How Big a Threat Is the Supreme Court to Biden’s Climate Agenda?

President Biden will rely upon regulatory agencies like the EPA to push his ambitious clean energy and climate agenda. Yet increasingly conservative courts could stand in the way of Biden’s plans. Cary Coglianese discusses how big a threat the Supreme Court could be to Biden’s climate agenda.

Law
Political Science

Ubiquity of Data

Understanding and addressing barriers to COVID vaccine acceptance

Reservations about the COVID-19 vaccine emerge for a range of reasons: Concerns about how fast they were developed or their safety, distrust of the medical establishment, a feeling that the shot simply isn’t necessary. Damon Centola discusses how understanding and moving past these will be key to overcoming the pandemic.

Communication
Sociology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Toward a better understanding of ‘fake news’

Duncan Watts has published a new framework for studying media bias and misinformation, detailing an ambitious and comprehensive research agenda for understanding the origins, nature, and prevalence of misinformation and its impact on democracy.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Operations Information and Decisions

Ubiquity of Data

Peter Fader receives 2021 Lindback Award

Congratulations to Warren Center affiliate Peter Fader for receiving one of Penn's 2021 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Awards for Distinguished Teaching.!

Marketing

Ubiquity of Data

How COVID could reshape mental health policy

Jonathan Moreno addresses the uncertainty over the broader impact on the general health and quality of life of the survivors of COVID-19 in his recent op-ed on The Hill.

History and Sociology of Science
Medical Ethics and Health Policy

Ubiquity of Data

Cyber comfort and security: Sebastian Angel receives NSF CAREER Award

Congratulations to Sebastian Angel, who recently received an NSF CAREER Award for his project on “Tools for building online services that hide metadata.“

Computer and Information Science

Resilience in Networked Systems

Twitter Bots May Not Be as Influential as You Think

A new study from Sandra González-Bailón found that verified media accounts are more central in the spread of information on Twitter than bots — even though they amount to a much smaller fraction of all accounts active.

Communication

Consensus and Contagion in Society

What’s Ahead in the Second Year of COVID-19?

Gad Allon comments on what's ahead in 2021 as the ground keeps shifting, vaccines are rolled out, and new coronavirus mutations emerge.

Operations Information and Decisions

Ubiquity of Data

Modeling Brain Networks and Bias in Science

Dani Bassett spoke on an episode of the podcast OHBM Neurosalience on network control theory for modulating networks for therapy and limitations in technology for modulation.

Bioengineering
Electrical and Systems Engineering

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

Prof. Baker’s COVID Coverage Litigation Tracker

The COVID Coverage Litigation Tracker (CCLT), created by Tom Baker, will enable scholars and researchers to study in real time how courts respond to the challenges posed by a new wave of mass litigation.

Law

Ubiquity of Data

News

How Big a Threat Is the Supreme Court to Biden’s Climate Agenda?

Understanding and addressing barriers to COVID vaccine acceptance

Toward a better understanding of ‘fake news’

Peter Fader receives 2021 Lindback Award

How COVID could reshape mental health policy

Cyber comfort and security: Sebastian Angel receives NSF CAREER Award

Twitter Bots May Not Be as Influential as You Think

What’s Ahead in the Second Year of COVID-19?

Modeling Brain Networks and Bias in Science

Prof. Baker’s COVID Coverage Litigation Tracker