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 […]
September 15, 2014
Call for Papers: Challenges for the New Cohesion Policy in 2014-2020
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European Scientists Fear Data Protection Overreach
Raising the drumbeat of alarm before a final European Parliament ruling later this year, a coalition of the continent’s research organizations have made explicit their opposition to new rules that they say would impede social science and medical research.
Replication Is More Common, But Still Too Rare
A study of the 100 top journals in education research found that there’s still almost no effort made to replicate the findings they publish.
Do Scholarly Publishers Need a Creative Un-Commons?
A move by an association of STEM publishers to offer a bespoke category of open-access licenses for scholarly work has stirred up proponents of the existing Creative Commons system.
Call for Papers: Sustainable Recovery? Rebalancing, Growth, and the Space Economy
Authors have until August 18 to submit 400-word abstracts for papers for the Regional Studies Association Winter Conference, themed “Sustainable Recovery? Rebalancing, […]
Population Reference Bureau Picks New President
Jeffrey Jordan, former senior vice president for international programs at the Catholic Medical Mission Board, has been selected as president and CEO […]
Deputy Takes Over at Board for Science Education
Heidi Schweingruber, the deputy director of the Board on Science Education (BOSE) at the National Research Council of the National Academies, has […]
New Version of Coburn Amendment in Wings
Senator Tom Coburn’s long-standing effort to restrict political science funding has returned with a new amendment filed for the latest bill that funds the National Science Foundation.
Two Social Scientists Headed to National Science Board
The former director of the U.S. Census and the current president the Consortium of Social Science Associations will be among the scholars joining the panel that oversees the National Science Foundation this August..
