Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Opportunity to Participate in RFI on Proposed National Secure Data Service
According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, scientific collaboration and diplomacy are key when trying to effectively address the […]
How AI-Integration is Changing the Workplace
The authors describe how their study investigated how middle managers perceive the impacts of AI-system integration on their work characteristics in the financial services industry.
Why Social Science? Because It Can Help Contribute to AI That Benefits Society
Social sciences can also inform the design and creation of ethical frameworks and guidelines for AI development and for deployment into systems. Social scientists can contribute expertise: on data quality, equity, and reliability; on how bias manifests in AI algorithms and decision-making processes; on how AI technologies impact marginalized communities and exacerbate existing inequities; and on topics such as fairness, transparency, privacy, and accountability.
Spring 2024 Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Advisory Committee Meeting
The advisory committee for the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate meets twice yearly to provide advice, recommendations […]
Keeping Qualitative Research Weird!
The authors urge qualitative researchers to retain what makes qualitative research different and powerful and yes… weird: the researcher’s voice, multitudes of potential data sources, and meaningful contextualization.
Public Interest Attorney Bryan Stevenson to Receive 2024 Moynihan Prize
Public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative, will receive the 2024 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize from the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Digital Scholarly Records are Facing New Risks
Drawing on a study of Crossref DOI data, Martin Eve finds evidence to suggest that the current standard of digital preservation could fall worryingly short of ensuring persistent accurate record of scholarly works.
Sometimes, We Do Need a Narcissist
Karynne Turner, Feray Adigüzel, and Jatinder S Sidhu reflect on their research article, “Chief executive officer narcissism, corporate inertia, and securities analysts’ stock […]
