Here’s a quick link to the recently launched ESRC video, ‘Celebrating the social sciences’
A lot of academic conferences, built around venerable societies and organizations, advertise their legacy by listing iteration number — the 112th or […]
As higher education increasingly embeds generative artificial intelligence to help students think critically about information they encounter, how and when to best […]
Euan Adie, the founder of Altmetric and later of Overton, discusses the reasons the led to Overton’s focus on showing researchers how […]
As part of his 2026 budget proposal, Andy Burnham, the United Kingdom’s prime minister, has called for “good growth in every postcode.” […] The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to the American economists Robert E. Hall […] Four Americans working in the social and behavioral sciences are among the 20 people named MacArthur Fellows this year. Recipients may be […] The following is an adapted extract from The Cultural Industries, fifth edition, by David Hesmondhalgh. The increasing presence of information technology (IT) […] Developers of AI data centers have a public trust problem. According to multiple surveys, a majority of Americans say they would oppose […] I was adding some final flourishes on the topic of ‘iatrocracy’ to my forthcoming book with Natewindé Sawadogo – Sickness and Social […]
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A Conversation with Diane Coyle on Bridging Media, Government and Academe
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Four From Social Science World Receive 2026 MacArthur Fellowships
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IT Giants and Their Operations: Should We Be Concerned?
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What We Miss When We Study Public Trust with Surveys Alone
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AI and ‘Iatrocracy’ – A Cautionary Tale
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