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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 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,