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 […]
Behavior Routinely on Biomedicine’s Back Burner
The challenge of infusing the social sciences into what are generally viewed as biomedical issues has been a long and difficult one, as the recent WHO report on Ebola demonstrates. Oddly, this lesson has been learned many times before, but keeps getting forgotten.
Are Young Mothers in India Deprived of Maternal Health Care Services?
Young women are at a higher risk of poor birth outcomes. Studies have found increased risk of preterm delivery, intrauterine growth retardation […]
Making Sense of Screening: Public Expectations About Screening Still Don’t Match What Screening Programmes Can Deliver
Misconceptions about how screening works, its limitations and possible harms are still being perpetuated by media stories and high profile cases, such […]
Matt Owens on Obscure Research That Makes a Big Impact
‘Don’t judge a book by its cover – federal funding for odd or frivolous sounding research pays enormous societal, health, security, and economic dividends to the American taxpayer,’ argues a member of the steering committee for the Golden Goose Award.
Celebrating the launch of JSCAN – the Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiations!
On the 16th of June, we celebrated the launch of the Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiations (JSCAN) the official journal of […]
AAAS Offers Prize for Top Public Intellectual
Crackerjack science communicators (and their partisans) have until August 15 to submit names and CVs as nominees for the American Association for […]
Information Wants to Be Free. Help in the National Archives Jailbreak
The U.S. National Archives has set itself the gargantuan goal of digitizing its full collection. Social scientists can now weigh in on what documents should go to the head of the line.
The APA Colluded on Torture. What Now?
The US tortured prisoners in the ‘War on Terror.’ That that a major health care association colluded in this, argues J. Wesley Boyd, is unconscionable.
