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2022

December 21 Article: Monica Di Fiore, Marta Kuc‑Czarnecka, Samuele Lo Piano, Arnald Puy, Andrea Saltelli, 2022, The Challenge of Quantification: An Interdisciplinary Reading, Minerva, published online 21 December 2022.
December 5 Interview of Andrea Saltelli run by YT (Yutong) Chen, science journalist for Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS) for the international news section of the academic newspaper named Chinese Social Sciences Today (CSST Chinese Edition).

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November 28-29
JRC Course on sensitivity analysis for impact assessment - On modelling, November 28 2022, JRC course on sensitivity analysis, Brussels, November 28-29.

Sensitivity analysis for impact assessment, November 28 2022, JRC course on sensitivity analysis, Brussels, November 28-29.

Examples, November 29 2022, JRC course on sensitivity analysis, Brussels, November 28-29.

Sensitivity Auditing, November 29 2022, JRC course on sensitivity analysis, Brussels, November 28-29.
November 8 Lecture: How not to do a sensitivity analysis, virtual, November 8 2022,
- LUT University, Lappeenranta, Finland,
- Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, and
- Stanford University, CA, USA.

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November 4 Lecture: Science, ethics and quantification, Series: PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICAL CORONA SCIENCE, Friday 4th November 2022, virtual, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science.
October 20 Presentation: Science, democracy and regulatory capture, Associazione italiana per la promozione della scienza aperta, VII convegno annuale: Scienza aperta e società democratiche 20 ottobre 2022, Sede centrale CNR, piazzale Aldo Moro, 7 – Roma.
October 19 Article: Puy, Arnald, Pierfrancesco Beneventano, Simon A. Levin, Samuele Lo Piano, Tommaso Portaluri, and Andrea Saltelli. 2022. ‘Models with Higher Effective Dimensions Tend to Produce More Uncertain Estimates’. Science Advances 8 (eabn9450).
October 14 Article: Andrea Saltelli, Alexandra Theben, and Rosario Scandurra, Smashing the glasshouse. Diminishing the prestige of measures of higher education, SocArXiv, 14 Oct. 2022.
October 14 Lesson: Ethics of quantification, Course MNF 990, Bergen, October 14, 2022.
October 6 Presentation at Science and regulatory capture, Brussels, Norway House, October 6, 2022: "Science, lobbies and the environment: marking the 60th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring". VIDEO

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October 2 Article: Lo Piano, Samuele, Razi Sheikholeslami, Arnald Puy, and Andrea Saltelli. 2022. “Unpacking the Modelling Process via Sensitivity Auditing.” Futures 103041. doi: 10.1016/j.futures.2022.103041.
October 2 Mention - interview: 'Primavera silenciosa', la biblia ecologista, cumple 60 años, in El Periodico, by Michele Catanzaro, October 2 2022.
September 7 Article: Saltelli, Andrea and Puy, Arnald, What Can Mathematical Modelling Contribute to a Sociology of Quantification? (September 7, 2022). Available at SSRN https://ssrn.com/abstract=4212453
September 1 Lesson: Ethics of quantification, Course NANO 310, Bergen, August 31st, 2022.
August 31 Lesson: Some elements from history and philosophy of science for nanoethics, Course NANO 310, Bergen, August 31st, 2022.
August 5 New chapter on SSRN: Andrea Saltelliab, Erik S. Reinertc. ‘Physiocracy, Guillotines, and Antisemitism?’ Did economics emulate the wrong Enlightenment?
Chapter to appear in 2023 in "A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development", Edited by Erik Reiner and Ingrid Kvangraven, Edward Elgar Publishing.

Also downloadable here.
July 15 Presentation: Academic freedom? Old myths in a changed world, ESOF Leiden 2022, July 15.
July 13 Article: Saltelli, Andrea and Kuc Czarnecka, Marta and Lo Piano, Samuele and János Lőrincz, Máté and Olczyk, Magdalena and Puy, Arnald and Reinert, Erik and Smith, Stefán Thor and van der Sluijs, Jeroen, A New Gaze for Impact Assessment Practices in the European Union (July 7, 2022). Also available at SSRN.
July 7 Chapter in the volume Dissenso informato. Pandemia: Il dibattito Mancato a le Alternative Possibili, 2022, a cura di Elisa Lello e Niccolò Bertuzzi, Castelvecchi Editore.

======= Capitolo di Elisa Lello e Andrea Saltelli: Nuove frontiere del lobbismo scientifico e dirottamento dello spazio pubblico, versione draft Aprile 2022.
June 28 Lecture: How not to do a sensitivity analysis, UPF-BSM, Barcelona, June, 28, 2022 .
June 27 Article: Arnald Puy, and Andrea Saltelli, 2022, Discrepancy measures for sensitivity analysis in mathematical modeling, Andrea, available as arXiv:2206.13470.
June 23 Lecture: Andrea Saltelli and Monica Di Fiore, Ethics of Quantification, SciDataCon-IDW Seoul 2022, June 23.
June 17 Lecture: Lobbies, science and regulatory capture, Università degli Studi di Teramo (virtual) June 17, 2022.
June 15 Chapter in the volume: Scienza, politica e società: l’approccio post-normale in teoria e nelle pratiche, Collana SCIENZIATI IN AFFANNO? – I, 2022, Edited by Alba L’Astorina e Cristina Mangia, CNR Edizioni.

