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Mathematical models: a state of exception www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Mathematical models: a state of exception
Models live in a state of exception. Their versatility, the variety of their methods, the impossibility of their falsification and their epistemic authority allow mathematical models to escape, bet...
www.tandfonline.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Mathematical models: a state of exception www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This is just two years old, so it is too early to say that it aged well ...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Challenge of Quantification: An Interdisciplinary Reading - Minerva
The present work looks at what we call “the multiverse of quantification”, where visible and invisible numbers permeate all aspects and venues of life. We review the contributions of different authors...
link.springer.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This is just two years old, so it is too early to say that it aged well ...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
13th Summer School on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output (SAMO) 8–12 June 2026 | Fiesole (Florence), Italy
Registration open.
Cost: Free of charge
Apply by 31 December 2025
Successful candidates notified by 15 January 2026
Info & registration at: lnkd.in/dySGBBqX
#SAMO2026 #SensitivityAnalysis
Registration open.
Cost: Free of charge
Apply by 31 December 2025
Successful candidates notified by 15 January 2026
Info & registration at: lnkd.in/dySGBBqX
#SAMO2026 #SensitivityAnalysis
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
13th Summer School on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output (SAMO) 8–12 June 2026 | Fiesole (Florence), Italy
Registration open.
Cost: Free of charge
Apply by 31 December 2025
Successful candidates notified by 15 January 2026
Info & registration at: lnkd.in/dySGBBqX
#SAMO2026 #SensitivityAnalysis
Registration open.
Cost: Free of charge
Apply by 31 December 2025
Successful candidates notified by 15 January 2026
Info & registration at: lnkd.in/dySGBBqX
#SAMO2026 #SensitivityAnalysis
Re-reading this piece, written 6 years ago with Belgian sociologist Paul Marie Boulanger; it seems to have aged well.
What would Harold Innis and Niklas Luhmann write if they were alive today?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
What would Harold Innis and Niklas Luhmann write if they were alive today?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Technoscience, policy and the new media. Nexus or vortex?
Science, technology and policy are today entangled in concurrent crises, rapid transformations and conflicts, which are alimented by an ever-accelerat…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Re-reading this piece, written 6 years ago with Belgian sociologist Paul Marie Boulanger; it seems to have aged well.
What would Harold Innis and Niklas Luhmann write if they were alive today?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
What would Harold Innis and Niklas Luhmann write if they were alive today?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
What does sensitivity analysis have to do with Guido Morselli's Dissipatio Hg? Discover it by listening to this video courtesy of Mariia Kozlova:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boz0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boz0...
Sensitivity analysis for dummies
YouTube video by SimDec - Simulation Decomposition
www.youtube.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
What does sensitivity analysis have to do with Guido Morselli's Dissipatio Hg? Discover it by listening to this video courtesy of Mariia Kozlova:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boz0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boz0...
Surely an expensive education *by itself* increases students' wage prospects, right? Only if one believes numerical fables.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Caveat emptor: Sensitivity of Cost–Employability Metrics Across Higher Education Models
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social @eurofound.europa.eu
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Caveat emptor: Sensitivity of Cost–Employability Metrics Across Higher Education Models
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social @eurofound.europa.eu
Caveat emptor: Sensitivity of Cost–Employability Metrics Across Higher Education Models
Performance metrics shape student choice, organisational strategy, and public funding decisions in higher education, yet their construction can distort signals
papers.ssrn.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Surely an expensive education *by itself* increases students' wage prospects, right? Only if one believes numerical fables.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Caveat emptor: Sensitivity of Cost–Employability Metrics Across Higher Education Models
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social @eurofound.europa.eu
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Caveat emptor: Sensitivity of Cost–Employability Metrics Across Higher Education Models
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social @eurofound.europa.eu
The 2025 Elsevier-Stanford-Ioannidis ranking of scientists by citation-based composite indicator is just out: elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btc...
