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A. Elisabeth Hasselström

@a-e-hasselstrom.bsky.social

I'm a Scandinavian researcher specializing in public crisis communication, and I mostly enjoy hanging out

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One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....

10.04.2025 02:50 — 👍 31074    🔁 6713    💬 256    📌 139
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#NationalLibraryWeek
#LiteracyMatters

09.04.2025 13:47 — 👍 26771    🔁 5056    💬 265    📌 186
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Is it Summer soon? Two years ago I became Kristiania's first phd student ever at our programs. Now, I have been accepted to present my research on what municipal staff need to include older LGBTQ+ in their services, at the World Communication Associations conference hosted by Kristiania this year.

03.02.2025 14:34 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Again, the World Health Organization is the single most important global entity in preventing, tracking and controlling outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics and is especially important as climate change and deforestation allow pathogens to mutate, become more infectious and spread to new regions

21.01.2025 02:21 — 👍 24811    🔁 4074    💬 534    📌 187
Photo of Leopold in horseback. The Wilderness Society.

Photo of Leopold in horseback. The Wilderness Society.

Aldo Leopold was born OTD in 1887.

“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

#HpBio #HistSTM 🌎 #philsci #STS 🧪

11.01.2025 15:13 — 👍 110    🔁 29    💬 5    📌 2
This article offers critical analysis of the debate between Karl Popper and Imre Lakatos about distinctive features of empirical science that allow to demarcate it from non-science and especially pseudoscience. Popper's demarcational proposition is explained as involving essentially two requirements, logical (to the theory itself, that it had potential falsifiers) and methodological (to scientists' attitude with respect to the theory, that they were willing to recognise its empirical falsification. Lakatos's criticisms of ‘Popper's basic rule’ that ‘criteria of refutation have to be laid down beforehand’ and Popper's reply to these criticisms, as well as Lakatos's alternative demarcational proposition, are discussed. The argument is made that although Lakatos's criticisms and proposition have considerable merits, he goes too far in claiming that it is OK for scientists to wave away or ignore apparent falsifications of a theory so long as the theory is successful in generating lots of successful unexpectable predictions, and generally understates the importance of the critical attitude for the development of science. On the other hand, Popper's falsificationist approach can be modified so as to accommodate sound points of Lakatos's criticisms and proposition while retaining the basic structure and critical rationalist character of Popper's demarcational proposition.

This article offers critical analysis of the debate between Karl Popper and Imre Lakatos about distinctive features of empirical science that allow to demarcate it from non-science and especially pseudoscience. Popper's demarcational proposition is explained as involving essentially two requirements, logical (to the theory itself, that it had potential falsifiers) and methodological (to scientists' attitude with respect to the theory, that they were willing to recognise its empirical falsification. Lakatos's criticisms of ‘Popper's basic rule’ that ‘criteria of refutation have to be laid down beforehand’ and Popper's reply to these criticisms, as well as Lakatos's alternative demarcational proposition, are discussed. The argument is made that although Lakatos's criticisms and proposition have considerable merits, he goes too far in claiming that it is OK for scientists to wave away or ignore apparent falsifications of a theory so long as the theory is successful in generating lots of successful unexpectable predictions, and generally understates the importance of the critical attitude for the development of science. On the other hand, Popper's falsificationist approach can be modified so as to accommodate sound points of Lakatos's criticisms and proposition while retaining the basic structure and critical rationalist character of Popper's demarcational proposition.

Popper vs Lakatos

New article by Dmytro Sepetyi attempts to reconcile Popper and Lakatos regarding the demarcation debate.

doi.org/10.1080/0269...

#PhilSci #PhilSky #AcademicSky 🧪

11.01.2025 23:29 — 👍 69    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 1
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Don't destroy their home and wonder why they invade yours. 💚

30.12.2024 18:05 — 👍 34103    🔁 5558    💬 329    📌 199
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Impact of climate change on vaccine responses and inequity - Nature Climate Change Climate change poses a substantial threat to global health by altering environmental conditions and impacting vaccine effectiveness. We explore how climate change impacts vaccines and worsens inequiti...

💉 Climate change weakens vaccines 🌎

This @natclimchange.bsky.social study finds that rising temperatures & extreme weather disrupt vaccine storage, transport, & effectiveness, worsening health inequities globally.

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#ClimateChange #SciComm #Vaccines 🧪

22.12.2024 21:06 — 👍 48    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 2
The United States map in black outline with birds and cows on it in black and red. The background is green and yellow pathology slide of H5N1 bird flu.

The United States map in black outline with birds and cows on it in black and red. The background is green and yellow pathology slide of H5N1 bird flu.

✨Please share! My newsletter is out.

In this issue:
⬆️COVID starting to rise, RSV is high
🤏Low mature, cytotoxic NK cells in Long COVID
🦠Gut microbiome predicts who will get Long COVID
🚨H5N1 State of Emergency in California

& much more drruth.substack.com/p/covid-h5n1...

#medsky #IDsky 🛟😷🧪

22.12.2024 21:14 — 👍 87    🔁 33    💬 5    📌 2

Well done!! That first year can be rough

14.12.2024 09:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So pretty! I will definitely try to make one

03.12.2024 12:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

True

20.11.2024 19:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great advice even for young scholars like myself! Thank you so much 😊

20.11.2024 19:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0