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 […]
If You Like President Trump, You Probably Won’t Wear a Mask
We found that not only did approval/liking of President Trump strongly, and positively, predict Americans’ approval of his handling of the pandemic, but it also had significant, negative effects on personal protection behaviors.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Pop Psychology
More than 50 years ago, George Miller, president of the American Psychological Association, urged his colleagues “to give psychology away.” No, cynical […]
SSRC Names Anna Harvey as Next President
Anna Harvey, founding director of the Public Safety Lab at New York University, has been named the 15th president of the New York-based Social Science Research Council.
Impact Looks Different Across Disciplines So Let’s Acknowledge That
Drawing on a linguistic analysis of REF Impact statements from 2014, Andrea Bonaccorsi, highlights key differences between statements being made by scholars in STEM and SSH disciplines and suggests differences in the causality of impact between the disciplines warrant a reconsideration of how these statements are produced and judged.
Parsing Fact and Perception in Ethnography
Fact and perception are simply different categories, neither of which is necessarily more important than the other, argues Steve Lubet. . The challenge for ethnographers lies in making clear and careful distinctions between what they have actually seen and what they have only heard about.
Event: APDU Workshop Series: Making the Best of the 2020 Census
Join the APDU for a free virtual workshop series that includes town halls (April 14-May12), trainings (June 16, August 18 and September […]
It Is Not a Joke: Racist Humor Normalizes Anti-Asian Racism and Must Stop
For decades, American society has normalized the presence of anti-Asian humor. Caricatured on television, belittled at comedy clubs, targeted on social media, and mocked in private conversations, this subtle, yet widely accepted form of racism dehumanizes the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.
The Pandemic Has Been a Proving Ground for Preprints
New research suggests that the pandemic has resulted in scientists increasingly using preprints to release findings, and that these papers are read more frequently.
