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The Institute has recently developed its Strategic Plan (2021-2025), where systems thinking, and participatory approaches are the two major pillars of the research portfolio go.unu.edu/DZBVR

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We are looking for candidates passionate about Sustainable Development Goals and Digital Technology.

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UNU-Macau conducts UN policy-relevant research and generates solutions, addressing key issues expressed in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through high-impact innovations and frontier technologies.

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UNU Institute in Macau located in Macau is one of 14 research and training Institutes that comprise the think tanks in the UNU system.

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With more than 400 researchers in 12 countries, UNU's work spans the 17 Sustainable Development Goals' full breadth, generating policy-relevant knowledge to effect positive global change.

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For the past four decades, UNU has been a go-to think tank for impartial research on human survival, conflict prevention, sustainable development, and welfare

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If you are interested by how socio-environmental systems modelling can help to realize a more sustainable world

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If you are interested by Artificial Intelligence impacts on Sustainable Development Goals including Ethical Concerns of AI

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Our research team at UNU-Macau is about to recruit new staff members: 1 senior researcher and 3 junior researchers.
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I recently learned that German company Telefunken arguably invented the computer mouse. They offered a “Rollkugelsteuerung” (“rolling ball control”) for one of their mainframes in 1968, months before Douglas Engelbart’s “mother of all demos”. Telefunken’s mouse was also more advanced than Engelbart’s mouse as it used a ball instead of two wheels. (Photo credit:
Marcin Wichary, CC-BY 2.0, flickr.com/photos/8399025@N07/ and flickr.com/photos/mwichary/232)

PolicyKit: Building Governance in #onlinecommunities
arxiv.org/abs/2008.04236

" In this paper, we present PolicyKit, a software infrastructure that empowers online community members to concisely author a wide range of governance procedures and automatically carry out those procedures on their home platforms. .... "

PolicyKit: Building Governance in Online Communities

The software behind online community platforms encodes a governance model that represents a strikingly narrow set of governance possibilities focused on moderators and administrators. When online communities desire other forms of government, such as ones that take many members' opinions into account or that distribute power in non-trivial ways, communities must resort to laborious manual effort. In this paper, we present PolicyKit, a software infrastructure that empowers online community members to concisely author a wide range of governance procedures and automatically carry out those procedures on their home platforms. We draw on political science theory to encode community governance into policies, or short imperative functions that specify a procedure for determining whether a user-initiated action can execute. Actions that can be governed by policies encompass everyday activities such as posting or moderating a message, but actions can also encompass changes to the policies themselves, enabling the evolution of governance over time. We demonstrate the expressivity of PolicyKit through implementations of governance models such as a random jury deliberation, a multi-stage caucus, a reputation system, and a promotion procedure inspired by Wikipedia's Request for Adminship (RfA) process.

arxiv.org

Here is an interesting take on why the current situation with the bird site may, actually, be an opportunity for academia to reclaim ownership of its social media presence: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial

Universities, scientific societies, labs, etc., can (should?) use Mastodon's distributed architecture (or similar) to set up social networks that are not controlled by a single privately-owned company. This would somehow preserve our social capital against the market's mood swings.

#academia #xp

Twitter might be going down. @beatty is trying to preserve the Science Twitter Graph.

Go to opencheck.is/scitwitter, provide your Twitter handle and your @ORCID_Org ID - that's it!

Just for fun, I visualized the network: leonlotter.de/twittergraph/gra
When I ran the code a few minutes ago, we had already around 600 nodes and 5000 edges in the network!

#Science # Twitter #TwitterMigration #network #graph #networkscience #scicomm #datavis
@cognition @neuro @phdstudents

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Long time collaborators and friends are slowly migrating to Mastodon, so glad to see them!

With patience, step by step, we all will rebuild our network. Since our social relationships make the network, not the other way around.

#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #OnlineSocialNetwork #SocioTechnicalSystems

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