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*New* ICPSR Data Fair and Love Data Week 2026 Events (02/09/26 – 02/13/26)

This year, the ICPSR Data Fair will take place during Love Data Week 2026, joining a global celebration of data, research, and open science. The ICPSR Data Fair offers tools, training, and inspiration for the worldwide data community. ICPSR’s events focus on data sharing, research methods, metadata, AI & privacy, scholarships, demos, and more!

  • Monday, Feb. 9

    • Adopt a Dataset (all week!) [More]

    • Data Brunch Live! Welcome to the Data Fair [Register]

    • ICPSR Data Communication Scholarship [Register]

    • Child and Family Data Archive (CFData)-What’s new at CFData! [Register]

  • Tuesday, Feb. 10

    • Disappearing Data: Monitoring Federal SOGI Data Losses and Advancing Accountability [Register]

    • Getting Better All the Time: Metadata Enhancements in the ICPSR Catalog [Register]

    • ICPSR Live Demo: Data Fair Edition [Register]

  • Wednesday, Feb. 11

    • Data Sharing for Real-World and Non-Primary Data Sources [Register]

    • DataLumos: An Update on the Crowd-sourced Repository for Valuable Government Data [Register]

    • NACDA Study Highlight – The Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA) [Register]

    • ICPSR Summer Program: For the Love of Research Methods! [Register]

  • Thursday, Feb. 12

    • DSDR Marks the Spot: Finding Quality Population Health Data Resources [Register]

    • Lay All Your Love on Metadata: A New API for Discovery [Register]

    • AI at ICPSR: The Feb. 2026 Edition [Register]

  • Friday, Feb. 13

    • ICPSR Data-Savvy Teaching Office Hours: Data Fair Edition [Register]
    • A Re-Introduction to the Social Media Archive: New Website, New Features, New Data [Register]
    • Navigating the New North: Data Insights About the Changing Canadian Consumer Patterns [Register]

Xu Publishes Article on Polarization Among Catholic and Protestant Youth in Northern Ireland

CSDE Affiliate Jing Xu (Anthropology) and co-authors recently published an article in the Journal of Adolescent Research, titled “Exploring Facilitators and Disruptors of Polarization During Adolescence Within Contested Settings: A Case Study of Catholic and Protestant Youth in Northern Ireland.” Xu and her collaborators draw on interview data to identify key socializing actors and settings within established theoretical frameworks: Ecological Systems Theory, Social Identity, and Intergroup Contact. Findings reveal the importance of family, friends, school, and media as intersecting socializing actors for adolescents. Intergroup contact among peers from different ethno-religious backgrounds disrupted adolescents’ engagement in polarizing and divisive rhetoric. Lastly, adolescents perceived educational actors and settings as less influential than their personal connections to peers and family.