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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Already signed Avvenire's petition for assigning 2026 Nobel Prize to Gaza's children. Write to petizione.gaza@avvenire.it www.avvenire.it/idee-e-comme...?
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«Ai bambini di Gaza il Premio Nobel per la pace»
Centinaia di adesioni alla candidatura proposta dal professor Mazzarella tramite Avvenire. Anche la leader del Pd, Schlein, si schiera: no al silenzio sulla situazione drammatica dei minori. Padre Ibrahim Faltas: riconoscere il loro sacrificio è un atto di verità e di giustizia
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Everyone should read this piece, especially if frustrated with what happens to a paper AFTER it is accepted. brill.com/view/journal... Proof of Concept: Typesetting of Research in the Academic Publishing Industry, by K. Lundblad, (2025), LOGOS, 35(4). p.43-58. @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Future pandemic preparedness should focus on better models and stronger institutions governing their use—pluralistic in expertise, structured for productive disagreement, and explicit about what remains unknown. #STS #covid @andreasaltelli.bsky.social pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Models of Pandemics: What Should We Do Differently Next Time?
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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The richest man who ever lived was not Cresus but Marcus Licinius Crassus. He was among the most cruel of Romans, crucifixing thousands of Spartacus' rebellious slaves. He found his nemesis and death at the hands of the Parths, modern day...Iranians. Ivy League University graduates surely know this.
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Many authors from EU-funded projects denounce: "Towards pollinator stewardship in all policies: Policy incoherence in the EU is a major barrier to pollinator restoration" zenodo.org/records/2071... @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social , @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social , @eea.europa.eu, @theguardian.com
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Towards pollinator stewardship in all policies: Policy incoherence in the EU is a major barrier to pollinator restoration
Joint White Paper from Horizon Europe-funded projects Butterfly, VALOR, PollinERA, WildPosh, AGRI4POL, ProPollSoil, RestPoll, and Safeguard Executive summary Pollinators are critical for Europe’s resi...
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Thanks to Vincenzo Punzo, Davide Iannelli, and Marcello Montanino a severe test was run on driver models using global sensitivity analysis. lnkd.in/epgMCuk4 This is an outcome of the i4Driving project.
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New preprint on global sensitivity analysis for demographic projections @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social @upf.edu
Front page of the preprint
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New commentary published today, in the glorious Minerva. "Climate science has come to stand, in public debate, for what science itself is about, while within climate science, the authority of knowledge increasingly rests on large modelling infrastructures..." More at lnkd.in/gZgvmBcV
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TwinPolitics @twinpolitics.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
🗣️ Ocean Seminar with @andreasaltelli.bsky.social 🧑‍🏫 Very excited for #OceanSeminar - this time we will go to the limits...of digital twin modelling. 📆 Next Wednesday, May 13 at 5 p.m. (CET), information 6 registration: twinpolitics.eu/ocean-semina... 🌐 An @unoceandecade.bsky.social activity!
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Interested if sensitivity analysis or multiverse analysis? You can register for tomorrow's Friday 06 12.30-13.30 Webinar events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e1020f... Note that the true title is not the one on calibration you see above *Global Sensitivity Analysis or Multiverse Analysis?*
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
"Perhaps it’d be a good thing if AI finally pushes us to move on from a system where universities spend taxpayer money to pay commercial publishers to very slowly produce paywalled PDFs with outdated results of publicly funded research." alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/academics-...?
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Academics Need to Wake Up on AI
Ten theses for folks who haven't noticed the ground shifting under their feet
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
... and here all the slides www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...
Different sources say different stories about the origin of the virus
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Are you in Barcelona tomorrow? Join us for a short seminar at 10:00-12:30, UPF Barcelona School of Management, Carrer de Balmes, 132: Models of pandemics: What should we do differently next time? Chair: Ismael Rafols Speakers: Tsuyoshi Hondou Andrea Saltelli Samuele Lo Piano Alessio Lachi
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
In the mail from Nature Briefing today. A singular perspective on whose science is challenged.
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Just uploaded a preprint to osf.io entitled 'The Politics of Modelling'. Submitted as an entry to the forthcoming handbook of Ecological Macroeconomics, Open Book publisher. osf.io/preprints/so...
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Mathematical models: a state of exception www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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...
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This is just two years old, so it is too early to say that it aged well ... link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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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...
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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
Florence seen from the hill of Fiesole
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
www.mentinfuga.com/gaza-di-laur...?
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Gaza, di Laura Silvia Battaglia
Mentre gli omicidi di giornalisti nella Striscia di Gaza e nella Cisgiordania occupata illegalmente continuano senza sosta, vi parlo di giornalismo raccontando i miei due mesi, nel 2012, di ingegnamen...
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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...
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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…
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
See about the role of AI: www.972mag.com/israelis-log...?
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The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide
By attaching a military goal to each act of killing, Israelis of all stripes could partake in the slaughter without questioning the morality of their actions.
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
unknownfocus.com/study-energy...
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Study: Energy policy-making in the EU between past and present - Unknown Focus
We spoke with Samuele Lo Piano about EU energy policy, modeling challenges, and how Sensitivity Auditing can improve transparency.
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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...
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Sensitivity analysis for dummies
YouTube video by SimDec - Simulation Decomposition
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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
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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
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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...
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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...
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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...
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Interesting online journal, nonprofit, run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists, and a great article www.972mag.com/palestinian-...?
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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.
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
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
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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…
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Zach Griffen @runzach.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It was a pleasure to read!
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"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
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Interview with project coordinator Jeroen P. van der Sluijs
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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...
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Greta Thunberg On Why Countries Ignore Gaza: 'It's Because of Racism'
YouTube video by Novara Media
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
"Policy science, the science-and-society scholar Daniel Sarewitz wrote with his colleague Andrea Saltelli, has always been “inherently contestable, ..." nymag.com/intelligence...
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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.
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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...
Presenting: hypersphere or hypercube?
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
... 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
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Coming to Italy? One suggestion: don't fly ITA (ex Alitalia) 😩
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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/?
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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...
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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...
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
@overleaf.com Is Overleaf down?
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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In recognition of Funtowicz and Ravetz’s collaborative contributions to Futures
Download Citation | On Apr 1, 2025, Chris Groves and others published In recognition of Funtowicz and Ravetz’s collaborative contributions to Futures | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
"... 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"
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Cheers from SAMO! Here some slides: www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit... @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
Me presenting ...
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This week happy to be in Grenoble at the 11th sensitivity analysis of model output (SAMO) conference.
SAMO poster
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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 🥸.
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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...
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Workshop “Engaged Social Studies of Modelling”
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