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 […]
Awaiting Academic Success? When Frogs Fly
Critics of various bits of research often go to great lengths to make the studies seem silly, not serious. But ‘silly’ endeavors often result in serious societal gains — and maybe a boost for your career.
Divining the Future of College
Kevin Carey deftly explains how a series of historical contingencies combined to create the peculiar mash-up that is the contemporary research university, according to a new book by Kevin Carey.
Can Transparency Equal Trust in Science’s Crisis of Credibility?
Science is considered a source of truth and the importance of its role in shaping modern society cannot be overstated. But in […]
Stop Fighting Wikipedia and Co-Opt it
Although it’s been ruled off-limits by many academics, of sociology prof actually makes his students engage with Wikipedia — making the web safer for (looking up) social science in the process.
How Far Can Twitter Reach in Good Survey Research?
Several public health researchers are intrigued about the possibility of using Twitter for important surveys. Might what’s true forthem also work in the social sciences?
What a Half-Baked News Article Tells Us About Explaining Research
A flawed article about wearable watches in the New York Times offers a teachable moment for researchers about how they can — and perhaps must — do a better job at disseminating their own findings.
A Marketplace of Ideas? Yes. A Market? No
Research and teaching have never been free from external constraints and public universities have long been expected to justify the resources society devotes to them. But universities feel threatened and increasingly incapable of fulfilling their primary functions.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, Consider Research Ethics
Imagine an ethics review system where the researcher’s proposal is read by an ‘ethics jury’ of four to six researchers drawn, as in legal juries, from the academic population at large, suggests Australia’s Gigi Foster.
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