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Qualitative Researchers Point Out The Limitations of AI’s Contributions
Anthropic, the company behind the generative AI tool Claude, claimed in March 2026 that it used an AI interviewer to conduct “the […]
Who Do You Trust More: Your Colleagues or Your AI?
Artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold in the modern workplace. It is being used for everything from helping employees manage schedules to […]
Sloan’s Danny Goroff to Take Reins at Social Science Research Council
Daniel Goroff, a mathematician and economist with a long pedigree of policy roles at the intersection of the social sciences and public […]
What Does It Mean Now That AI Is Creating Academic Papers?
Until recently, AI’s role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarize a paper, clean up a dataset or […]
Academic Authorship Confronts Ghosts, Gifts and Gender
Scientific discoveries rarely happen alone. Modern research often involves teams spanning institutions and even countries. Yet when research is published in academic […]
Recalling the Roots of Jewish American Heritage Month
The United States has a long tradition of celebrating its diverse communities with heritage observances throughout the calendar year. And yet not […]
Political Theory Beyond the Text
Political theory is often presented as if it lives mainly in books. We imagine it in canonical texts, famous thinkers, and abstract […]
Making Critical Thinking a Daily Habit: Sage’s Critical Thinking Challenge Winners
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 […]
Anti-Universities, Archives and Abolitionism: Alternative Models to the University
The current crisis in higher education – marked by defunding, marketization, privatization, corporate governance, and the devaluation of the humanities – demands […]
Tom Gilovich On the Spotlight Effect
Tom Gilovich finds it fun to study the whys and wherefores of how human beings make sense of the information delivered by […]
The Visual Authority Trap
The challenge: Students tend to perceive attractive looking results as more trustworthy. This is the aesthetic bias, a behavioral phenomenon where humans […]
How Publishers Extract Money, Labor, and Data from Universities
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 […]
From ‘Which Database?’ to ‘Under What Conditions?’: Teaching Critical Thinking Through Search Tool Selection in an AI Age
A few years ago, if you asked students where they began their research, the answer was predictable: “Google” or “Google Scholar.” Today, […]
The 3E Cycle: Establish-Examine-Evolve as a Structured Model to Foster Critical Thinking
In university classroom, I once asked my undergraduate students if a particular policy decision had strengthened or weakened the national economy. Few […]
Whose Work Most Influenced You? Part 6: A Social Science Bites Retrospective
Every guest on the Social Science Bites podcast is queried about their area of expertise, and hence the questions tend to differ […]
Beyond Fact-Checking: Making Critical Thinking an Everyday Multimodal Habit
Students now encounter arguments mainly through digital feeds. These arguments are layered with music, editing, facial expressions, captions, filters, AI-generated imagery, and […]
From Hot Takes to Habitual Inquiry: A Puzzle-Based Routine for Everyday Critical Thinking in Higher Education
In today’s information ecosystem, reactions often unfold in seconds: a headline provokes emotion, an AI-generated paragraph sounds authoritative, a post feels right, […]
JG Ballard and the Epstein Files
The grudging disclosure of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the US government has rightly attracted a great deal of commentary. The responses […]
The Cognitive Immune System: Making Critical Thinking a Daily Mental Habit
In an information ecosystem shaped by algorithmic curation, emotionally optimized headlines, and increasingly indistinguishable AI-generated media, the problem is no longer simply […]
Celebrating Arab American Heritage Month
The United States has a long history of celebrating its diverse communities with observances throughout the calendar year. Hispanic Heritage Month, Black History Month, […]
Enhancing Scientific Integrity: Progress and Opportunities in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
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 […]
Don’t Ban AI—Teach Students to Build It
How designing AI tools can transform cognitive offloading into critical thinking “Welcome to pharmacology!” I announced to a packed auditorium of wide-eyed […]
From Passive Consumption to Active Verification: Embedding Critical Thinking as a Daily Cognitive Habit in Higher Education
In an era defined by algorithm-curated feeds, persuasive misinformation, and increasingly sophisticated AI-generated content, the challenge facing higher education is no longer […]
Challenges to Democracy
David Canter explores the three interacting corrosive cycles that destroys democracies – limiting effective education, destroying a free press and limiting the […]
Watch the Webinar: Empowering Social and Behavioral Science Researchers
In 2024, Sage surveyed social and behavioral science (SBS) researchers from 96 countries to better understand their motivation, if any, to conduct […]
