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 […]
September 17, 2021
AERA Lecture: The Inevitability of Racial Bias and Exclusion
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September 15, 2021
A Look at the Terminology Behind Hispanic Heritage Month
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Hispanic Heritage Month Resource Collection
National Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 through October 15, celebrates the “histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from […]
Decolonizing Your Subject Discipline: Where to Begin
There is no blueprint for the liberation of learning in your subject discipline. Instead, deconstructing the content and approaches that have been used over the generations is a deeply personal – and at the same time, collective process.
Surely We Can Get Past This Toxic Boomer v. Millennial Mythologizing
Generational thinking is a big idea that’s been horribly corrupted and devalued by endless myths and stereotypes.
DBASSE Director to Retire, Sparking Hunt for Replacement
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has begun the search for a new executive director for the National Research Council’s […]
Some Thoughts on Academic Internationalization in China
Within Communist academia, scholarship is managed top-down to a significant degree, for the benefit of part, state and society, and independent research operates in the nooks and crannies that remain. In this institutional environment, independent public speech carries a considerable risk, as does, to an extent, independent thought.
How Do America’s Teachers Teach 9/11 and its Aftermath?
The phrase “Never Forget” is often associated with the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. But what does this phrase mean for U.S. students who are too young to remember? What are they being asked to never forget?
Social and Behavioral Science Responds to 9/11: Some Readings
In the two decades since 9/11, social and behavioral science responded with a wealth of research on the motivations — and the aftermaths — of the terrorist attacks. The collection of free-to-read articles drawn from journals produced by SAGE Publishing (the parent of Social Science Space) during those intervening decades demonstrates the breadth of that research and the various ways that these acts of violence still resonate in lives and in scholarship around the globe.
Traditional Chinese Medicine and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Studies of medicine in China must not neglect Chinese medicine, writes medical sociologist Robert Dingwall..
