Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Live Blogging Virtual Conference on Social Science’s Societal Impact
The Network for Advancing and Evaluating Societal Impact of Science, or AESIS, is currently conducting its Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities […]
Auction Theorists Win 2020 Economics Nobel
Two economists whose work on how auctions work shone a much broader light on how people value and price goods and service have received the 2020 Nobel Prize in economics.
2020 MacArthur Fellows’ Studies Touch on Race, Gender, Inequality, and Statistical Inference
Scholars and artists whose work ranges from using statistical inference to address economic, social, scientific and medical challenges, to understanding the individual […]
What Does It Mean If the Public is Decent at Predicting Replication?
With replication – and concerns about the lack of it – occupying much of the discussion about social and behavioral research, efforts […]
Webcast: Building the Field of Data Science for Social Impact
With nearly 2.5 quintillion bytes of data produced daily, how might we leverage the potential of data to address the socio-economic challenges […]
Call for Abstracts: Information-Communication Technology and Social Science
Information-communication technology tools for social science, whether already in existence or to be developed, could change the way we carry out research, collaborate, disseminate and evaluate research outputs.
Participants Sought for Colorism in Academia Survey
Aimee Haynes, a Ph.D. candidate at Florida’s Nova Southeastern University, is conducting research on colorism experiences among non-White women leaders in higher education careers. She’s asking readers of Social Science Space who fit certain criteria to fill out her anonymous online survey by September 30.
James Jackson, 1944-2020: Pioneering Researcher of African American Life
James Jackson, a social psychologist whose pioneering survey of Black Americans created new methodologies and new insights about the psychological resiliency of the community, has died at age 76.
