David Budtz Pedersen

“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world.” — Plato, The Republic

Indonesia to host the World Science Forum 2026, as just announced at the Hungarian National Parliament 🙌 @WorldSciForum @HumanomicsMap @africascidip @daandutoit @clivecookson @AAASmeetings @ForoCILAC @ZakriZAH @INGSciAdvice @CNNIndonesia @Indonesia @LidiaArthurBri1 @WFSJ

@CaitlinHafferty The idea that a community of practitioners should stop using certain words is a bit silly to me and can easily escalate. But critical thinking, empathy and use of precise definitions and terminology is very much needed.

Should we stop using the word #stakeholder in #participatory #engagement research & practice? Our paper critically examines the limitations of "stakeholder" and its ambiguity, normativity, potential for (further) exclusion & marginalisation. Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@MathiasSindberg Uden poesien ville moderne cykelsport være uendelig ligegyldigt. Leth har vakt en generation eller flere til live. Elsker mytologien og stilistikken.

Cykelsportens ulidelige Leth-hed Har skrevet klumme om det virvar af retningsløse metaforer og tomme, højstemte erklæringer om sportens angivelige poesiintellektuel poseren, der følger feltet rundt i Frankrig information.dk/debat/2024/07/…

How will we ever know if #AI is a net benefit to humanity?

Man tænker tilbage til det ultra pinlige marketingsstunt da Boston Consulting Group mente man kan spare 104 milliarder kroner med kunstig intelligens i den offentlige sektor. Uden at ville fortælle hvordan dm.dk/akademikerblad…

Vigtigt initiativ fra regeringen har fokus på at støtte innovation og iværksætteri på danske universiteter. Husk hele fødekæden. Og husk social innovation. Design, turisme, kultur, læring, service, kommunikation

#AI ændrer alt. Det hører vi tit. Men ændrer det også ved #uddpol og forståelsen af relevante fagligheder på fremtidens arbejdsmarked? Det bør det iflg. denne tankevækkende analyse fra @mandagmorgen @aaurektor @SSH_AAU_Dekan @vetner @DMCamilla mm.dk/artikel/med-ai…

@AnneBind @Altinget @Magtudredningen Glæder mig til debatten📌

Helt enig med @Altinget 😊 Kig forbi og hør om @Magtudredningen fredag kl 18 på det stolte skib Aurora altinget.dk/artikel/debatr…

@JohanBusse @Jakobsorgenfri Bekymrende. Vi hører ofte om de 5-10’procent mest ekstreme der fylder i debatten. Men i aftes flød SoMe over med MF had og udfald. I mit feed langt over 10 procent. Næppe objektivt. Men nedtrykkende.

DEBAT: Hvilken betydning har AI for troværdig ekspertviden? Hør 3 professorers bud på #fmdk i samtalen ’AI, algoritmer og ekspertviden’ 15.6 kl. 11:25 👉bit.ly/4dUCYVE #dkforsk #dktech @anjabechmann @AUDatalab - @HumanomicsMap & Anders Søgaard @coastalcph

Ser frem til debat om forholdet mellem kunstig og menneskelig ekspertviden i debat om #AI med @anjabechmann, @coastalcph og @nynnebc #FMDK

@cesifoti Looks fun. But seems to be still biased towards publication-centric impact, which is only a fraction of impact provided by uni-s. And SSH is notoriously underrepresented because of limited citation culture? @LizzieGadd

**New DataViz Project** Curious about academic impact? Tired of rankings? Today we are introducing Rankless (rankless.org) a new data exploration platform that can help you explore the academic impact of thousands of universities. All universities produce impact that is specific to certain topics and geographies, but rankings flatten that information. Rankless wants to change that. Consider a comparison between the University of Utah and the University of Vienna, two universities ranked similarly in the Shanghai ranking. These universities differ in their geographical and topical footprint. The University of Utah specializes in Neuroscience and Medicine whereas the University of Vienna specializes in Physics, Astronomy, and Environmental Sciences. Their geographic impact is also quite different. Utah receives a large fraction of citations from medical centers in the U.S., Canada, and Israel, whereas Vienna receives many citations from technical institutes in Austria, Germany, and Hungary. These differences are easy to explore in Rankless but hard to see in rankings. Rankless was developed by a talented team at the Center for Collective Learning at Corvinus University (@uni_corvinus). It was brought to life by Endre Mark Borza (@endremborza), a Hungarian economist and data engineer at CCL with the help of Máté Barkóczi, a Hungarian designer form MOME, and Veronika Hamar executive director at CCL. By moving beyond rankings, Rankless offers a fresh perspective on how universities influence each geography and topic, emphasizing diverse forms of impact and providing a richer understanding of academic influence. To learn more visit Rankless.org

13. Det ligger snublende nær at slutte heraf, at økonomisk vækst, der angiveligt kommer alle til gode, er det eneste upartiske normative mål for den økonomiske videnskab. Og det forekommer os at mange økonomer slutter således. Men det er en påstand.

12. Da økonomisk teori også siger, at selv den allerrigeste vil lide et lille tab af "nytte" ved at skulle give penge til folk i økonomisk nød, sætter økonomisk teori snævre grænser for legitimiteten af sådanne overførsler.

Vi blander os i debatten om den politiske økonomis rolle. Det afføder straks immunrespons. Nuvel. Når nu så mange mærker økonomismens indtog i deres liv, må vi prøve at beskrive den. Læs med ! politiken.dk/debat/kroniken…