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 […]
White House Stands up ARPA-H, Names Anthropologist Adam Russell to Lead Launch
The United States has formally established the Advanced Research Project Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, as an independent entity within the National Institutes of Health. Anthropologist Adam H. Russell will head the new agency as acting deputy director
Pandemic Management – The Path Not Taken
New data from the WHO show that during the pandemic’s first two years, Sweden had half the excess death rate of the UK, Germany or Spain – and a quarter of the excess death rate of many countries in Eastern Europe.
Biden White House Resurrects Social and Behavioral Science Advisory Panel
The White House announced last week that the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s National Science and Technology Council will re-commission the Social and Behavioral Sciences Subcommittee of the Committee on Science.
Spring in DC Not Really Cherry Blossom Season; It’s Budget Season
What does this year’s U.S. Executive Branch budget suggest for key agencies that provide social and behavioral science funding?
Not Rewriting the History of the Pandemic
As we pass two years from the beginnings of the pandemic, many commentators are scrambling to distance themselves from their initial responses, […]
NSF Adding New Technology Directorate (But Not New Funding)
The U.S. National Science Foundation last week announced it would create a new directorate focused on Technology, Innovation and Partnerships.
Making Sense of What We Hear About Ukraine: An Interview with Dr Daniela Dimitrova
What should those outside the conflict zone keep in mind as they consume news about the Russia-Ukraine war? Journalism Professor Daniela Dimitrova offers some answers.
Index Finds Little Global Progress on Gender-Based Development Goals
An effort to measure how well equality across genders is progressing around the world, using a tool developed around United Nations-developed goals, has detected “little progress” in the last half decade.
