Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 795,000 people in the United States experience a stroke every year. The […]
Trying to measure the benefits of scientific research using traditional business-oriented metrics may not be the best tool in our shed, argues Michael White.
The British Academy last week elected a full slate of distinguished UK academics from 19 universities as fellows for 2014. The 42 […]
Now that Greg Clark, has begun his tenure as the new UK minister for universities, science, and cities, the London School of Economics Impact of Social Science blog asked for further reflections on the positions taken by previous minister, David Willetts. David Prosser of the Research Libraries UK covers the dramatic influence Willetts had on open access legislation and momentum in the UK.
According to a 2008 study done by the publishers of the Myers-Briggs Assessment and the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, 85% of employees […]
After Big Data, one of the most controversial topics in statistics workshop is the problem of reproducibility in scientific research.
Another cherished myth bites the dust. The makers of the new movie “Lucy” aside, we already use all of of brain, and not just a tenth of it.
In the first of a series of excerpts from a just released report summarizing 2013’s International Year of Statistics’ London conference, we look at one of the down sides of Big Data.