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What Does Social Science Predict for the Powerball Winner?
News
January 13, 2016

What Does Social Science Predict for the Powerball Winner?

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Business Journals Say They Will Publish ‘Null’ Results
Communication
January 12, 2016

Business Journals Say They Will Publish ‘Null’ Results

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Universities in War Zones Can Recover From Their Wounds
News
December 31, 2015

Universities in War Zones Can Recover From Their Wounds

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Computers Broke It. Computers Can Fix It
News
December 28, 2015

Computers Broke It. Computers Can Fix It

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All Eggs in a Few Baskets Doesn’t Work for Universities, Either

All Eggs in a Few Baskets Doesn’t Work for Universities, Either

The Russell Group argues that research funding should be concentrated in the most elite institutions, Two sociologists who have studied how Asian universities have fared in global rankings argue just the opposite.

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Why Is It Again that the US Doesn’t Study Gun Violence?

Why Is It Again that the US Doesn’t Study Gun Violence?

The dean of Boston University’s School of Public Health argues that the relatively limited data the United States’ has available about firearms and firearm violence prevents any serious policy prescriptions from arising. A law that prevents the CDC from funding research that might support gun control has scared all federal funders from touching the issue.

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‘Turgid’ Is NOT a Compliment

‘Turgid’ Is NOT a Compliment

Academics need to enter the discussion that the rest of the world engages in every day, argue Jonathan Wai and David Miller. That requires them to write in a more conversational way, they write in an article first published at, umm, The Conversation.

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Showing Institutions Matter: Douglass North, 1920-2015

Showing Institutions Matter: Douglass North, 1920-2015

Douglass C. North’s contributions to economic theory have had an enormous influence on how scholars understand institutions and the process of economic change.

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The Value Added by Universities Exceeds Their Constituent Services

The Value Added by Universities Exceeds Their Constituent Services

Academics do not simply teach and do research: they are teacher-researchers, notes Steve Fuller. In reviewing the UK spending review, he says, it is the value added to society by nurturing this complex role that should be at the forefront of the state’s thinking about the criteria used to fund universities.

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Will the UK Government Listen to Nurse Review?

Will the UK Government Listen to Nurse Review?

Scientists in the UK are facing great uncertainty ahead of the Conservative government’s comprehensive spending review on November 25. Not only is funding for UK research under threat, the government is believed to be planning on culling many of the agencies that fund research in an effort to make savings.

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Welcoming the American ‘Nudge Unit’

Welcoming the American ‘Nudge Unit’

The White House’s Social and Behavioral Sciences Team has done an impressive job so far in using small, inexpensive changes to make federal policies better serve citizens.

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There’s Life Beyond STEM: A Plea from Australia

There’s Life Beyond STEM: A Plea from Australia

Academia has long recognized that wicked problems require cross-disciplinary research approaches, yet Australia’s Science and Research Priorities enthrall mainly STEM researchers. This divide puts academia back into silos: those on the sunny side of funding decisions and those under a constant rain cloud.

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