======= Capitolo di Andrea Saltelli, L’incontro con la scienza post-normale, pp. 55-59.
June 13 Keynote Lecture: Reformation in the Church of Science, JRC Science Summit, Ispra, June 13, 2022.
June 10 Lesson: Sensitivity Auditing, SAMO Summer School, Ispra, June 10, 2022.
June 8 Article: Arnald Puy, Razi Sheikholeslami, Hoshin V. Gupta, Jim W. Hall, Bruce Lankford, Samuele Lo Piano, Jonas Meier, Florian Pappenberger, Amilcare Porporato, Giulia Vico & Andrea Saltelli, The delusive accuracy of global irrigation water withdrawal estimates, Nature Communications volume 13, Article number: 3183 (2022).
May 24 Article: Andrea Saltelli and Daniel Sarewitz, 2022, Reformation in the Church of Science. How the truth monopoly was broken up. The New Atlantis, issue Spring 2022.
May 19 Presentation: Sensitivity Auditing, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales - Universidad del Rosario, May 19, 2022.
May 12 Presentation: How not to do a sensitivity analysis, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales - Universidad del Rosario, May 12, 2022.
May 12 Presentation: A manifesto for responsible quantification, A Conference on Corona, Data, Statistics and Decision Making, organized by the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research, The National Institute for Health Policy Research & Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Virtual, May 12, 2022.
April 30 Article: Puy, Arnald, Samuele Lo Piano, Andrea Saltelli, and Simon A. Levin. 2022. “Sensobol: An R Package to Compute Variance-Based Sensitivity Indices.” Journal of Statistical Software 102 (5). https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v102i05.
April 22 Article: Lo Piano S, Borgonovo E, Puy A, Saltelli A, Walsh J, Vidoni D (2022) Improving the reliability of cohesion policy databases. PLoS ONE 17(4): e0266823. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266823.
April 7 Interview of Erin Kate with Andrea Saltelli: Regulatory Capture & Its Concerning Impact on Science, recorded March 18, on air April 7 2022, Series 'Causes Or Cures'.
March 31 Article: A. Saltelli and D. Sarewitz, “Reformation in the Church of Science,” The New Atlantis, no. 68, Mar. 2022. Accessed: Apr. 03, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reformation-in-the-church-of-science.
March 30 Presentation: Quantified evidence in science for policy, DESTINATION EARTH INITIATIVE - THE LAUNCH EVENT, 30 March 2022.
March 14 Presentation: Monica Di Fiore, Arnald Puy, Andrea Saltelli, What can sensitivity analysis contribute to a sociology of quantification? SAMO Conference Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output Conference, March 14-16, 2022, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1640.
March 11 Lesson: Scientific integrity, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), March 11, 2022.
March 10 Article: Reckoning with uncertainty, social sciences lessons for mathematical modeling, in "Mathematics for action: supporting science-based decision-making", UNESCO [62236], 2022, Dhersin, Jean-Stéphane, Kaper, Hans, Ndifon, Wilfred, Roberts, Fred, Rousseau, Christiane, Ziegler, Günter M., Editors.
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March 2 Lesson: How not to do a sensitivity analysis, University College London, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, March 2nd 2022.
February 23 Article: Puy, Arnald, Bruce Lankford, Jonas Meier, Saskia van der Kooij, and Andrea Saltelli. 2022. “Large Variations in Global Irrigation Withdrawals Caused by Uncertain Irrigation Efficiencies.” Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5768.
February 14 Lesson: SA - PART ONE How not to do a sensitivity analysis, MNF990 PhD course on Theory of Science and Ethics February 14, 2022.
February 10 and 17 Lesson: Scientific integrity, INPhINIT PhD training sessions, Virtual, CaixaForum, February 10 & 17, 2022.
February 9 Lesson: Ethics of quantification, MNF990 PhD course on Theory of Science and Ethics February 9, 2022.
February 8 Lecure: How not to do a sensitivity analysis, Virtual talk in the ISoP MCS SIG Webinar series, Tuesday 8th of February 2022, 17.00 CET, https://sites.google.com/view/mcssig/mcs-sig
February 4 Lecture: Sensitivity analysis, sensitivity auditing and ethics of quantification, Talk at the University of Reading, February 4th 2022, CREDS research consortium event https://www.creds.ac.uk/
January 11 Article: Annibale Biggeri, Andrea Saltelli, 2021, The Strange Numbers of Covid-19, Argumenta 7, 1, 97-107.
January 11 Article: Paolo Vineis, Andrea Saltelli, 2021, The Immunity Capital, Argumenta 7, 1, 109-116.
January 3 Article: Arnald Puy, William Becker, Samuele Lo Piano, Andrea Saltelli, 2022, A COMPREHENSIVE COMPARISON OF TOTAL-ORDER ESTIMATORS FOR GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS, International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification, DOI:10.1615/Int.J.UncertaintyQuantification.2021038133 .

