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On the 21st of April at the Perm campus of the National Research University Higher School of Economics the XII scientific conference "Neighbors in Research" took place, which brought together many scientists from Russian and foreign universities. Researchers of the International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy of the Perm campus of the National Research University Higher School of Economics actively participated in the conference - more than 10 reports were presented in 9 sections. We summarise the results and share the impressions of the participants.

The journal "Izvestiya of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Series Mathematics" has published an article by Daniyar Shamkanov titled "A Realization Theorem for the Modal Logic of Transitive Closure K+"

16 April 2025 International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration Members Participated in The Lomonosov 2025 International Scientific Conference

IDLab researchers of the Higher School of Economics - Maria Molodchik, Anna Davii, Egor Ivanov, Nikita Matkin, Mikhail Usanin and Alexey Smirnov took part in the XXV Yasin (April) International Academic Conference. The anniversary conference was held at the Moscow campus of the Higher School of Economics on April 15-18, 2025 as part of the Decade of Science and Technology in Russia program.

On 15 April at 18:00 a seminar of the series Sociology of Markets took place on the topic: "Representations of Happiness in Russian YouTube: Between Science, Esotericism and Commerce" - where Nikita Matkin, a graduate student of the Media Institute and IDLab research assistant, spoke.

On April 23, Mikhail Rybakov's doctoral thesis "Modeling logical systems by means of their fragments" was defended at the logic seminar of the Manin Laboratory of the Higher School of Modern Mathematics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

The journal "History of Philosophy" has published an article by Ramazan Ayupov titled "John Searle on the Semantics of Proper Names: John Searle. Proper Names."

Researchers from the International Laboratory for Population and Health at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University) delivered presentations at the XXV Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, held on April 15–18, 2025.

For the first time, psycholinguists from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain, in collaboration with colleagues from the USA and Germany, recorded eye movements during a test to assess narrative skills in young children and adults. The researchers found that story comprehension depends on plot structure, and that children aged five to six tend to struggle with questions about protagonists' internal states. The study findings have been published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Senior Research Fellow Maria Yudina and Research Assistant Agnes Beach of the International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration (HSE University) prepared a report for the VIII conference "Opportunities and Threats of the Digital Society". The event was organized by the P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University, the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, and the Russian Association of Political Science.