Former Colombian president and Nobel peace prize winner Juan Manuel Santos spoke at LSE this week as part of the new Global School of Sustainability event series. It was an interesting and wide ranging discussion on the Colombian peace process and the future of armed conflicts and democracy. It is available here.
Dilip Soman on why behavioural scientists should be more like cartographers.
I enjoyed listening to Emma Pinchbeck, head of the UK Climate Change Committee on the rest is politics podcast. She is an effective communicator and spoke clearly about several issues facing UK energy policy in the next few years. Towards the end, she touches on the role behavioural science work plays in a world that is quite dominated by engineers and economists, and speaks favourably in particular about the role of citizen assemblies. I have been part of the Irish climate change advisory council for the last 18 months or, and it has been fascinating to work through the behavioural dimensions of a wide range of issues relating to climate adaptation and mitigation.
Excellent blogpost by Leonhard Lades, Malte Dold, Kate Laffan, Paul Lohmann, Andriy Ivchenko, and Manu Savani summarising the recent International Behavioural Public Policy conference.
Michael Inzlicht on whether a small amount of drinking is a good thing in academia. I am glad he wrote the article even at risk of annoying people. Whether you agree with him or not, people talk about this type of stuff offline and we should start to reclaim this type of discussion online as well. Floating this with various people, the reactions ranged from very high disagreement and a sense that moving far away from academic drinking cultures was a good thing to people who felt very strongly that he was voicing something important, and that we are losing a lot in the decline in social drinking in academia.I am anti-social bordering on hermetic at the moment due to the (hopefully temporary) mis-anthropism that comes with running a Department. I have also not drank alcohol for a few years largely due to a desire to reset default options that were prevalent in the environment when I was entering adulthood. But that wasn't always the case and I have had some fun beers with a variety of people from around the world over the years. So if I had a vote, it would be to keep it somewhere in the mix but not as the norm and not pushed too much. Walking tours I have always found to be a good way of bringing people together and if some of them want to find a pub after so be it.
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