2021

November 25 Lesson: Science, the endless frontier of regulatory capture, Thursday 25, 2021, at 16.00 at the Campus of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Facultad de Derecho.
November 11 Lecture: Scientific citizenship: what challenges, "Alla ricerca della #cittadinanzascientifica“, November 11, 2021, Università Bicocca, Milano.
November 9 Presentation: Some thoughts on sensitivity analysis, Quarterly iEMSs webcast on "The Future of #Sensitivity_Analysis for #Systems_Modelling and #Policy_Support", November 9 2021.
October 28 Article: Saltelli, Andrea, Dorothy J. Dankel, Monica Di Fiore, Nina Holland, and Martin Pigeon. 2021. “Science, the Endless Frontier of Regulatory Capture.” Futures, October. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2021.102860.
October 25 Article: A. Saltelli, A. J. Jakeman, S. Razavi, and Q. Wu, “Sensitivity analysis: A discipline coming of age,” Environ. Model. Softw., vol. 146, no. 105226, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105226.
October 4 Lesson: Sensitivity Analysis, MNF990 PhD course on Theory of Science and Ethics, October 4, 2021.
September 29 Lesson: Ethics of quantification, MNF990 PhD course on Theory of Science and Ethics, September 30 2021.
September 23 Lecure: Ethics of quantification, #SAE2021 – BIG4small Conference, SAE 2021 Conference on big data and small area estimation, Naples, September 20-24 2021.
September 20 Lecture: Sensitivity Analysis, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, September 20, 2021.
September 10 Lecture: Science, the endless frontier of regulatory capture, Conference Science, Health, Economics and Society, Rome, September 9-11 2021
September 6 Lesson/Video: Ethics of Quantification, Lesson recorded at UOC goes online.
September 1 Lecure: Ethics of Quantification, Rosendal September 1-2 2021, Global Health Anthropology Research Group, Wednesday September 1st: Social studies of quantification.
August 27 Ethics of Quantification, Course NANO 310, August 2021.
August 26 Lesson: Responsible modelling and forecasting, Course SDG207, UIB, Bergen, August 26, 2021.
August 26 Lesson: Some elements from history and philosophy of science for nanoethics, Course NANO 310, August 2021.
July 26 Article: Arnald Puy, Emanuele Borgonovo, Samuele Lo Piano, Simon A. Levin & Andrea Saltelli, Irrigated areas drive irrigation water withdrawals. Nature Communications, 12, 4525 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24508-8.
July 16 Article preprint: Andrea Saltelli, Monica Di Fiore, Francesco Spanò, 2021. “Physics to the rescue?” arXiv.org - physics - arXiv:2107.07239, Available online 16 July 2021.
June 23 Lesson: Ethics of quantification, Lesson at Scuola di Specializzazione Medica in Statistica Sanitaria e Bometria, Università di Firenze, Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni 'G. Parenti' (DiSIA), Florence, June 23, 2021.
June 16 Lecture: Responsible quantification, opening talk at 'Forecasting the future for sustainable development - Approaches to Modelling and the Science of Prediction', Centro per l’Eccellenza e gli Studi Transdisciplinari (CEST), Young Scholar Initiative of the Institute for New Economic thinking (INET) and OECD, June 16, 2021.
June 14 Lesson: The Ethics and Practice of Quantification, Lesson to the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, June 14, 2021.
June 10 Lesson: Scientific integrity, VITRIMAT PhD Program, Barcelona, SIRIS, June 10 2021.
June 09 Review of "Science, the endless frontier of regulatory capture" published, in Spanish": Los guardianes de la razón: Fact check, captura cultural e imaginario sociotécnico. Por Abel Novoa, June 09, 2021
June 9 Lesson: Scientific integrity, Scuola di Specializzazione Medica in Statistica Sanitaria e Bometria, Università di Firenze, Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni 'G. Parenti' (DiSIA), Florence, June 9, 2021.
May 26 Lecture: Ethics of quantification, Series "Picariello Lectures on Data Science”, University of Napoli Federico II, May 26, 2011.
May 24 Lesson: Science and regulatory capture, Lesson to the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, May 24, 2021.
May 19 Lesson: The indiscreet charm of composite indicators, University of Bergamo Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, May 19, 2021.
May 13 Presentation: How to translate ethics to PhD students, OUC Doctoral School Workshop: “Tools and strategies for the motivation and follow-up of PhD students”, Thursday, 13 May 2021.
May 6 Lecture: Ethics of quantification, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, Polytechnic University of the Marches, May 6, 2021.
May 2 Article: Kuc-Czarnecka, Marta, Andrea Saltelli, Magdalena Olczyk, and Erik S. Reinert. 2021. “The Opening of Central and Eastern European Countries to Free Trade: A Critical Assessment.” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Available online 2 May 2021.
April 28 Lecture: A modelling manifesto, 2nd TIAS/SESYNC/ SESMO Webcast: Exploring Uncertainty, Transparency and Robustness in Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling and Assessments - 28 April 2021.
April 21 Virtual presentation: Ethics of Quantification, University of Bergamo, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, April 21 2021, Bergamo, April 21 2021.
April 14 Presentation: Altered States: Cartesian and Ricardian dreams, with Erik Reiner and Mario Giampietro at the Uncomfortable Knowledge Hub, April 14, 2021.
April 9 and April 16 Lesson: Scientific integrity, INPhINIT PhD training sessions, Virtual, CaixaForum, April 9-16, 2021.
March 18 Opponent for the PhD thesis “Uncertainty in Ecological Footprint standard method accounts” by Sigurður E. Jóhannesson Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iceland, 2021.
March 18 Working paper: Reinert E.S., Di Fiore M., Saltelli A., Ravetz J.R. (2021). Altered States: Cartesian and Ricardian dreams. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Working Paper Series (IIPP WP 2021/07). Available at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/wp2021-07.
March 16 Article: William Becker, Paolo Paruolo and Andrea Saltelli, 2021, Variable Selection in Regression Models Using Global Sensitivity Analysis, Journal of Time Series Econometrics, https://doi.org/10.1515/jtse-2018-0025
March 15 Article preprint: Saltelli, Andrea and Dankel, Dorothy and Di Fiore, Monica and Holland, Nina and Pigeon, Martin, Science, the Endless Frontier of Regulatory Capture (March 1, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3795058 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3795058.
March 9 Lecture: "Ethics of quantification", Seminario "Che valore ha il dato? Quantificare l’effetto di un intervento è un’azione neutra? Spunti per una riflessione critica", 9 marzo 2021 ore 17.00, Università degli Studi di Milano.
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March 3 Ranked #6745 in the Stanford University's World Ranking of Scientist (top 2% of the world). Rank #6745 over 8 million ranked corresponds to the fist decile of the first percentile, i.e. to a top range. Rank #5 among the 947 researchers affiliated to Norwegian institutions.
The news is reported by the Norwegian journal Krono.
February 12 Blog: Excerpts from A CLIMATE OF DIALOGUE[*] published on the blog of Judith Curry.

