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 […]
Publishers: Changing the Names of Trans People in Their Own Work is Not Enough
Theresa Jane Tanenbaum argues that publishers must commit to correcting all of their records when a scholar changes their name and not just the ones that are easy to correct.
Is Science Communication Training Worth the Candle?
Most science communication training programs query participants and get positive responses. But more probing research has shown that students consistently overestimate how well they perform.
Why Social Science? Leaders Need to Know How to Lead with Evidence
Being bad at math can kill people. Even experts who should understand medical science and help us make good health decisions sometimes […]
Aussie Study Argues Book Publishing Sidelined in Ranking Universities
Academic book publishing is under threat. Global university rankings and competition for funding and international student enrolments are reshaping the research landscape. […]
A Micro Syllabus on Asian American Experiences and Politics
Un-modeling the ‘model minority’ — a term often used to describe Asian American populations in the United States — is a crucial […]
Should We Be Concerned that Data Journalists Are Doing Science Now?
Gone are the days when science journalism was like sports journalism, where the action was watched from the press box and simply conveyed. News outlets have stepped onto the field. They are doing the science themselves.
Writing Scholarly Articles That Get Cited More Than the Competition
When readers — even academic readers — do not understand an article, they are unlikely to read it, much less absorb it, share it and be influenced by its ideas.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Pop Psychology
More than 50 years ago, George Miller, president of the American Psychological Association, urged his colleagues “to give psychology away.” No, cynical […]
