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 […]
Sense About Science and NHS Choices Launch New Online Forum
Sense About Science has teamed up with NHS Choices Behind the Headlines to help people better understand the science behind health claims […]
Round-up of Social Science Research
The following articles are drawn from SAGE Insight, which spotlights research published in SAGE’s more than 700 journals. The article linked to below […]
The Quest for Impact: The Case of Academic History
One of the benefits of ostensibly narrow academic pursuits is how their resulting scholarship can inform the work of more widely lauded popularizers and public intellectuals.
Meet Dinglebat, P. Brain and Nutter: The Academics in Kid’s Picture Books
Academics in children’s picture books tend to be elderly, old men, who work in science, called Professor SomethingDumb. Michelle Terras argues it matters if children are shown that researchers are male, mad and muddleheaded.
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Makerere Social Science dons end strike New Vision MAKERERE University lecturers at the School of Social Sciences Wednesday returned to class, a […]
Round-up of Social Science Research
The following article is drawn from SAGE Insight, which spotlights research published in SAGE’s more than 700 journals. The article linked to below […]
Sequestering Speech: Stories of the Shutdown
Thousands of scientists across the US feel cutbacks are seriously restricting their research and contributions. Gretchen Goldman asks scientists for their reaction and about impact on their work
The Day the Earth Moved: Canada’s Muzzled Researchers
Canadian scientists are being prevented by the state from discussing research findings in public, even about earthquakes in their backyard. Mark Frary reports
