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 […]
Alondra Nelson on Genetic Testing
In this Social Science Bites podcast, sociologist Alondra Nelson describes her particular interest in those root seekers whose antecedents were “stolen from African” in the slave trade who make up so much of the African diaspora.
Aspect Annual Webinar Event 2020: Building Propensity & Well-Being Through Social Science Innovation
Click here to read more about this year’s Aspect event and to register for any of the 19 webinars being offered over […]
Social Science ‘Spinouts,’ An Underappreciated Pathway to Impact?
One means of fixing and making ideas tangible, often scorned and neglected in the social sciences, but widely used in STEM, are spinouts. For universities, a spinout is a company formed on the basis of intellectual property from a university or research institute.
A Simple Model Shows Value of Common COVID Defenses
The author’s team at the Goldenson Center for Actuarial Research has developed a free, user-friendly computer model that demonstrates how infections and deaths progress on a daily basis over a three-month period depending on how people behave in response to the outbreak.
Self and Social: An Interview About Autoethnography
Janet Salmons, the methods guru at our sister site MethodSapce, interviewed Dr. Peter Gloviczki about his use of autoethnographic methods.
How Can Wise Graphics Use Cut Through the Complexity of COVID-19?
Editor’s Note: If you’re curious about the ways in which data visualization and graph use can generate impact with regard to the […]
AI Tool Guides Researchers to Coronavirus Insights
The big idea The scientific community worldwide has mobilized with unprecedented speed to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, and the emerging research output […]
Infectious Diseases and Long-Run Innovation Consequences
Today we welcome two scholars from Texas’s Baylor University whose research into how pathogens affect innovation has taken on new prominence in the wake of the current pandemic.
