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 […]
Gazan Publisher, Late Ukrainian Writer Receive Publisher Group’s Prix Voltaire Award
Bravery takes many forms, and since 2006 the International Publishers Association has honored publishers who have upheld the standards and justice and […]
Canada’s Storytellers Challenge Seeks Compelling Narratives About Student Research
“We are, as a species, addicted to story,” says English professor Jonathan Gottschall in his book, The Storytelling Animal. “Even when the […]
Ninth Edition of ‘The Evidence’: Tackling the Gender Pay Gap
This month’s installment of The Evidence kicks off Gloria Media’s annual equal pay campaign. Starting from November 8, the average French woman […]
The Conversation Podcast Series Examines Class in British Politics
Even in the 21st century, social class is a part of being British. We talk of living in a post-class era but, […]
Emerson College Pollsters Explain How Pollsters Do What They Do
As the U.S. presidential election approaches, news reports and social media feeds are increasingly filled with data from public opinion polls. How […]
Diving Into OSTP’s ‘Blueprint’ for Using Social and Behavioral Science in Policy
UPDATE on JANUARY 23: Links to the Blueprint on the White House website have been removed and do not redirect to an […]
Eighth Edition of ‘The Evidence’: How Sexist Abuse Undermines Political Representation
In this month’s issue of The Evidence newsletter, Josephine Lethbridge explores rising levels of abuse directed towards women in politics, spotlighting research […]
Revisiting the ‘Research Parasite’ Debate in the Age of AI
The large language models, or LLMs, that underlie generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have an ethical challenge in how they parasitize freely available data.
