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University of Oregon Promised $425M to Create Behavioral Health Institute
Infrastructure
March 2, 2022

University of Oregon Promised $425M to Create Behavioral Health Institute

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An Invisible Bias with Real Implications for Women Leaders
Business and Management INK
March 1, 2022

An Invisible Bias with Real Implications for Women Leaders

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Inspiring the Next Generation: Methodspace Series on ‘The Future of Computational Science is Black’
Higher Education Reform
February 25, 2022

Inspiring the Next Generation: Methodspace Series on ‘The Future of Computational Science is Black’

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Institute for Advanced Study Draws from Humanities for New Director
Recent Appointments
February 24, 2022

Institute for Advanced Study Draws from Humanities for New Director

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As Pandemic Warps Productivity, Early-Career Professors Envision Changes Evaluating Tenure

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.

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NSF Grant Aims to Create Interoperable Standards for Social and Behavioral Data

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 […]

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Trans Linguistic Activism is About Asking for Basic Respect from Others

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.

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Unlocking Real-World Data Offers Real Benefits to Public Health

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.

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Does Protecting ‘Academic Freedom’ Include Protecting Academics?

Does Protecting ‘Academic Freedom’ Include Protecting Academics?

Associate professor Siouxsie Wiles and professor Shaun Hendy have become well known for their work explaining the science behind COVID-19 and guiding the public and government response. Is their home institution doing enough to protect them from bad actors?

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Engineer and Psychologist Carlotta Arthur to Head DBASSE

Engineer and Psychologist Carlotta Arthur to Head DBASSE

Engineer and psychologist Carlotta M. Arthur, currently director of the Henry Luce Foundation’s Clare Boothe Luce Program for Women in STEM, has been named the new executive director of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at America’s National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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FABBS Welcomes Philip Rubin as New Board President

FABBS Welcomes Philip Rubin as New Board President

Cst Philip E. Rubin, whose extensive resume includes leadership roles at the National Science Foundation and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, is the new president of the board of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

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Zeynep Pamuk and the Case for Creating Science Courts

Zeynep Pamuk and the Case for Creating Science Courts

In her new book, “Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society,” Zeynep Pamuk outlines new directions that she believes the relationship between science and politics might take, rooted in the understanding that scientific knowledge is tentative and uncertain.

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