Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
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Group identities make social tipping unreliable
Social tipping interventions offer an indirect way to trigger change at scale, ranging from social justice to climate change. Yet, what happens when social tipping interventions meet ordinary but ingrained group identities? To examine this, we implemented an experiment around the 2020 US election.
Watching the Watchers: Using AI To Empower The People
Our recent paper In Nature Human Behavior (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01372-0) presents a new learning framework to precisely forecast crime in the urban environment, and simultaneously demonstrates how such precise predictors may be used to reveal signatures of enforcement biases.
Analysing the closure of bars and restaurants in Cataluña
On October 16th 2020, with the increase of COVID19 cases, the regional government of Cataluña, Spain announced that there would be a 15 day closure of bars and restaurants across the region.
