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 […]
Children and the Legacy of COVID Policies
Another day, another report revealing the damage from COVID policies to children and their development. A BBC study has found a 10 […]
Will Hutton on the State of Social Science
Political economist and journalist Will Hutton, author of the influential 1995 book The State We’re In, offers a state-of-the-field report on the social sciences in this Social Science Bites podcast.
Masks and COVID: The Mystery of the Missing RCTs
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have historically been regarded as the gold standard for evaluating medical interventions. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) developed during the […]
Shirley Malcom To Discuss DBASSE at Henry and Bryna David Lecture
Shirley Malcom, senior adviser to the CEO and director of the SEA Change initiative at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, will deliver this year’s David Lecture.
Our Study Finds Women Are Better at Statistics Than They Think
Women in statistics classes do better academically than men over a semester despite having more negative attitudes regarding their own abilities, according to our recent study.
Thinking About Thinking: The Nexus of Neuroscience, Psychology and AI Research
The authors have identified a convergence among architectures, reflecting a combination of neural, behavioral and computational studies and so have begun a communitywide effort to capture this convergence.
Scientific Collaboration Across Borders Just Gets Harder
The development of scientific capacity in many parts of the world and the building of academic ties is critical when it comes to responding to a new virus or tracking changes in climate. And yet …
King Canute and the Cult of Zero Infection
The humility of King Canute in the face of nature is worth recalling as a check on the enthusiasm for zero-infection. It is a fine-sounding slogan but do we really want to live in a society where everything else is sacrificed to this goal?
