Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
‘That’s an Idea Worth exploring’: Age-friendly Initiatives and Death-Friendly Communities
Death looms larger than usual during a global pandemic. An age-friendly community works to make sure people are connected, healthy and active throughout their […]
Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences Urges UK Government to Restore Foreign Research Aid
The Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) strongly urges the UK government to reinstate funding for UKRI’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), the Newton Fund and university QR funding for GCRF, to meet its existing commitments.
Violence Against Asians in U.S. Rests on Racism. Period.
Race can play a role in violence and prejudice, even if the offender does not clearly express a racist intent.
What a Chastened Discipline Can Teach All of Social Science About Open Science
A new article in PS: Political Science & Politics analyses psychological science in the aftermath of a “replication crisis” and “credibility revolution” and explicitly examines “what social scientists can learn from this story.”
Different Strokes on Transgenerational Entrepreneurship
The article “Different Strokes for Different Folks: The Roles of Religion and Tradition for Transgenerational Entrepreneurship in Family Businesses”, recently appearing in […]
NSF Letter Frames Concept of ‘Broader Impact’
In a “dear colleague” letter released March 18, the head of the NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE) offers a framework for understanding how to think of broader impact i applying for grant funding.
The Irrationality of Risk Calculations
David Canter considers how it is that people judge vaccination related risks so bizarrely.
Study: Black Students’ Trust in Their Colleges is Lower
Black undergraduates consistently said they trusted the people who run the colleges they attend – and society overall – substantially less than their white peers did. We have termed this difference the racial trust gap, and it was not a trivial difference.
