Archives for April, 2020

The Pandemic Highlights How We Miss Security Threat of Climate Change
Insights
April 22, 2020

The Pandemic Highlights How We Miss Security Threat of Climate Change

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Student Perspectives on the Online Teaching Landscape
Teaching
April 20, 2020

Student Perspectives on the Online Teaching Landscape

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In Indonesia, Social Scientists Could Help in Contact Tracing
Industry
April 20, 2020

In Indonesia, Social Scientists Could Help in Contact Tracing

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British Academy Mobilizing Community to Address COVID Impacts
Announcements
April 20, 2020

British Academy Mobilizing Community to Address COVID Impacts

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What’s That, You Want to Run an Online Experiment?

What’s That, You Want to Run an Online Experiment?

This post will explore some of the tools and platforms that can help with a key stage of the online research process: creating your survey or experiment. Specifically, we’ll be looking at options for running online experiments, with a slight focus on the more complex platforms – those designed to collect reaction time data (e.g., cognitive tasks), or to deliver complex experimental paradigms with a range of response types. We’ll examine the pros and cons of Qualtrics, Gorilla, Inquisit Web, as well as the good old DIY approach.

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Do Governments Ever Listen to ‘The Science,’ Or Do They Seek post hoc Fig Leaves?

Do Governments Ever Listen to ‘The Science,’ Or Do They Seek post hoc Fig Leaves?

“Being led by the science” evokes a linear model of policy making which is more a myth than reality. In reality, politicians use claims about scientific knowledge in order to justify a course of action.

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Lack of Data Hampers COVID Predictions, But Models Still Matter

Lack of Data Hampers COVID Predictions, But Models Still Matter

Models are not meant to predict the future perfectly – yet they’re still useful. Biomedical mathematician Lester Caudill, who is currently teaching a class focused on COVID-19 and modeling, explains the limitations of models and how to better understand them.

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Infectious Diseases and Long-Run Innovation Consequences

Infectious Diseases and Long-Run Innovation Consequences

Today we welcome two scholars from Texas’s Baylor University whose research into how pathogens affect innovation has taken on new prominence in the wake of the current pandemic.

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How COVID-19 is Changing the World: Views from Monash University

How COVID-19 is Changing the World: Views from Monash University

This article, first published in the Monash Lens at Monash University, gathers input from a cross-disciplinary group of social and behavioral scientists and members of the humanities faculty at the Australian university.

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Coronavirus UK – Models or Crystal Balls?

Coronavirus UK – Models or Crystal Balls?

As far back as we have records, humans have tried to predict the future. Some societies turned to prayer, divination or oracles. Others to tarot cards or crystal balls. In the modern world, much of that function is fulfilled by mathematical models. Is this new technology of forecasting really an upgrade?

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How Researchers, Instructors, and Students Can Practice Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic

How Researchers, Instructors, and Students Can Practice Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Social and behavioral research suggests many ways to calm your anxiety and practice well-being during this time of many unknowns. SAGE Publishing, the parent of Social Science Space, has opened various resources to support not only your own emotional health, but also the health of those around you, such as your children, students, and colleagues.

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Mark Carrigan Asks If We’re All Digital Scholars Now?

Mark Carrigan Asks If We’re All Digital Scholars Now?

The lockdown prompted by the COVID pandemic presents opportunities to rethink how academic practices take place in virtual environments. Mark Carrigan argues that if adopted uncritically, they could exacerbate existing inequalities in the use of digital technologies and open up new areas of academic life to surveillance and control.

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