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 […]
Cuts to Behavioral and Social Science Funding Threatened
Two pieces of upcoming legislation, the Frontiers in Research, Science, and Technology bill and American COMPETES, could include some unwelcome news for social and behavioral science if certain key legislators get their way.
Snooping Professor, Friendly Don? The Ethics of Learning Analytics
Where should we draw the line between normal data gathering about university students–with the intent of helping them, of course–and outright intrusiveness?
Gloria Steinem and Passing the Torch
What impact has the current wave of feminism’s figurehead really had and what will happen when she’s gone?
Golden Goose Awards: Honk If You Support Basic Research
It can be fun to poke at oddball research, but a U.S. award rewards researchers whose peculiar efforts pay off for society.
Measuring Impact Via Influence, Not Bank Balance
A new project from the British Academy sets down the calculator in the latest attempt to tot up the value of the social sciences and humanities.
Pluralism’s Ringmaster: Robert Dahl, 1915-2014
Robert Dahl, one of the founders of American political science and the theorist of pluralism, has died at age 98.
Floods, Politics and Science: The Case of the Somerset Levels
Feel-good interventions that don’t provide a practical good, or at least one not supported by evidence, generate questions that hinge specifically on future responses to climate change and more broadly on government decision-making in general.
Should the Safety Net Fly on Autopilot?
The safety net cushioned the U.S. economic fall remarkably well, suggest a panel of distinguished academics. Next recession it ought to deploy automatically, they add.
