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 […]
Why We’re Encouraging Authors to Share Their Data with Reviewers
The editor–in-chief of the ‘Psychological Science’ explains why the journal is now encouraging authors to share the data and materials behind their research with their reviewers.
Negotiating Brexit – A Clash of Legal Cultures?
Membership in the European Union was a contract, and the differing legal approaches between situational British common law and the more codified French approach helps explain some of the rancor as Brexit comes to be applied.
Scientists vs Budget Cuts: Looking Back at the March for Science
The recent global Marches for Science cast a supportive eye on science and research. And yet any discussion of support eventually comes down to money.
Chris Grey on Organizations
What is an “organization?” According to Chris Grey, the guest in this Social Science Bites podcast, in many ways it’s a moment in time. “An organization,” he tells interviewer David Edmonds, “is also a momentary crystallization of an ongoing process of organizing.”
APA Honors Pedagogical Pundit Regan Gurung with Teaching Award
Regan Gurung, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay psychologist behind the blog ‘Pedagogical Pundit’ and a mass of scholarship on teaching psychology, has been awarded the American Psychological Association Brewer Award for his efforts.
New ‘Roadmap’ Shows Path to Better British Health
A new report from the Campaign for Social Science argues that behavioral approaches — both at an individual and an institutional level – can and must be part of the attempt to improvement health and the NHS.
Fake News Reveals Truths About Our Digital Age
‘By looking more closely at how fake news moves and mobilizes people, we can develop a richer picture of not only how much it circulates where, but also why it circulates and how it resonates amongst different publics.’
Intolerance Threatens Free Inquiry in India’s Universities
The only way out of the current state of tension for Indian universities, argues political scientists Aftab Alam, is for the institutions to learn to tolerate everything except intolerance.
