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 […]
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.
Social Science ‘Spinouts,’ An Underappreciated Pathway to Impact?
One means of fixing and making ideas tangible, often scorned and neglected in the social sciences, but widely used in STEM, are spinouts. For universities, a spinout is a company formed on the basis of intellectual property from a university or research institute.
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 […]
How Can Wise Graphics Use Cut Through the Complexity of COVID-19?
Editor’s Note: If you’re curious about the ways in which data visualization and graph use can generate impact with regard to the […]
People Do Not Understand Logarithmic Graphs Used to Visualize COVID-19
Editor’s Note: If you’re curious about the ways in which data visualization and graph use can generate impact with regard to the […]
Anthropology Webinars Explore Fieldwork, Public Health, & Coronavirus
In light of the global coronavirus pandemic, anthropologists around the world have been preparing to utilize knowledge gained from past pandemics to […]
COVID-19 UK: How Do Pandemics Come to an End?
In the midst of the present chaos, it is easy to forget that the world has had pandemics before and that they have come to an end. Can we learn anything from these experiences that might help us in dealing with COVID-19?
Police Officers Accused of Brutal Violence Often Have Extensive History of Citizen Complaints
As protests against police violence and racism continue in cities throughout the U.S., the public is learning that several of the officers […]
