Erik Olin Wright, a Marxist sociologist with a focus on the complexities of social classes and inequalities of contemporary capitalism, died from acute myeloid leukemia on January 23 in Milwaukee. He

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2018.1463615 Abstract This study analyzes the demographics, criminality, and network relations of forty-one deceased Swedish foreign fighter

On the 21st of October The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will arrange a seminar with and about The Rolf Schock Laureate in logic and philosophy, professor Derek Parfit. Other speakers include Gusta

 A demographer calculates how the average life expectancy can be affected In Sweden, we now experience the first pandemic that occurs in a society with modern information technology, and it is also the

Exhibition of Tipping Point: Opening 1 June Galärparken, Djurgåren (close to Junibacken) at 5 pm (preview at 4:30 pm). Therafter daily 2-19 June, opens 11 am, last showing 3 pm every day.Seminar series 3, 4, 9 and 14 June, see below.  

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

Karin Pettersson, Martin Hägglund, Georg Diez The Institute for Futures Studies together with Aftonbladet Kultur are proud to present the new podcast collaboration: The New World - a podcast series whe

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.

Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2021), 51: 4, 256–269 Is an outcome where many people are saved and one person dies better than an outcome where the one is saved and the many die? According to the stan

Cécile Laborde, Professor of Political Theory FBA, Nuffield Chair of Political Theory.ABSTRACTIn this talk, I ask whether liberal legitimacy requires secularism – or separation between state and relig