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 […]
Is UK academic social science following a work model others already discarding?
Article by LSE Economist, Danny Quah Mark Thoma‘s thoughtful article “New Forms of Communication and the Public Mission of Economics: Overcoming the […]
Social Science in an Emergency: An Interview with Andrew Miller MP
In 2011 the Science and Technology Select Committee published the report Scientific advice and evidence in emergencies, examining the role of science […]
“Twitterology: a new science?”
Ben Zimmer writes in the New York Times about Twitter’s appeal to social scientists who are looking for real-time language data and […]
The new language of sociology: what does ‘excellence’ mean?
British sociology is relentlessly marching towards excellence. A leading sociology department prides itself in its “international reputation for excellence”, one of the country’s most distinguished journals highlights its “commitment to excellence”
‘Happiness, philosophy and science’
Gary Gutting explores the science of happiness in a blog-post for the New York Times, and looks at the data on correlations […]
Psychology of Women Quarterly celebrates its 35th Anniversary
In celebration, of its 35th anniversary, Psychology of Women Quarterly has published three podcasts, which address Feminist Methods, Training, Tenure, and Research, […]
Understanding the Pursuit of Happiness in Ten Major Cities
Kevin M. Leyden, Abraham Goldberg and Philip Michelbach published “Understanding the Pursuit of Happiness in Ten Major Cities” online before print in […]
David Brooks on “The Unexamined Society”
In a recent Opinion piece for the New York Times, columnist David Brooks argued for the value of behavioral studies and critiqued […]
