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 […]
Engaging With the Untidy World of Nonprofits
What’s the best for a professional association to build engagement from its members? For one thing, notes Mark Hager in an award-winning paper, you probably can put away the souvenir tote bags.
What Do Academia’s Ubiquitous Rankings Accomplish?
Why does it matter whether you study or work at the sociology department that comes first, 12th or 89th in a ranking? Why does it matter whether the journal you publish in is included and ranked in a certain index, or not? Let us know your thoughts.
How Do Regulations Affect Athletes’ Doping Decisions?
In 2013, the International Association of Athletics Federations announced that as of January 1, 2015, any athletes with serious doping offenses will […]
An Open Invitation to OpenCon
Nick Shockey highlights OpenCon, a conference to take place in November aimed at mobilizing support around open access, open educational resources and open data among early career researchers. Funding has been made available to cover travel to attend the conference in Washington, D.C. but the deadline is Monday.
L’affaire Salaita: Can Activism Go a Tweet Too Far?
Social media allows scholars to discuss and debate current affairs like never before, but on a very public stage. Brent E. Sasley and Mira Sucharov examine and assess one academic’s tweets on the Israel-Gaza crisis and the questions raised over his style and approach.
Who Takes Humanities Courses? A Lot of Social Scientists
Parsing federal education statistics, it turns out that prospective social scientists are the most avid consumers of humanities courses as undergrads (not counting humanities majors themselves, that is).
Taking the Air out of the Ban on Transgender Troops
UPDATE: In a 2014 article, a former U.S. surgeon general and four co-authors argue that the U.S. military’s medically based ban on transgender troops in place then failed on the facts and on the precedents of other populations in uniform.
How Should Businesses Respond to Bad Online Reviews?
According to Forbes, 72% of people trust online reviews just as much as they would trust the opinion of a friend or […]
