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 […]
Watch the Webinar: How Academic Writing Coaches Get Unstuck
Academic writing coaches Michelle Boyd, author of Becoming the Writer You Already Are, Cathy Mazak and Leslie Wang describe the biggest challenges they’ve faced when writing books and what they do to move past them in this video.
Webinar Discusses Promoting Your Article
The next in SAGE Publishing’s How to Get Published webinar series focuses on promoting your writing after publication. The free webinar is set for November 16 at 4 p.m. BT/11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT.
Report Highlights the Potential Uses of Ontologies in Behavioral Sciences
Ways of thinking about knowledge have proliferated academic discussions for centuries, providing insights into how to maximize potential impacts. Ontologies, or the […]
NIH Request for Information Seeks Feedback on Social Sciences Research
The National Institutes of Health has released a Request for Information for feedback to guide the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) in setting their 2023 – 2028 Strategic Plan priorities and strategic objectives for behavioral and social science research
How Does Journal Standardization Impact Intellectual Creativity?
Drawing on a recent survey of forty years of research papers in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and interviews with authors, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Kean Birch, Thed van Leeuwen and Maria Amuchastegui observe an increasing homogenization of published work. Weighing up the pros and cons of this development, they discuss whether it has enhanced or limited intellectual innovations in STS.
Call for Papers: Native American and Indigenous Persons’ Work Issues
Information Age Publishing has put out a call for papers focused on Native American and Indigenous Persons’ Work Issues to be published in a special issue volume of Research in Human Resource Management, a peer reviewed research series.
Webinar: Improving Academic-Government Collaboration in Evidence-Based Policymaking
The evidence-based policymaking movement has grown substantially over the past 25 years in the United States. Government officials, researchers, and the public […]
Will Hutton on the State of Social Science
Political economist and journalist Will Hutton, author of the influential 1995 book The State We’re In, offers a state-of-the-field report on the social sciences in this Social Science Bites podcast.
