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 […]
Changing our Coping Strategies Amidst COVID-19 Living
As people in the U.S. mark six months of coronavirus, the challenges of coping with life during a pandemic continue to evolve. […]
Beyond Human – Everyday Bots and AI
As I write this, I am using text-to-speech technology, a nifty online feature that enables the reader to listen to, rather than […]
Overconsumption or a Move Towards Minimalism?
(Over)consumption, climate change and working from home. These are a few of the concerns at the forefront of consumers’ minds and three […]
Consumption as Intercultural Communication and Interaction
When was the last time you went out for a Thai meal, got items from the ethnic isle of a supermarket, wore […]
NIH: Exploring the Publication Gap Between Social/Behavioral and Biomedical Research
Behavioral and social science grant recipients from America’s National Institutes of Health appear to have not published their results within five years at a greater rate than for their non-behavioral peers. An NIH director investigated …
HEPI Report Examines Conversation Universities Should Have With Media
In the new HEPI report, “Mixed Media: what universities need to know about journalists so they can get a better press”, veteran journalist Rosemary Bennett addresses the universities’ routine silence in public discussion of education and what they should do to rectify that.
The Trailblazing Dr. Sadie T.M. Alexander
“I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them […]
I Published a Fake Paper in a ‘Peer-Reviewed’ Journal
I claimed that New Mexico is part of the Galapagos Islands, that craniotomy is a legitimate means of assessing student learning, and that all my figures were made in Microsoft Paint. Any legitimate peer reviewer who bothered to read just the abstract would’ve tossed the paper in the garbage (or maybe called the police).
