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One of the most heavily contested voting-policy issues in the 2020 election, in both the courts and the political arena, […]
Co-authorship is now for many social science disciplines the default mode of academic authorship. Reflecting on this, Helen Kara provides insights and advice for authors looking to co-write and co-publish in an ethical way.
As people in the U.S. mark six months of coronavirus, the challenges of coping with life during a pandemic continue […]
As I write this, I am using text-to-speech technology, a nifty online feature that enables the reader to listen to, […]
(Over)consumption, climate change and working from home. These are a few of the concerns at the forefront of consumers’ minds […]
When was the last time you went out for a Thai meal, got items from the ethnic isle of a […]
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 …
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.
“I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all […]
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).
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused extraordinary devastation, claiming millions of lives and disrupting the economy and daily life across the […]
David Canter considers the tragic implications of people not understanding what they are told by politicians and experts.