[*] Andrea Saltelli and Paul-Marie Boulanger, 2020, A CLIMATE OF DIALOGUE, in DIMENSIONS OF INTRA- AND INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE IN THE DEBATES ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY, Silvija Serafimova Editor, published by Avangard Prima, Sofia. ISBN 978-619-239-433-2
February 11 Lesson: Ethics of quantification, MNF990 / Theory of Science and Ethics, Bergen, February 11, 2021.
February 5 Lecture: Is there need for an ethics of quantification? Virtual webinar on ‘Ethics of quantification’, organized by Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CTWS), University of Leiden, February 5, 2021.

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January 25 Article preprint: Andrea Saltelli, Monica Di Fiore, 2021, Is Time Ripe for an Ethic of Quantification? Available at SSRN, written January 21, 2021, abstract_id=3772676.
January 22 Working paper: Saltelli, A., Andreoni, A., Drechsler W., Ghosh, J., Kattel, R., Kvangraven, I. H., Rafols, I., Reinert, E. S., Stirling, A. and Xu, T. (2021). Why ethics of quantification is needed now. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Working Paper Series (IIPP WP 2021/05).
January 19 Article: Arnald Puy, Samuele Lo Piano, Andrea Saltelli, 2021, Is VARS more intuitive and efficient than Sobol' indices?,Environmental Modelling & Software Available online 18 January 2021, 104960.
January 19 Article: Razavi, S., Jakeman, A., Saltelli, A., Prieur, C., Iooss, B., Borgonovo, E., … Maier, H. R. (2021). The Future of Sensitivity Analysis: An Essential Discipline for Systems Modeling and Policy Support. Environmental Modelling & Software, Volume 137, March 2021, 104954 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104954.
 

2020

December 31 Article accepted on Environmental Modelling and Software: Arnald Puy, Samuele Lo Piano, Andrea Saltelli, 2020, Is VARS more intuitive and efficient than Sobol' indices?. Draft avaialble on arXiv:2009.12558.
December 17 Virtual seminar “Age of misinformation: an interdisciplinary outlook on fake news”, European Parliament, December 17, 2020”
December 15 Article published: Razavi, S., Jakeman, A., Saltelli, A., Prieur, C., Iooss, B., Borgonovo, E., … Maier, H. R. (2020). The Future of Sensitivity Analysis: An Essential Discipline for Systems Modeling and Policy Support. Environmental Modelling & Software, 104954. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104954.
December 4 "Sensitivity Analysis"
Virtual seminar for Applied BioMath LLC, December 4, 2020.
December 2 Presentation: "Is there need for an ethics of quantification?"
Virtual ‘Library Talk’ organised by DG for Research and Innovation (RTD.A.1), Wednesday December 2, 2020
November 2 Presentation: Composite indicators: lights and shadows, presentation to Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, University of Aachen, November 2, 2020.
October 13 Comment published in Issues in Science and Technology: George F. De Martino, Ilene Grabel, Helga Nowotny, Andrea Saltelli and Brian Wynne: responses to "Control in Crisis: A DISCUSSION OF COVID-19 and the Futility of Control in the Modern World", by Andrew Stirling, Ian Scoones, Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, Fall 2020.
September 29 New paper or ArXiv: Arnald Puy, Samuele Lo Piano, Andrea Saltelli, 2020, Is VARS more intuitive and efficient than Sobol' indices?, arXiv:2009.12558.
September 25 Regulatory capture in the name of Enlightenment, presentation at the PNS 5 Symposium - A digital journey to the 2021 PNS Florence Symposium, Session on Regulatory Capture, September 25, 2020. -----> and video here
September 17 and 18 Integrity at times of crisis, INPhINIT PhD training sessions, Virtual, CaixaForum, September 17, 2020.
September 15 Climate’s clima, Course VIT212 Klima: Hva vet vi? Hva bør vi gjøre? Bergen, September 15, 2020.
September 14 Post normal model validation? Surely you must be joking, iEMSs Conference 2020, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, September 15, 2020.
September 14 Sensitivity Analysis, MNF990 / Theory of Science and Ethics, Bergen, September 14, 2020.
September 6 Published: Isabelle Bruno, Andrea Saltelli, 2020, Statistiques et modèles mathématiques : doit-on les laisser nous gouverner ? , The Conversation (FR), September 6, 2020
September 1 Interview with michele Catanzaro at the European Conference of Science Journalism, (virtual) Trieste 2020. ------- see here some notes and sources.
August 17 New chapter published: A CLIMATE OF DIALOGUE by Andrea Saltelli and Paul-Marie Boulanger, 2020, in DIMENSIONS OF INTRA- AND INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE IN THE DEBATES ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY, Silvija Serafimova Editor, published by Avangard Prima, Sofia.
July 30 COVID-19: Perché i numeri sbagliano, di Monica Di Fiore, Tommaso Portaluri, Andrea Saltelli, Paolo Vineis, LIVE, supplemento mensile de La Repubblica, July 30, 2020.
July 17 From sociology of quantification to ethics of quantification, by Andrea Saltelli and Monica Di Fiore, accepted for publication in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, July 17, 2020.
July 08 Per un'etica dei numeri e dei modelli COVID-19/Filosofia, 08/07/2020, di Andrea Saltelli, Tommaso Portaluri, Monica Di Fiore, Paolo Vineis, Luca Carra, Scienza in Rete.
July 06 M. Di Fiore, T. Portaluri, A. Saltelli, 6 Luglio 2020, Cinque modi per garantire che i modelli servano la società, ROARS.
June 24 A. Saltelli, G. Bammer, I. Bruno, E. Charters, M. Di Fiore, E. Didier, W. Nelson Espeland, J. Kay, S. Lo Piano, D. Mayo, R.J. Pielke, T. Portaluri, T.M. Porter, A. Puy, I. Rafols, J.R. Ravetz, E. Reinert, D. Sarewitz, P.B. Stark, A. Stirling, P. van der Sluijs, Jeroen P. Vineis, Five ways to ensure that models serve society: a manifesto, Nature 582 (2020) 482–484.

