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 […]
Less Academic Freedom Will Mean Fewer Collaborative Breakthroughs
Since President Donald Trump took office for the second time, many researchers across academic disciplines have had their funding cut because of […]
AI Gaming of Some Online Courses Threatens Their Credibility
Distance learning far precedes the digital age. Before online courses, people relied on print materials (and later radio and other technologies) to […]
The World of Criminal Psychologists Expands to Include Crimes Against Planet Earth
After years of trying to understand the minds of people who hurt others, I have recently turned my attention as a criminal […]
Has Bad Science Become Big Busines
Researchers are dealing with a disturbing trend that threatens the foundation of scientific progress: scientific fraud has become an industry. And it’s […]
It’s Silly to Expect AI Will Be Shorn of Human Bias
In July, the United States government made it clear that artificial intelligence (AI) companies wanting to do business with the White House […]
What You Can Do As Data U.S. Taxpayers Paid For and Use Disappears
People rely on data from federal agencies every day – often without realizing it. Rural residents use groundwater level data from the […]
A Psychologist Explains Replication (and Why It’s Not the Same as Reproducibility)
Back in high school chemistry, I remember waiting with my bench partner for crystals to form on our stick in the cup […]
A Look at How Large Language Models Transform Research
Generative AI, especially large language models (LLMs), present exciting and unprecedented opportunities and complex challenges for academic research and scholarship. As the […]
