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 […]
Sloan’s Danny Goroff to Take Reins at Social Science Research Council
Daniel Goroff, a mathematician and economist with a long pedigree of policy roles at the intersection of the social sciences and public […]
What Does It Mean Now That AI Is Creating Academic Papers?
Until recently, AI’s role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarize a paper, clean up a dataset or […]
Academic Authorship Confronts Ghosts, Gifts and Gender
Scientific discoveries rarely happen alone. Modern research often involves teams spanning institutions and even countries. Yet when research is published in academic […]
Recalling the Roots of Jewish American Heritage Month
The United States has a long tradition of celebrating its diverse communities with heritage observances throughout the calendar year. And yet not […]
Political Theory Beyond the Text
Political theory is often presented as if it lives mainly in books. We imagine it in canonical texts, famous thinkers, and abstract […]
Making Critical Thinking a Daily Habit: Sage’s Critical Thinking Challenge Winners
Critical thinking is an important skill, but in practice, it’s often taught in isolated moments rather than as something students can and should use every day. At a […]
Anti-Universities, Archives and Abolitionism: Alternative Models to the University
The current crisis in higher education – marked by defunding, marketization, privatization, corporate governance, and the devaluation of the humanities – demands […]
Tom Gilovich On the Spotlight Effect
Tom Gilovich finds it fun to study the whys and wherefores of how human beings make sense of the information delivered by […]