-->Taken up in El Pais: Elogio de la incertidumbre

-->Taken up in The Canberra Times: We need new rules on COVID-19 modelling

-->Taken up in the online journal reason.com: Is the COVID-19 Pandemic Self-Flattening, or Will It Grind Relentlessly on?

-->Taken up in the Italian journal Il Manifesto: Covid, analisi dei dati: «Anche i modelli matematici sono influenzabili»

-->Taken up in Scienza in Rete, with an interview: Per un'etica dei numeri e dei modelli

-->Taken up in El Periodico (Spanish version): Modelos matemáticos y decisiones políticas

-->Taken up in El Periodico (Catalan version version): Models matemàtics i decisions polítiques

-->Taken up in Il Corriere Nazionale: Appello degli scienziati per modelli matematici “responsabili”

-->Taken up in the Catalan La Vanguardia: Científicos advierten del uso político de los modelos matemáticos

-->On the pages of the French CNRS: Quelle est la responsabilité des statistiques en temps de crise ?

-->On the pages of the Italian CNR: Da Nature un appello per modelli matematici "responsabili"

-->On the pages of the Dutch University of Leiden: Five principles to preserve social trust in scientific modelling

-->On the pages of the Dutch University of Utrecht: Plea for acknowledgement of uncertainties in policy-guiding models: “No one model can serve all purposes”

-->On the pages of the UK University of Sussex: Role models: The need for responsible modelling in the age of pandemic

-->On the pages of the Norwegian University of Bergen: Can we ensure that mathematical models serve society?

-->On the pages of the UK University of Reading: #WeAreTogether: 'Uncertainty in pandemic forecasts must be communicated'

-->On the pages of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, in Castillan, Cómo construir modelos matemáticos más útiles para la sociedad, by Juan Vilá.
-->On the pages of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, in Catalan, Com es poden construir models matemàtics més útils per a la societat, by Juan Vilá.
-->On the pages of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, in English, How to build more useful mathematical models for society, by Juan Vilá.

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May 11 Mal fare, dir vero? Per una scienza con la ‘s’ minuscola, di Andrea Saltelli e Tommaso Portaluri - 11 Maggio 2020, ROARS.
April 30 Paul-Marie Boulanger, Andrea Saltelli, Pandemic Luhmann, on SSRN: SSRN-id3586526.

... also on Zenodo, https://zenodo.org/record/3782316.
April 24 Monica Di Fiore, Tommaso Portaluri, Andrea Saltelli, 2020, Post-verità e scienza, Federalismi.it, 11, 110-124.
April 17 A. Puy, S. Lo Piano, A. Saltelli, 2020, Current models underestimate future irrigated areas, Geophysical Research Letters, Open access, online, doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087360.
March 25 Postnormal pandemics: Why COVID-19 requires a new approach to science, guest post on STEPS by David Waltner-Toews, Annibale Biggeri, Bruna De Marchi, Silvio Funtowicz, Mario Giampietro, Martin O’Connor, Jerome R. Ravetz, Andrea Saltelli and Jeroen P. van der Sluijs.

Spanish version. --- Italian version.
February 26 Lesson in Girona: Integrity at times of crisis, INPhINIT PhD training sessions, Girona, CaixaForum, 26/02/2020.
February 22 Accepted, Arnald Puy, Samuele Lo Piano, Andrea Saltelli, A sensitivity analysis of the PAWN sensitivity index, Environmental Modelling and Software.
February 13-21
Lessons in Bergen, Vatnahalsen, courses MNF990: Theory of Science and Ethics, Bergen, and VITSV900: Philosophy of Social Science and Ethics, Vatnahalsen. (1,2) Ethics of quantification,
(3) Sensitiviy analysis.
(4)Scientometrics' issues.
February 7 Lecture at ISGlobal, Barcelona on Numbers for Policy.
February 2 Accepted & available online, Andrea Saltelli, Lorenzo Benini, Silvio Funtowicz, Mario Giampietro, Matthias Kaiser, Erik Reinert, Jeroen P. van der Sluijs, The technique is never neutral. How methodological choices condition the generation of narratives for sustainability, Accepted for publication in Environmental Science and Policy, January 16, 2020..
February 1 Available online, Siddharth Sareen, Andrea Saltelli and Kjetil Rommetveit, Ethics of quantification: illumination, obfuscationand performative legitimation.
January 30-31 Lessons on Open science for responsible quantification, seminar: From Responsible Research and Innovation to Open Science, Udine, register at http://bit.ly/RRIUd.
January 28 Seminar at the University of Bergamo, The indiscreet charm of [composite] indicators, 28 gennaio 2020 14:30 - 15:30, Aula Bertocchi, via dei Caniana 2, Seminari di dipartimento, Persona di riferimento: dott.ssa Annamaria Bianchi, annamaria.bianchi@unibg.it Strutture interne organizzatrici: Dipartimento di Scienze Aziendali, Economiche e Metodi Quantitativi.
January 12 Accepted: Kuc-Czarnecka, M., Lo Piano, S. and Saltelli, A. (2020) ‘Quantitative storytelling in the making of a composite indicator’, Social Indicators Research.

