Ben Lee received a visiting fellowship at Harvard Library Innovation Lab for research about public data discoverability. 

Tessa Campbell and Allison Gallaspy co-presented a panel titled “Connecting Culture and Knowledge: Indigenous Librarians Narratives of Researching Ancestral Histories,” at the American Libraries Association Conference (ALA 2026). 

Melanie Walsh, Krista Aronson, Sarah Voels, and Connor Franklin Rey co-presented a panel titled “The State of Diversity Audits of Public Library Collections,” at the American Libraries Association Conference (ALA 2026).

Shahan Ali Memon (PhD Student) and Jevin West gave a talk on their research titled “Fiction Science of Science” at the International Conference on Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI).

Melanie Walsh and co-author Connor Franklin Rey’s poster titled “Algorithms in the Stacks: Investigating Automated, For-Profit Collection Diversity Audits in Public Libraries,” was presented at the American Libraries Association Conference (ALA 2026). 

David Farr (PhD Student) and co-authors Damian Hodel (PhD Student), Iain Cruickshank, Kate Starbird, and Jevin West’s poster titled “Epistemic Collapse in Agentic Systems: When Communication Degrades Collective Discovery,” was presented at the International Conference on Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI).

Evon Mahesh (MLIS Student) and co-authors Megan Piccirillo (MLIS Student) and SJ Scheidegger (MLIS Student)’s poster titled “Metadata for TTRPGs: Helping Players Find Games,” was presented at the American Libraries Association Conference (ALA 2026).

Shahan Ali Memon (PhD Student) and co-authors Damian Hodel (PhD Student) and Jevin West’s poster titled “AI’s Impact on Epistemic Diversity in Science” was presented at the International Conference on Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI). 

Eva Maxfield Brown (PhD Student) and co-authors David Farr (PhD Student), Shahan Ali Memon (PhD Student) and Nic Weber’s poster titled “Detecting and Characterizing AI-Mediated Scientific Code,” was presented at the International Conference on Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI).

Ben Lee and Janet Haven, executive director of Data & Society, gave an invited talk titled “The Road Before Us,” at the Libraries and AI in Public Life event hosted by The Chicago Public Library and the Digital Public Library of America, held at the Obama Presidential Center. 

Joe Janes was quoted in an article titled “The Surprising Science History Behind New York City’s Ticker-Tape Parades,” published in Scientific American. 

Chirag Shah was quoted in an article titled “With Claude Science, Anthropic Targets Another Application,” published in AI Business.