Interesting online journal, nonprofit, run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists, and a great article 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

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

"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

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...

"Policy science, the science-and-society scholar Daniel Sarewitz wrote with his colleague Andrea Saltelli, has always been “inherently contestable, ..." 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...

... 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

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

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/?

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...

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...

@overleaf.com Is Overleaf down?

"... the radical character of [Feyerabend's] proposal ... three elements—the theory of technocratic domination, the critique of scientific ideology, and the radical account of the free society—come together as groundwork for a theory of scientism as a composite social pathology"

Cheers from SAMO! Here some slides: www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit... @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social

This week happy to be in Grenoble at the 11th sensitivity analysis of model output (SAMO) conference.

Need a visa for the UK? If you do it online beware predatory sites that charge ~€90. Make sure you do it on GOV.UK where it will cost ~€20. Have a jpg/jpeg copy of passport and a photo ready 🥸.

Saltelli, Andrea, Lieke A. Melsen, and Arnald Puy. 2025. ‘Digital Twins of the Earth Between Vision and Fiction’. Minerva. doi: 10.1007/s11024-025-09581-3. Open access. How one can question if a model is fair? A critique of the projects for digital twins of the earth

Interesting seminar on responsible modelling in Aachen on April 3rd, see khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/worksh... Here some slides: www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...

Truly interdisciplinary paper on modelling claims, by a team led by Arnald Puy: "Socio-environmental modeling shows physics-like confidence with water modeling surpassing it in numerical claims" - OPEN ACCESS. @unibirmingham.bsky.social @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

The final version is online open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.en... How can models do well for the common good? Narratives and counter-narratives are possible. The latter are taken here to argue that models may misuse their epistemic authority for reasons of occasion, opportunity and interest ...

Good piece! Jessica Weinkle on science diplomacy jessicaweinkle.substack.com/p/what-is-sc...

... models as truth-machines versus models as instruments of inquiry. @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social

New review: rdcu.be/ecnGj

Social factors behind the fortune of a metric: role of tradition and path dependence in the popularity of Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE) in hydrological modelling @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

usbeketrica.com/fr/article/j... @sophie-kloetzli.bsky.social @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social @sianderl.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... What does it mean to know a function? A sensitivity analysis of sensitivity analysis methods, of sort ... @leo-ch.bsky.social

Excellent use of global sensitivity analysis in climate impact modelling: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... @sfuntowicz.bsky.social @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social @maxtav.bsky.social @leo-ch.bsky.social

Apropos www.nature.com/articles/d41... ... a question sometime I ask myself. Fun, perhaps? See my latest created Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science... @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social

Ranking the Rankers? We investigate the properties of the science-wide author databases’ standardised citation indicators produced since 2015 by a team of researchers led by John P. A. Ioannidis (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science...) @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Check Gabriele Bammer's online blog i2insights.org !

Last week: Ethics of quantification - Seminar at LAMSADE, Université Paris Dauphine, organised by Meltem ÖZTÜRK ESCOFFIER, February 5, 2025. See slides: www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...

“society rightly distrusts the modeling done by a single mind” ....🤔 this chimes with some of the things I write about ... see this excellent piece from the New Atlantis @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/o... Indeed if AI becomes better and better to pretend to be human it is only natural it will overcome humans doing the same.

La Treccani nel suo undicesimo aggiornamento ci offre La Scienza Post-normale, vedere qui: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The International Society for Ecological Economics' Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award for Ecological Economics (2025) has been awarded to Jerry Ravetz and Silvio Funtowicz www.isecoeco.org/resources/bo...

New preprint with Alessio Lachi, Arnald Puy and Nate Breznau: Leamer reloaded: a long-neglected suggestion is rediscovered to apply global sensitivity analysis to a quantification before publishing it See lnkd.in/dFtEWrm9