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Using social media to raise awareness of women’s resources
MIT News Office | August 8, 2023

A study in Egypt led by IDSS core faculty Fotini Christia and co-authored by incoming SES student Manuel Quintero suggests ways to spread information for women facing domestic violence.

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New study shows big changes early in life can help strengthen connections with others.

Why big changes early in life can help later on
MIT News | July 14, 2023

A new study led by IDSS affiliate Dean Eckles and SES alum Eaman Jahani shows moving can help foster a more robust social network, by strengthening “long ties” with others.

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Illustration of a magnifying glass hovering over a Twitter user to reveal an angry face made of overlapping numbers

Bot detection software isn’t as accurate as it seems
MIT Sloan | June 13, 2023

A study by IDSS postdoc Zachary Schutzman and IDSS students Chris Hays, Erin Walk, and Philipp Zimmer finds that general-purpose bot-detection algorithms trained on a particular data set may be highly error-prone when applied in real-world contexts.

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Dr. Chin-Chia Hsu, Dr. Yi Sun, Dr. Yunzong Xu, Dr. Yan Jin

The 2023 graduates of IDSS
IDSS News | June 2, 2023

Congrats to the IDSS graduates of 2023, from our PhDs in Social & Engineering Systems, Master's students in the Technology and Policy Program, and the undergrad and grad students in the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center.

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From ad credibility to shopping habits
May 25, 2023

SES and IDPS student Amir Tohidi’s research combines economic and psychological insights with advanced computational methods to address interesting real-world problems.

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Exploring new methods for increasing safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles
MIT News Office | May 24, 2023

IDSS core faculty Cathy Wu is co-author of a study that finds human supervisors have the potential to reduce barriers to deploying autonomous vehicles.

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illustration of a robot hand touching a heart

New research: Twitter bot detection tools aren’t very good
Fast Company | May 16, 2023

When is a bot not a bot? When it likes a tweet, according to a new paper by researchers including IDSS postdoc Zachary Schutzman that pokes holes in bot detection methodology.

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Munther Dahleh

Celebrating the impact of IDSS
May 4, 2023

A two-day conference at MIT reflected on the impact of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society since its launch, as founding director Munther Dahleh prepares to step down.

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Fotini Christia and Hammaad Adam

IDSS teams receive 2023 Racism Research Awards
May 3, 2023

The awards from the Office of the Provost support the ambitious research projects of IDSS associate director Fotini Christia and SES student Hammaad Adam.

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Manon Ravel

Aligning decision-making processes with democratic values
April 4, 2023

SES student Manon Revel, who works at the intersection of computational social choice and political theory, hopes to uncover ways to improve governance in AI systems, democracies, and corporate environments.

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