2019

December 31 Available online, New article published in FUTURES, "Ethics of quantification or quantification of ethics?", Open access.
November 29 Interview with the Spanish newspaper El Confidential: "Por qué PISA puede ser un peligro: “Su objetivo es que seamos intercambiables”"
November 29 "Fake news and science", Le Fake News e il ruolo degli esperti nell’agorà digitale, Università di Torino, 29 Novembre 2019, Circolo dei lettori, Via Bogino 9 - Torino. Technoscience, policy and the new media. Nexus or vortex?
November 28 Available online, New article published in FUTURES, with Paul Marie Boulanger: "Technoscience, policy and the new media. Nexus or vortex?" Open access. Volume 115, January 2020, 102491.
November 27 "The crisis in the quality control of science and its impact on science's social functions", Research Forum Workshop: Towards an impactful evidence-based research grant-making, Wednesday, November 27, 2019, "la Caixa" Foundation headquarters, Avenue Diagonal, 621-629, Barcelona 08028, Spain.

November 22 Webinar on Sensitivity Analysis and neighbourhoods, Royal Society-DFID Africa Capacity Building Initiative, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mauritius and Sustainable Energy Pole of Research Excellence (SEPRE), November 22, 2018.
November 22 (Guest post): What can we learn from the debate on statistical significance? Posted on November 22, 2019 on errorstatistics.com, the blog of statistician Deborah Mayo.
November 18-21 Course Numbers for Policy, Castelldefels, November 18-21, 2019
November 7 Sensitivity Analysis: an introduction, Thursday, 7th November 2019 12:30 pm, Bocconi University, Room 3-E4-SR03 Via Roentgen 1 Milano.
October 28 PRESENTATION a SAMO2019: A brief history od SAMO, Ninth International Conference of Sensitivity analysis #SAMO_2019, Barcelona, Castelldefels, October 28-30 2019. October 29 PRESENTATION a SAMO2019: Why so many published sensitivity analyses are false: a systematic review of sensitivity analysis practices, by Andrea Saltelli, Ksenia Aleksankina, William Becker, Pamela Fennell, Federico Ferretti, Niels Holst, Qiongli Wu, Ninth International Conference of Sensitivity analysis #SAMO_2019, Barcelona, Castelldefels, October 28-30 2019.
September 17 Climate fixing, geoengineering and zeitgeist, Course VIT212 Klima: Hva vet vi? Hva bør vi gjøre? Bergen, September 17, 2019.
September 12 Sensitivity analysis for mathematical modelling, Course MNF990 19H / Theory of Science and Ethics, Bergen, Thormøhlens gate 51 (VilVite), Konferanserom CD, September 12, 2019.

September 12 Sensitivity analysis for mathematical modelling PRACTICUM, Course MNF990 19H / Theory of Science and Ethics, Bergen, Thormøhlens gate 51 (VilVite), Konferanserom CD, September 12, 2019.
September 4 Closing keynote at the 2019 ENBIS conference in Budapest: Sensitivity analysis, an introduction, September 4th, 2019, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, Budapest.
... and video.
August 27 Paper published in Nature Communications: A short comment on statistical versus mathematical modelling, Nature Communications, 10, Article number: 3870, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11865-8.
August 26 Birthday extravaganza seminar at SVT (Centre for the study of the Sciences and the Humanities): Ethics of quantification, August 26, 2019.
August 19-30 My first course as responsible professor: Course NANO310, Ethics of nanotechnologies, in Bergen, August 2019 - reading list

Here all the lessons.
July 03 New paper published, Andrea Saltelli, 2019, Smettiamola di fingere: quantificare non è un’operazione neutrale (Drop the act: quantification is never neutral), Epidemiologia e Prevenzione, 43 (2-3):121-123.
June 26 Lecture in Milan: La scienza nel mirino: prove, controversie e partecipazione, Istituto Mario Negri Milano, Via Mario Negri, 2, 20156 Milano, 26 Giugno h 14.00 – 15.30.
June 14 Paper published: Samuele Lo Piano, Andrea Saltelli and Jeroen P. van der Sluijs, 2019, Silver as a Constraint for a Large-Scale Development of Solar Photovoltaics? Scenario-Making to the Year 2050 Supported by Expert Engagement and Global Sensitivity Analysis, Frontiers in Energy Research, 14 June 2019, https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2019.00056.
June 04 Lecture in Barcelona: Expertise, participation, and evidence at an age of crisis, COST Course “Mobilising data for energy poverty research and action”, UAB, ICTA, June 4, 2019, Bellaterra, Barcelona.
May 31 Lecture in Oxford: The future of science, Science – Post-Normal Perspectives, Jerry Ravetz at 90, Oxford, Oxford Martin School, May 31, 2019.
May 21 Paper published in Nature: Views from a continent in flux. Nature asked nine leading Europeans to pick their top priority for science at this pivotal point. Love, money, and trust got most votes; by Carlos Moedas, Isabelle Vernos, Stephan Kuster, Helga Nowotny, Andrea Saltelli, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Jan Wouter Vasbinder, Daniel R. Brooks & Patrick Cunningham, Nature 569, 481-484 (2019)
May 16 Lecture in Naples: Sensitivity analysis, an introduction. Seminar the Dipartimento di scienze economiche e statistiche, Federico II University, Naples, May 16, 2019.
March 18 Lecture in Bergen: Technoscience, policy and the new media. One or many crises? Seminar at the Senter for vitenskapsteori, SVT-UIB, Parkveien 9, Bergen, Monday the 18th of March 2019.
March 11 Seminar: Sensitivity analysis, an introduction. Seminar at Auditorio de Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de la Universidad de Cantabria, March 11, 2019 .
March 6 Interview with The Corbett Report on the crisis of science, March 6, 2019.
February 15 New article published on EMS: Andrea Saltelli, Ksenia Aleksankina, William Becker, Pamela Fennell, Federico Ferretti, Niels Holst, Sushan Li, Qiongli Wu, Why so many published sensitivity analyses are false: a systematic review of sensitivity analysis practices, Environmental Modelling and Software, Volume 114, April 2019, Pages 29-39.
February 11-18 Lessons: The case of the p-test and science reproducibility problems.
Course Philosophy of Social Sciences, Vatnahalsen, and
Course Theory of Science and Ethics, Bergen, February 2019 .

