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 […]
‘Are We There Yet?’ Jane Hall Looks at Women in American Political Ecosystem
The 2020 elections marked a turning point for women in U.S. politics and the media. So “are we there yet?” Ehh, not yet.
Marian Wright Edelman to Receive 2022 Moyhnihan Prize
Children’s rights activist Marian Wright Edelman, the founder or the Children’s Defense Fund and its leader for four decades, will receive the 2022 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize from the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Traditional Chinese Medicine and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Studies of medicine in China must not neglect Chinese medicine, writes medical sociologist Robert Dingwall..
Is the Sunk Cost Fallacy ‘First Doing Harm’ in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
In the United States, government health agencies consider chronic fatigue syndrome as “a serious, chronic, complex, and multisystem disease,” rather than a psychological condition. That view is is not held everywhere.
COVID Science and Politics – the Case of Face Masks
A troubling turn in the public policy management of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the increasing tendency to justify interventions by assertions […]
Florence Nightingale at Home (with COVID-19)
A conspicuous feature of the pandemic has been the idealization of the home as a place of safety and refuge.
Watching China Watching Its Students Overseas
Where ideological issues such as Hong Kong and Taiwan are concerned, Australian lecturers tell of how a vocal minority of international Chinese students are attempting to police teaching materials and class discussions.
COVID Variants – Time to Stop Jumping at Shadows
When variant forms of COVID appear, argues Robert Dingwall, we must, then, learn not to jump at shadows. No-one can ever say there will never be a risk – but everyday life is full of much more common risks that we tolerate because of the benefits that they deliver.
