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 […]
What I Say When My Colleagues Ask Me If They Should Be On Twitter
Quite frequently nowadays, other professors ask me if they should be on Twitter, reports Hope Jahren, a scientist, blogger and not-so-secret agent for social media. “This is kind of sad,” I think to myself, “How did we get to the point where I’m giving computer advice?” I’ve decided to generously make my opinions available.
SAGE Opposes FIRST Act
Leading social and behavioral sciences publisher SAGE today joined with science associations and American universities in opposing the FIRST Act. This act […]
Lipinski Suggests Damage From FIRST Might Be Contained
How concerned should the social science community be about the still substantial chunk of money missing from federal social science support in a hotly contested National Science Foundation reauthorization bill? According to Daniel Lipinski, the very conservative Democratic congressman whose amendment backfilled $50 million that even more conservative Republicans wanted to take away, a lot and a little.
A Postdoc’s Lament: Creativity and Innovation in Academic Sphere
How does the experience of impermanent, precarious employment on the margins of academia affect young scholars’ ability to engage in creative labor? Is such creative labor still possible?
Northwestern’s Fay Lomax Cook Tabbed to Head SBE
Northwestern University social policy professor Fay Lomax Cook, the longtime head of the Institute for Policy Research, has been appointed to head the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral &; Economic Sciences.
UPDATED: FIRST Bill Passes First Legislative Hurdle
A bill that would dramatically reduce the amount of money that the federal government spends on social science research advanced after passing in a House of Representatives subcommittee on a party-line vote this morning.
Round-up of Social Science Research
The following articles are drawn from SAGE Insight, which spotlights research published in SAGE’s more than 700 journals. All the articles linked to […]
Impact on Layoff Survivors
With a slow economic recovery well underway, there is a new employment story to be told—those who remain at organizations that have […]