2018

December 3 Seminar: Sensitivity analysis, an introduction, Seminar at CERFACS, December 3rd, 2019, 10.30, 42 Avenue Gaspard Coriolis, Toulouse .
November 15 Qui homologa el coneixement en la societat de la (des)informació? Dialogue between Andrea Saltelli and Bjorn Stensaker, at Palau Macaya, November 15, 2018.
November 15 Keynote talk given at PNS_4: Crisis? Surely you're joking, Post Normal Science Symposium, Barcelona, UOC @ Tibidabo, November 15-17, 2018.
October 22 English translation of the piece from JON KÅRE TIME in Morgenbladet (published in Norwegian June 14, 2018): An interview to Andrea Saltelli and Daniele Fanelli on science's crisis.
September 26 Lecures Sensitivity analysis, and Statistics on the Verge, given in Berkeley on September 26, 2018.
September 11 Andrea Saltelli, Statistics on the Verge, Lecure for the Bergen Students Association, September 11, 2018, Det Akademiske Kvarter, Bergen.
August 27-September 1 Course at Castelldefels (Barcelona) Numbers for Policy, Castelldefels, August 27, September 1, --- see slides
July 30 Talk given in Oxford, in tandem with Philip Mirowski: Crisis? Surely you must be joking,
Seminar Crisis, what crisis in Science?
Monday July 30, 2018, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Oxford University,
July 17 New article on Futures: Why science’s crisis should not become a political battling ground.
July 11 New piece on The Conversation: Debate: Donald Trump’s war on science and its long-lasting consequences .
July 5 New article published, Philip B. Stark and Andrea Saltelli, Cargo-cult statistics and scientific crisis, SIGNIFICANCE, 05 July 2018.
June 14 Published: for subscribers to the Norwegian journal Morgenbladet an interview to Andrea Saltelli and Daniele Fanelli on science's crisis.
June 11-15 Lecture at the Summer School on Sensitivity Analysis – SAMO 2018 Ranco (Italy) - June 11-15, 2018.
June 7 Seminar at CERN Geneve, Crisis? Surely you must be joking.
May 3 Thanks to the hard work and perseverance of Wu Qiongli from the Chinese Academy of Sciences the Sensitivity Analysis Primer is now available to Chinese students and practitioners.

Link to buy online 1

Link to buy online 2
Qiongli Wu
Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CHINA
April 23 Esiste un “giusto posto” per la scienza e l’innovazione? Conversazione con Silvio Funtowicz e Andrea Saltelli a cura di Monica Di Fiore e Alba L’Astorina, DOI: 10.26324/2018RRICNRBOOK25, nel volume curato dalle stesse ed intitolato 'Scienziati in affanno? Ricerca e Innovazione Responsabili (RRI) in teoria e nelle pratiche'.
April 9-13 First plenary meeting of the Peder Sather project in Bergen, attended by
P. Stark, U of Berkeley,
Leif Rune Hellevik (U. Trondheim, NO), ,
Samuele lo Piano (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Catalonia) ,
Jeroen van der Sluis, SVT-UIB and ,
Andrea Saltelli, SVT-UIB & OE-UOC .
March 29 New piece published: Reinert, E. and Saltelli, A., Debate: What is missing in the ‘33 Theses for an Economics Reformation’, The Conversation, March 29, 2018.
March 1 , New piece published: Saltelli, A., Lo Piano, S. , 2018, Doing the Sum Right or the Right Sums? Techno-Optimist Numbers in Food Security Scenarios, Front. Sustain. Food Syst., 14 March 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2018.00006
February 13-16 Three lectures on Ethics of quantification given at the Course VITSV900 Philosophy of Social Science and Ethics Vatnahalsen, (NO), February 13-16, 2018.
January 30 Lecture: Andrea Saltelli, Ethics of quantification, PhD Course: Maintaining Scientific Integrity in Present Day Academic Reality, Utrecht, January 30, 2018.
Jan 22, Lecture: Andrea Saltelli, The now of Science: Crises and Reformation, Seminar “New Narratives in Science and Economics”, UOC Poblenou, Barcelona, Monday Jan 22, 2018.
January 16 New correspondence published in Nature: Saltelli, A., Stark, P., 2018, Fixing statistics is more than a technical issue, Nature, doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-00647-9
January 8 New piece published in The Conversation: Gothenburg’s summit for fair jobs and growth: a new narrative for Europe? The Conversation, January 8, 2018.

2017

December 19 Paper uploaded on ArXiv: Andrea Saltelli, 2017, Does modelling need a Reformation? Ideas for a new grammar of modelling.
December 1 Paper uploaded on ArXiv: Why So Many Published Sensitivity Analyses Are False. A Systematic Review of Sensitivity Analysis Practices, by Andrea Saltelli, Ksenia Aleksankina, William Becker, Pamela Fennell, Federico Ferretti, Niels Holst, Sushan Li, Qiongli Wu
November 9 Paper published The Conversation: Science’s credibility crisis: why it will get worse before it can get better, The Conversation, November 9, 2017.
September 18 Paper published in Epidemiologia e Prevenzione (in Italian): Statistiche al tempo della crisi, Epidemiol Prev 2017; 41 (3-4): 165-169.
September 13-14 Lecture Ethics of quantification,
and
Quantitative tools for responsible quantification, Course: "Theory of Science and Ethics"

