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Managing Performative Science MAPS funded by European Union (ERC MAPS 101115973). Team: Philippe van Basshuysen Nadia Ruiz @jakobortmann.bsky.social George Kwasi Barimah Matthias Ackermann @dkhosrowi.bsky.social @becklukas.bsky.social & Maxim Pfaffenrot

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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
1/2 Team member Maxim Pfaffenrot gave a talk at the SOPhiA 2026 conference. Examining the COVID-19 pandemic as an episode of fast science, he shows that scientists inevitably make non-epistemic value judgements under time constraints.
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
1/2 MAPS team member George K. Barimah presented a paper, co-authored with fellow MAPS member Nadia Ruiz, at the Values in Science in the Rest of the World workshop: “Trust in Science in Developing Countries: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.” In this paper, they highlight ...
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
1/2 Economic predictions can become self-fulfilling prophecies. In a new paper forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Methodology, the Maps Team tries to bring some structure to how we think about economists' responsibility for these performative effects. philpapers.org/archive/BECW...
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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Murat Bakeev's paper "Model Transfer, the Challenge of Tractability Standards and Methodological Embedding" has been accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30452/
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Model Transfer, the Challenge of Tractability Standards and Methodological Embedding - PhilSci-Archive
Bakeev, Murat (2026) Model Transfer, the Challenge of Tractability Standards and Methodological Embedding. [Preprint]
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Nadia Ruiz (MAPS) and Maria Lorenz (CELLS) presented today at CELLS' colloquium their co-authored paper: Social Egg Freezing: A Feminist Philosophy of Science Perspective. Followed by a very fruitful Q&A. #medicalization #interfelity #eggfreezing
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
1/2 MAPS team member @becklukas.bsky.social & Henrik Thoréns paper, Strategic ignorance, and the management of performative effects: Lessons from climate economics, has just been accepted for publication in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Team members @dkhosrowi.bsky.social & @becklukas.bsky.social's paper, Like It or Not — Recommender Systems Lack a Coherent Normative Foundation, has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency philpapers.org/archive/KHOL...
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
1/2 Team member, Nadia Ruiz and co-author Maria Lorenz presented their working paper "Social Egg Freezing: A Feminist Philosophy Of Science Perspective" in the Objectivity & Subjectivity in Medicine workshop @torchoxford2013.bsky.social
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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Edoardo Peruzzi's paper “Progress in Model-Based Sciences: Reframing the Relationship Between Horizontal and Vertical Progress in Economics,” has been accepted for publication in the Philosophy of Science: PSA 2026 Contributed Paper Proceedings. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/29...
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Progress in Model-Based Sciences:Reframing the Relationship Between Horizontal and Vertical Progress in Economics - PhilSci-Archive
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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi presenting "Harsanyi’s Legacy: Bayesian Games and the Transformation of Microeconomic Theory" at the History of Microeconomic Theory session of the 1st Joint HES-ESHET conference in Nice! #ModelTransfer #ERCStG
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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Our team is coming in full force! 🔹 @cherfeld.bsky.social participates in the Round Table on "Searching for EU Funding in HET" and a Symposium on her recent book Conversations on Rational Choice 🔹Murat Bakeev presents a chapter co-authored with Catherine on Integrated HPS for Economics (1/3)
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Meet MAPS' first visiting scholar, Alessandro Guerra. He is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at University of Milan and a philosopher of science & economics. He focuses on choice theory, decision-theoretic models & normative dimensions of modelling, with applications to environmental decision-making.
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Bele Wollesen @belewollesen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
It’s always a blast to write a book review with this guy: @becklukas.bsky.social. This time we read “False Prophets of Economics Imperialism: The Limits of Mathematical Market Models” by Matthew Watson. You can check out our thought on Watson’s book here: philpapers.org/archive/LUKF...
