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The Social Science Research Council and Arnold Ventures are pleased to announce the appointment of six Criminal Justice Innovation Fellows. The postdoctoral fellows will pursue policy-relevant causal research on interventions with the potential to increase the equity and efficacy of criminal justice practices, as well as support the Arnold Ventures Criminal Justice team in its research and policy work.

The Council’s Data Fluencies Program announces a call for proposals for its research development workshop, Drilling Down to the Data: Navigating Data Politics at the Heart of AI Policy, to be held on July 22–23, 2024. The workshop is designed to support research from across fields that has a clear policy impact and that contributes to evidence-based AI regulation discussions.

With support from Arnold Ventures, the Jail Data Initiative collects daily person-level jail records in over 1,300 counties to enable the research and policy communities to better understand the causes and consequences of jail incarceration. A joint project of the Social Science Research Council and New York University’s Public Safety Lab, the Jail Data Initiative’s dashboard and downloadable data allow researchers to identify policies that can safely reduce jail incarceration.

Frontiers in Social and Behavioral Science features new research in the flagship journals of the Social Science Research Council’s founding disciplinary associations. Every month we publish a new selection of articles from the most recent issues of these journals, marking the rapid advance of the frontiers of social and behavioral science.

The Social Science Research Council, the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS), and the Ohio Education Research Center (OERC) are pleased to welcome a new University Advisory Board to the Industries of Ideas project. Representatives from 35 universities nationwide have joined our National Science Foundation-supported collaboration to map the economic impacts of federal investments in university-based research in emerging technologies. The advisory board will provide critical input into a prototype data infrastructure linking person-level university grant data with state workforce data for the fields of AI and electric vehicle research. The board’s input will help ensure that the prototype is responsive to the needs of universities and can be scaled to other states, universities, and research areas.