Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Event: ‘Frozen Out? Political Science in a Heating World’
University of Melbourne deliver a talk titled “Frozen Out? Political Science in a Heating World.”
Recalling the Founding of the ‘Journal of Black Studies’ a Half Century Ago
A few months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, two Black social scientists in Southern California approached a fledgling academic publisher with a unique proposition: let us launch a journal for another fledgling — the discipline of Black studies.
Webinar Series: Building Successful Academic Pathway Programs – Watch the Full Series
This one-hour webinar, “Positioning Underrepresented Minority Students for College: Best Practices of Precollegiate Pathway Programs,” will kick of a series of three conversations with Curtis Byrd and Rihana Mason.
DBASSE Director to Retire, Sparking Hunt for Replacement
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has begun the search for a new executive director for the National Research Council’s […]
Librarian Pilots the Path Linking Open Scholarship and Impact
The Association of Research Libraries has named North Carolina State open knowledge librarian to head a pilot program, Accelerating the Social Impact of Research.
Geert Hofstede, 1928-2020: The Engineer of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Twenty years ago the second edition of one of the more influential books in social science, Geert Hofstede’s Culture’s Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations, appeared.
Event: Data Science for the Public Good Symposium
The annual Data Science for the Public Good Symposium — occurring today — is a free opportunity, open for all, to see […]
A Social Scientist Looks at the Irish Border and Its Future
‘What Do We Know and What Should We Do About the Irish Border?’ is a new book from Katy Hayward that applies social science to the existing issues and what they portend.
