Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy at Caltech

📢 New blog post from Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy at Caltech Co-Director, Michael Alvarez, LCSSP Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow, Rafal Kocielnik, and Caltech Undergraduate Student, Etienne Casanova:

🔸The Hidden Assumptions Behind AI Labels🔸
An investigation of how internalized beliefs shape AI annotation, and whether large language models follow human definitions or their own.

https://lcssp.caltech.edu/more/lcssp-blog/the-hidden-assumptions-behind-ai-labels

🔹LCSSP posts & archive: https://lcssp.caltech.edu/more/lcssp-blog

🎉 Congratulations to Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy at Caltech Research Affiliate, Ramit Debnath on being promoted to a tenured University Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge!

Wishing you continued success in this next stage of your academic career!

📢 New research paper by Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy at Caltech Research Affiliate Ramit Debnath, University of Cambridge published in Applied Energy, "High-Resolution Siting and Sizing of Grid-Scale Energy Storage for Real-World Transmission Networks under High Renewable Pe*******on: A Two-Stage Metaheuristic Approach," with Amirhassan Keshavarzzadeh, Waqar Muhammad Ashraf, Baptiste Andrieu, and Jonathan Cullen.

🔴 Read the paper here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261926007889?via%3Dihub

Catch the latest Substack article, "Elections Are About People, June 2, 2026 Primary Vote Center Observation Reflections" — from Caltech Flintridge Foundation Professor of Political and Computational Social Science Michael Alvarez, co-director of the Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy at Caltech & Raquel Centeno, postdoctoral scholar teaching fellow in Science, Society, and Policy at the Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy at Caltech — reminding us that elections don’t just run on systems, they rely on people paying attention, stepping up, and making things work in real time.

🟠 Read the full article here:

Elections Are About People June 2, 2026 Primary Vote Center Observation Reflections

📢 New Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy at Caltech guest blog post from Maria Carilli, president of Science & Engineering Policy at Caltech (SEPAC)!

🔸SEPAC Is Back! Connecting Science and Policy at Caltech🔸
https://lcssp.caltech.edu/more/lcssp-blog/sepac-is-back-connecting-science-and-policy-at-caltech

🔹LCSSP posts & archive: https://lcssp.caltech.edu/more/lcssp-blog

🔊Listen to the follow up conversation from the LAist podcast discussing the status of the votes being counted and why the wait with Bob Page, Orange County Registrar of Voters and a recap of where we stand in the governor's race and how much will depend on voter turnout in the November general election with Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy at Caltech Co-Director, Michael Alvarez, Caltech:

The latest on local and statewide election results and CA's vote count Today on AirTalk: Primary statewide and local election results, California vote count, and more.

🔊Catch the June 2nd episode of the LAist podcast, "Primary Election 2026, LA's 'mansion tax,' your first voting experience, and more," with Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy at Caltech Co-Director, Michael Alvarez, Caltech: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1KdcuFV3Vp6CcKUAxUJLBe

🔷 Read all about it as Michael Alvarez and other guests provided last-minute analysis as people headed to the polls: https://laist.com/news/primary-election-2026-first-voting-experience-measure-ula

Primary Election 2026, LA's 'mansion tax,' your first voting experience, and more Today on AirTalk: Primary Election 2026, L.A.'s 'mansion tax,' voter turnout, and your first voting experience.

📢 New blog post from Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy at Caltech Research Affiliate Beatrice Magistro, Northeastern University:

🔸Mapping the Mindsets: How Americans View AI's Economic Future🔸
https://lcssp.caltech.edu/more/lcssp-blog/mapping-the-mindsets-how-americans-view-ais-economic-future

🔹LCSSP posts & archive: https://lcssp.caltech.edu/more/lcssp-blog

🔊 New paper from Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy at Caltech Research Affiliate, Ramit Debnath, University of Cambridge!

🔶 Read the latest environmental data science research published in Nature Communications:

Reclassifying lethal heat - Nature Communications Lethal heatwaves are traditionally identified using wet-bulb temperature thresholds, which fail to capture vulnerability and adaptability. Here, a model using thermo-temporal trends and public health predicts lethal heat with more than 10x accuracy.