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 […]
Virtual Event: Levelling Up – Principles and Practice
Levelling Up is a flagship policy of the current government of the United Kingdom. It is a powerful phrase, but one which […]
COVID-19, Masks and Magical Thinking
The state of the face mask debate is rather as if Galileo had published his account of the heliocentric universe and then included a paragraph at the end telling the reader to ignore all the evidence because the Church had declared that everything revolved around the Earth.
Covid-19: How to Learn the Lessons of Policy Failure
The dust is settling on the UK House of Commons report, produced jointly by its Select Committees on health and on science […]
Lori Patton Davis Sees 1954 ‘Brown’ Decision as But a Booster, Not the Vaccine
In a lecture on the 67th anniversary of the Brown decision , Lori Patton Davis argued that while there are small victories to celebrate on an arduous mountain climb, but don’t mistake those small crests as the equivalent to reaching the peak.
NAS Outlines Successes of Societal Experts Action Network
SEAN, the Societal Experts Action Network, taps scientists in the social, behavioral and economic sciences to provide actionable and evidence-based recommendations to support local, state, and national responses and policies quickly.
2021 Nobels in Economics a Victory in the Credibility Revolution
The Nobel committee’s decision to award its economics prize for 2021 to David Card, Josh Angrist and Guido Imbens marks the culmination […]
NAS Creates Council to Address Research Integrity and Trust
A new blue-ribbon council convened by the United States’ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine aims to tackle questions about nettlesome issues like conflict of interest, measuring impact and handling retractions.
Two Social Scientists Named to U.S. President’s Science Council
Thirty new members, including two social scientists, have been named to the science advisory body that is officially tasked with giving counsel […]
