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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · 2h

Surely an expensive education *by itself* increases students' wage prospects, right? Only if one believes numerical fables.

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Caveat emptor: Sensitivity of Cost–Employability Metrics Across Higher Education Models

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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 · 14d

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...

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 · 14d

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 · Sep 1

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

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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · Aug 30

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…

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Zach Griffen @runzach.bsky.social · Jul 31

It was a pleasure to read!

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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · Jul 31

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.

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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · Jul 25

"Why would you grow a crop that requires so many dangerous substances?"

Jeroen van der Sluijs on the pesticides needed for lily farming.

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Interview with project coordinator Jeroen P. van der Sluijs

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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · Jul 10

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 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 · Jul 9

It is indeed, meaningful.

andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · Jul 9

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

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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 · Jul 2

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...

andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · Jul 2

See here/eccolo: doi.org/10.31222/osf...

OSF

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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · Jun 26

Ciao! I am following you now. There are several software available, ours is this: Puy, A., S. Lo Piano, A. Saltelli, and S. A. Levin. 2022. “Sensobol: An R Package to Compute Variance-Based Sensitivity Indices.” Journal of Statistical Software 102 (5). www.jstatsoft.org/article/view....

sensobol: An R Package to Compute Variance-Based Sensitivity Indices by Arnald Puy, Samuele Lo Piano, Andrea Saltelli, Simon A. Levin

<p>The R package sensobol provides several functions to conduct variance-based uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, from the estimation of sensitivity indices to the visual representation of the resu...

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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · Jun 26

... and here in Oslo at ISEE presenting on demography models; a few new slides www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit...
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · Jun 20

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

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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · Jun 18

Coming to Italy? One suggestion: don't fly ITA (ex Alitalia) 😩

andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · Jun 14

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/?

andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · Jun 2

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.
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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · May 16

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' ...

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andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · May 14

@overleaf.com Is Overleaf down?

andreasaltelli.bsky.social @andreasaltelli.bsky.social · May 1

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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 · Apr 26

"... 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"