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Social Science Bites@socialscibitesOct 1
"I looked at a seemingly crazy question: Can football matches affect the stock market?" @LBS Professor of Finance @aedmans discusses market irrationality in the latest Social Science Bites episode. Listen now: ow.ly/XMuN50ZTuzp
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Sage@Sage_PublishingSep 8
Academic librarians are a key resource for access to knowledge in higher education. Join us on October 7 at 9am PT | 12pm ET for a discussion about academic freedom and the librarian's role in supporting research, teaching, and learning. Register here: sagepub.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
Free Webinar Academic Freedom and the Role of the Academic Librarian: Partnerships, Support, and Action Wednesday, October 7, 2026 9am PT | 12pm ET

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Social Science Bites@socialscibitesSep 1
"When you see an image, like up high on like a bridge, and you're just like, 'How did that come to be?' So that performance is part of the image." Anthropologist Rafael Schacter discusses graffiti as a form of art on a new episode. Listen now: ow.ly/sZBm50ZHM0K
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Social Science Bites@socialscibitesAug 3
What shapes children's learning before they even start school? @ariel_kalil discusses the role of family habits, daily routines, and parenting in children's development on the latest episode of Social Science Bites. Listen now: ow.ly/L8yE50ZvRyp
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Social Science Bites@socialscibitesJul 31
Whose work most influenced you? David O Sears endowed Presidential Professor of Social Science at UCLA, Safiya Noble answers this question on a special episode. Hear from today’s leading social and behavioral scientists: ow.ly/ku2l50Zv0T3
"Siva Vaidhyanathan's book, The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) is the single most influential book that inspired me to write Algorithms of Oppression...and really inspired me to think about the way that company is affecting vulnerable people and racial and ethnic minorities and women." - Safiya Noble Headshot photo of Safiya Noble to the right with the Social Science Bites logo underneath.

ALT "Siva Vaidhyanathan's book, The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) is the single most influential book that inspired me to write Algorithms of Oppression...and really inspired me to think about the way that company is affecting vulnerable people and racial and ethnic minorities and women." - Safiya Noble Headshot photo of Safiya Noble to the right with the Social Science Bites logo underneath.

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Social Science Bites@socialscibitesJul 22
Whose work most influenced you? Professor of Finance at London Business School, @aedmans answers this question on a special episode of the Social Science Bites podcast. Hear from today’s leading social and behavioral scientists: ow.ly/kXuE50Zrj9A
"So I was a PhD student when behavioral finance was really taking off, and it was seen as controversial, because people believed in traditional rational finance. But (Daniel) Kahneman's work showed that this was not based on just fluff, it was based on evidence and experiments and science..." - Alex Edmans A headshot photo of Alex Edmans to the right with the Social Science Bites logo underneath

ALT "So I was a PhD student when behavioral finance was really taking off, and it was seen as controversial, because people believed in traditional rational finance. But (Daniel) Kahneman's work showed that this was not based on just fluff, it was based on evidence and experiments and science..." - Alex Edmans A headshot photo of Alex Edmans to the right with the Social Science Bites logo underneath

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At the ALA Annual Conference last month, @Sage_Publishing hosted a panel discussion, "Academic Freedom and the Role of the Academic Librarian," exploring rising censorship concerns in higher education Watch the recording or read the transcript: ow.ly/aGKg50ZnTGS
2026 ALA Annual Conference Academic freedom and the role of the academic librarian Headshot photos from left to right: Nicole A. Cooke, Christina Bell, Rhonda Contreras Sage logo is on the bottom right

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Social Science Bites@socialscibitesJul 15
Whose work most influenced you? Professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, @katy_milkman answers this question on a special episode of the Social Science Bites podcast. Hear from today’s leading social and behavioral scientists: ow.ly/ArBs50ZnJ8V
"It's the book Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, and the reason why is that they highlight a way of looking at the world and recognizing that in every environment where we make choices, the environment is shaping those choices." - Katy Milkman A headshot photo of Katy Milkman smiling to the right with the Social Science Bites logo underneath.

ALT "It's the book Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, and the reason why is that they highlight a way of looking at the world and recognizing that in every environment where we make choices, the environment is shaping those choices." - Katy Milkman A headshot photo of Katy Milkman smiling to the right with the Social Science Bites logo underneath.

