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Did you know that Chinese Americans make up the largest share of the Asian American population? Yet their voices remain underrepresented in politics and policymaking.     Join NORC and Committee of 100 on September 25 for a webinar that delves into:  — The policy preferences and political of Chinese Americans  — The feelings of Chinese Americans toward the current relationship between the U.S. and China  — Racial discrimination experienced by Chinese Americans      Come join us as speakers from NORC, Committee of 100, and other institutions share their research and insights.

LIVE NOW 🌎🌏🌍    What types of evidence are essential for informed policymaking? Join the ‘Research for Effectiveness’ panel to explore how to bridge gaps within research and development, and to reflect on the challenges and opportunities related to impact evaluations. It’s starting now! 

Interested in learning about qualitative research methods? Come to the next NCFR webinar with the esteemed Dr. Kevin Roy on Jan. 16, practice new methods during the event, and ask questions. https://lnkd.in/gFxeaM9n

Researchers at MRRI walk you through the methods and considerations for using lesion-symptom mapping in your research in this video series: https://lnkd.in/evJdUdXv

You can optimize your research and save time to focus on the science by reusing existing measurement sequences. 🚀 #NOMAD_CAMELS is a great piece of software that keeps users and their needs in mind. #opensource #physics #software

Learning from Research: responses to, and experiences of, extra-familial risk and harm 25 April | 2pm - 3.45pm | FREE FOR MEMBERS This event will introduce participants to findings from the Innovate Project and Imagining Resistance research project. https://ow.ly/P5xu50RkXhC

The BSc Information in Society is for students who have a deep fascination with how societies can use data effectively to support, inspire, and improve lives. Find out more about this programme in our live Q&A session on 22 April https://buff.ly/41AzeBT

Hey, future MDs! Here’s a Social Science practice question to test your knowledge! 😉 Comment your answers below and stay tuned later to know the correct answers! 💙 For more practice questions like this, sign up at https://lnkd.in/gg4aY9_3 today! 🩺

A fun paper to publish with Seung Kyeom Kim, Nick Stergiou, and Aaron Likens, Ph.D., titled Pattern analysis using lower body human walking data to identify the gaitprint! More person identification to follow in the future! https://lnkd.in/gjs5dmW8

Here are a few photos from yesterday's wonderful STOA annual lecture on the future of science and technology and the keynote speech I was invited to give at the European Parliament on making democracy work for everyone. In this keynote, I presented some of the research I conduct at the Electoral Psychology Observatory at the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant on the Age of Hostility. Some of that research is conducted in collaboration with various brilliant colleagues and scholars including sarah harrison, Sandra Obradovic, Laura Serra and Zita von Bonin. My keynote focused on the crucial need to correctly diagnose problems if we want to find effective solutions and to identify the assumptions that often seem so obvious to everyone that they are not even spelt out but need to be understood and sometimes challenged. I talked about the major issues caused by the increasing mismatch between what democratic systems were designed to perform and the increasingly complex and differentiated functions citizens would like their democracies to fulfil. I discussed the largely overlooked progressive transition from polarisation to electoral hostility and its implications. I talked about the challenges of intergenerational tensions and how they are grounded not on negative perceptions of others but rather on negative mirror perceptions (people are not necessarily very negative towards generations but feel that other generations are indifferent, prejudiced, aggressive and even humiliating towards them). Finally, I discussed how crucial social science is to the whole of science and to making the world a better place. Social science is the science of people. It is complex (not least because over 90% of what we think and do in life is subconscious) and it is frustrating because it often requires the superposition and cross validation of very diverse quantitative and qualitative, static and dynamic, observational, narrative, and experimental methods, but it is also indispensable. If we misunderstand people, how they react, what they think and feel, the most ambitious and clever of designs risk failing or even backfiring. https://lnkd.in/drveQW3h