Generative AI, especially large language models (LLMs), present exciting and unprecedented opportunities and complex challenges for academic research and scholarship. As the […]

Many people have been there. The dinner party is going well until someone decides to introduce a controversial topic. In today’s world, […]

“Trust, but verify,” is a Russian proverb that gained prominence during the Cold War during negotiations centered on nuclear arsenals. That idea […]

In this month’s edition of The Evidence newsletter, Josephine Lethbridge explores the gender gap in carbon emissions.   A new study of 15,000 […]

Open research has become a buzzword in university research, but Jo Hemlatha and Thomas Graves argue that when it comes to qualitative research, considerations around replicability, context-dependent methods and the sensitivity of data from marginalized people mean that openness takes many different forms.

The American Academy of Political and Social Science is looking for a social scientist, public official, or civic leader who has effectively […]

Flexibility is a cardinal virtue in physical fitness, and according to political psychologist and neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod, it can be a cardinal […]

The promise of artificial intelligence in accessibility work is often framed in hopeful terms. Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 are increasingly […]

Social psychologist Lara Tiedens, president of Scripps College and a former Stanford University professor, this week became interim director of the Center […]

Political scientist Anna Harvey will leave her role as president of the Social Science Research Council on June 30, the New York […]

Despite decades of reform, gender pay gaps (GPGs) remain a stubborn and unjust feature of labour markets globally. On average, women are […]

It’s not news to those in library-land that book bans and censorship in higher education have serious implications for the future of […]

Prisons have been in crisis in England and Wales for 200 years. The state has responded with piecemeal, ‘pragmatic’ reforms which have […]

In this month’s issue of The Evidence newsletter, Josephine Lethbridge examines how gender shapes experiences of human flourishing.  A recently published international […]

When I think about book bans, I consider the subject through a variety of lenses. I have taught English in a post-communist […]

When economic news, especially that revolving around working, gets reported, it tends to get reported in aggregate – the total number of […]

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) left a legacy of influence that many more literary writers might envy. In his own lifetime, he was one […]

Libraries are considered safe places, secure places to read and meet diverse (but sometimes like-minded) people who celebrate literacy by expanding different […]

In 2023, the American Library Association documented 1,247 censorship cases with known locations. Of these cases, 2 percent occurred in academic libraries, […]

Perhaps because college students are generally considered adults, and college and university campuses and classrooms have long been viewed as places to […]

Graduate students interested in an academic career after graduation day have often been told they need to be open to moving somewhere […]

Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]

In its first 100 days, the Trump administration terminated more than US$2 billion in federal grants, according to a public source database […]

Congolese thinker, philosopher and linguist Valentin-Yves Mudimbe died on April 21, 2025 at the age of 83. He was in the US, […]

Pope Francis devoted his Message for World Day of Migrants and Refugees in 2023 to the “right” or “freedom” to stay or […]