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 […]
NIH’s Top Behavioral Official, Robert Kaplan, Moving On
The head of the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research is leaving that post to become the […]
CASBS Director Earns PoliSci’s Riker Prize
The latest winner of the William H. Riker Prize continues a tradition of mixing CASBS fellows with Riker Prize awardees.
Poverty Action Lab and Its Leaders Honored by SSRC
Two economists battling world poverty and the institution they helped create have received the highest honor offered by the Social Science Research […]
A Radical Democrat: Ernesto Laclau, 1933-2014
Well-known leftist political theorist Ernesto Laclau, an Argentinian who made his home in the United Kingdom and with his partner Chantal Mouffe […]
Argentina’s Voice of Discourse: Eliseo Verón, 1935-2014
The father of Argentinian semiotics, Eliseo Verón, has died at age 78.
Vote Yes (With Caveats!) for the Destruction of Knowledge
Scholarly knowledge is under threat, and that’s both good and dire, argued panelists at a recent discussion in Vienna.
Look Up ‘Open Access Help’ in the University Library
Social Science Space reported last week how–according to one survey drawn from the STEM fields–Canadian researchers like the principle of open access […]
New Leader Named for Index on Censorship
Index on Censorship, a Social Science Space partner that advocates for freedom of expression and against censorship throughout the world, has appointed […]
