Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
A young researcher offers her take on the peer review after attending a Sense About Science session on the subject.
For more than a decade a group of intellectual freedom fighters survived at Egyptian universities only to see their movement falter just when political freedoms expanded
Sense About Science have launched the new edition of their public guide ‘Making Sense of Chemical Stories’ this week, debunking chemical myths and […]
Liliana Bounegru looks at how media scholars have leveraged digital data and algorithmic accountability. In times of shrinking news budgets and staff cuts journalists can turn to such readily available sources of data as a way to understand public engagement with major issues.
Scholarly knowledge is under threat, and that’s both good and dire, argued panelists at a recent discussion in Vienna.
Might adding some working political scientists into legacy media outlets help curb the use of misleading headlines and made-up trend stories in scoop-hungry news coverage?
Scholars are increasingly expected to consider the wider public, but with little to negative promotion incentive. Christopher Meyers finds much of what academics do does not fit into the standard boxes of teaching, scholarship and service. Is it time to replace these categories with a single holistic and qualitative standard?
Sense About Science has teamed up with NHS Choices Behind the Headlines to help people better understand the science behind health claims […]