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
At CELLS’ colloquium, MAPS member @dkhosrowi.bsky.social gave a presentation titled: “What kind of thing are ML systems like AlphaFold, and what kinds of things do they produce?” Followed up by a fruitful Q&A.
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
1/2 Just accept. MAPS member George Barimah & co-authors examine ethical issues in international health research collaborations between researchers from the global north and south. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Role of Research Funders in Promoting Ethical International Health Research Collaborations
Background International health research collaborations (IHRCs) between High Income countries (HICs) and Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) are essential in global health research, yet ethical ...
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
1/2 MAPS team members presented at the Hannover-Groningen Philosophy of Science Workshop.
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The CELLS' colloquium series continues. Today we had Annalisa Costella, from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Annalisa gave a talk titled "Of Green Frequently Flyers and Wealthy Socialists: A Defense of Apparent Hypocrisy."
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Center for PhilSci @center4philsci.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Conference this weekend! If you aren't registered yet, you can do so on our website. (Conference is in-person only). #philsci #conference www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/so…
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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In this thread, we’ll be live-posting highlights from the “Scientific Progress via Model Transfer: The Case of Cultural Evolution” workshop talks. Follow along for updates 👇
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Yesterday, the CELLS' colloquium series had its first speaker. Armin Schulz, from the University of Kansas. Armin gave a talk titled: Institutional Conflicts of Interest: A Novel Functionalist Account.
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
must read about experimental philosophy
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Experimental Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
[Editor’s Note: The following new entry by Justin Sytsma, Kevin Reuter, and Pascale Willemsen replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.]
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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The latest paper of our team member Edoardo Peruzzi is now available open access in Synthese. He argues that legal cross-examination can be undestood as a form of higher-order evidence defeat: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #FrontierResearch #ERCStG
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Higher-order evidence and legal cross-examination - Synthese
Synthese - This paper aims to show the central role that higher-order evidence plays in an established cultural practice in our society, namely, legal cross-examination. First, we will show how...
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
1/2 Team member @jakobortmann.bsky.social has a new publication out in @philscijournal.bsky.social : "But what is 'Performativity of Science'? Austin, Perlocutionary Sequels, and Referent Malleability." philpapers.org/rec/ORTBWI
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Jakob Ortmann, But what is ‘Performativity of Science’? Austin, Perlocutionary Sequels, and Referent Malleability - PhilPapers
Ever since its introduction by John L. Austin, ‘performativity’ has meant many things to many scholars—something that did not change when phrases like ‘performativity of science’ became popular. Such ...
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
1/2 Team member George Barimah presented on "Medical AI Regulation and Inductive Risks: A Case by Case Perspective" at the Rethinking AI in Practice – Culture and Ethics’ Role in Shaping the Future of Digital Health Care Technologies Conference.
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Welfare Econ faces a core problem: preference endogeneity. What should we do when the yardstick used to assess policies changes with the analysed system? MAPS member @becklukas.bsky.social tackles this issue in the context of large-scale interventions. New paper in Politics, Philosophy & Economics.
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Team member Philippe van Basshuysen's paper has just been published: Performative power in Science in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Performative power in science - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Performativity is the capacity of scientific representations (such as models, theories, predictions, or classifications) to alter the phenomena they are supposed to represent. Because one and the same...
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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
New from the BJPS Review of Books It’s Only Human – Armin W Schulz Reviewed by Olivier Morin Read it here: www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/morin-on-schulz #philsci #philsky
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Armin Schulz, It’s Only Human | BJPS Review of Books
Olivier Morin reviews It’s Only Human, by Armin Schulz
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Great initiative from @belewollesen.bsky.social (team member of @modeltransfer.bsky.social ). Thank you for inviting us!!!
