Weekly Media Update

Week of January 30, 2026

New Model Could Help Police Departments Reduce Excessive Force Incidents

Many police departments rely on early-intervention systems to detect when officers’ use-of-force incidents exceed a certain threshold within a given period. However, these systems ignore situational differences, such as time and place. To address this, Greg Ridgeway has developed and tested a statistical model using real-world data that could help police departments take steps to prevent future excessive force.

Seven Things to Know About ‘Common Sense’

Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense,” published 250 years ago this month, has had tremendous influence on thinkers and revolutionary movements, a recent panel of Penn experts agreed. Pointing to his work on the topic, Duncan Watts said, “Everybody roughly has about the same amount of common sense.”

Ex-Ante Regulation in a Global Ecosystem
1/29: American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section | Christopher Yoo

The Cold Ledger: When Greenland Is Finally Green
1/26: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

US Businesses Break Their Silence After Latest Minnesota ICE Shooting
1/26: Reuters | Cary Coglianese

An Open, Fully-Processed Data Resource for Studying Mood and Sleep Variability in the Developing Brain
1/26: Aperture Neuro | Ted Satterthwaite

Brain Aging in Bipolar Disorder Using a Neuroimaging and Machine Learning-Derived Metric: Findings From the ENIGMA BD Working Group
1/24: Journal of Affective Disorders | Ted Satterthwaite

Prediction Markets and the Future of Sports Betting Analytics
1/21: Wharton Moneyball | Eric Bradlow and Shane Jensen

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing
1/21: arXiv | Bhuvnesh Jain

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Weak Lensing and Galaxy Clustering Cosmological Analysis Framework
1/21: arXiv | Bhuvnesh Jain

Recommending Best Paper Awards for ML/AI Conferences via the Isotonic Mechanism
1/21: arXiv | Weijie Su

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: MagLim++ Lens Sample Selection and Measurements of Galaxy Clustering
1/20: arXiv | Bhuvnesh Jain

Real-Time Deadlines Reveal Temporal Awareness Failures in LLM Strategic Dialogues
1/19: arXiv | Lyle Ungar

“Click Here”: Book Talk With Meta CMO Alex Schultz and Professor Peter Fader
1/16: Wharton San Francisco | Peter Fader

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