Shantel Reichert
@reichertshantel
Joined Jan 2025
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Jan 04, 2025 1 subscriber 44 posts
In-depth analysis of policy-making, political theories, and governance.
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Skeptical Science New Research for Week #7 2025
Open access notables A year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20-year period that will reach the Paris Agreement limit, Bevacqua et al., Nature Climate Change: The temperature goals of the Paris Agreement are measured as 20-year ave…
Policy-mix and SME innovation: Evidence from China
The question of whether and how innovation policy can effectively influence innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has received limited attention in academic research. This study takes a first step towards filling this gap by examining how in…
Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity PAR-25-371 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this NOFO is to invite Research Project (R01) applications that propose to study the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of human genetics and genomics. Appl…
Narratives as catalysts of catastrophic trajectories
Published on January 26, 2025 7:01 PM GMTUnderstanding the power narratives have over different approaches to transformational technology, from Cold War to AI era.I am conducting research into the role of narratives as propagators / mitigators of catastrophic…
National Security Is Not International Security: A Critique of AGI Realism
Published on February 2, 2025 5:15 PM GMTTL;DRsIntroductionPart I. Superintelligence and Security: Contingencies in the Securitisation of AGI1. Superintelligence may not be the defining feature of military capability…at least for a while2. Su…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #629
Quote of the Week: “All other aspects and characteristics of science can be understood directly when we understand that observation is the ultimate and final judge of the truth of an idea.” — Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scien…Institutional distance, trade agreements, and intellectual property trade networks: Evidence from...
Based on the Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (TERGM), this paper applies global intellectual property trade data between countries to investigate the impact and mechanism of institutional distance on the intellectual property trade network. The study…
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #6 2025
Open access notables Doing better rather than promising more: A basic principle applicable to both climate modelling and climate policies, Douville, PLOS Climate: A growing number of scientists are expressing concerns about the inadequacy of climate change p…
Creating a Robust Ecology of Change to Resist Trump 2.0
In the wake of the 2024 election and U.S. President Donald Trump’s return to power, we have heard many suggestions for how progressives should regroup and respond. Some activists have argued that we need to prepare for mass protest and civil disobedience agai…
Corporate internal control, capacity utilization and total factor productivity
Based on Internal Control (IC) theory and Principal-agent theory, this study explores the impacts of IC on capacity utilization and total factor productivity, and the internal mechanism among them. The results show that effective IC improves total factor prod…
How corporate financialization affects main business performance—Empirical evidence based on a dy...
Corporate financialization is a growing concern in China, and its impact on the main business of real enterprises is a crucial topic. This paper uses data from all A-share non-financial listed companies in China between 2013 and 2022 to establish a dynamic pa…