See related paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
See related paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
August 2025 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"
Citation metrics are widely used and misused. We have created a publicly available database of top-cited scientists that provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted...
elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The 2025 Elsevier-Stanford-Ioannidis ranking of scientists by citation-based composite indicator is just out: elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btc...
See related paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
See related paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Thanks to @eurofound.europa.eu for inviting me to Dublin to discuss Quantitative Storytelling; great discussion, learned a lot!
Here are the slides www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...
Here are the slides www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Thanks to @eurofound.europa.eu for inviting me to Dublin to discuss Quantitative Storytelling; great discussion, learned a lot!
Here are the slides www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...
Here are the slides www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...
Interesting online journal, nonprofit, run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists, and a great article
www.972mag.com/palestinian-...?
www.972mag.com/palestinian-...?
Forget symbolic statehood — the world must recognize Israeli apartheid
The push to recognize a Palestinian state creates the illusion of action, but delays the real remedies: sanctioning and isolating Israel's apartheid regime.
www.972mag.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Interesting online journal, nonprofit, run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists, and a great article
www.972mag.com/palestinian-...?
www.972mag.com/palestinian-...?
How to 'unpack' a complex impact assessment? We utilize Brian Wynne's work from the 1980s, along with the checklist of sensitivity auditing, to examine the 2024 EU impact assessment on emissions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
Energy policy-making in the European Union between past and present
We use instruments from sociology of quantification to investigate a persistent paradox: the problematic technical quality of modelling studies when t…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 30, 2025 at 5:50 AM
How to 'unpack' a complex impact assessment? We utilize Brian Wynne's work from the 1980s, along with the checklist of sensitivity auditing, to examine the 2024 EU impact assessment on emissions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
Reposted
It was a pleasure to read!
July 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It was a pleasure to read!
Thanks to Zachary Webster Griffen
@runzach.bsky.social for his review of our book
"The Politics of Modelling: Numbers Between Science and Policy"
in Acta Sociologica.
lnkd.in/deUes3qg
@runzach.bsky.social for his review of our book
"The Politics of Modelling: Numbers Between Science and Policy"
in Acta Sociologica.
lnkd.in/deUes3qg
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Thanks to Zachary Webster Griffen
@runzach.bsky.social for his review of our book
"The Politics of Modelling: Numbers Between Science and Policy"
in Acta Sociologica.
lnkd.in/deUes3qg
@runzach.bsky.social for his review of our book
"The Politics of Modelling: Numbers Between Science and Policy"
in Acta Sociologica.
lnkd.in/deUes3qg
"Why would you grow a crop that requires so many dangerous substances?"
Jeroen van der Sluijs on the pesticides needed for lily farming.
butterfly-europe.eu/interview-wi...
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
Jeroen van der Sluijs on the pesticides needed for lily farming.
butterfly-europe.eu/interview-wi...
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
Interview with project coordinator Jeroen P. van der Sluijs
butterfly-europe.eu
July 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
"Why would you grow a crop that requires so many dangerous substances?"
Jeroen van der Sluijs on the pesticides needed for lily farming.
butterfly-europe.eu/interview-wi...
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
Jeroen van der Sluijs on the pesticides needed for lily farming.
butterfly-europe.eu/interview-wi...
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
Greta and Foucault in substantial agreement:
Greta on Gaza: youtube.com/shorts/nC7-F...
Foucault on racism p. 254: cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.psu.ed...
Greta on Gaza: youtube.com/shorts/nC7-F...
Foucault on racism p. 254: cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.psu.ed...
Greta Thunberg On Why Countries Ignore Gaza: 'It's Because of Racism'
YouTube video by Novara Media
youtube.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Greta and Foucault in substantial agreement:
Greta on Gaza: youtube.com/shorts/nC7-F...
Foucault on racism p. 254: cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.psu.ed...
Greta on Gaza: youtube.com/shorts/nC7-F...
Foucault on racism p. 254: cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.psu.ed...
