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Do People Want a Gender-Balanced Government?

A new study finds that people around the world see gender-balanced government as better for policy-and better for democracy.

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Technology for all: Ensuring innovation serves the most vulnerable

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Technology for all: Ensuring innovation serves the most vulnerable

While most people have access to powerful tools such as smartphones, technology also plays a crucial role in supporting individuals with mobility challenges, disabilities and other accessibility needs.

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Trust is a Social Bond

Trust is a Social Bond

How does disinformation impact public trust in science? And can healthy scepticism be a good thing? A debate between climate researcher Sonia Seneviratne, communication scientist Mike S. Schäfer and former Swiss Federal Chancellor Walter Thurnherr.

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Citizen Participation and Technology: Lessons from the Fields of Deliberative Democracy and Science and Technology Studies

Citizen Participation and Technology: Lessons from the Fields of Deliberative Democracy and Science and Technology Studies

Deliberative democracy could be enriched by a deeper engagement with the material aspects of democratic processes. STS scholars would benefit from engaging more closely with democratic theory, as well.

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Trump 2.0: an Assault on Science Anywhere is an Assault on Science Everywhere

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Trump 2.0: an Assault on Science Anywhere is an Assault on Science Everywhere

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

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Horizon Papers: €62 Million Cut to Democracy and Culture Research

Horizon Papers: €62 Million Cut to Democracy and Culture Research

The latest draft 2025 work programme for culture, creativity and inclusive society research in Horizon Europe shows €62 million in cuts compared to a version we leaked in October.

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Who Were the Winners and Losers of African Democracy in 2024?

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Who Were the Winners and Losers of African Democracy in 2024?

In 2024, 18 elections took place on the African continent, from Senegal to South Africa, Algeria to Ghana, with the results an equal mix of democratic success stories and challenges still to overcome.

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Public Trust in Science is Ebbing - and Will Have Real-world Consequences

Public Trust in Science is Ebbing - and Will Have Real-world Consequences

Anti-science attitudes have historically encumbered societal progress in the U.S., often with serious ramifications. The scientific community is now bracing for upheaval as the Trump administration prepares to take office.

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How to Reduce Partisan Animosity

How to Reduce Partisan Animosity

Matthew Levendusky, a professor of political science in Penn's School of Arts & Sciences, explains the results of a megastudy that explores whether anything could bridge the political gap between the left and right among Americans.

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Risky Science and Public Consent

Risky Science and Public Consent

Should citizens decide on risky science? To explore this question of public consent and risky science, two experts with differing opinions share their points of view, in an effort to find some common ground.

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Do Large Language Models Have a Legal Duty to Tell The Truth?

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Do Large Language Models Have a Legal Duty to Tell The Truth?

Leading experts in regulation and ethics at the Oxford Internet Institute, have identified a new type of harm created by LLMs which they believe poses long-term risks to democratic societies and needs to be addressed by creating a new legal duty for LLM providers.

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Revisiting the 'Research Parasite' Debate in the Age of AI

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Revisiting the 'Research Parasite' Debate in the Age of AI

Large language models used in AI bots like ChatGTP have made an old debate about data democracy relevant again.

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Fact & Fiction: The Future of Democracy

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Fact & Fiction: The Future of Democracy

YouTube video of the Nobel Prize Dialogue Brussels 2024

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Nobel Prize Scientists on AI, Democracy and Critical Thinking

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Nobel Prize Scientists on AI, Democracy and Critical Thinking

Nobel prize-winning scientists and a world-leading AI researcher highlighted the dazzling potential of AI to support research, the contributions of science to democracy and the importance of critical thinking in the age of AI, at a Nobel Prize Dialogue held in Brussels this week.

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