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Category Archives: Research
New Fellows
Editor’s note: As the leaves are turning yellow and the air is getting crisper, I asked the new cohort of fellows to reflect on what they are hoping to achieve during their time at TIAS. Here are some of their … Continue reading
Posted in new fellows, Research, research project
Tagged fellowships, goals, Marie Sklodowska-Curie, research career, research projects, TIES2
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Philosopher in a First-Class Lounge
By Joona Räsänen, Senior Research Fellow, TIAS As I have worked in Denmark and Norway in recent years while also keeping my home base in Finland, I have commuted quite a lot between the Nordic countries. I also regularly travel … Continue reading
Posted in Personal thoughts, Research, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged climate change, research career, Sustainability
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“In Defence of the Numbers:” Lottery Games and the Labour of Luck
Note from the editors: this is the second in a series of posts about games for the TIAS blog. What can our research tell us about various games, what can games tell us about our research, our society, and our … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Uncategorized
Tagged China, China Welfare Lottery, Gambling, games, gaming, labour of luck, lottery, lottery fantasy, lottery shop, luck
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Trust, Polarization, and Diplomacy
Note from the editors: this is the first in a series of posts about games for the TIAS blog. What can our research tell us about various games, what can games tell us about our research, our society, and our … Continue reading
Posted in Personal thoughts, Research, Uncategorized
Tagged betrayal, board games, Diplomacy, games, gaming, Henry Kissinger, segregation, trust
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Learning from Loss: When the People You Study Pass Away
On Monday, I awoke to the news that director, actor, and political activist Rob Reiner and his wife, photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, had been killed in their home. Reiner became famous for his role as Michael Stivic on television’s All in the Family in the 1970s, established himself as … Continue reading
Posted in Personal thoughts, Research
Tagged All in the Family, Loss, Memory, Norman Lear, Parasocial Relationships, Rob Reiner
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Breast Milk is Best but…does it also contain Virtues / Vices?
Hello everyone, my current MSCA COFUND TIAS TIES project is about decolonising ‘scientific’ motherhood titled ‘Mothers, Mothercraft & Materialities: Urban India and Transnational Histories of ‘Scientific’ Motherhood in the Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries’. I am trained in the field of … Continue reading
Posted in Research
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Made In The Shade
So, I’ve got a new book out. It’s called Made in Scotland and I co-edited it with my good friends and colleagues Simon Frith and John Williamson. You can get it on Amazon and other places. But why, dear reader, … Continue reading
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Pandemic Screenings: The Covid-19 pandemic and the digital screen
The Covid-19 pandemic elevated digital screens to the core of everyday life. Screens can be found everywhere, including museums and galleries, stock exchanges, train stations, aeroplane seats, banks, food courts, record stores, gas stations, office desks and in the palm … Continue reading
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Leveraging the use of population data toward improving health and care for everyone
I always find population study, a study that is conducted in representative samples from the population, to be fascinating. Especially due to its potential to process various information toward beneficial policies and actions. So, when I first learned about bioinformatics … Continue reading
Posted in Personal thoughts, Research
Tagged big data, bioinformatics, health research, population data
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Metals for the existence and applications of oligonucleotides with metal-mediated base-pairs
For our body to function, we need to supply it with a variety of nutrients that we get from our diet. However, our bodies can not use the food as it is when it enters our digestive system. The process … Continue reading
Posted in Personal thoughts, Research
Tagged antisense oligonucleotides, biochemistry, chemistry
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