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 […]
University of Oregon Promised $425M to Create Behavioral Health Institute
Connie and Steve Ballmer, co-founders of Ballmer Group Philanthropy, have promised $425 million to the University of Oregon to create The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health in Portland.
An Invisible Bias with Real Implications for Women Leaders
The underrepresentation of women in senior leadership positions across all sectors is clearly not a pipeline issue. Research points to bias as one reason they aren’t getting ahead.
Inspiring the Next Generation: Methodspace Series on ‘The Future of Computational Science is Black’
“The Future of Computational Science is Black” is a series of blogs about SICSS-Howard/Mathematica 2021, the first Summer Institute in Computational Social Science held at a historically Black college or university.
Institute for Advanced Study Draws from Humanities for New Director
Earlier this month, David Nirenberg — a professor of medieval history who had been dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago — became the the director of the Institute for Advanced Study to come from the humanities.
As Pandemic Warps Productivity, Early-Career Professors Envision Changes Evaluating Tenure
A Canadian research team observed a profound ripple effect where reduced productivity from increased workload due to the pandemic impacted researchers’ progress.
NSF Grant Aims to Create Interoperable Standards for Social and Behavioral Data
The National Science Foundation in committing $38 million to establish a new platform to wrangle the ever-increasing amount of social and behavioral […]
Trans Linguistic Activism is About Asking for Basic Respect from Others
Making self-identification an everyday practice is one of trans activism’s most visible recent victories, particularly on campuses, and language is at the center of that change.
Unlocking Real-World Data Offers Real Benefits to Public Health
The COVID-19 pandemic has surfaced the potential and risks of linked real word datasets to accelerate and produce new improvements in public health. In this post, the authors outline the opportunities and challenges of using real world data as part of the ‘Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice’ project.
