September 19, 2025
The SOCKS team added five new members in September 2025, expanding its capabilities on the Capacity, Social, and Education & Workforce teams.

September 11, 2025
SOCKS Co-PI Chris Danforth appeared on WCAX TV's "Across the Fence" to discuss Vermont EPSCoR and SOCKS. Click here to watch the video!

September 10, 2025
Fourteen 2025 SOCKS undergraduate interns concluded their exciting 10 week summer experience with a three-day symposium at the University of Vermont's Davis Center. Held on July 28th, 30th, and 31st, the symposium offered the opportunity for each undergraduate intern to present their summer research to their peers and advisors.

September 4, 2025
SOCKS Co-PI Juniper Lovato, PhD made an appearance on WCAX TV's "You Can Quote Me" on August 31, 2025. Appearing with collaborator and lead author, Dr. Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Vermont, Dr. Lovato detailed the findings in the new study she and Dr. Hébert-Dufresne coauthored with SOCKS Postdoctoral Associate, Dr. Guilio ...

September 2, 2025
SOCKS teams shared their latest findings at the 11th Annual International Society for Computational Social Science (IC2S2) in Norrköping, Sweden on July 21-24, 2025. Co-PI Juniper Lovato, PhD (shown in left photo), Social Team Member Mirta Galesic, PhD, Health Team Members David Jangraw, PhD and Ardyn Olszko, graduate student assistant, and Capacity Team Member Alexa ...

August 21, 2025

It might start as a joke, a belief, or a rumor. At first, it’s easy to dismiss. But then it gains a twist, builds momentum, and spreads like wildfire. What causes some ideas to die out while others take over the internet?

August 12, 2025
SOCKS Doctoral Candidate Katie Ekstrom Grenon appeared as a guest on the WCAX program Across the Fence. Click here to view the video.

August 7, 2025
It all adds up to a great experience! Vermont EPSCoR and the Governor's Institutes of Vermont (GIV) teamed up to strengthen workforce development efforts among Vermont high school students with an amazing summer camp opportunity! GIV hosted two, week-long institutes in July 2025 which brought 10th, 11th, and 12th graders from across Vermont together for a week of learning. The ...

August 4, 2025
"I wish I had started sooner because this is so fun and there's so much to do, but I couldn't have. I think we needed this technological computational revolution to ask kinds of questions that are really important for improving human outcomes." Katie Ekstrom Grenon, SOCKS Doctoral Candidate, Interprofessional Health Sciences Program, UVM

July 22, 2025
"SOCKS is a big data tool which enables us to understand human text in ways that reveal things about human beings. Whether it's Wikipedia or Twitter or Reddit or all these kind of spaces where people talk, we can see things that are happening in all those conversations that we couldn't see if we're just looking one page at a time or one tweet at a time." Randall Harp, Associate ...