"Countries want to take advantage of the economic gains that come from bilateral trade. But there’s no guarantee with this administration." @dartmouthecon.bsky.social professor @douglasirwin.bsky.social discusses why trade disputes often de-escalate despite aggressive negotiating tactics.

Escalation tactics in trade negotiations with the U.S. prove to be a minefield

Countertariffs can provide leverage, but they run the risk of creating blowback that makes matters worse

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Anthropology professor Raquel Fleskes conducted ancient DNA studies on three Hessian soldiers recovered from a Revolutionary War mass grave at Red Bank Battlefield and found that they have strong northwestern European ancestry.

Revolutionary War battlefields often romanticize combat, but this mass grave just outside Philadelphia shows the violence soldiers actually experienced

A team of historians, archaeologists and forensic anthropologists is trying to identify 15 German soldiers who were unceremoniously dumped in a ditch after trying to help the British capture Philadel...

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The E.E. Just Program hosted a cohort of incoming students for Dartmouth Adventures in STEM, introducing them to new ideas and possibilities at the vanguard of science. They also participated in Navigating #Dartmouth sessions, visited labs, and engaged in community-building activities.

Getting Started in STEM | Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Dartmouth Adventures in STEM introduces 27 incoming first-year students to the frontiers of science.

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Business Insider highlights Dartmouth's $94 million effort to expand career coaching, internships, and preparation for an AI-shaped job market through the #Dartmouth Center for Career Design. "We wanted students to be equipped to navigate the future of work," says executive director Joe Catrino.

Employers are begging colleges to help Zoomers learn how to talk

Every generation of new grads doesn't know how to work. Gen Z has it especially rough.

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"The deepfakes we are seeing, it's essentially disinformation campaigns that now seem to be coming out of the [voices] of those very people that we're used to listening to, so they're quite effective." Professor Hany Farid comments on the rise of AI-generated deepfakes of late-night hosts.

Are you sure that Kimmel clip was real? Late-night AI deepfakes are spreading online

While social media is rife with AI celebrity deepfakes, videos featuring late night TV hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart are are easier to create than other kinds of deepfakes and potentially mo...

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Professor Alexandra Schultz explores popular myths around the Library of Alexandria’s destruction. Among the possibilities, she discusses how bookworms and neglect may have been responsible and how, among the myths, there is a powerful lesson about the need to fund and sustain libraries.

What Really Destroyed the Library of Alexandria?

History loves a villain, but the culprit was likely something much more mundane.

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Sociology professor Janice McCabe, author of “Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends,” is featured in a piece in the New York Times about innovative ways to maintain friendships in your schedule.

Have You Closed Your ‘Social Rings’ This Week?

Commit to your friendships like you do the gym.

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Physics professor Marcelo Gleiser joins WXXI News’ “Connections Summer Sessions” to discuss science's "blind spot" and the importance of accounting for lived human experience alongside scientific knowledge.

What's working ... and what isn't? Examining models for treating substance abuse

During "Connections with Evan Dawson" on 8/27/26, examining approaches to treating addiction. Then, in "Connections Summer Sessions," astrophysicist Adam Frank explains science's "blind spot."

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"If we're going to get climate prediction markets, I think it's one of the potentially most important use cases for prediction markets.” Professor Eric Zitzewitz comments on the potential for prediction markets to expand from short-term weather contracts into longer-term climate forecasting.

Kalshi Weather Odds Are Coming to a Weather App Near You

Kalshi Inc. has entered a partnership with The Weather Company to bolster the data it uses to settle contracts in rapidly growing weather and climate prediction markets.

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“The underlying logic is reminiscent of the Cold War paradox: Belief in the existence of an ultimate ceiling on escalation can make behavior below that ceiling more aggressive.” Visiting professor Matthew Rojansky warns of the danger of the U.S. applying maximum economic pressure in the Iran war.

The ‘Stability-Instability Paradox’ Comes for Markets

This is not yet an economic catastrophe, but it could very easily become one.

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"At a time when the public is sensitive to affordability concerns and feels insecurity about their jobs, disrupting trade with a close and popular ally creates challenges for the GOP in these and other states," says economics professor @douglasirwin.bsky.social.

Trump's Trade War With Canada Could Spell Disaster For Senate Republican Candidates

Four competitive Senate races are in states that border Canada. If tariffs raise prices, guess which party undecided voters are likely to blame?

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We are looking for a new colleague to join us @dartmouthchem.bsky.social (TT in organic chemistry) Come be my colleague at @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social #facultychemjobs apply.interfolio.com/192063

Seventy years after hosting the workshop that launched the field of artificial intelligence, #Dartmouth will host AI at 70: What Must Remain Human?, a conference that brings together leaders from academia, industry, government, and the arts to discuss some of AI’s most consequential questions.

Dartmouth to Host AI at 70 Conference in October | Faculty of Arts and Sciences

At the birthplace of artificial intelligence, a focus on human judgment.

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In his first solo exhibition at #Dartmouth, multidisciplinary artist and associate professor of studio art Chris Sollars presents The Neighbors, a multimedia video installation inspired by coexistence and inquiry. The exhibition will be on view in the Visual Arts Center from Sept. 15 to Nov. 8.

Faculty Exhibition – Chris Sollars: The Neighbors | Department of Studio Art

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“We had two decades, the '90s through 2013, where test scores increased dramatically nationwide. And so it really has been a turnaround.” Professor Doug Staiger discusses a national decline in reading scores and factors like smartphones, changes in school accountability, and reading instruction.

US reading scores have dropped a grade level since 2013. Why?

U.S. reading scores have fallen about a grade level since 2013, a decline that began well before COVID-19.

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"We'll use Roman's enormous, deep 3D images to explore the fundamental nature of the universe, including its dark side.” Professor Ryan Hickox discusses the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ahead of its launch and its potential to transform observations of the universe.

