Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 30(1), 5–22. Abstract It is widely believed that voting rights confer power to individual voters as well as to the collective body of the electorate. This pa

Gustav Nilsonne: Pathways to an Open Science System. Replacing Academic Journals

Open science enables cumulative knowledge and facilitates discovery. The transition to an open science system is underway, but important roadblocks remain. A decentralised, evolvable network of platfo

PLOS Computational Biology Abstract Social learning is common in nature, yet cumulative culture (where knowledge and technology increase in complexity and diversity over time) appears restricted to huma

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, and onlineREGISTERResearch seminar with Gustav Nilsonne, Associate Professor of neuroscience. He is active in meta-sciencOpen science enables cumulative knowledge and facilitates discovery. The transition to an open science system is underway, but important roadblocks remain. A decentralised, evolvable network of platforms interconnected by open standards, and governed by the scientific community, is technically feasible. However, academic researchers remain tied to traditional journals not least because assessment of merit is tied to the venue of publication. Ways forward can include redirection of funding from legacy publishing models to new infrastructure and the development of new methods to assess scientific contributions. Concerted action by stakeholders needs to be combined with pluralistic experimentation on policies and interventions to further open science practices.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Abstract While existing theories of political polarization tend to suggest that the opinions of liberals and conservatives move in opposite directions, avai

Place:Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm Co-hosted by the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace and the Institute forFutures Studies. Co-sponsored by the Society for

The research network World Values Survey has explored people's values since the 1980s in six waves of interviews in a total of 100 countries. The latest survey was completed in 2014 and the result has

Three lectures with Charles F. Manski. Public policy advocates routinely assert that “research has shown” a particular policy to be desirable. But how reliable is the analysis in the research they invo

Geoffrey Brennan is an Australian philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a professor of political science at Duke University. This seminar was su

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Volume: 45 issue:3, pp.244-252. doi.org/10.1177/1403494816680784 Abstract Aims:This study explored the sex-specific associations between friendship trust and the p: The findings suggest that young people do not benefit from trustful social relations to the same extent as adult populations. Young women who express impaired well-being run a greater risk of being members of networks characterized by low friendship trust over time.