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 […]
Bear Braumoeller, 1968-2023: Prescient Observer of the International Order
Bear Braumoeller, a political scientist and computational social scientist whose work on international conflict in today’s world seemed especially prescient after Russia’s war on Ukraine, has died
AAPSS Names Six Scholars as 2023 Scholars
Six scholars drawn from political science, sociology, economics and demography have been named 2023 fellows of The American Academy of Political and Social Science.
How to Practice Aristotelian Deliberation in Business Organizations
The authors argue that Aristotelian ethics of deliberation is a safeguard against the risks of ideological conditioning, false debates, and instrumentalization of power by the strongest people.
Listen Up: Paper Argues Podcasting Can Transform Scholarly Communities and Society
In “How Academic Podcasting Can Change Academia And Its Relationship With Society: A Conversation And Guide,” Michael Cox, an environmental social scientist at Dartmouth College, and 24 other researchers (themselves academic podcasters), describe how academic podcasting could help various dimensions of higher education and offer suggestions for researchers interested in starting a podcast.
Canada’s Federation For Humanities and Social Sciences Welcomes New Board Members
Annie Pilote, dean of the faculty of graduate and postdoctoral studies at the Université Laval, was named chair of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences at its 2023 virtual annual meeting last month. Members also elected Debra Thompson as a new director on the board.
Aporophobia: Why People Reject The Poor
The idea that the poor are impoverished morally as well as materially, that they lack humanity as well as means, has a long history.
Can You Be My Teammate? Human-Robot Teams in Organizations
The topic of robots and humans working together in teams, so-called mixed human-robot teams, is of particular interest, as teams are the norm in the workplace for many of us.
Webinar: Engaging With Stakeholders – What Can We Learn from Action Researchers?
Research has more impact when those directly involved have a voice in the process. If you want to engage effectively with participants […]
