š¬ #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight 7: Ryan Hill
Our final invited speaker is Prof @ryanreedhill.bsky.social from Northwestern Kellogg whose work spans the topic "pivot penalty", the impact of AlphaFold2 on science, the factors shaping occupation choice, and more!
7/7 ā fantastic ICSSI Boulder lineup!
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š¬ #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight 6: Lingfei Wu
How do we measure innovation? How do ideas spread, and how is innovation produced? Prof @lingfeiwu.bsky.social addresses these questions and more in his group at Pitt's School of Computing & Information.
See you in Boulder this June & July! icssi.org
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š¬ #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight 5: Kevin Gross
A statistician at NC State, Prof. Gross's game-theoretic work reveals how funding competitions shape risk-taking, how peer review steers discovery, and why the social structure of science matters.
LAST DAY for speakers to register! icssi.org
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š¬ #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight 4: Chaoqun Ni
Co-Director of the Metascience Research Lab at Wisconsin, Prof Ni studies how science is produced, evaluated, and rewarded, with key recent work on AI-assisted writing and miscitation detection.
Learn more about Ni and our entire lineup at icssi.org !
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š¬ #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight 3: Charles Gomez
How does geopolitics shape AI research? Who shapes global scientific knowledge? Who gets left out? Sociology Prof @charlesgomez.bsky.social studies this, and more, leading the Global Knowledge Lab and Observatory at Arizona.
Register at icssi.org !
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š¬ Next #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight: Melinda Baldwin
A historian of science at UMD, @mbaldwin.bsky.social literally wrote the book on the history of the journal Nature. Her work is a fascinating dive into peer review, publishing, and the institutions shaping science.
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With 2 months to go, let's meet our #ICSSI2026 invited speakers!
š¬ Speaker Spotlight: Donna Ginther
The KU/NBER economist who uncovered the "Ginther Gap" of disparities in NIH funding. Her work on who gets funded (and who doesn't) is essential science of science.
Registration is open ā icssi.org
