
Another COVID Casualty: Pew Examines Americans’ View of Science
How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted science research itself, but also how Americans view science in their daily lives? The […]
1 year agoA space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted science research itself, but also how Americans view science in their daily lives? The […]
1 year agoThe White House announced last week that the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s National Science and Technology Council will re-commission the Social and Behavioral Sciences Subcommittee of the Committee on Science.
1 year agoThe Pew Research Center writes that “as the relationship between population density and coronavirus death rates has changed over the course of the pandemic, so too has the relationship between counties’ voting patterns and their death rates from COVID-19.”
2 years agoWhat does this year’s U.S. Executive Branch budget suggest for key agencies that provide social and behavioral science funding?
2 years agoThe U.S. National Science Foundation last week announced it would create a new directorate focused on Technology, Innovation and Partnerships.
2 years agoAn effort to measure how well equality across genders is progressing around the world, using a tool developed around United Nations-developed goals, has detected “little progress” in the last half decade.
2 years agoCiting statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “more Americans died of gun-related injuries in 2020 than in any other year on record,” reports the Pew Research Center in a new report.
2 years agoA coalition of more than 400 oral health, behavioral science, and social science groups and scientists, crafted a mission statement as a first step towards a more interdisciplinary approach to oral health around the world.
2 years agoWe interviewed two officials at the U.S. Office of the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery to talk about their thoughts on the importance of the social sciences in government oversight.
2 years agoThe focus of these special inspector general offices is to not only keep a watchful eye on the trillions of dollars flowing from Washington to families and business across the country, but to also prevent and deter people defrauding the federal government and thus the tax-paying American public.
2 years agoThe Association for Psychological Science Global Collaboration on COVID-19 brought experts together to assess how their field has contributed to responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and identify possibilities for new research to answer unanswered questions.
2 years agoWhat are the most pressing issues on the minds of college and university presidents? In short, students, whether it’s students’ mental health or the number of them attending school.
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