Archives for 2020

Has Over-Diagnosis Eroded What’s Considered Normal?
Research
July 20, 2020

Has Over-Diagnosis Eroded What’s Considered Normal?

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Impact in Action: Relational Learning to Serve Non-Reading Adults
News
July 20, 2020

Impact in Action: Relational Learning to Serve Non-Reading Adults

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Call to Action for Social Scientists: UCL Study on Research Practices
Announcements
July 17, 2020

Call to Action for Social Scientists: UCL Study on Research Practices

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House Appropriations Panel Aims to Increase NSF Budget
Investment
July 16, 2020

House Appropriations Panel Aims to Increase NSF Budget

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Collective Leadership for Everyone in the Organization?

Collective Leadership for Everyone in the Organization?

Joe Raelin argues that democratic organization can exist and be developed without hierarchical control. There is ample evidence across civilization and time that humans can self-organize without hierarchical structure.

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Social Isolation Amid COVID: An Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’

Social Isolation Amid COVID: An Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’

They had been sentenced, for an unknown crime, to an indeterminate period of punishment. (Camus, 1947) As Albert Camus observed in The […]

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Social Science ‘Spinouts,’ An Underappreciated Pathway to Impact?

Social Science ‘Spinouts,’ An Underappreciated Pathway to Impact?

One means of fixing and making ideas tangible, often scorned and neglected in the social sciences, but widely used in STEM, are spinouts. For universities, a spinout is a company formed on the basis of intellectual property from a university or research institute.

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Minerva Initiative Seems Likely to Avoid Untimely Death

Minerva Initiative Seems Likely to Avoid Untimely Death

In early February, the proposed U.S. government budget for the 2021 fiscal year featured sizable funding cuts to many federally funded social […]

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Risk Perception Amid COVID: An Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’

Risk Perception Amid COVID: An Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’

Patient A1.1, who was then still experiencing mild respiratory symptoms, attended a birthday party with nine other people. They hugged and shared […]

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Group Threat and COVID: An Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’

Group Threat and COVID: An Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’

The biggest threat to the Territory is clear. It is not us, it’s them. Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan We live in a dangerous […]

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Why the h-index is a Bogus Measure of Academic Impact

Why the h-index is a Bogus Measure of Academic Impact

Although experts in bibliometry have pointed out the dubious nature of the h-index, most researchers do not always seem to understand that its properties make it a far-from-valid index to seriously and ethically assess the quality or scientific impact of publications.

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Why Social Science? Because We Will Need to Do Better in the Next Crisis

Why Social Science? Because We Will Need to Do Better in the Next Crisis

Without research in social, organizational, and behavioral sciences, argues John Haaga, as serious as the investment in biomedical research, the United States may be no better off when the next acute crisis hits.

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