Archives for July, 2019

Can Africa’s Science Academies Drive Sustainable Development
Higher Education Reform
July 31, 2019

Can Africa’s Science Academies Drive Sustainable Development

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Why Heavy Metal is a Valid – and Vital – PhD Subject
News
July 31, 2019

Why Heavy Metal is a Valid – and Vital – PhD Subject

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Research Makes Police Custody More ‘Autism-Friendly’
Impact
July 30, 2019

Research Makes Police Custody More ‘Autism-Friendly’

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Do Practitioners Prefer Self or Hands-on Matchmaking?
Impact
July 29, 2019

Do Practitioners Prefer Self or Hands-on Matchmaking?

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South Africa’s Universal Man: Johnny Clegg, 1953-2019

South Africa’s Universal Man: Johnny Clegg, 1953-2019

The late South African musician Johnny Clegg was also an anthropologist both formally, as a lecturer on ethnography, and informally as he continued a teaching career from the stage.

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Archived Webinar: A Scientific Approach to Social Science Communication

Archived Webinar: A Scientific Approach to Social Science Communication

As part of a project sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the Rita Allen Foundation, four science communications experts tackled surrounding the effective and ethical communication of science to relevant policymakers. in this webinar, we talk to the four experts about their findings and the processes they recommend.

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Get Creative! MethodSpace Live Webinar Recording

Get Creative! MethodSpace Live Webinar Recording

In order to engage in real-time and have a conversation about thought-provoking approaches, MethodSpace is having a live series of webinars. The first one was Get Creative! Research with Pictures & Stories, watch the first one now.

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Why It’s So Hard to Reform Peer Review

Why It’s So Hard to Reform Peer Review

Robert J. Marks, the director of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, argues that academic reformers are battling numerical laws that govern how incentives work. His counsel? Know your enemy!

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Why Open Access Will Boost Publisher Profits

Why Open Access Will Boost Publisher Profits

Shaun Khoo argues that whilst a shift to gold (pay to publish) open access would deliver wider access to research, the lack of price sensitivity amongst academics presents a risk that they will be locked into a new escalating pay to publish system that could potentially be more costly to researchers than the previous subscription model.

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When They Connect with Researchers, are Practitioners Time-Sensitive?

When They Connect with Researchers, are Practitioners Time-Sensitive?

Traditionally one of the biggest obstacles to building relationships between researchers and practitioners is different time scales — nonprofits’ “focus is urgent, immediate, and often in response to events…moving quickly and loudly” whereas “academics work to a different rhythm”.

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Making Text Data Accessible for Social Science

Making Text Data Accessible for Social Science

More textual data than ever before are available to computational social scientists—be it in the form of digitized books, communication traces on social media platforms, or digital scientific articles. Researchers in academia and industry increasingly use text data to understand human behavior and to measure patterns in language.

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NSF Latest U.S. Agency to Scrutinize Foreign Role in Research

NSF Latest U.S. Agency to Scrutinize Foreign Role in Research

The U.S. National Science Foundation has followed other research-based government agencies in trying to ring-fence American research from collaborative and acquisitive foreign actors. Could they mean China?

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