The discipline of physical anthropology has a dark, often fraught past. It was misused to justify slavery and even genocide. […]

What does this year’s U.S. Executive Branch budget suggest for key agencies that provide social and behavioral science funding? 

Game theory is the formal study of strategic choices between two sides. It’s useful to decision makers because it can illustrate the range of options open to combatants within a given crisis, and also map the likely “wins and losses” strategically decided upon by the parties involved. The challenge is applying a hypothetical spectrum to the range of passive and aggressive options, and their consequences in Ukraine today.

According to NIST’s Reva Schwartz, bias manifests itself not only in artificial intelligence algorithms and the data used to train them, but also in the societal context in which AI systems are used. 

The UK’s Science Media Centre (SMC) is an internationally admired, and occasionally emulated, model for facilitating interactions between the science […]

In this post, authors Brian K. Miller and Marcia J. Simmering reflect on their recent research article, Attitude Toward the […]

Good social science research has ultimate social relevance. In Nigeria, however, the authors’ study shows that research evidence and policies are disconnected.

The National Science Foundation is is accepting nominations for the U.S. National Medal of Science until May 20 and a webinar on March 30 will provide tips for submitting nominations.

The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University named its 2022-23 fellows class, comprising 36 scholars representing 17 U.S. institutions and 12 international institutions and programs.

Supreme Count=rt nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s rise is, in part, due to the work of those women and Black men – and to Black women judges dating back almost a century.

As we pass two years from the beginnings of the pandemic, many commentators are scrambling to distance themselves from their […]

The U.S. National Science Foundation last week announced it would create a new directorate focused on Technology, Innovation and Partnerships.