Until recently, AI’s role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarize a paper, clean up a dataset or […]

Scientific discoveries rarely happen alone. Modern research often involves teams spanning institutions and even countries. Yet when research is published in academic […]

The United States has a long tradition of celebrating its diverse communities with heritage observances throughout the calendar year. And yet not […]

Political theory is often presented as if it lives mainly in books. We imagine it in canonical texts, famous thinkers, and abstract […]

Critical thinking is an important skill, but in practice, it’s often taught in isolated moments rather than as something students can and should use every day. At a […]

The current crisis in higher education – marked by defunding, marketization, privatization, corporate governance, and the devaluation of the humanities – demands […]

Tom Gilovich finds it fun to study the whys and wherefores of how human beings make sense of the information delivered by […]

The challenge: Students tend to perceive attractive looking results as more trustworthy. This is the aesthetic bias, a behavioral phenomenon where humans […]

On this platform, growing attention is paid to structural issues in academia, including trust in science and the role of metrics and rankings. In the […]

A few years ago, if you asked students where they began their research, the answer was predictable: “Google” or “Google Scholar.” Today, […]

In university classroom, I once asked my undergraduate students if a particular policy decision had strengthened or weakened the national economy. Few […]

Every guest on the Social Science Bites podcast is queried about their area of expertise, and hence the questions tend to differ […]

Students now encounter arguments mainly through digital feeds. These arguments are layered with music, editing, facial expressions, captions, filters, AI-generated imagery, and […]

In today’s information ecosystem, reactions often unfold in seconds: a headline provokes emotion, an AI-generated paragraph sounds authoritative, a post feels right, […]

The grudging disclosure of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the US government has rightly attracted a great deal of commentary. The responses […]

In an information ecosystem shaped by algorithmic curation, emotionally optimized headlines, and increasingly indistinguishable AI-generated media, the problem is no longer simply […]

The United States has a long history of celebrating its diverse communities with observances throughout the calendar year. Hispanic Heritage Month, Black History Month, […]

The National Academies are convening a two-day hybrid workshop bringing together researchers, journal editors, publishers, funders, and scientific association leaders to examine approaches for […]

How designing AI tools can transform cognitive offloading into critical thinking “Welcome to pharmacology!” I announced to a packed auditorium of wide-eyed […]

In an era defined by algorithm-curated feeds, persuasive misinformation, and increasingly sophisticated AI-generated content, the challenge facing higher education is no longer […]

David Canter explores the three interacting corrosive cycles that destroys democracies – limiting effective education, destroying a free press and limiting the […]

In 2024, Sage surveyed social and behavioral science (SBS) researchers from 96 countries to better understand their motivation, if any, to conduct […]

This Social Science Bites podcast offers a dollop of good news and heaping helping of bad. The good news is that since […]

A March 2026 report from UN Women offers a sobering reality check on women’s progress: across professional, legal and academic fields, the fight for […]

Hazel Rose Markus, a pioneer in social and cultural psychology and a co-founder of  Stanford SPARQ, will receive the 2026 Sage-CASBS Award […]