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 […]
Ithaka Report Asks How Universities Can Better Support Big Data Research
A new report on supporting the big data infrastructure needs of universities offers a variety of real-world recommendations for improving the research environment.
Has UK Sociology Marginalized Itself on Some of the Great Issues of Our Time?
Anything may be justified in the name of biosecurity, suggests an alarmed Robert Dingwall. This emotional manipulation spills into the wider worlds of politics, science and, indeed, sociology.
SSRC Launches $10 Million Project to Combat Health Misinformation
In the wake of the pandemic of suspect “facts” shared about COVID-19, social and behavioral scientists from around the world are encouraged […]
Event: Value of Science: Data, Products and Use
Join the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics and the Coleridge Initiative for a two-day conference to advance understanding of the […]
Would a Weary People Take a Virtual Course on the Pandemic? Yes, They Would
An anthropologist, a biologist and a historian at the University of Guelph jointly held a summer online course on all aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a hit
Why is Interdisciplinary Research on Race and Racism So Important?
Intersectional problems require interdisciplinary thinking. So when we think about race and racism, it might be worth asking – what are we not seeing by limiting ourselves to a single discipline?
NSF Seeks Social and Behavioral Proposals on Future of Work
The NSF asked researchers across the social, behavioral and economic sciences are encouraged to submit proposals to the Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research solicitation by March 23
What I Have Learned from Social Science
Ziyad Marar, Sage’s president of global publishing, reflects on how his career and his studies of psychology, linguistics and philosophy leave him thinking a social science imagination benefits us as individuals and improves society more generally, especially in times of upheaval and reconfiguration.
