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MIT students! Join us on Thursday, December 3 at 11:30am in Room 10-105 (Bush Room) for our annual Spring Ahead with SHASS event! Enjoy refreshments while learning more about HASS courses! See you there!
ALT The image is a promotional flyer for an event titled "Spring Ahead with SHASS" hosted by the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. It invites attendees to enjoy refreshments and learn about Spring 2027 subjects within the HASS curriculum. The event is scheduled for Thursday, December 3, from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM at the Bush Room (10-105). Contact information is provided as [email protected]. The design features colorful abstract shapes and the MIT logo.
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Prediction markets have become increasingly visible in political coverage, especially after the 2024 election.
Their rise has fueled questions about whether they could eventually rival traditional polling.
Experts caution that the two tools measure fundamentally different things.
🔗 Learn more: undark.org/2026/05/05/predic…
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Undark’s November 2026 issue is here! 🗞️
Our cover story looks at life after cancer treatment, where being cancer-free can still leave survivors managing long-term health effects and a medical system that does not always know what comes next.
This month, Undark also explores how AI is changing migratory bird tracking, how virtual reality is entering difficult conversations in medicine, why engineers sometimes have to push things to the breaking point to keep people safe, and more.
🔎 See what’s inside the November issue: undark.org/
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Science gets interesting when the answer refuses to settle down.
Entanglements: The Undark Podcast follows the questions that remain open even after the research has piled up.
Catch up on the latest conversations from Undark!
🔊 Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, and SoundCloud.
🔗: undark.org/podcast/
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In Mali, 70% of farmers had to travel outside their village to buy seed and fertilizer. Farmers want inputs and dealers want to sell, yet the market is missing.
Researchers explain how one-day village input fairs, run by a social enterprise, could help: bit.ly/4yXZxlm
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The search for alien life can begin surprisingly close to home.
Across Italy, scientists are studying some of Earth’s harshest environments to understand what life might look like on Mars or elsewhere in the universe.
🔗: undark.org/2026/09/25/italy-…
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Do you have a charter school research question but no partner site? The Charter School Research Collaborative has facilitated over 100 matches, and our next matchmaking session is on November 19. Spaces are limited: reserve yours today! #EconTwitter forms.gle/Qt36138GvbWpzKxF6
"To build a better world in the age of AI, students need grounding in indispensable ideas," argues MIT Literature professor @SirJoshBennett in an essay for @TheAtlantic. theatlantic.com/books/2026/1…
“It’s very important to note that definitions in the history of science come at the end of the scientific process, not at the beginning,” @MITphilosophy prof Matthias Michel told @Nature. nature.com/articles/d41586-0… @mitbrainandcog
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Five LIDS PIs named 2026 #AI2050 Fellows!
Congrats to Senior Fellow @m_sendhil and Early Career Fellows @alex_damian_, @baileyflan, @Micro_Yunha, and @manish_raghavan! The @schmidtsciences initiative supports research tackling #AI's toughest challenges. bit.ly/4Ai7gfj
This week's newsletter recaps the #SHASS75 symposium, explores research into AI and voter behavior, shares information about primordial black holes, and more. mailchi.mp/mit/shass-weekly-… @MITPoliSci @mit_cmsw @MIT_Sciwrite @MITEcon
ALT (Pictured from left) MIT professors Eric Klopfer, Norvin Richards, and Stephanie Seed, Senior Lecturer Sara Ellison, Institute Professor Suzanne Berger, Lecturer Takako Aikawa, and Professor Will Broadhead beneath a screen displaying an "MIT SHASS 75" banner with the SHASS logo.
“More voters may simply be shifting away from voting on Election Day,” @MITelectionlab director @cstewartiii told @axios' rJosephine Walker. axios.com/local/twin-cities/… @MITPoliSci
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Could #AI chatbots influence how Americans vote?
@MITLIDS PI @charapod & @MITPoliSci's @AdamBerinsky spoke with @CNN about how popular AI chatbots answer questions about the midterms—and why the chatbot voters choose matters. cnn.com/2026/10/30/business/…
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MIT students! Submit your Burchard Scholars Program applications today and join a distinguished group of students who've made significant contributions in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Applications due 12/1! bit.ly/3VGIyWM
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@AdamBerinsky says "promising recent work demonstrates that evidence-based dialogues with a chatbot can durably reduce belief in conspiracy theories and other beliefs that are not supported by the balance of publicly available evidence."
news.mit.edu/2026/qa-hey-ai-… @MIT_SHASS
ARTEMIS is the newest offering within @JPAL_NA's Economics Pathways program, which broadens and strengthens the pipeline of economics researchers by providing support to aspiring scholars at every stage. news.mit.edu/2026/j-pal-nort… @MITEcon @JPAL @HowardU
Prof. Bailey Flanigan is among five MIT faculty named AI 2050 Fellows by Schmidt Sciences for a project focusing on gathering structured public input that lawmakers can use when making complex decisions.
news.mit.edu/2026/mit-affili…
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Books bring us into conversation—with ideas, with their authors, and with one another. I’m delighted to have Artificial Intimacy included in The HotList, a shared fall reading list organized by Seth Godin. Thank you, Seth, for bringing us together and helping our books find new readers. Explore the collection, click on a cover, and find your next read: thehotlist.org
