Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Science’s Communication Problem
Scientists can be brilliant communicators. We are trained to work with collaborations large and small, present our work in journal articles and conferences with clarity and purpose, and generally enjoy chatting with each other. Communication is a fundamental part of scientific life. Yet when scientists try to engage the public, they face barriers to getting their message across and can often find their messages manipulated.
Interview Describes Biases That Manifest In Artificial Intelligence Systems
Meredith Broussard, one of the few Black women doing research in artificial intelligence, would like to see us tackling the problems that have been shown to be prevalent in today’s AI systems, especially the issue of bias based on race, gender, or ability.
Culturally Adapting Therapy May Provide Insights, But Further Research Needed
How should therapists adapt their approaches for people of different cultures, including for racial and ethnic minority groups?
What Ethnographers Have Learned from People Who Use Drugs
Can ethnography, long characterized as a lower tier of evidence in studying drug use, find things other approaches miss?
Zeynep Pamuk and the Case for Creating Science Courts
In her new book, “Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society,” Zeynep Pamuk outlines new directions that she believes the relationship between science and politics might take, rooted in the understanding that scientific knowledge is tentative and uncertain.
Case Re-opened: Social Scientists and the Continuing Debate Over Loss Aversion
In recent years, many behavioral scientists have begun to question whether loss aversion is quite so ironclad a principle of the human mind
To Study Zika, They Offered Their Kids. Then They Were Forgotten
“We feel diminished,” says Alessandra Hora dos Santos. “It’s like we were lab rats. They come in nicely, collect information, collect exams on the child, and in the end we don’t know of any results. It’s like we are being used without even knowing why that is being done.”
Should We Be Concerned that Data Journalists Are Doing Science Now?
Gone are the days when science journalism was like sports journalism, where the action was watched from the press box and simply conveyed. News outlets have stepped onto the field. They are doing the science themselves.
