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 […]
Who Takes Humanities Courses? A Lot of Social Scientists
Parsing federal education statistics, it turns out that prospective social scientists are the most avid consumers of humanities courses as undergrads (not counting humanities majors themselves, that is).
Publiscize: Instant Outreach in the First Person
Very, very little science makes its way to the public eye, and an even smaller amount of that makes an impact. Entrepreneurial scientist Robert Seigel is offering a way around the gatekeepers of knowledge.
Statistics’ Crisis of Reproducibility
After Big Data, one of the most controversial topics in statistics workshop is the problem of reproducibility in scientific research.
Big Data: No Free Lunch for Protecting Privacy
In the first of a series of excerpts from a just released report summarizing 2013’s International Year of Statistics’ London conference, we look at one of the down sides of Big Data.
The ‘Big Tent’ of Population Studies
The Population Association of America has joined the family of Social Science Space partners this summer, and to mark that we spoke with the president of the PAA, Johns Hopkins economist Robert Moffitt.
Hoopla Aside, Turing’s Test Remains Unbeaten
The latest attempt to show a machine can pass itself off as human relied a little too heavily on letter of Turing’s test and not its spirit.
Social and Natural Science: Has the Square Been Circled?
A natural scientist reflects on a conference that focused on bringing natural and social scientists into a a shared, and continuing, conversation.
Humanities and the Liberal University: Calls to Action
Beyond the funding fears experienced by the social science, the humanities have those kinds of worries and their cyclic existential crisis.