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Team member Matthias Ackermann gave a talk entitled "Predictable Uncertainty’ and Locally Reliable Climate Change Information" at CELLS Colloquium. @iphilluh.bsky.social
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
SOCRATES Fellow Doohyun (Richard) Sung gave a talk titled "Persistence is Futile: On Pursuit and Futility Analysis in Pharmaceutical Research" at the CELLS colloquium @iphilluh.bsky.social
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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
⏰DEADLINE APPROACHING Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi organizes a workshop together with @karimbaraghith.bsky.social: "Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution" 📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover 📅 April 9–10, 2026 Below you’ll find more information about CfP 👇
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
1/2 Team member @becklukas.bsky.social is sharing his forthcoming chapter (Desire in Economics) in the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Desire.
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
1/2 Team member Nadia Ruiz's paper has just been published: "Dan Hausman on Macroeconomic Models." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Ruiz critiques Dan Hausman’s 2023 The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics by examining his view of economic models as predicate models ...
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Dan Hausman on macroeconomic models
In this critique and exploration of Dan Hausman’s 2023 edition of The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics, I focus on his view of economic models as predicate models and his commitment to equ...
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Institute of Philosophy LUH @iphilluh.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Working on #TrustInScience #AcademicFreedom #ValuesInScience #Expertise #IntegrativeResearch #ScienceForPolicy or related topics? 👉 Apply until Nov. 30 for the Early-Career Workshop on #Wissenschaftsreflexion taking place June 2026. Travel costs and accomodation can be covered. Spread the word :)
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
1/2 Team member Philippe van Basshuysen and @simonlohse.bsky.social just published "Three Problems for Predictive Policy Advice." Predictive policy advice faces three fundamental challenges: the choice of disciplines providing the advice; value judgments implicit in forecasts;
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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
🔥 Excited to welcome Alberto Bartoccini as a visiting scholar to our #ModelTransfer team! Alberto is a PhD student in the joint Economics programme of the Tuscan Universities. As a historian of economic thought, he studies how scientific knowledge is codified, standardized, and transmitted. 👇
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Yesterday, Sebastian Meller gave a talk entitled "Olfaction––a forgotten sensory tool? Biomedical perspectives across species boundaries" at the CELLS colloquium.
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
MAPS' office Performing Hannover's Night Sky
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Team member @becklukas.bsky.social gave a talk entitled "Policy Optimization IAMs as Normative Models" at the Institute of Philosophy Colloquium. @iphilluh.bsky.social
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Online workshop: Methodologies for use of History in Philosophy, hosted by Instituto de Investigatciones Filosoficas–UNAM, organised by María Martínez-Ordaz @mmartinezordaz.bsky.social & Teresa Rodriguez. Registration free. Complete form to receive zoom link forms.gle/qJRncUDEc254... #HPS #Philsky
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES FILOSÓFICAS - UNAM
WORKSHOPnine
METHODOLOGIES for the use of history
IN PHILOSOPHY
NOVEMBER 13-14, 2025
KIRSTEN WALSH CUNIVERSITY OF EXETER)
JOUNI-MATTI KUUKKANEN
CUNIVERSITY OF OULU)
ANNA GADIGNANI
MARIA CHIARA PARISI
EVELYN ERICKSON
ANDRÉS VÁZQUEZ-QUIJANO
JANIK ROJAS
ZAINAB SABRA
BOBBY VOS
NATALIA ZORRILLA
DUBIAN CAÑAS
MARÍA MARTÍNEZ-ORDAZ
+info: methodologiesfortheuseofhistor@gmail.comNovember 14, 2025
• [15:30-17:00 CET || 08:30-10:00 MX] Keynote
Talk: "Towards a methodologist integration of history and philosophy of science. Marriage counseling from a pragmatist perspective."
Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen (University of Oulu)
• [17:00-17:50 CET || 10:00-10:50 MX] "Counterfactual Sufficiency in Historical Explanation: Old and New History in 1948"
Zainab Sabra (American University of Beirut)
• |17:50-18:00 CET I| 10:50-11:00 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [18:00-18:50 CETI 11:00-11:50 MX] "Historical Macro-Units as a Form of Conceptual Engineering" Bobby Vos (University of Cambridge)
• [18:50-19:40 CET // 11:50 - 12:40 MX] "Early Modern Feminist Approaches to Misogynistic Bias in the Historical Archive"
Natalia Zorrilla (McGill University)
• [19:40 -19:50CET || 12:40-12:50 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [19:50-20:40 CET// 12:50-13:40 MX] "Idealising the history of science for philosophical purposes" Dubian Cañas.
