrivals among 2026-27 CASBS fellows began occupying their studies today. The studies look much like they did when the Center opened in 1954, though the interior decor has changed (for the better? worse?). See the 1954 CASBS in the Feb. 1955 issue of Arts and Architecture: bit.ly/3UhmdP3

DAY 25 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class Dessi Lange-Damianova will devise a practical method for identifying misinformation & manipulation tactics early while building 'protective framing' before false narratives gain traction. So easy 🤸 Learn More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/dessi...

The last day of quiet. Thursday, the first arriving fellows will have lunch on CASBS's dining patio... #SEENatCASBS

A 2020 book by former fellows Robert Inman & Daniel Rubinfeld traces its roots to their 1992-93 CASBS year together. Damn dude, that's a collaboration 28 years in the making! We did a Q&A with Robert & Daniel to get the inside story. Here: casbs.stanford.edu/news/fruits-...

DAY 24 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class Jamie Kreiner is gonna go medieval on us - fortunately we're into that kind of thing (🫦). Her book will explain the value of premodern cognitive practices, shedding light on our own thinking habits today More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/jamie...

Huge congrats to 2024-25 CASBS fellow Pei-Chia Lan 👏💯

Stanford APARC@aparc.stanford.edu · 5d ago

We're delighted to welcome prominent sociologist Pei-Chia Lan as the Wang and Chen Senior Fellow in Taiwan Studies at @fsi.stanford.edu & director of APARC's Taiwan Program, effective Sep. 1. She joins from National Taiwan University to lead the program's next chapter. Read on: stanford.io/4y1AJsG

DAY 23 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class With a cool name like Kepa Korta, the book he writes MUST have a cool title. Done. Kepa's empirically-informed philosophical study of linguistic justice, "The Linguistic Wealth of Nations," fits the bill More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/kepa-...

Nice to see 2023-24 CASBS fellow Lucas Bessire in this group 🙌👊😏

New America@newamerica.org · 5d ago

🎊 We're thrilled to announce the Class of 2027 New America Fellows! We selected 14 talented Fellows from hundreds of applicants to examine some of the biggest issues of our time. ▶️ Meet this year's cohort: https://go.newamerica.org/2027-new-america-fellows-5

DAY 22 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class We've been waiting (mindfully) for someone to write a book linking Buddhist notions of attachment to emerging findings about the neural basis of affect. Thanks to Brian Knutson, the wait is nearly over. More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/brian...

The 1977-78 fellows class: Three Nobels, a Supreme, and more Who could have known at the time? Surely this was one of the most remarkable groups of social scientists assembled in one place for an academic year. The 1977-78 CASBS class was just ridiculous. Story: casbs.stanford.edu/news/three-n...

DAY 21 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class At CASBS this year, Andrius Kažukauskas will study how social values, trust & new information shape prosocial behavior, especially during critical periods for electricity grids across cultural contexts 🔌 More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/andri...

DAY 20 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class How to sustain healthy behavior change? If anyone knows, it's two-timer Robert Kaplan (fellow, 2015-16). Bob is developing a book emphasizing social ecosystems as reinforcing/undermining long-term health More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/rober...

Quiet now. But the 2026-27 CASBS class begins arriving next Thursday, August 27... #SEENatCASBS

DAY 19 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class Can't wait to welcome Mary Helen Immordino-Yang. Her trans-disciplinary book project will advance a new developmental humanism, revealing how adolescents’ capacity for 'transcendent thinking' emerges... More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/mary-...

It's usually pretty quiet at the Center in August, just the staff. So, what a delight to get a surprise visit from Márta Fülöp - her first since she spent a year here as a fellow in 1997-98! Naturally, we reunited Márta with her fellowship year study, #2... 👻

DAY 18 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class There's little social science on the class of transnational professionals who help shape our lives. @ebharrington.bsky.social will provide a corrective for this through the project she designs this year. More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/brook...

A copy of the NEW BOOK "Heartbreak and Other Geographies," co-edited by @camillahawth.bsky.social & completed during Camilla's 2024-25 CASBS fellowship, has entered into the Center's renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 📚 About this @uminnpress.bsky.social book: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791706...

DAY 17 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class Are psychological disorders sometimes accompanied by unexpected emotional strengths? At CASBS, @junegruber.bsky.social will work on a book that develops a more nuanced understanding of mental health 🧠 More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/june-...

The CASBS library reading room, 1954

🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE "Confronting Climate Migration Crises" Two 2024-25 CASBS fellows – @maureeneger.bsky.social & @ahsfarmer.bsky.social – discuss thorny scholarly and policy dimensions of the climate migration landscape w/journalist & 2017-18 CASBS fellow John Markoff 🎧 bit.ly/3Rluy3b 👂

DAY 16 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class In the context of post-Cold War great power competition, we need a book explaining dramatic changes in U.S. foreign policy since 1989. @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social understands the assignment & will deliver More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/james...

DAY 15 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class If AGI arrives, how can we make it a supercharged "bicycle for the mind" rather than a path to cognitive surrender? Practitioner fellow @bartdecrem.bsky.social will pursue the answer this year with us... More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/bart-...

DAY 14 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class From asylum to app & hubris to humility Henry Cowles’s history of mental healthcare will reveal a deceptively simple pattern found in two centuries of U.S. failure to rid society of anxiety & depression More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/henry...

DAY 13 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class Widespread stock ownership encouraged many middle-class Americans to align their perceived interests w/corporate profit &/weakening support for labor & regulations. So argues Eli Cook in his book project More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/eli-c...

DAY 12 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class Lawrence Cheung will work on a couple of interdisciplinary linguistics projects, one on detecting markers of dementia across languages & another on how languages encode warning & threatening speech acts More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/lawre...

DAY 11 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class Daniel Chen is on fertile ground for exploring how human-AI collaboration can improve fairness, consistency & legitimacy in legal systems. His book will benefit just from being here. It's the CASBS magic More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/danie...

DAY 10 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class Not that this worries anyone, but how to achieve an AI transition w/o breaking social arrangements that allow us to build our lives? Well, Salman Chaudry will figure it out this year with us. No problem. More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/salma...