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 […]
A Further Response on the Application of Academic Freedom
In an essay last month on Social Science Space, I pointed out the hypocrisy of activists who demand maximum academic freedom for […]
Deborah Lupton Looks at Why More People Don’t Exit Facebook
Given the issues that swirling around Facebook – and here’s a handy list of 16 of them – you might wonder why […]
A Response to ‘When Academic Freedom Proves a One-Way Street’
Professor Dan A. Segal responds to criticisms in an earlier Social Science Space article and argues that his stance on the BDS movement is consistent with academic freedom.
‘Scholars of Democracy’ Sign Statement to Support U.S. Voting Legislation
A collection of prominent American-based “scholars of democracy” – the majority of them political scientists – have signed a statement in support of the Freedom to Vote Act.
Case Re-opened: Social Scientists and the Continuing Debate Over Loss Aversion
In recent years, many behavioral scientists have begun to question whether loss aversion is quite so ironclad a principle of the human mind
Work from Female Researchers Is Less Cited. But It’s Read More. Why?
The gender gap in citations between male and female researchers is well documented. Lin Zhang and Gunnar Sivertsen find that while papers authored by female researchers are less cited, they are more frequently engaged with by readers.
When Academic Freedom Proves a One-Way Street
How sweeping should academic freedom be? Should someone who fought their own battle to preserve put conditions on what they would offer to others?
Repression, Surveillance, and Censorship in Chinese Academia
The question how to approach international academic cooperation with totalitarian China therefore leads to no easy answers. It nonetheless merits much greater attention than it has received so far.
