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 […]
Trick or Treat: It’s a Behavioral Scientist at the Door!
While Halloween is always an exciting time for candy manufacturers, costume sellers and youngsters who are often allowed a small binge in candy consumption, a different group of people also lick their lips in anticipation — behavioral scientists.
Peer Review: The ‘Least Worst’ Barrier to Bad Science
Having worked in academia for the past 30 years and currently serving as vice president of the Academy of Science of South Africa, Brenda Wingfield says she believes peer review and the publication process is perhaps more important than ever in this era of ‘fake news’ – and not just for scientists and academics.
Limiting Campus Free Expression is Intolerance, Too
The response on many universities to a high tide of intolerance has been to limit free speech. That, says James Turk, is exactly the wrong response.
Does Australia’s Nudge Unit Need Its Own Nudge?
Evidence shows that the Australian government’s ‘nudge unit’ may be the wrong way to address major problems like inequality, argue Andrew Frain and Randal Tame.
Has Social Science Made DARE Actually Work?
The US attorney general has been mocked for wanting to bring back a discredited drug-prevention program from the Reagan era. But have evidence-based researchers created a modern-day version that might actually perform as promised?
Addressing Reproducibility in Archaeology: Our Three-Pronged Approach
Replication and reproducibility have been big issues in medicine and psychology and economics, but les talked about in fields like archaeology. Here, Ben Marwick and Zenobia Jacobs discuss their latest paper’s reproducibility strategy and its tactics during fieldwork, labwork and data analysis.
Would Legislation Make Campus Free Speech Less Free?
Around the United States, state lawmakers have been talking about – and legislating – ways intended to protect free speech on college campuses. Bt some of the approaches may do more harm than good, argues Neal Hutchens.
Intolerance Threatens Free Inquiry in India’s Universities
The only way out of the current state of tension for Indian universities, argues political scientists Aftab Alam, is for the institutions to learn to tolerate everything except intolerance.
