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 […]
Event: The Future of Open Science: The Need to Change Culture to Change Science
Join the American Psychological Association for a free webinar on April 26, 2021. Improvements in the openness, rigor, and reproducibility of psychological […]
Where Social Discrimination Is the Name of the Game
An elegant experiment mapped social discrimination -based on how foreign someone’s name sounds in a given country – among European amateur football teams.
‘Future Proof’ Universities Must Have Visible Strategies for the Disruption Upon Us
Research from Loren Falkenberg and Elizabeth Cannon shows universities must “future proof” themselves, which happens when an institutional strategy is focused on the future while mitigating the impact of unforeseen events.
Showing How UKRI Foreign Aid Cuts Threaten Impact on the Ground
In light of cuts to UKRI’s research funding and Overseas Development Assistance program, Nicky Armstrong and Evelyn Pauls argue that these developments reflect a narrow conception of the impact of academic research on society and describe how these cuts will affect the work of the Gender, Justice and Security Hub.
Biden Taps AmStat President to Head Census Bureau
U.S. President Joe Biden announced that he would nominate Robert Santos, president of the American Statistical Association, as director of the Census Bureau.
Finding Fault with Faux Facts
No matter how exquisite the details, it is important to separate fact from folklore – which should not require cross examination.
Returning Absentee Ballots during the 2020 Election – A Surprise Ending?
One of the most heavily contested voting-policy issues in the 2020 election, in both the courts and the political arena, was the deadline […]
Can We Encourage Public Self-Correction in the Scientific Record?
Correcting mistakes in light of new data and updating findings to reflect this is often considered to be a key characteristic of scientific research. Commenting on the ‘Loss-of-Confidence Project’, a study into self-correction amongst psychologists, Julia M. Rohrer, suggests that in practice self-correction of published research is, infrequent, difficult to achieve and perceived to come with reputational costs. However, by reframing and changing the static nature of academic publications, it may be possible to develop a research culture more conducive to self-correction.
