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 […]
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.
Wednesday’s headlines brought us the news that CVS stores will stop selling tobacco products by October 1st. As CVS is moving into […]
Open access to research papers doesn’t mean much to researchers, argues Michael White, but the government hopes it’ll serve a greater public good.
Trying to publish a paper in an academic journal can be a frustrating process for both the author and the editor. Jon […]
Stephen Saideman argues that efforts to regulate blogging in order to preserve constructive debate instead shuts down a promising avenue for … constructive debate.
[Editor’s Note: We are pleased to welcome Wayne F. Cascio, University of Colorado-Denver and Fred Luthans, University of Nebraska, Lincoln as Guest […]
The campaign to communicate the impact of the social sciences has been compared to the era of the Bodmer report. Here’s a quick primer on that 1985 effort and some of the history of publicizing science in the UK.