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ICYMI: The video from Wednesday's webinar on administrative governance following Trump v. Slaughter is now available on the Penn Program on Regulation's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kl5ShqK2eQ&t=108s

The Administrative State After Trump v. Slaughter

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The Penn Program on Regulation (PPR) is celebrating its 20th anniversary! The world of regulation has witnessed dramatic changes over this time—as has the world generally. Through it all, PPR has delivered vital analyses, dialogues, research, & learning. Our latest news: mailchi.mp/841e991edc20...

Warren Center faculty affiliate Chris Callison-Burch provides expert insight into AI chatbot bias. Despite concerns, he says there's no need for alarm because people ultimately make their own decisions rather than relying on a chatbot to decide for them. 6abc.com/post/study-...

AN A-EYE FOR AN A-EYE? Ask an AI model what happens when someone breaks a social norm, and it predicts retaliation. Ask humans, and the answer is usually forgiveness. According to new research from Lyle Ungar, LLMs consistently imagine a harsher social world than humans. (1/6)

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

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GRASP's Kumar Lab developed the first static-obstacle avoidance method for quadrotors using onboard monocular event cameras. Website: www.anishbhattacharya.com/research/evfly Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI51... #GRASP #GRASPLab #KumarLab

Do falsehoods persuade more than selective facts? Jenny Allen presented Falsehoods Offer No Persuasive Advantage Over Selective Facts: Evidence from Real-World Political Misinformation at today's #IC2S2 Plenary Lightning Talks with David Rothschild, Duncan Watts, Amir Tohidi, and Samar Haider!

At today's #IC2S2 Methods and Measurement session, Linnea Gandhi @linneagandhi.bsky.social presented her study with Elizabeth Tipton and Duncan Watts, which tests whether research syntheses can predict the results of new studies and highlights the challenges of producing generalizable knowledge.

Where could you find the most CSS Lab folks in one place at #IC2S2? The poster session! Here are a few of the projects our lab members presented today.

Warren Center faculty affiliate Benjamin Lee explains how factors such as access to energy, water, land, internet connectivity, and tax incentives all play a major role in determining the best locations to build data centers. www.newsweek.com/map...

Penn is part of the new 5-year, $21.5M NSF Institute for Human-AI Cooperation, advancing AI that works alongside clinicians and physical therapists. @haicinstitute.bsky.social @ericeaton.bsky.social @udelaware.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3U2B13C

GRASP's own Dr. Eric Eaton (@ericeaton.bsky.social)will serve as managing director for the NSF AI Institute for Human-AI Cooperation (NSF HAIC @haicinstitute.bsky.social ), a national hub for human-centered AI! Read Here: www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/nsfhaic/ #GRASP #GRASPLab #NSF #HAIC

CSS Lab at #IC2S2 2026 The 12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2'26) is taking place in Burlington, Vermont, from July 28–31, 2026

New Study Explains When Some Conspiracy Beliefs Can Lead to Action www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/new-study-ex... @appc.upenn.edu @dalbarra.bsky.social From study: "qualities like certainty & importance determine the extent to which those beliefs coalesce into attitudes towards behaviours..."

New Study Explains When Some Conspiracy Beliefs Can Lead to Action | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania

A new study identifies three characteristics that help to determine when conspiracy beliefs are most likely to shape real-world behavior.

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Tomorrow at noon, join the Penn Program on Regulation and Warren Center affiliates Cary Coglianese and Christopher Yoo for an online panel discussion exploring the Slaughter decision and its implications for the future of the U.S. administrative state. Register here: penncareylaw.zoom.us...

Join us via Zoom on Weds., July 29, at 12pm ET, for a Penn Program on Regulation webinar on “The Administrative State After Trump v. Slaughter,” featuring Cary Coglianese, Brian Feinstein, Don Moynihan, Kate Shaw & Christopher Yoo. Register here: penncareylaw.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

NEW Penn Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC) “A Dynamic Model of the Economic Returns to Adolescent Social Skills” By: @zachweingarten.bsky.social, Jere Behrman and Andrew Postlewaite https://www.pop.upenn.edu/node/88287 #skills #peers #parents #adolescents #development #athletics #clubs

Great paper from Duncan Watts: LLM-based content reranking improves personalization & aligns video recommendations more closely to users’ prior viewing. Very interesting tho unclear if there is significant deployment of LLM-based recommenders systems at present? infodem.upenn.edu/research-com...

