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 […]
Open Writing is the Necessary Precursor to Open Science
The new Open Writing project aims to open academic writing practice to reflections and experiments with the actual process of writing, with a view to creating new, open research products that have an impact on peers, public and policymakers.
The People and the State
The win for Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election raises many questions about democracy and the ways in which populist movements […]
Call for White Papers: Social and Behavioral Sciences for National Security
The Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, part of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National […]
Puzzling Out Trump’s Effect on Science and Expertise
The election of Donald Trump illustrates the hazards encountered when scientists and scientific institutions alienate themselves from historic global changes.
Report: Who Is Doing Computational Social Science
SAGE Publishing surveyed social scientists around the world to learn more about who engages in research using ‘big data,’ and what challenges they face as well as the barriers facing those who are interested in conducting computational social science going forward.
University Coeducation Is Not a Triumph for Feminism
From sexual abuse to pay and promotion gaps and beyond, coeducation has not kept up with the promises which with it was introduced, argues the author of a new book on the subject.
A Political Scientist Asks Why Did We Get US Election So Wrong?
I was wrong, admits political scientist Bryan Cranston, who points out that he wa’s hardly alone among those who professions had them making predictions about the US presidential election. But why were so many wrong?
Indian Sociologist Accused of Murder in Case She Says is Retaliation for Her Work
UPDATE: Two Indian social scientists are among 10 people charged with murder in an Indian state wracked by an ongoing insurgency by Maoist rebels that the academics were actively studying. Almost 200 Indian sociologists are protesting the arrest.
