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 […]
September 13, 2017
Revisiting Erica Frank’s 1996 Review of Peer Review
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UK HE: Markets Are Good for Everyone – Except Academics….
So if markets are truly good for English higher education, as many seem to think, should we follow that train of thought to its logical conclusions?
Addressing Reproducibility in Archaeology: Our Three-Pronged Approach
Replication and reproducibility have been big issues in medicine and psychology and economics, but les talked about in fields like archaeology. Here, Ben Marwick and Zenobia Jacobs discuss their latest paper’s reproducibility strategy and its tactics during fieldwork, labwork and data analysis.
What Do the 2017 Elections Mean for British Academia?
Britain’s recent general election has been the first step towards a long-overdue public debate on the social consequences of austerity and growing socio-economic inequality. What does this sea change mean for British academia?
Margaret Atwood: Please Don’t Censor Science Communication
A concern for free expression and respect for science journalism are two themes Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood expounds on in an article in the newest edition of ‘Index on Censorship.’
Weighing the Impact Agenda: Does Knowledge on Its Own Matter?
Academics in the United Kingdom and in Australia interviewed about the impact agenda show fears that the balance between applied and basic knowledge may be tilting too far in one way.
British Sociology and the Conservative Backlash: A Sociology of Sociology More Necessary than Ever
In academic institutions that value hierarchies and compliance and seek to understand scholarship in terms of its economic value, argues our Daniel Nehring, there is little space for a discipline that aims to critically interrogate the intersections of structure and agency and the social production of inequalities.
Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Peer Review and Publishing Itself?
The founder of StateReviewer outlines a future where humans are written out of the publication process by artificial intelligence. But is the goal of eradicating bias and other malignancies potentially opening the door to a new set of ills?
Intolerance Threatens Free Inquiry in India’s Universities
The only way out of the current state of tension for Indian universities, argues political scientists Aftab Alam, is for the institutions to learn to tolerate everything except intolerance.
