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 […]
Political Theory Beyond the Text
Political theory is often presented as if it lives mainly in books. We imagine it in canonical texts, famous thinkers, and abstract […]
Anti-Universities, Archives and Abolitionism: Alternative Models to the University
The current crisis in higher education – marked by defunding, marketization, privatization, corporate governance, and the devaluation of the humanities – demands […]
Tom Gilovich On the Spotlight Effect
Tom Gilovich finds it fun to study the whys and wherefores of how human beings make sense of the information delivered by […]
The Visual Authority Trap
The challenge: Students tend to perceive attractive looking results as more trustworthy. This is the aesthetic bias, a behavioral phenomenon where humans […]
From ‘Which Database?’ to ‘Under What Conditions?’: Teaching Critical Thinking Through Search Tool Selection in an AI Age
A few years ago, if you asked students where they began their research, the answer was predictable: “Google” or “Google Scholar.” Today, […]
The 3E Cycle: Establish-Examine-Evolve as a Structured Model to Foster Critical Thinking
In university classroom, I once asked my undergraduate students if a particular policy decision had strengthened or weakened the national economy. Few […]
Whose Work Most Influenced You? Part 6: A Social Science Bites Retrospective
Every guest on the Social Science Bites podcast is queried about their area of expertise, and hence the questions tend to differ […]
Beyond Fact-Checking: Making Critical Thinking an Everyday Multimodal Habit
Students now encounter arguments mainly through digital feeds. These arguments are layered with music, editing, facial expressions, captions, filters, AI-generated imagery, and […]
