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 […]
The non-profit Social Science Research Council is offering a lifeline to economists whose existing grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation were […]
As part of the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Aalborg University together with the European Commission and international […]
This week Berend van der Kolk published a call to ban university rankings. He concludes: ”So, let’s have (inter)national and/or local discussions […]
People rely on data from federal agencies every day – often without realizing it. Rural residents use groundwater level data from the […]
David Canter proposes that what makes us different from a computer is being here. The fascinating Chinese sports showcase of humanoid robots […]
It’s that time of the year again. Some 50 percent of your academic LinkedIn connections share they are “happy” or even “thrilled” […]
Back in high school chemistry, I remember waiting with my bench partner for crystals to form on our stick in the cup […]
For those who think “eugenics” mostly represents just a nasty page in history, sociologist R Sánchez-Rivera, has some sobering news. What was […]