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 […]
September 28, 2022
Report Proposes Post-Bacc Programs to Increase Diversity in Academia
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The International Sociological Association Should Be Ashamed of Its President
ISA may not have any great love for the richer countries of the world, argues Robert Dingwall, but its president should be capable of telling the difference between mutual aid among sovereign nations and a desire to subject other countries to external domination.
Scientific Collaboration Across Borders Just Gets Harder
The development of scientific capacity in many parts of the world and the building of academic ties is critical when it comes to responding to a new virus or tracking changes in climate. And yet …
Special Collection on ‘Civic Life of Cities’ Puts Civil Society Organizations in Their Place
A multi-place research project in six cities worldwide in the journal ‘Global Perspectives’ brings a new angle to a examination of the civic life of cities.
Gurminder Bhambra on Three Challenges for Reparatory Social Science
Reflecting on work uncovering the colonial genealogies of foundational works in the social sciences, Gurminder K Bhambra argues for a reparatory social science and highlights three challenges that any reparatory project must face in order to be successful.
Open Letter: Action Steps for Rebuilding Ukraine’s Science, Research, and Innovation
The national science academies of the United States, the all-European academy and those of four separate European countries released, with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a short statement on rebuilding “a modern and globally integrated science and research system” in Ukraine.
‘Knowing Through Crime’: How We Define Gun Harm Shapes How We Research It
Scientific evidence, write Jennifer Carlson and Rina James. is shaped by the broader political and cultural contexts in which gun policy is debated.
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.”