• |20:40-21:30 CET// 13:40-14:30
MX] "Why some inaccurate case studies work?
Reflections on the epistemic value of philosophically biased historical reconstructions"
María del Rosario Martínez-OrdazNovember 13, 2025
• [16:00-17:30 CET I| 09:00-10:30 MX] Keynote
Talk: "Newton's Metaphysics in Practice" Kirsten Walsh (University of Exeter, England)
• 17:30-18:20 CET I| 10:30-11:20 MX| "Reconstructing Trust: Social-Historical Trajectories of the Physician-Patient Relationship in Post-Unification Italy" Anna Gadignani (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy)
• [18:20-18:30 CET I| 11:20-11:30 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [18:30-19:20 CETI 11:30-12:20 MX] "Aristotle and Proclus on Mathematics as an Axiomatic Science: A Data-Driven Comparison"
Maria Chiara Parisi (University of Amsterdam, NL)
• 19:20-20:10 CET // 12:20 - 13:10 MX] "A reply to incommensurability: from historiography to philosophy of logic"
Evelyn Erickson (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
• [20:10 -20:20CET || 13:10-13:20 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [20:20-21:10 CET// 13:20-14:10 MX] "A Meta-Narrativist Approach to the Reconstruction of Internal History: The Autonomy-Continuity Problem" Andrés Vázquez-Quijano (UNAM)
• [21:10-22:00 CET// 14:10-15:00 MX] "Problems in the historical study of the intellectual and spiritual contributions of women in classical Islam from a gender perspective"
Tzitzi Janik Rojas Torres (UNAM)
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Team member Philippe van Basshuysen gave a talk entitled "Performative Power in Science" at the Institute of Philosophy Colloquium. @iphilluh.bsky.social
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Last Monday, Kevin Elliot gave a talk on "Revisiting Values and Science Through the Lens of Reflexive Performativity," which is a paper in collaboration with MAPS team member @jakobortmann.bsky.social.
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Congratulations to Edoardo Peruzzi.
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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Listen to our team member’s talk at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh! #FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Team member Philippe van Basshuysen's paper has just been published: Performativity in Science: Past and Future in Philosophy Compass. doi.org/10.1111/phc3...
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Performativity in Science: Past and Future
Performativity is the capacity of science to exert influence on the very phenomena it seeks to describe, for instance, when an economic prediction of a recession creates expectations which, in turn, ....
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Team member Nadia Ruiz presented her research paper "Modeling in Economic Policy: Rethinking Models's Epistemic Limitations" at the Philosophy Conference of Causal Inference in Economics Workshop, held on Oct 6-7 in Kraków, Poland.
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Institute of Philosophy LUH @iphilluh.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
🎉Congratulations to George Barimah on receiving the Victor Rizkallah-Siftung award for outstanding scientific achievements!
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Nobel Prize in Economics
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The 2025 Nobel Prize In Economic Sciences Awarded To Three Scholars
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Joel Mokyr (Northwestern Univ.), Phillippe Aghion (London School of Economics) and Peter Howitt (Brown Univ.).
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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi organizes a workshop together with @karimbaraghith.bsky.social: "Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution" 📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover 📅 April 9–10, 2026 Below you’ll find more information about the workshop and the CfP 👇
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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Help us congratulate team member George Barimah on receiving the Victor Rizkallah-Siftung award for outstanding scientific achievements at @unihannover.bsky.social The award recognizes his dissertation, "The epistemic and moral dimensions of testimony in scientific research." @iphilluh.bsky.social
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