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 […]
Daniel Yon on the Brain as Scientist
The human brain works very hard behind the scenes even in the most mundane aspects of daily life, like enjoying a nice […]
Who Do You Trust More: Your Colleagues or Your AI?
Artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold in the modern workplace. It is being used for everything from helping employees manage schedules to […]
What Does It Mean Now That AI Is Creating Academic Papers?
Until recently, AI’s role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarize a paper, clean up a dataset or […]
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, […]
