For those who think “eugenics” mostly represents just a nasty page in history, sociologist R Sánchez-Rivera, has some sobering news. What was […]

Let’s say you were asked to name the greatest health risks facing the planet. Priceton University economist Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder and director […]

Economist and public policy expert Sheldon Danziger, currently the president of the Russell Sage Foundation, will become the president of the American Academy […]

In 2025 Sage is celebrating our origin story. When she was 24 years old, Sara Miller McCune, a female entrepreneur, founded a […]

In the July edition of The Evidence newsletter, journalist Josephine Lethbridge examines why women feel more climate anxiety than men – and […]

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 […]