for the PhD students from the Faculty of Science and Mathematics of Bergen University, September 13, 2017.
August 16 Paper published in Food Ethics: Problematic Quantifications: a Critical Appraisal of Scenario Making for a Global ‘Sustainable’ Food Production, by Saltelli A Piano S, Food Ethics, 2017 pp: 1-7, DOI 10.1007/s41055-017-0020-6.
August 10 New chapter published in a Handbook: William Becker , Paolo Paruolo, Michaela Saisana, Andrea Saltelli, Weights and Importance in Composite Indicators: Mind the Gap, in Handbook of Uncertainty Quantification, Editors: Roger Ghanem, David Higdon, Houman Owhadi, ISBN: 978-3-319-12384-4 (Print) 978-3-319-12385-1, pp 1187-1216.
Here a draft on Research Gate.
June 26 Cost Action for Sensitivity Auditing Rejected
June 17 New handbook entry: William Becker , Paolo Paruolo, Michaela Saisana, Andrea Saltelli, Weights and Importance in Composite Indicators: Mind the Gap Handbook of Uncertainty Quantification, pp 1187-1216
June 17 Interview with the Social Observary of La Caixa: «Science was never intended to be in the market, but today it’s a commodity», also in Castillian and Catalan.
June 14 Presentation: Mashup or social discovery? Composite indicators in the fray, Workshop Monitoring Convergence in the European Union Experts’ workshop, Eurofound, 13 – 14 June 2017
June 16 Philip Stark (U. Berkeley), Andrea Saltelli, Jeroen van der Sluijs (U. Bergen) and Leif Rune Hellevik (U. Trondheim) have been awarded by the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study of Berkeley a Peder Sather Grant in the amount of $25,000 for a project named “Mainstreaming Sensitivity Analysis And Uncertainty Auditing.”
June 12 New piece published on The Conversation: International PISA tests show how evidence-based policy can go wrong, The Conversation, June 12, 2017
June 9 Andrea Saltelli and Silvio Funtowicz, 2017, What is science's crisis really about, Futures, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2017.05.010
Abstract
June 9 Seminar at ICTA: What is post-normal science and why do we need it today? with Silvio Funtowicz and Andrea Saltelli. Room: Z/023, Time: 11:30
Abstract
June 2 Workshop at the Technical University of Denmark - DTU, Lyngby Campus, Chemical Engineering: Sensitivity Analysis and Beyond, Time 10:00-14:30
June 1 Seminar at Technical University of Denmark - DTU, Lyngby Campus, Chemical Engineering: Is there really a crisis in science? , Time 14:00-15:00
May 11 New piece published on The Conversation: Forcing consensus is bad for science and society>
April 21 Interview (in Norwegian) published on Forskerforum; title 'Resists against idealizing research'">
March 29-31 Course at the Joint Research Centre of Ispra: ‘Sensitivity analysis, sensitivity auditing and beyond’.'
March 13-17 Course in Bergen: Numbers for policy: Practical problems in quantification'.'
March 8 New piece published on The Conversation: Scientists’ march on Washington is a bad idea – here’s why, The Conversation, March 8, 2017 7.54am GMT
March 8 New paper published: Luisa Araújo, Andrea Saltelli, Sylke V. Schnepf, 2017, Do PISA data justify PISA-based education policy?, International Journal of Comparative Education and Development.
February 18 New paper published: Ângela Guimarães Pereiraa, Andrea Saltelli, 2017, Post-normal Institutional Identities: Quality Assurance, Reflexivity and Ethos of Care? Futures, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2016.11.009
February 8 New paper published: Andrea Saltelli, Mario Giampietro, 2017, What is wrong with evidence based policy, and how can it be improved? Futures, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.futures.2016.11.012.
February 6-8 Course in UIB Bellaterra Campus, Barcelona: ‘Sensitivity analysis, sensitivity auditing and beyond’.
January 27 Published on The Conversation: A. Saltelli, Silvio Funtowicz: To tackle the post-truth world, science must reform itself ....

January 27 ... and republished on the Huffington Post.

2016

December 6 Keynote lecture: Knowledge challenges at the science-policy interface, European Environmental Agency, Copenhagen, Management Board Seminar, December 6, 2016
December 5 Cost Action for Sensitivity Auditing Submitted
December 5 Piece published on SIGNIFICANCE: 'Young Statistician, You shall live adventurous times', The Royal Statistical Society magazine SIGNIFICANCE

Draft copy
November 30th - December 3rd Keynote lecture: Present challenges in sensitivity analysis, by Andrea Saltelli, SAMO 2016, La Reunion (FR).
November 16 Piece published on The Conversation:
Andrea Saltelli, Silvio Funtowicz, Science wars in the age of Donald Trump, November 2016 The Conversation.
November 1st Appointed Professor 2 at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT)
September 26 Piece published on The Conversation:
Andrea Saltelli, Science in crisis: from the sugar scam to Brexit, our faith in experts is fading, September 27, 2016 The Conversation.
August 14: Just started using Kudos:

July 14 Piece published on The Guardian,
Andrea Saltelli and Silvio Funtowicz, “Science cannot solve these problems alone because it helped to create them in the first place”.

Extended version of the piece

June 24 Letter published on New Scientist,
Andrea Saltelli, Jerome R. Ravetz and Silvio Funtowicz, A new community for science, NEW SCIENTIST, issue 3079, p. 53, 22 June 2016.
May 2 New article on the ecological footprint published: Alessandro Galli , Mario Giampietro , Steve Goldfinger , Elias Lazarus , David Lin , Andrea Saltelli , Matthis Wackernagel , Felix Müller, 2016, Questioning the ecological footprint , Ecological Indicators, 69, 224–232.
April 14 A letter published in Nature: Saltelli, A., Funtowicz, S., Giampietro, M., Sarewitz, D., Stark, P.B., van der Sluijs, J.P., 2016, Climate costing is politics not science, Nature, 14 April, 532, 177.
April 7 A new post on the book 'Science on the Verge' on the blog of the International Social Science Council in Paris.
February 22 An interview for Wiley's Statistics View,