Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Social Scientists in the Time of COVID-19: The South African Experience
It is the role of the social sciences and the humanities, on the basis of evidence, to affirm where official policy is in the public interest, but also to point to where it is not.
SSRC Report Tackles COVID-Driven Growing Data Economy
In a time of crisis, it might seem like a necessity to share your data in the hopes it might help solve […]
Vaccine Passports, Governments, and Adult Movies
Immunity certification for adult movies developed in California during the late 1990s, after a serious outbreak of HIV among the performers. Robert Dingwall examines the model in light of calls for a coronavirus passport system for the vaccinated.
Janet Yellen: The Social Scientist in Charge at Treasury
Janet Yellen, appointed as the 78th secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in January, has a long history of work in and alongside the social sciences above and beyond her role as an academic economist and policy maker
Opinion: We Must Resist the Powerful Voices Arguing for Zero COVID
Do we treat the coronavirus as an ordinary risk of life, much as we do with the other 30 respiratory viruses that have infected humans throughout history? Or do we try to eliminate the virus from the UK altogether – the so-called Zero COVID approach?
Policing the Klan 50 Years Ago Has Lessons for Dismantling White Supremacist Groups Today
If history is a guide, notes sociologist David Cunningham, providing police with new tools to address current white nationalist threats could result in further repression of activists of color.
Watch the Webinar: Connecting Research to Policy at the Nexus of Health and Education
In this hourlong webinar produced for the Federation of Associations of in Behavioral and Brains Sciences, or FABBS, Zewelanji “Zewe” Serpell addresses […]
Consumption and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Staying at home has completely changed our buying behaviors. Consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated our technological advancement and reliance on […]
