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 […]
Research Assessment, Scientometrics, and Qualitative v. Quantitative Measures
The creation of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) has led to a heated debate on the balance between peer review and evaluative metrics in research assessment regimes. Luciana Balboa, Elizabeth Gadd, Eva Mendez, Janne Pölönen, Karen Stroobants, Erzsebet Toth Cithra and the CoARA Steering Board address these arguments and state CoARA’s commitment to finding ways in which peer review and bibliometrics can be used together responsibly.
Revisiting the ‘Research Parasite’ Debate in the Age of AI
The large language models, or LLMs, that underlie generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have an ethical challenge in how they parasitize freely available data.
Trippin’ Forward: Management Research and the Development of Psychedelics
Charlie Smith reflects on his interest in psychedelic research, the topic of his research article, “Psychedelics, Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Employees’ Wellbeing,” published in Journal of Management Inquiry.
Crafting the Best DEI Policies: Include Everyone and Include Evidence
Organizations shouldn’t back away from workplace DEI efforts. Rather, the research suggests, they should double down, using a more inclusive approach that emphasizes civility and dialogue – one aimed at finding common ground.
The Public’s Statistics Should Serve, Well, the Public
Paul Allin sets out why the UK’s Royal Statistical Society is launching a new campaign for public statistics.
Why, and How, We Must Contest ‘Development’
Why is contestation a better starting point for studying and researching development than ‘everyone wants the same thing’?
The Long Arm of Criminality
David Canter considers the daily reminders of details of our actions that have been caused by criminality.
Why Don’t Algorithms Agree With Each Other?
David Canter reviews his experience of filling in automated forms online for the same thing but getting very different answers, revealing the value systems built into these supposedly neutral processes.
