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 […]
Three remarkable documentaries and a new play focus on race in America and the political responses to it, reports our blogger Howard Silver.
The Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences of Canada has settled on the sitting public affairs chief of the Canadian Cancer Society as the federation’s new permanent executive director.
Colorado legalized recreational marijuana five years ago. That’s provided time for a natural experiment on what pot means for health, crime, agriculture, business — and tourism.
Professor Shamit Saggar of the University of Essex discusses the back story of the South East Network for Social Sciences and how it intends to training doctoral students amid a background of rapidly evolving social science.
Is Trump’s presidency part of a larger movement toward a solipsistic world? asks Peter Neal Peregrine. And if so, which solipsist gets to say what is fact and what is not? And where does that leave science?
Starting this month Social Science Space will begin offering monthly updates on U.S. government actions that affect the social and behavioral sciences. In this first edition, we look at reauthorization of funding for the National Science Foundation, the effect of an Obamacare repeal on social science, and concerns for the American Community Survey and GIS data on housing.
On the occasion of the posting of the 50th Social Science Bites podcast, we’ve turned the tables and interviewed the interviewer, Dave Edmonds, about the series, empiricism, and even Jaffa cakes.
The incoming and the outgoing editors of Britain’s oldest sociology journal discuss what the future holds for the journal and what challenges face sociology in current times.