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 […]
Whose Work Most Influenced You? A Social Science Bites Retrospective, Part 3
Ask a number of influential social scientists who in turn influenced them, and you’d likely get a blue-ribbon primer on the classics in social science. And so it as we present the third and final series of answers to that question drawn from the first 50 guests on the Social Science Bites podcast series.
Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Peer Review and Publishing Itself?
The founder of StateReviewer outlines a future where humans are written out of the publication process by artificial intelligence. But is the goal of eradicating bias and other malignancies potentially opening the door to a new set of ills?
Behavioral Evidence Hub Seeks to Link Research With Solutions
A new website promises to spotlight evidence-based initiatives that offer deep insight into tough problems – from staying in college and increasing savings rates to improving medication adherence and vaccination uptake – into a single tool.
BPS Award-Winner Alex Haslam on Teams and Trump
Social psychologist Alex Haslam talks about many of his research interests, from Donald Trump to identity politics to classic studies – is his ‘glass cliff work’ with Michelle Ryan count? – in a wide-ranging interview following his receiving the President’s Award from the British Psychological Society.
Washington and Social Science: News Bulletin No. 3
Topics this month include a look at Congress clearing the Fiscal Year 2017 budget- and rejecting the Trump-proposed cuts to NSF and NIH funding, and what’s next for the science community after the heralded March for Science.
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.
