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 […]
New SSRC Project Aims to Develop AI Principles for Private Sector
The new AI Disclosures Project seeks to create structures that both recognize the commercial enticements of AI while ensuring that issues of safety and equity are front and center in the decisions private actors make about AI deployment.
Paper Opening Science to the New Statistics Proves Its Import a Decade Later
An article in the journal Psychological Science, “The New Statistics: Why and How” by La Trobe University’s Geoff Cumming, has proved remarkably popular in the years since and is the third-most cited paper published in a Sage journal in 2013.
A Milestone Dataset on the Road to Self-Driving Cars Proves Highly Popular
The idea of an autonomous vehicle – i.e., a self-driving car – isn’t particularly new. Leonardo da Vinci had some ideas he […]
2024 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association
This year, the American Sociological Association (ASA) will be holding their 119th annual meeting with the theme “Intersectional Solidarities: Building Communities of […]
Webinar: The Hauser Policy Impact Fund Webinar Series: Navigating the Era of Artificial Intelligence Part 2: The Role of Social Sciences
The National Academies of Sciences will be holding part two of The Hauser Policy Impact Fund Webinar Series on July 25, 2024. […]
Congressional Briefing: Maternal Mortality in America: Understanding the Challenges and Crafting Population Based Solutions
The Population Association of America (PAA) is a nonprofit, professional, and scientific organization that supports and pursues high-quality population research. On July […]
2024 Summer Evaluation Institute
The American Evaluation Association’s Summer Evaluation Institute is back in-person in Washington, DC in 2024. This conference will offer professional development workshops […]
Workshop: Human and Organizational Factors in Artificial Intelligence Risk Management (Safety in Context: Culture, Processes, and Frameworks)
On July 2, 2024, the National Academies of Sciences will hold the fourth installment of their workshop series on Human and Organizational […]
