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Taming Two Scorpions: Climate Science Tipping Points Meet Finance Tail Risks

When two quite different disciplines make eerily similar predictions about the future of the planet and human societies, they deserve notice. Climate scientists warn that we may be heading toward a Hothouse Earth “inhospitable to … human societies,” with “increasingly catastrophic impacts” possibly “worldwide societal breakdown.”       Finance and actuarial science emphasize the importance of tail […]

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BME 80G Seminar: Sara Ackerman – Doing Ethics From The Inside: Collaboration, Critique, and Contradiction in Team Science

Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz

Presenter: Sara Ackerman, Medical Anthropologist and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco Description: Team science has been widely promoted as a collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach to addressing key scientific questions, yet power differences and epistemic hierarchies persist. This talk explores "embedded ethics"—a model in which social scientists and ethicists work directly […]