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The article „Honesty in signalling games is maintained by trade-offs rather than costs” by Szabolcs Számadó, István Zachar, Dániel Czégel and Dustin J. Penn has been published in BMC Biology. Science Journalist Amy McDermott recommend it online on the website of PNAS.
Available here: https://www.pnas.org/post/journal-club/peacock-s-tail-and-other-flashy-ornaments-don-t-have-come-cost
Momentum (Lendület) and Hungarian ERC grantees protest against the decision of NKFIH that altered the ranking of proposals set up by scientific expert bodies for OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) fundamental research proposals. This interference has been carried out by NKFIH officials without consulting the expert bodies. The full text of the open statement can be found on the website of Lendület grantees: https://www.lendulet2019.info/
Social dynamics. Inequalities, integration, mobility and migration
Conference at the Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest :: 16–17 November, 2020
The principal investigators engaged in the “Lendület” program wish to contribute the observations summarized in the present report to facilitate the policy preparation process pertaining to the restructuring of both the research financing system and the innovation landscape in our country, as initiated by the Ministry for Innovation and Technology (ITM).
Material compiled by principal investigators in the “Lendület” program for the Ministry for Innovation and Technology and decision-makers
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Hungary’s scientists outraged by government budget grab
Innovation ministry’s decision to issue grant call using money meant for Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ operations sparks protests.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00586-z
The „Lendület” Research Center for Educational and Network Studies (RECENS) at the HAS (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) offers an internship opportunity.
Duration of the internship program: February 2019 - June 2019
Working hours 6-8 hours/week
Candidates are welcome to send their application no later than February 24th by e-mail to: freigang.istvan@tk.mta.hu. Please mention „RECENS internship” in the subject of your email.
An open letter was written by the awardees of the Momentum (Lendület) Program to prime minister Viktor Orbán. We are hereby publishing the letter verbatim.
The Hungarian government to suppress the independence of the Academy of Sciences
This is an English summary page of the Hungarian ADF website.
The ADF (HASF in English) is a civil initiative of the researchers from the research institute network at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS). The Hungarian government is introducing a new system of research financing, in a way which in itself contradicts the appropriate manners of policy making, and which, after implementation, will have disastrous effects on the autonomy of scientific research and scholarship in the entire country as well as our work and life altogether. Given that our voice has not been heard either in public or during the negotiations between the HAS and the government, this initiative is meant to express our opinions about the situation and the whole process.
Due to political reasons, the latest special issue of the conservative social science journal Századvég on rent-seeking has been removed from the internet. Our research group is shocked by and deeply condemns the re-introduction of political censorship of academic publications. This should not happen in Hungary again. We express our solidarity with the editors and authors and are willing to distribute the special issue to anyone who is interested.
Recent papers and publications
On 6 January, 2025, a new article has been published by Eszter Vit, Sven Lenkewitz and Robert Krause in Social Development. The title of the article is “Peer Influence and Educational Preferences: Direct Influence or Access to Friends’ Educational Resources?”.
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On December 19, 2024, a new article has been published by Zoltán Kmetty, Bence Kollányi and Krisztián Boros in SN Computer Sciences. The title of the article is “Boosting Classification Reliability of NLP Transformer Models in the Long Run—Challenges of Time in Opinion Prediction Regarding COVID-19 Vaccine”.
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The article „Discrimination in track recommendation but not in grading: experimental evidence among primary school teachers in Hungary” has been published in European Sociological Review.
The article „Studying school communities as multiplex dynamic networks: The “RECENS Wired into Each Other” Dataset, 2010–2013" has been published in Connections.
The article „Friends Can Help to Aim High: Peer Influence and Selection Effects on Academic Ambitions and Achievement" has been published in The Journal of Early Adolescence.
The article „Tautology explains evolution without variation and selection. A Comment on: ‘An evolutionary process without variation and selection’ (2021), by Gabora et al." has been published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
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The article „Fulfilling data access obligations: How could (and should) platforms facilitate data donation studies?" has been published in Internet Policy Review.
The article „Are separate classrooms inherently unequal? The effect of within-school sorting on the socioeconomic test score gap in Hungary " has been published in Economics of Education Review.
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The article „Examining the Link between the ‘Middle Means Typical’ Heuristic and Answer Behavior" has been published in Survey Practice.
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The article „When reality knocks on the door. The effect of conspiracy beliefs on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and the moderating role of experience with the virus" has been published in Social Science & Medicine.
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The article „Vaccination homophily in ego contact networks during the COVID-19 pandemic" has been published in Scientific Reports.