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 […]
Rethinking Readiness: What it Takes for Your Customers and Employees to Succeed in Today’s Networked Service Environments
Today, customers and employees need a broader form of “readiness” to successfully face fundamentally altered capability and motivational demands. Enter ‘actor ecosystem readiness.’
Entrepreneurs: Don’t Mess With Your Close Social Ties
It’s sometimes said that it’s not what you know that counts, but who you know. In the essay below, authors Kim Klyver, […]
What Will Future College Look Like? For One Thing, Fewer Professors
More artificial intelligence, less tenure and a flipped classroom are three of the trends predicted by Patricia A. Young in her new book.
Watch the Lecture: Like Wildfire – How Climate Justice Should Change Disaster Response
As climate change advances, communities across the United States are adapting to the increased threat of wildfires. Such disasters are expected to […]
Why Social Science? Because Vaccination is a Human—Not Technical—Process
Leveraging the sociocultural dimensions of health knowledge, not a technical focus, is what will move the needle on vaccine uptake.
Going Around in Circles with Long COVID
Readers of Social Science Space may recall that Dr. Jeremy Devine suddenly became the best-know psychiatry resident North America when he published […]
In Praise of Those ‘Less Prestigious’ Journals
Shannon Mason and Margaret K. Merga argue that researchers should adopt more careful citation practices, as a means to broaden and contextualise what counts as ‘prestigious’ research and create a more equitable publishing environment for research outside of core anglophone countries.
NAS Outlines Successes of Societal Experts Action Network
SEAN, the Societal Experts Action Network, taps scientists in the social, behavioral and economic sciences to provide actionable and evidence-based recommendations to support local, state, and national responses and policies quickly.
