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‘A Sociologist Is a Curious, Searching and Courageous Person’
One of the oldest programmes at HSE University-St Petersburg is the English-taught Bachelor's programme 'Sociology and Social Informatics'. It has existed for more than ten years, and over this time, the programme has helped many students gain interdisciplinary skills and find their own unique career paths. In this article, Academic Supervisor Anna Nemirovskaya explains how the programme has adapted to modern realities, what sociology truly is, and how one can implement a sociological education.
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'Science Is a Way to Escape Fears Brought on By the Chaos of Nature'
In high school, Mikhail Shishkin used to dismiss probability theory as mere speculation, but today he applies it to solving problems in population genetics. In this interview with the HSE Young Scientists project, he discusses what a modern person's genome can reveal about the past, the question he would pose to the author of Fermat's Great Theorem, and The Ashley Book of Knots.
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‘Close Technologies’: Exhibition on Digital Sensorics Opens at Tula Machine Tool Museum
Until March 16, 2025, the Machine Tool Museum, located in the Oktava creative industrial cluster, is hosting an exhibition organised by curators from the HSEArt and Design School. The exhibition explores the phenomenon of multisensoriality and features projects by the school's teachers.
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Independent Experts More Effective Than Collective Expertise in Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
A collaborative study by Sergey Stepanov, Associate Professor at the HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences, and experts from INSEAD Business School and NYU Shanghai, indicates that in making decisions under high uncertainty, where it is unclear which choice is superior, advice from independent experts may be more beneficial than a collective opinion from a group of experts. The study has been published in Games and Economic Behavior.