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Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy
Regulation & Governance Abstract As scholars race to address the climate crisis, they have often treated the problem as sui generisand have only rarely sought to learn from prior efforts to make indu
Postdoctoral researcher studying the psychological significance of online recommendations
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in a project that aims to empirically investigate the psychological impact of online recommendation systems.
Social Science Postdoctoral Researcher to Study the Diffusion of AI
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in the project “Predicting the diffusion of AI-applications”.
New method brings clarity to global economic and political change
Researchers at the Institute for Futures Studies and Uppsala University have developed a new method for studying complex social processes. The method makes it easy to discover dynamical patterns and re
Demokratin i klimatkrisens tid
Plats: Hazeliussalen på Hasselbacken, Hazeliusvägen 20, StockholmPris: 100 krKöp biljett här: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demokratin-i-klimatkrisens-tid-tickets-90980901325 “Även de bästa demokratier f
Managing values in climate science
Plos Climate Abstract Climate science has been deeply affected by social and political values in the last fifty years [1]. If we focus on climate denial and obfuscation, we might see the influence of va
The refinement paradox and cumulative cultural evolution: Complex products of collective improvement favor conformist outcomes, blind copying, and hyper-credulity
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
The Dynamics of Democracy, Development and Cultural Values
PLoS ONE 9(6): e97856. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097856 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0097856 A short summary: Over the past decades many countries have experienced r
Whatever You Want: Inconsistent Results is the Rule, Not the Exception, in the Study of Primate Brain Evolution
PLoS ONE Abstract Primate brains differ in size and architecture. Hypotheses to explain this variation are numerous and many tests have been carried out. However, after body size has been accounted for
The social values of newly arrived immigrants in Sweden
Plos One Abstract Concerns have been raised that immigrants coming to Europe bring fundamentally different social values, affecting the more liberal receiving societies negatively. However, the topic of