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 […]
Will Artificial Intelligence Foster Plagiarism?
At the moment, little guidance, policy or oversight is available regarding technology, AI and academic integrity for teachers and educational leaders.
Academic Collaboration with China is Important. But What’s the Price?
Totalitarian rule and the governance strategies it entails have direct implications for academic internationalization at Chinese universities and for their collaboration with universities abroad.
Covid-19: How to Learn the Lessons of Policy Failure
The dust is settling on the UK House of Commons report, produced jointly by its Select Committees on health and on science […]
Going Around in Circles with Long COVID
Readers of Social Science Space may recall that Dr. Jeremy Devine suddenly became the best-know psychiatry resident North America when he published […]
Indigenous Anthropologists Call for Doing Land Acknowledgement Better
The Association of Indigenous Anthropologists requested that the American Anthropological Association officially pause land acknowledgments and the related practice of the welcoming ritual, in which Indigenous persons open conferences with prayers or blessings.
On Taking Long COVID Seriously
Examining how long COVID is viewed by some doctors as psychosomatic, Steven Lubet argues that condescension in the name of compassion is no way to build trust.
A Look at the Terminology Behind Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month, which the United States observes between September 15 and October 15, was created by a 1988 law after […]
Surely We Can Get Past This Toxic Boomer v. Millennial Mythologizing
Generational thinking is a big idea that’s been horribly corrupted and devalued by endless myths and stereotypes.
