Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Deep Brain Stimulation Think Tank: Advances in Optogenetics, Ethical Issues Affecting DBS Research, Neuromodulatory Approaches for Depression, Adaptive Neurostimulation, and Emerging DBS Technologies
We estimate that 208,000 deep brain stimulation (DBS) devices have been implanted to address neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders worldwide. DBS Think Tank presenters pooled data and determined that DBS expanded […]
Centre for the Politics of Feelings
In the current sociopolitical context of democratic crises and rising populism, our visceral states, feelings and emotions have come to the forefront of the political behavior of citizens and policy […]
New Theory of Visual Experience
The Question How do we see in 3D? How our brain does this remains a mystery. All the brain receives are two 2D images on the retina, and yet it […]
On the Move: Prehistoric Mobility and the Spread of Agriculture in Eurasia
Understanding human culture and its evolution is essential to gaining valuable insights that can help address the global challenges facing us today. The key to this lies in studying migration, […]
The Socioscope: A Pioneering Methodology for Understanding Societal Transitions
How can local initiatives bring about systemic change? The mechanisms underlying societal transition and transformation processes, a crucial concern globally, are still among the least understood topics in the social […]
The food socioscope: Understanding transitions toward greater sustainability
In a paper published in the Proceedings of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, NOMIS researchers Saadi Lahlou and Helga Nowotny and colleagues present the preliminary findings of their project, […]
Didier Fassin elected member of Academia Europaea
NOMIS Awardee Didier Fassin has been elected member of the Academia Europaea for 2021. The Academia Europaea (formed in 1988) is the pan-European academy of science, humanities and letters, with […]
Didier Fassin awarded Huxley Medal
NOMIS Awardee Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), has received the Huxley Memorial Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great […]
Why is the value of life not universally respected?
In an interview in the Frankfurter Allgemeine, NOMIS Awardee Didier Fassin shares his perspective on the pandemic, conspiracy theories, culture, crises and more. A translated excerpt of the article follows: […]
NOMIS Distinguished Scientist Didier Fassin elected Collège de France Annual Chair of Public Health
Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, has been elected the Annual Chair of Public Health at the Collège de France for 2019–20. Founded by […]
Tages Anzeiger profiles Didier Fassin in article “Sociologist without borders”
NOMIS Distinguished Scientist Awardee Didier Fassin was the subject of an article by Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger, “Sociologist without borders” (in German, “Der Soziologe ohne Grenzen”). The article explores how […]
Synapsis: An interview with Didier Fassin
The online Spanish-language publication Synapsis has published an interview with NOMIS Distinguished Scientist Awardee Didier Fassin about his 10-year ethnography of the French state, in which he conducted fieldwork on […]
2018 NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Awards presented at gala
In recognition of their outstanding contributions to the advancement of science and human progress through pioneering, collaborative and innovative research, the 2018 NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award was presented to […]
Advanced in vitro models: Microglia in action
In the central nervous system (CNS), microglia carry out multiple tasks related to brain development, maintenance of brain homeostasis, and function of the CNS. Recent advanced in vitro model systems […]
The Food Socioscope: A new instrument to better understand transitions towards greater sustainability
The Food Socioscope project aims to understand the systemic transition towards greater sustainability in the food sector. It has two main components: a participatory data collection with a community directory, […]
Crisis: A Global Inquiry Into the Contemporary Moment
We inhabit a world in crisis. Or, more precisely, we live in a world in which the language of crisis has become the most common way of representing a series […]
Displaced people’s perilous journeys: border violence as a public health issue
NOMIS Awardee Didier Fassin and sociologist Anne-Claire Defossez have authored an article addressing a growing public health concern—border violence—in a special issue of The Lancet. To mark its bicentennial year, […]
Karl Deisseroth and Didier Fassin elected to American Philosophical Society
NOMIS Awardees Karl Deisseroth and Didier Fassin have been elected to the prestigious American Philosophical Society. The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2022 The American Philosophical Society is […]
Crisis Under Critique
NOMIS Awardee and James D. Wolfensohn Professor Didier Fassin and past Distinguished Visiting Professor Axel Honneth (2018–19) are the editors of Crisis Under Critique: How People Assess, Transform, and Respond to Critical Situations. The […]
Deepcloud
The Question Clouds play a critical role in climate change. By reflecting sunlight back into space, they cool the planet, while simultaneously trapping infrared radiation in the atmosphere, contributing to […]
Observation of Collapse and Revival in a Superconducting Atomic Frequency Comb
Recent advancements in superconducting circuits have enabled the experimental study of collective behavior of precisely controlled intermediate-scale ensembles of qubits. In this work, we demonstrate an atomic frequency comb formed […]