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 […]
Vaccination: A Child’s Right?
One of the big cultural differences between the US and most of Europe is the nature of the legal relationship between parents […]
Is the Dissertation Still Considered a Rite of Passage?
As a lecturer, I have observed increasing discussion among colleagues concerning the continuing value of the dissertation as an essential component of […]
The Accelerated University: Power, Governance, and the Loss of Academic Purpose
It might seem that the constant crisis of universities is best captured through their most visible excesses such as managerial frustration, disciplinary […]
An Introduction: After the University?
Around the world, universities find themselves in crisis, with higher education governance, academic labor, and the meaning of scholarship undergoing profound transformations. […]
Teaching Students to Question the Machine
Try this experiment with your students. Open ChatGPT and type: “Explain morality and the thought leaders behind moral reasoning.” The results will […]
Frank Keil on Causal Thinking
As a practical matter, how much effort do you put into pinning down the causes behind daily occurrences? To developmental psychologist Frank […]
New Guide Recognizes the Value of Good Curation
Media algorithms and artificial intelligence are pretty good at feeding us content we want (and lots of it), but not necessarily information […]
Beware the Funhouse Mirror: How Social Media Misleads Us About Public Opinion
In today’s digital age, social media platforms often appear to offer a direct line to “what the public thinks.” But what if […]
