“Trust but verify” is an old Russian saying that U.S. President Ronald Reagan made famous when discussing treaties to limit nuclear weapons. […]

The following is an adapted extract from The Cultural Industries, fifth edition, by David Hesmondhalgh.  The increasing presence of information technology (IT) […]

Sage. the parent of Social Science Space, brought academic librarians together at the 2026 American Library Association Annual Conference for a conversation […]

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to the American economists Robert E. Hall […]

Developers of AI data centers have a public trust problem. According to multiple surveys, a majority of Americans say they would oppose […]

For two decades, the United Kingdom has experienced weaker trend productivity growth, alongside significant inequalities in income, wealth and opportunity between different […]

Since artificial intelligence (AI) software ChatGPT was released in 2022, teachers have been looking for ways to tell when AI has been […]

Forty scholars from 22 U.S. institutions and 11 international institutions and programs, as well as five practitioners from private industry, make up […]

Four Americans working in the social and behavioral sciences are among the 20 people named MacArthur Fellows this year. Recipients may be […]

Belief in ‘markets’ among the financial elite at time can at time border on the theological, with approaches like the efficient market […]

Christina Bell, reference and instruction librarian at Arizona’s Glendale Community College, examines the less visible forms of censorship and how restrictions on […]

The New York-based Social Science Research Council has named 14 scholars to its 2026 African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics cohort, supporting work […]

Carrie Hill, digital scholarship librarian at Auburn University Libraries, has seen firsthand how censorship is affecting higher education. In this Quick Insight, […]

Discussions of technology transfer usually center on physical sciences with a focus on products that can be seen or manipulated. Must that […]

Nicole A. Cooke, Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and professor at the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South […]

The unfolding events of recent years have made one thing clear: we are steadily descending into a tangle of intercon­nected crises. Social […]

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is clearly proving very hard to control. Much of the difficulty must […]

Rosalind “Roz” Tedford, director for research, instruction, and outreach at Wake Forest University, discusses the effects of censorship on higher education faculty […]

With threats to research integrity continuing to increase, more and more attention is being paid to “trust markers.” There is currently no […]

Larissa “Lara” Tiedens, a social psychologist who has twice served as interim director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral […]

Poverty, immigration and energy are the three arenas studied by the inaugural recipients of new fellowships from the Social Science Research Council. […]

A lot of academic conferences, built around venerable societies and organizations, advertise their legacy by listing iteration number — the 112th or […]

Graffiti has a long pedigree, whether our starting point is the wall paintings of Lascaux, the carved crudities of Roman toilets or […]

As higher education increasingly embeds generative artificial intelligence to help students think critically about information they encounter, how and when to best […]

Euan Adie, the founder of Altmetric and later of Overton, discusses the reasons the led to Overton’s focus on showing researchers how […]