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 […]
The ‘Edutainer’ of Data: Hans Rosling, 1948-2017
Hans Rosling, a epidemiologist whose gained global attention with twin messages of the power of stats and of hope, has died.
Economic Forecast: This Year’s Model May Disappoint
The value in economics lies not in some magical ability to divine the future. Tell that to the policymakers who expect their fortunes told.
Common Rule Reform – A Botched Job
The rush to publish a revised Common Rule for federally funded human research in the United States has created a flawed regulatory regime, says Robert Dingwall., Time to tear the whole edifice down and start over, he suggests.
The Voice of Results Night: Anthony King, 1934-2017
Anthony King, a political scientist whose career ranged from the most serious of scholarship to popular explanation on the BBC, has died at 82.
Sociology’s (Selective) Diversity
Our Robert Dingwall reflects on Tinder’s in-house sociologist and on the just-announced New Year’s Honours list to question just how diverse are current understandings of diversity.
Rapeglish: A Program that Spits Out Hate — For the Greater Good
A new computer program from the author of ‘Misogyny Online’ slices up and shuffles around an archive of sexualized vitriol, rape threats, and aggressive sleaze received by real-life women and presents its own version of what is called Rapeglish.
AAPSS Names 2017 Fellows
A sociologist who has helped understand the complex issues of race in the United States, a political scientist who heads the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a psychologist whose work explains how we as human respond to threat are among the new class of fellows for the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
The People and the State
The win for Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election raises many questions about democracy and the ways in which populist movements […]