It was fun giving this tutorial. If you missed it, check out calibration-tutorial.github.io where all of our materials are available, including slides, hundreds of pages of lecture notes, an interactive demo, and an annotated reading list.

Aaron Roth@aaroth.bsky.social · last mo.

On Monday @ncollina.bsky.social @iraglobusharris.bsky.social and I are giving a tutorial at ICML on (multi)calibration and its applications. You can find slides and an annotated bibliography on the website: calibration-tutorial.github.io as well as an interactive demo of online calibration algs.

I think this is importantly work bringing causality closer to reality.

Turan Orujlu@turanorujlu.bsky.social · 2w ago

UAI 2026 paper: A genetic perturbation can change the connectome, a new policy can rewire economic links between firms. In each case, interventions change the graph itself which standard SCMs treat as fixed. We tackle this in Partially Observed Structural Causal Models (POSCMs).

COMING TO #ASA2026 ? Penn people (our students and researchers included) will be out in force at the @asanews.bsky.social Annual Mtg in NYC, 8/7 - 8/11 CHECK OUT OUR SCHEDULE of Penn scholarly activity HERE: https://www.pop.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/2026-07/PENN.ASA_.2026.JULY22update.pdf

Problem solving? Working in groups helps cancel biases says a recent study by PSC researcher Damon Centola MORE INFO https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/social-networks-outsmart-cognitive-biases STUDY in @sciopentup.bsky.social https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.23919/JSC.2026.0005

Social Networks Outsmart Cognitive Biases

Research 2 Jun 2026 Social Networks Outsmart Cognitive Biases A new study shows how herding in networks makes populations more rational. In 2010, the New York City-based restaurant Serendipity 3 revealed its $69 hot dog, winning the Guinness World Recor...

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Looking forward to my online conversation next week with extraordinary colleagues, talking about the administrative state after the Supreme Court’s monumental decision this term in Trump v. Slaughter.

The Regulatory Review@theregreview.bsky.social · 2w ago

Join us on Zoom, 7/29 at 12pm ET, for a discussion on “The Administrative State After Trump v. Slaughter,” featuring Cary Coglianese @cary-coglianese.bsky.social, Brian Feinstein, Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social, Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social, and Christopher Yoo. Register: buff.ly/dX7bblj

“Innovation & Impact,” a monthly podcast hosted by Penn Engineering faculty—including Warren Center affiliate Vijay Kumar—features leading global experts discussing the latest breakthroughs and innovations in science, technology, and medicine. news.engineering.upe...

Join us on Zoom, 7/29 at 12pm ET, for a discussion on “The Administrative State After Trump v. Slaughter,” featuring Cary Coglianese @cary-coglianese.bsky.social, Brian Feinstein, Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social, Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social, and Christopher Yoo. Register: buff.ly/dX7bblj

“Every professor is grappling with questions around [artificial intelligence] and what it means for their teaching and research,” says Warren Center faculty affiliate Bhuvnesh Jain, who created and oversaw Penn's successful “How AI Works” program. omnia.sas.upenn.edu/...

GRASP's Kumar Lab has developed a robotic reinforcement learning system that reduces the Markov decision process and allows for accelerated training. Website: pratikkunapuli.github.io/EQTrackingCo... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AosG... #GRASP #GRASPLab #KumarLab

Professor Dolores Albarracín has been named the new director of the @appc.upenn.edu:

New Director for Annenberg Public Policy Center

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Technology is reshaping the way organizations operate, and the new Vice Dean of Wharton’s MBA Program for Executives, Warren Center faculty affiliate Kevin Werbach, brings deep expertise in navigating those changes. www.wharton.upenn.ed...