Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Research Integrity Should Not Mean Its Weaponization
Commenting on the trend for the politically motivated forensic scrutiny of the research records of academics, Till Bruckner argues that singling out individuals in this way has a chilling effect on academic freedom and distracts from efforts to address more important systemic issues in research integrity.
What Do We Know about Plagiarism These Days?
In the following Q&A, Roger J. Kreuz, a psychology professor who is working on a manuscript about the history and psychology of plagiarism, explains the nature and prevalence of plagiarism and the challenges associated with detecting it in the age of AI.
When University Decolonization in Canada Mends Relationships with Indigenous Nations and Lands
Community-based work and building and maintaining relationships with nations whose land we live upon is at the heart of what Indigenizing is. It is not simply hiring more faculty, or putting the titles “decolonizing” and “Indigenizing” on anything that might connect to Indigenous peoples.
Pass Incomplete — How to Keep Healthcare Clinicians from Dropping the Ball
Using the metaphor of American football, Melanie Barlow explores the importance of training healthcare clinicians to appropriately respond to potential errors in care and the effects of failing to do so.
Safiya Noble on Search Engines
In an age where things like facial recognition or financial software algorithms are shown to uncannily reproduce the prejudices of their creators, this was much less obvious earlier in the century, when researchers like Safiya Umoja Noble were dissecting search engine results and revealing the sometimes appalling material they were highlighting.
Workshop: Advancing Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEMM Organizations
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private and nonprofit organizations that provide advice on some of the world’s greatest […]
Did Turing Miss the Point? Should He Have Thought of the Limerick Test?
David Canter is horrified by the power of readily available large language technology.
The Social Sciences Are Under Attack in Higher Education
The social sciences have been a consistent target for political operatives around the United States in recent years., and recent actions at the state level have opened a new front in the long-running conflict.
