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 […]
Jonathan Haskel on Intangibles
The knowledge economy. Intellectual property. Software. Maybe even bitcoin. All pretty much intangible, and yet all clearly real and genuinely valuable. This is the realm where economist Jonathan Haskel of Imperial College London mints his own non-physical scholarship.
Political Scientists Explain Why Gun Legislation Always Stalls in US Congress
Political scientists Monika McDermott and David Jones help readers understand why further restrictions never pass, despite a majority of Americans supporting tighter gun control laws.
Watch a Social Scientist Reflect on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
“It’s very hard,” explains Sir Lawrence Freedman, “to motivate people when they’re going backwards.”
As a Black Sociologist and a Mom, What I’ve Learned Listening to Other Black Moms During Pandemic
Loren Henderson describes her work with BarBara Scott as part of a small body of descriptive research, mostly by researchers of color, countering negativity and victim-blaming in earlier studies of Black families.
Coming Out in eSports: The Price Paid by Soldier 76
Footballer Jake Daniels’ coming out leads us to ask – would other sports, like eSports, be more welcoming of a figure being gay?
Indigenous Societies and the True Value of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Recent studies have underscored that conservationists can learn a lot from traditional ecological knowledge about successful resource management.
The Boon and Bane of Blockchain
Successful blockchain managers have a thorough understanding of the network structures for which blockchains are used, choose the appropriate governance mode, and adapt it dynamically to changes in the network structure.
Comparing Priorities for Mental Health Research with Fostering Well-Being
Wouter van de Klippe, Alfredo Yegros, Tim Willemse and Ismael Rafols discuss their mixed methods research into prioritization in mental health research, using expert focus groups and bibliometric data to explore how perceptions of where the field should be heading, differ from current research priorities and how different countries have developed different research priorities in this area.
