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 […]
December 15, 2015
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Elizabeth Houghton
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Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Gioia Barnbrook
Winning essays Overall winner “CITY Inc.” | James Fletcher, King’s College London Highly Commended “They know how much oxygen I breathe, which […]
10 Stories of Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065
Over the next 10 weeks Social Science Space will present the 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists look at how social science might change the world in the next half century. The overall winner was James Fletcher of King’s College London, whose essay “CITY Inc,” imagines what the London of 2065 will look like. His vision – a city transformed into a fifth state by the impact of social sciences and finance.
Call for Mentors – International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development
The ISSBD Mentor Program is a service to provide an early-career scholar with informal mentoring by a mid-career or senior International Society […]
National Science Board Seeks Nominations for Eight Seats
With a third of the seats on the 24-member National Science Board opening next spring, the panel that oversees the U.S. National […]
Five Things to Think About if You’re Considering a Doctorate
After collecting reflections on their PhD journey from 28 doctoral scholars, Rhodes University’s Sioux McKenna distilled some of their collected wisdom into five ideas that might make the uphill effort to earn a doctorate less of of a Sisyphean task.
SSRC Offers 2016 Dissertation Development Fellowships
The Social Science Research Council’s Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program is an interdisciplinary training program that helps early-stage doctoral students in the […]
Become an Ask for Evidence Ambassador
Sense About Science is recruiting six ambassadors to represent the Ask for Evidence campaign and give talks to different groups across society. […]
A Primer for the Beginning Peer Reviewer
The first time you’re asked to write a peer review, it can seem like confirmation that you are no longer an academic poseur but a real member of the club. Then the realization that you’ve never written a peer review sets in. Here are some tips on taking that initial step.
