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The International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration organized a seminar, where Omer Iluz made a presentation «Digital Governance and Public Administration». He presented the results of a study conducted under supervision of The Laboratory Academic Supervisor, Professor of the Department of Public Administration and Politics at the School of Political Sciences of the University of Haifa Eran Vigoda-Gadot.

On October 31, 2025, Natalia Vasilievna Bulchenko, a research intern at the Moscow Literary Institute for Social Studies and a second-year postgraduate student at the HSE Graduate School of Sociological Sciences, presented a paper at the interdisciplinary conference "Comorbidity Field 2.0: Sociocultural Dimensions of Health, Illness, and Medicine," organized by the HSE St. Petersburg School of Humanities and Arts, the HSE Faculty of Humanities, the HSE Ronald Franklin Inglehart Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, the Student Research Society of the Department of History of the HSE St. Petersburg School of Humanities and Arts, and the HSE Research and Study Group "History of Russian Psychiatry: New Approaches to Study."

From October 17-19, 2025, the 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference   "Studying the Deaf Community – 2025: On the Periphery of Attention"  was held at the GES-2 Community Center. It was organized with the participation of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research. Speakers from 20 countries participating, presenting over 90 papers on the culture, languages, and experiences of the deaf community. The RDC-2025 laboratory team also presented four studies prepared over the past year. These studies focused on the social structure of deaf society, the formation of deaf identity in bilingual education based on the archives of a Moscow gymnasium, sign singing in deaf culture and its perception by deaf and hard of hearing people, and clubs as a center for the development of deaf culture.

On November 5, the 104th session of the scientific-theoretical seminar "Formal Philosophy" was held.

Starting November 1, 2025, with the support of the Khamovniki Foundation for Social Research, a project will begin. As a result, our laboratory's junior research fellow, Tatyana Larkina, will describe the daily work routines of Russian teachers, reveal the social drama of teaching, and demonstrate how employees of general education organizations repeatedly make numerous choices in situations of value conflicts and contradictory and uncertain demands on their professional roles.

The research and teaching seminar "Mathematical Logic and Category Theory" held a session on November 1 with a guest lecture by John Bell, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of West London.

The Laboratory for the Study of Molecular Mechanisms of Longevity has put into operation a new portable sequencer, “Nanoporus”, based on nanopore sequencing technology. It enables the acquisition of long DNA and RNA reads without amplification or chemical modification of samples. The first application of the device focuses on decoding the genomes of ten industrial Lactobacillus strains used in cheesemaking, and the resulting data will serve as a basis for de novo assembly of complete genomes and the study of structural variations, expanding the laboratory’s capabilities in genomics, epigenetics and the molecular mechanisms of longevity

Researchers from the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the HSE University's Faculty of Physics have discovered how external forces affect the behaviour of turbulent flows. The scientists showed that even a small external torque can stabilise the system and extend the lifetime of large vortices. These findings may improve the accuracy of models of atmospheric and oceanic circulation. The paper has been published in Physics of Fluids.

On October 28, research assistant Georgy Filatov delivered a lecture titled "Atomistic and Holistic Readings of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Pro et Contra" at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH).