The American Academy of Political and Social Science has elected two academics and one journalist as its 2026 fellows. The three – […]

The purpose of the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science (AIMOS) is to make the research process more trustworthy and efficient, […]

My colleagues and I recently spoke with a group of talented, interesting students who just completed their first year of college about […]

As a university researcher focused on education, I have spent hundreds of hours designing studies to help the field and that might […]

Philosopher Tom Chatfield, the author of widely read guide to critical thinking, discusses the role that artificial intelligence can play in helping […]

Since its inception, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made grant payments totaling more than $90 billion. These grants have gone […]

In the United Kingdom, thousands of Palestine Action protestors have been arrested and charged with supporting terrorism. After the dreadful 7 October […]

One of the promises of artificial intelligence is that it can be so smart it can identify its shortcomings and avenues for […]

Political scientist Kenneth Prewitt, a keen observer of the role of social science in the larger world who used his observations to […]

Quick Insight is a series of short videos in which experts from academe and the larger community surrounding the academy address a […]

Mazarin Banaji, the experimental psychologist at Harvard University widely known for the implicit association test she and her colleagues developed, has spent […]

Stanford psychologist Hazel Rose Markus has been a leading scholar in understanding how culture and psychology interact, a research portfolio that saw […]

Historian Rana Mitter OBE FBA, the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at The Harvard Kennedy School, will address ‘China, the US […]

The human brain works very hard behind the scenes even in the most mundane aspects of daily life, like enjoying a nice […]

Anthropic, the company behind the generative AI tool Claude, claimed in March 2026 that it used an AI interviewer to conduct “the […]

Artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold in the modern workplace. It is being used for everything from helping employees manage schedules to […]

Daniel Goroff, a mathematician and economist with a long pedigree of policy roles at the intersection of the social sciences and public […]

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 […]