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The member of Center for Language and Brain Olga Buivolova presented a poster at the conference of Academy of Aphasia in Canada

Gari Walkowitz published a paper in Economics Letters on "Employers discriminate against immigrants and criminal offenders — Experimental evidence“.

The Head of the International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy gave a talk at the conference in Brussels, Belgium.

The annual meeting of the International Advisory Council of the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge took place on 14 November. This year the Council convened before the “Foresight and STI Policy” conference, so discussions of the ISSEK’s 2018 results, its plans for the next year, and approaches and techniques for studying and foreseeing S&T development occasionally overlapped with the conference agenda. The debates highlighted major trends which could affect relevant policies in the coming years.

From 29th October to 1st November Anna Bykova, Associate Professor of the Department of Economics and Finance and research fellow of the IDLab, participated in the International Workshop "Political Economy of Development: Challenges and Perspectives", which was organized by the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (HSE)  in cooperation with The College of Humanity and Social Sciences (CHSS) at UAE University and New York University Abu Dhabi.

Gari Walkowitz (Technical University of Munich, Ethics of Digitization, Munich, Germany, and International Laboratory for  Experimental and Behavioural Economics, NRU HSE) gave a presentation at the joint seminar of Higher School of Economics on political economy, International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID), International Laboratory for Experimental and Behavioural Economics and NES Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interaction (NES CSDSI) was held on November 14.

Hurry up! There are only a number of spaces left. Registration is obligatory. School will be held on 29-30th of November.

Strategic planning skills are increasingly often seen as a core competence for the 21^st century; researchers are trying to measure regions’ and whole countries’ readiness for the future, while futures studies the world over are conducted on an impressive scientific foundation. On 15-16 November the VIII International Academic Conference “Foresight and STI Policy” will take place in Moscow. Participants from more than 15 countries will present tens of case studies reflecting practices of international organisations (such as OECD, UNESCO, European Commission), governments, major companies, leading universities and R&D centres; analyse global development scenarios and challenges, cutting-edge foresight approaches and tools, and best practices of measuring and monitoring progress in the science, technology and innovation sphere.

Russian ministry of Education and Science Government grant ag. No 14.641.31.0003, Megagrant to Mikhail Lebedev.

The Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Center for Bioelectric Interfaces hosted the CCCP conference on October 29-30. This year the focus was on developing uni- and bi-directional brain-machine interfaces and neurofeedback methods.

Every year the world’s cinema adds something to the shelf where feature films about scientists are kept. It might be about time to conduct a study “The image of scientist in popular culture”. The image should be a flattering one: scientists in movies are either villains, heroes, or geniuses. The only problem is, stories about saving the world and being a genius have very little in common with researchers’ everyday life. To mark the World Science Day we made a short list of movies where scientists are portrayed more or less realistically.