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 […]
Trying to Lock Down Until COVID is Eradicated Would Be Dangerous Folly
It is possible that we could abolish death by COVID, argues Robert Dingwall, by continuing the restrictions of 2020 indefinitely – the problem, of course, is that we would simply die from something else.
After the US Capitol Attack, Wondering How the 25th Amendment Works?
A day after President Donald Trump incited supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol, Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer called on Vice President Mike Pence […]
Gift Giving, Gift Returning – The Unexpected Emotions Behind Receiving an Unwanted Gift
Is it possible that the experience of receiving gifts we do not like can take a toll on our mental well-being? Is […]
Why Does Social Science Not Bite?
David Canter considers why the social sciences failed to influence behavior in order to stop the spread of COVID-19. The virologists had been preparing for a new virus for some years, so were already ahead of the game when they had to start creating a new vaccine. What preparations had social psychologists, sociologists or anthropologists for the inevitable emergence of a new pandemic?
Online Christmas Shopping and Gift Giving as a Form of Retail Therapy?
The coronavirus Christmas of 2020 could turn into a bumper year for giving gifts. Our relationship with spending and the festive cheer […]
Watch the Lecture: Social Science and the Post-Truth Pandemic
In an engaging and highly topical presentation viewable below, Trish Greenhalgh, professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Fellow of Green Templeton […]
Restructuring Interrelated School Systems: Reflections on ‘Reimagining Schools’
COVID-19 has illuminated an array of pre-existing inequalities in American society today. “Reimagining Schools” is the first talk in the series “Reimagining […]
To Better Serve Students and Future Workforces, We Must Diversify the Syllabi
Ellen Hutti and Jenine Harris have quantified the extent to which female authors are represented in assigned course readings. In this blog post, they emphasize that more equal exposure to experts with whom they can identify will better serve our students and foster the growth, diversity and potential of this future workforce. They also present one repository currently being built for readings by underrepresented authors that are Black, Indigenous or people of color.
