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 […]
Alondra Nelson Named to U.S. National Science Board
Sociologist Alondra Nelson, who until last year was deputy (and at times acting) director of the White House Office of Science and […]
Lee Miller: Ethics, photography and ethnography
Kate Winslet’s biopic of Lee Miller, the pioneering woman war photographer, raises some interesting questions about the ethics of fieldwork and their […]
‘Settler Colonialism’ and the Promised Land
The term ‘settler colonialism’ was coined by an Australian historian in the 1960s to describe the occupation of a territory with a […]
Artificial Intelligence and the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Intelligence would generally be reckoned as the province of the social and behavioral sciences, so why is artificial intelligence so often relegated […]
Pandemic Nemesis: Illich reconsidered
An unexpected element of post-pandemic reflections has been the revival of interest in the work of Ivan Illich, a significant public intellectual […]
How ‘Dad Jokes’ Help Children Learn How To Handle Embarrassment
Yes, dad jokes can be fun. They play an important role in how we interact with our kids. But dad jokes may also help prepare them to handle embarrassment later in life.
Biden Administration Releases ‘Blueprint’ For Using Social and Behavioral Science in Policy
U.S. President Joseph Biden’s administration has laid down a marker buttressing the use of social and behavioral science in crafting policies for the federal government by releasing a 102-page Blueprint for the Use of Social and Behavioral Science to Advance Evidence-Based Policymaking.
Survey Suggests University Researchers Feel Powerless to Take Climate Change Action
To feel able to contribute to climate action, researchers say they need to know what actions to take, how their institutions will support them and space in their workloads to do it.
