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 […]
Gerd Gigerenzer on Decision Making
Quite often the ideas of ‘risk’ and of ‘uncertainty’ get bandied about interchangeably, but there’s a world of difference between them. That’s a key message from psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer.
How Do Amazingly Effective Teams Emerge?
What if we were able to predict which teams are capable of amazing levels of effectiveness even before they’ve had enough time to generate measurable performance?
Boost Member Engagement and Strengthen Your Organization’s Identity with Organizational Hashtags
How might social media strengthen organizational bonds? Stephanie Dailey takes a look at hashtags can foster member identification.
Special Collection on ‘Civic Life of Cities’ Puts Civil Society Organizations in Their Place
A multi-place research project in six cities worldwide in the journal ‘Global Perspectives’ brings a new angle to a examination of the civic life of cities.
Using Video to Facilitate and Record Spatially-Led Interviews
In this first of a series of three blog posts, geographer Aled Singleton reflects on his research experience of taking the very naturalistic and low-tech concept of walking conversations and outdoor events into a digital form.
How We Talk About Entrepreneurship Inhibits Women’s Entrepreneurship
Society, the authors, find, suppresses women’s entrepreneurship just by the way it talks about entrepreneurs.
Funking Up the Domain: How Outliers Skew Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
We know that one outlier has the potential to influence the size and direction of effects, the significance of hypothesized relationships, and significantly alter the results of published works, but what happens when there are dozens of outliers in a sample?
Why Social Science? Because It Can Help Fight Stereotypes in the World of Science
in a ‘Why Social Science’ post from 2020, the new leader of the National Science Foundation’s director for social and behavioral science discusses an NSF program to get more research money to minority-serving institutions.
