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 […]
How to Read and Understand a Scientific Paper
From vaccinations to climate change, getting science wrong has very real consequences. But journal articles, a primary way science is communicated in […]
Academy of Social Sciences Names 73 New Fellows for 2020
The Academy of Social Sciences, Britain’s national academy of academics, learned societies and practitioners in the social sciences, has named 73 new Fellows for 2020.
Should Doctors Be in Charge of Pandemic Policy?
or 30 years, social scientists have been trying to educate scientific elites in the value of taking ordinary people with them rather than dismissing skepticism about science-based actions. This work has just gone out the window, argues Robert Dingwall.
Advancing Research Impact in Society: Broader Impacts 101
Would you like a deeper understanding of NSF’s Broader Impacts (BI) criterion? Would you like tips and strategies for addressing the BI […]
Scientists’ Data is Here to Make an Impact
The big idea Scientists don’t take time away from their research to share their expertise with journalists, policymakers and everyone else just […]
Confidentiality and Data Access: Webinar Series
The Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology and Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics are hosting an eight-session webinar series on confidentiality […]
Diversity Training and the Future
Picture a standard corporate meeting room, participants crowded around a video of multi-racial actors acting out hypothetical office scenarios. They fill out […]
In Response to ‘COVID-19 Forces Universities to Refocus their Vision’
From the budding sense of a tight-knit community of fellow students and faculty, to radio silence, for a lot of students the rapid coronavirus-driven shift to a digital university experience doesn’t feel like enough. I am one of those students — a current graduate student who recently moved back home to America to finish up the last year of a dual-degree program.