"Policy science, the science-and-society scholar Daniel Sarewitz wrote with his colleague Andrea Saltelli, has always been “inherently contestable, ..."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Why Calling RFK Jr. ‘Anti-Science’ Misses the Real Point
His opponents are fighting a battle over facts, evidence, and truth. That’s the wrong strategy.
nymag.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"Policy science, the science-and-society scholar Daniel Sarewitz wrote with his colleague Andrea Saltelli, has always been “inherently contestable, ..."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
In beautiful Anacapri, in Villa Orlandi (University of Naples Federico II) at the summer school of the i4Driving project. See www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...
July 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
In beautiful Anacapri, in Villa Orlandi (University of Naples Federico II) at the summer school of the i4Driving project. See www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...
... and here in Oslo at ISEE presenting on demography models; a few new slides www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
... and here in Oslo at ISEE presenting on demography models; a few new slides www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social
Presenting in Genoa about global sensitivity analysis and multiverse analysis - Thanks to the Italian Statistical Society for inviting!
Program: sis2025.sis-statistica.it/wp-content/u...
My slides
www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
Program: sis2025.sis-statistica.it/wp-content/u...
My slides
www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Presenting in Genoa about global sensitivity analysis and multiverse analysis - Thanks to the Italian Statistical Society for inviting!
Program: sis2025.sis-statistica.it/wp-content/u...
My slides
www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
Program: sis2025.sis-statistica.it/wp-content/u...
My slides
www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...
@vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
Coming to Italy? One suggestion: don't fly ITA (ex Alitalia) 😩
June 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Coming to Italy? One suggestion: don't fly ITA (ex Alitalia) 😩
Technology works as skyscrapers stand and airplanes don't fall from the skies, right? Depends upon the ideology of builder.
A Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed url:https://prospect.org/economy/2025-06-12-dreamliner-gave-boeing-manager-nightmares-just-crashed-air-india/?
A Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed url:https://prospect.org/economy/2025-06-12-dreamliner-gave-boeing-manager-nightmares-just-crashed-air-india/?
June 14, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Technology works as skyscrapers stand and airplanes don't fall from the skies, right? Depends upon the ideology of builder.
A Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed url:https://prospect.org/economy/2025-06-12-dreamliner-gave-boeing-manager-nightmares-just-crashed-air-india/?
A Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed url:https://prospect.org/economy/2025-06-12-dreamliner-gave-boeing-manager-nightmares-just-crashed-air-india/?
Disappointed about results in Poland? Time to read:
Kuc-Czarnecka, Saltelli, Olczyk, Reinert. 2021. “The Opening of Central and Eastern European Countries to Free Trade: A Critical Assessment.” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.
www-sciencedirect-com.sare.upf.edu/science/arti...
Kuc-Czarnecka, Saltelli, Olczyk, Reinert. 2021. “The Opening of Central and Eastern European Countries to Free Trade: A Critical Assessment.” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.
www-sciencedirect-com.sare.upf.edu/science/arti...
June 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Disappointed about results in Poland? Time to read:
Kuc-Czarnecka, Saltelli, Olczyk, Reinert. 2021. “The Opening of Central and Eastern European Countries to Free Trade: A Critical Assessment.” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.
www-sciencedirect-com.sare.upf.edu/science/arti...
Kuc-Czarnecka, Saltelli, Olczyk, Reinert. 2021. “The Opening of Central and Eastern European Countries to Free Trade: A Critical Assessment.” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.
www-sciencedirect-com.sare.upf.edu/science/arti...
Good piece by John P. A. Ioannidis and Michaéla C. Schippers
Very polite even when critical; they talk about high-impact journals whose editorial can be 'imbued with unchecked biases' ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Very polite even when critical; they talk about high-impact journals whose editorial can be 'imbued with unchecked biases' ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
May 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Good piece by John P. A. Ioannidis and Michaéla C. Schippers
Very polite even when critical; they talk about high-impact journals whose editorial can be 'imbued with unchecked biases' ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Very polite even when critical; they talk about high-impact journals whose editorial can be 'imbued with unchecked biases' ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...