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Predictive models are increasingly used in decision-making pipelines, and the statistical information derived from their outputs is often treated as if it preserves classical coverage guarantees. This talk examines how such guarantees can fail when estimates are constructed from synthetic or inferred data rather than directly…

Democratic responses to climate change will be determined by how institutions such as deliberative bodies make sense of decarbonization. In a novel ethnography of the deliberations to achieve New York’s climate target, one of the world’s most ambitious, I show how norms of talk shape how people temporally coordinate action to…

Seminar Series – Spring 2026The Education Research Section (ERS), an interdisciplinary unit in The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, promotes the use of high-quality research in education decision-making. We conduct, support, and promote education research, and disseminate results to educators, policymakers,…

Amidst a sea of hype and despair surrounding the use of computational artificial intelligence in mental healthcare treatment, comparatively less has been said about the implementation of AI into psychiatric triaging, evaluation, and monitoring. These under-regulated and bureaucratically oriented practices involve making…

The need to pivot away from fossil-fuel use rapidly is a common concern. But every technological transition is enabled and inhibited by its social and physical environments. I’m interested in small changes that add up, especially the choices that power homes and rely on the behavior of millions of people. How quickly can those…

The 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) focuses on strengthening access to justice for all women and girls. This priority theme presents a critical opportunity to examine how systemic discrimination and institutionalised impunity deny women not only their fundamental rights, but also meaningful access…

The 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) is guided by the priority theme of ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls, including through inclusive and equitable legal systems, the elimination of discriminatory laws, policies, and practices, and the removal of structural…

Recommendation systems are now used in high-stakes settings, including to help find jobs, schools, and partners. Building public interest recommender systems in such settings bring both individual-level (enabling exploration, diversity, data quality) and societal (fairness, capacity constraints, monoculture) challenges.

Rapid growth in electricity demand from data centers and cryptocurrency mining has already begun to affect the U.S. electricity grid, with impacts likely to grow over the next five years. We use a detailed energy system optimization model to evaluate how projected demand through 2030 may influence electricity generation,…

Some software vulnerabilities are one-off bugs or typos in code. Others, however, are symptoms of deeper design flaws embedded in a system. As we increasingly confront harms across digital experiences, Wei argues that these harms are not anomalies, but canaries in a coal mine for systemic inequities. Synthesizing feminist…