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 […]
American Community Survey Back in the Frying Pan
Once again the American Community Survey — beloved of social scientists and the despair of many conservatives — is in the crosshairs.
Social Science in the News
Social science is vital too The Guardian Social Science has to be embedded in any strategy for science and innovation worth […]
Tomorrow’s Britain Needs Social Science Today, Report Argues
The Campaign for Social Science is asking the British government-to-be for a greater recognition of social science, arguing that the nation’s future prosperity will depend on it.
Ebola – WHO (Still) Don’t Get It: Social Science Saves Lives
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa reminds us of a key lesson in public health, notes Robert Dingwall: Biomedical solutions will always come late, while social science-based interventions can break the cycle much sooner.
The Digital Scholar: Reference Rot and Link Decorations
You have written a paper and linked to your literature and resources. All is good, except that many of those links that are tied to permanent identifiers may fade away over time — a significant problem for scholarly purposes. Martin Klein and Herbert Van de Sompel explore ways to mitigate this problem through more systematic web archiving practices and link decoration techniques.
SAGE’s Ziyad Marar Named to Campaign for Social Science
The Campaign for Social Science, Britain’s pre-eminent champion for promoting the social sciences before the government and the public, has named Ziyad […]
Rebecca Blank Receives 2015 Moynihan Prize
A former acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and the current chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive this year’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize from the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
The Author of Risk Society: Ulrich Beck, 1944-2015
The German sociologist and public intellectual who posited that manufactured risk was a primary product of modernity died on New Year’s Day at age 70
