University professors are not immune to epic fails when using social media. But the lesson learned isn’t to withdraw completely, argues Ereika Darics, but to know thine audience.

Here’s an ethical question or two — is it OK to re-use your own words in a new written piece, or is there an expectation of “exclusivity of the written word for each publication”? Drexel’s Jamie L. Callahan examines the moral panic surrounding self-plagiarism.

What impact has the current wave of feminism’s figurehead really had and what will happen when she’s gone?

It can be fun to poke at oddball research, but a U.S. award rewards researchers whose peculiar efforts pay off for society.

A new project from the British Academy sets down the calculator in the latest attempt to tot up the value of the social sciences and humanities.

Robert Dahl, one of the founders of American political science and the theorist of pluralism, has died at age 98.

Impact is all the rage right now, but what happens when you’re finally given a path to a bully pulpit? Testimony is only the tip of the iceberg – there’s much more opportunity if you look a little deeper.

Social media and alternative ways of measuring academic impact are helping turn universities into giant newsrooms, argues Maxine Newlands. That’s not necessarily bad, and it may be inevitable.

The permanent outsider who helped pry open Britain’s eyes to the field of cultural studies has died at age 82.

Feel-good interventions that don’t provide a practical good, or at least one not supported by evidence, generate questions that hinge specifically on future responses to climate change and more broadly on government decision-making in general.

A roundup of social science research that shines a light on a major American retailer’s decision to stop selling tobacco products from its stores.

In the latest edition of Social Science Bites, American sociologist Craig Calhoun discussed the formation of protest movement and the role of social science in addressing and understanding these outputs of social change.