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Social Science Bites@socialscibitesJul 8
Whose work most influenced you? Institute Professor of Economics at MIT and Nobel Prize winner, Daron Acemoglu, answers this question on a special episode. Hear from many of today’s leading social and behavioral scientists now: ow.ly/qPlY50ZlwXL
"...since the political scientist James Scott has recently passed away, I’ll say his book Seeing like a State, because it highlights how distortionary it is to impose designs on diverse people from above. And his focus is on what states do, which I think is a very important part of it." - Daron Acemoglu His headshot photo to the right with the Social Science Bites logo under it.

ALT "...since the political scientist James Scott has recently passed away, I’ll say his book Seeing like a State, because it highlights how distortionary it is to impose designs on diverse people from above. And his focus is on what states do, which I think is a very important part of it." - Daron Acemoglu His headshot photo to the right with the Social Science Bites logo under it.

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Social Science Bites@socialscibitesJul 1
How do AI systems “think” about people? Mahzarin Banaji explains how social cognition research reveals the biases built into large language models and why that matters. Listen to the new episode: ow.ly/bPgN50Zjeth
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Social Science Bites@socialscibitesJun 1
How does the brain work like a scientist? Psychologist and neuroscientist Daniel Yon explains how the brain constantly makes predictions, building theories to interpret incomplete and ambiguous information. Listen to the new episode: ow.ly/cMUo50Z67jq
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Social Science Bites@socialscibitesMay 4
You’re not under a microscope – you just think you are. @CornellCAS professor Tom Gilovich breaks down the spotlight effect and why we regret what we didn’t do in this month’s episode of the Social Science Bites podcast. Listen now: ow.ly/hYjf50YUuhb
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Social Science Bites@socialscibitesApr 22
Which piece of social science research has most inspired or influenced you? Host @DavidEdmonds100 asks this question to every guest on the Social Science Bites podcast. @DAcemogluMIT, @MukulikaB, @aedmans, and more answer on this episode. Listen now: ow.ly/m1MK50YO0I7
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Princeton Economics@PrincetonEconApr 11
Listen to Ellora Derenoncourt, Assistant Professor of Economics and Founding Director of Princeton's Program for Research on Inequality, discuss the US racial wealth gap on a recent episode of Social Science Bites (@socscispace). bit.ly/4cdU1Sq

Ellora Derenoncourt on the US Racial Wealth Gap

This Social Science Bites podcast offers a dollop of good news and heaping helping of bad. The good news is that since the end of American Civil War the economic condition of Back Americans has i

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Social Science Bites@socialscibitesApr 1
“…Black Americans hold, on average, about 17 cents for every dollar of white wealth.” @EDerenoncourt, assistant professor of economics at Princeton University, discusses the racial wealth gap in the United States on a new episode. Listen now: ow.ly/8UJ250YBHGi
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Social Science Bites@socialscibitesFeb 2
“If a country as diverse as India can use the democratic project to celebrate and work with this diversity, then any other nation should be able to.” Anthropologist @MukulikaB explores why India votes on a new episode of Social Science Bites. Listen now: ow.ly/qu7050Y7w2b
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Social Science Bites@socialscibitesJan 7
“Empathy is sort of vulnerable to all the biases you would think about.” University of Toronto psychology professor, @paulbloomatyale, discusses empathy on a new episode. Listen here or read the transcript: ow.ly/zfjC50XSUqQ
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In the second episode of a new podcast series from @Choice_Reviews, Sage's @CamilleGamboa and Tracey Brown from @senseaboutsci discuss key takeaways from Sage and Sense about Science’s guide on increasing public trust in research. Learn more: ow.ly/wqtc50XGvKi

Steps to Increase Public Trust in Science

In the second episode of this four-part series on The Authority File, Tracey Brown, director of Sense about Science, and Camille Gamboa, associate vice president of corporate communications at Sage,

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Sage@Sage_Publishing9 Dec 2025
We surveyed SBS researchers globally to understand their motivation to conduct research that makes societal impact. Our new white paper shows a gap between the aspirations for researchers and the leaders and systems that govern their careers. Read here: ow.ly/V42i50XGiwm
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Faculty of English@engfac3 Dec 2025
In this @socialscibites podcast - Professor Devyani Sharma takes a deep dive into the #accents of Britain. Listen now at: socialsciencespace.com/2025/…

Devyani Sharma on Accents

What does your accent – and yes, every speaker has one – say about you? Or perhaps the better question is, what do others hear in your accent? These are the sorts of questions that Devyani Sh

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Social Science Bites@socialscibites1 Dec 2025
“Accent prestige is used as a shortcut to assume other kinds of social traits like intelligence, education, sophistication...” Linguist Devyani Sharma explores why accents shape careers, social identity and hiring decisions on a new episode. Listen here: ow.ly/H1nN50XAeBR
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