Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
The question of what value social media, particularly blogging, holds in academia is ongoing and at times controversial. This is well illustrated […]
A busy summer means the blog can be overtaken by events. I had intended to write on 11 July about the threat […]
British sociology is relentlessly marching towards excellence. A leading sociology department prides itself in its “international reputation for excellence”, one of the country’s most distinguished journals highlights its “commitment to excellence”
In a recent article in Miller-McCune Magazine, Tom Jacobs discusses new research that explains how feelings of boredom can both strengthen solidarity […]
By Jerome L. Singer and Dorothy G. Singer, Yale University One of the greatest developments of the nineteenth century in industrial Europe, […]
Over the last decade the hallowed principle of ‘evidence-based policy-making’ has become cliché in government and policy circles in the UK, and […]
Stephen Curry writes on the LSE Impact Blog that the growth of academic blogging is an important new outlet for demonstrating impact. […]
This post was originally published on Steve Keen’s Debtwatch. That transcendental truth occurred to me while writing the second edition of Debunking […]