Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Should ChatGPT Be Listed as an Academic Author?
Several recent academic papers have listed ChatGPT as an author. But should the artificially intelligent writing bot be considered an academic author?
Communicating Findings Should be Included in Research Funding
Reflecting on the ongoing professionalisation of academic communication and increased opportunities for researchers to engage, Andy Tattersall argues researchers and research funders should be mindful of the communication requirements of their projects and factor them into their bids and tenders.
American Sociological Association Statement, Guidebook Back Teaching about Race and Racism
The American Sociological Association recently released a statement “urg[ing] public officials, educators, and lawmakers to avoid suppressing knowledge, violating academic and free speech, and prohibiting scholars and teachers from discussing and teaching about the roles of race and racism in society.
Rethinking the Link Between Learned Societies and Academic Journals
Historically, there has been a tight link between journals, journal publications and a community of scholars working in specific fields of research who contribute to and manage them. Aileen Fyfe asks if we should rethink the structure of the learned societies that underpins this.
Archivists Are Being Tasked With Ever-Tougher Calls With Far-Reaching Consequences
“Memory institutions” can’t keep everything they have been tasked with saving, especially as new tools and new ideas reshape the boundaries of what they already hold.
‘Peer Community In’ for Preprints Offers a Model for Diamond Open Access
Peer Community In is a peer-review-based service for recommending preprints which greenlights articles and makes them and their reviews, data, codes and scripts available on an open-access basis.
Big Think Podcast Series Launched by Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences has launched the Big Thinking Podcast, a show series that features leading researchers in the humanities and social sciences in conversation about the most important and interesting issues of our time.
A Personal Reflection on Strategic Organization — the Journal (and Field) That Almost Wasn’t
Joel Baum at the University of Toronto discusses the origin story of the journal Strategic Organization in his paper, “Constructing Strategic Organization – A field whose time has come,” published in … Strategic Organization.