NASA's Roman telescope launches on Sunday August 30 with the same size mirror as Hubble, but it takes in roughly 100 times more sky at once

The successor to Hubble trades depth for breadth, surveying vast cosmic territories in single exposures that would take its predecessor months to assemble.

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. @dartmouthecon.bsky.social professor Andrew Levin argues that central banks should unwind massive bond portfolios built up during the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic through gradual, case-specific approaches that can help reduce risk of market disruption.

Central banks should adopt nuanced strategy for bond holdings, says former Fed advisor Levin

Former Fed advisor Andrew Levin argues central banks need tailored quantitative tightening strategies to unwind $8 trillion in bond holdings

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To illustrate the possible economic impact of a very strong 2026 El Niño, Reuters cites a 2023 #Dartmouth study that estimates that the 1982-83 and 1997-98 events cost the global economy $4.1 trillion and $5.7 trillion, respectively, over the following five years.

NEWSLETTER: El Niño: the naughty boy rattling the global economy

It looks like we'll all get to baby-sit an unruly little chap this year. I am talking about El Niño, the Pacific climate phenomenon that messes up weather patterns across the world every few years and...

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This past academic year, #Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Center for Public Policy funded public policy internships for 25 undergraduates and established a partnerships with the Dartmouth Center for Career Design, making it easier for students to apply for the internships.

Exploring Future Careers through Rockefeller Center Funded Public Policy Internships | Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth

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A new study co-authored by research scientist Luke Fannin, Guarini '25, finds that sooty mangabeys can climb vertical tree trunks using extreme midfoot flexibility, challenging the assumption that a monkey-like foot would have limited climbing in early human ancestors.

A Forest Monkey Just Complicated A Major Theory About Human Evolution

Wild mangabeys bend their midfoot nearly as much as chimps bend their ankles, reshaping ideas about early human tree climbing.

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Professor @brendannyhan.bsky.social, who co-directs Bright Line Watch, discusses the group’s recent survey that found "no measurable change" in confidence among the public and political science experts in the expected integrity of elections.

Trump effort to undermine confidence in elections makes little headway, new report finds

President Donald Trump has sought to cast doubt on election integrity, calling them “rigged and stolen,” but researchers say public opinion has barely budged.

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Economics professor @douglasirwin.bsky.social joined the Port of Los Angeles' monthly media briefing as a leading expert to discuss tariffs, global commerce, and the broader forces shaping supply chain decisions.

Port of Los Angeles Records Busiest June In Its 118-Year History With 1.02 Million TEUs

Marine Insight - The maritime industry guide.

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"This is just wreaking havoc in an election with real stakes and no real interest in understanding the effects of what you are doing.” Professor @miacosta.bsky.social comments on fabricated polls released as a "social experiment" to test how false information spreads through the political ecosystem.

Fake Polls in Wisconsin and California Were Part of a ‘Social Experiment’

Median Strategies revealed that recent polls from the group were intended to expose how easily false results can be spread.

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In this episode of the Health Policy Podcast, Prof. Chris Snyder discusses the FDA's exploration of drug repurposing and the work of the Market Shaping Accelerator, an initiative aimed at enhancing innovation in public health. healthpolicypodcast.com/episodes/chr...

Chris Snyder on FDA Drug Repurposing and Market Incentives Explained

Christopher Snyder of Dartmouth College discusses FDA drug repurposing and market incentives in this episode of the Health Policy Podcast.

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How did Sociology become the hate piñata of Concerned Pundits on the education beat? The past month saw calls in the press for the discipline to be "liquidated" bc it's a "scam." My theory: it's bc we expose the harms of inequality. Me in today's @economist.com:🎁 www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Why is sociology the hate-piñata of the social sciences?

Accusations that it is thinly disguised socialism are wide of the mark, writes Brooke Harrington

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“A lot of stock investing is happening via index funds. So if a stock gets added to that index, they pretty much have to buy the stock in order to track the index." @dartmouthecon.bsky.social professor Eric Zitzewitz explains why Reddit's addition to the S&P 500 is significant.

Popular online forum Reddit is joining the S&P 500

The so-called “front page of the Internet” started with a $100,000 investment two decades ago, and is now worth more than $30 billion.

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"How do we tell the story in a way that doesn't just make people aware of the gravity of the situation, but also what they could do should something like this come up again?" Professor @wernimont.bsky.social co-created an innovative website about the eugenics movement and its effects in the U.S.

New Website Investigates Eugenics in 20th-Century U.S. | Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Digital storytelling offers new insight into a disturbing chapter of American history.

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. @dartmouthspport.bsky.social professor Israel Reyes curated La Mirada Boricua, an exhibition at the Hood Museum that explores contemporary Puerto Rican visual culture while engaging with colonial history, the experience of migration and diaspora, and the ongoing struggle for self-determination.

La Mirada Boricua Exhibition at the Hood by Prof. Israel Reyes | Department of Spanish and Portuguese

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"An assumption that most of what you are seeing is fake is probably pretty good right now.” Professor Hany Farid discusses the limitations of tools designed to detect AI-generated images, saying visual AI detectors remain unreliable because images can be distorted and manipulated in many ways.

I Tested a Popular A.I. Slop Detector. It Felt Empowering.

Pangram excels at distinguishing chatbot-generated words from human writing. But it’s not reliable for spotting artificial images.

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“If you don't allow firms to hire immigrant workers, they just become smaller firms. They are not replaced with U.S. workers.” Professor Ethan Lewis co-authored a study on the economic effects of low-skill immigration restrictions on American firms and workers.

Winning the visa lottery

Evidence from a US government lottery shows that restricting foreign low-skill workers shrinks businesses without creating jobs for Americans.

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