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 […]
Heidi Larson on Vaccine Skepticism
As the toll from the COVID-19 pandemic increased, polling suggests counter-intuitively that resistance to a future vaccine has also risen. Anthropologist Heidi J. Larson identified several likely drivers of this, including scientists themselves.
Content Analysis Illustrates What Congress Wants from the NSF Today
What does Congress want from the National Science Foundation? This content analysis study conducted by Alison Beatty, Arthur Lupia and Stuart Soroka discusses the general trends and focuses on the NSF by Congress based on remarks made between 1995 to 2018.
Coronavirus UK – Patrician Policymaking
The management of the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the hollowness of that alternative in policies that have been made by people with very narrow life experiences and imposed on others with whom there is, as Disraeli once said, ‘no intercourse and no sympathy’.
Coronavirus UK – Is COVID-19 a Disease?
Having locked ourselves into a particular way of thinking and acting in relation to COVID-19, argues Robert Dingwall, it is very difficult for this to be questioned – but it must not go unchallenged if we are to balance the moral goals of medicine with the other moral goals that make up a good society.
Kamala Harris’ Ambition: Free Chapter from ‘Why Don’t Women Rule the World?’
A free chapter from ‘Why Don’t Women Rule the World? Understanding Women’s Civic and Political Choices’ explores political ambition among women – a key talking point since the selection of Kamala Harris as a vice presidential candidate.
Coronavirus UK – A Nasty Infection But Let’s Have a Sense of Proportion
Of course the government should have a Plan B for a second wave. But this might also be a moment to ask where pandemic management is taking us.
The Road to Police Reform Runs Through Their Insurers
Rashawn Ray’s research suggests that political stalemates over law enforcement accountability could be resolved by shifting civilian payouts for police misconduct away from taxpayer money to police department liability insurance policies.
Minerva Initiative Seems Likely to Avoid Untimely Death
In early February, the proposed U.S. government budget for the 2021 fiscal year featured sizable funding cuts to many federally funded social […]
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