Slides from the ALISS summer conference: Changing nature of scholarly communication
The processes of mainstreaming and normalization of far-right politics have much to do with the mainstream itself, if not more than with the far right.
David Canter reviews his experience of filling in automated forms online for the same thing but getting very different answers, revealing the value systems built into these supposedly neutral processes.
The new editor of the case study series on the music industry discusses the history of Black Americans in the recording industry.
A longitudinal research project project covering 31 villages in rural South Africa has led to groundbreaking research in many fields, including genomics, HIV/Aids, cardiovascular conditions and stroke, cognition and aging. Drawing on the findings of a workshop on making translational research design principles the norm for European research, Gabi Lombardo, Jonathan Deer, Anne-Charlotte Fauvel, Vicky Gardner and Lan Murdock discuss the characteristics of translational research, ways of supporting cross disciplinary collaboration, and the challenges and opportunities of adopting translational principles in the social sciences and humanities. Norman B. Anderson, a clinical psychologist whose work as both a researcher and an administrator saw him serve as the inaugural director of the U.S. National Institute of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research and as chief executive officer of the American Psychological Association, died on March 1. By carefully interrogating the system of economic incentives underlying innovations and how technologies are monetized in practice, we can generate a better understanding of the risks, both economic and technological, nurtured by a market’s structure. You’ve likely heard the hype around artificial intelligence, or AI, but do you find ChatGPT genuinely useful in your professional life? A free course offered by Sage Campus could change all th Euan Adie, founder of Altmetric and Overton and currently Overton’s managing director, answers questions about the outsized impact that SBS makes on policy and his work creating tools to connect the scholarly and policy worlds.
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Impact
Three Decades of Rural Health Research and a Bumper Crop of Insights from South Africa
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Using Translational Research as a Model for Long-Term Impact
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Norman B. Anderson, 1955-2024: Pioneering Psychologist and First Director of OBSSR
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Innovation
To Better Forecast AI, We Need to Learn Where Its Money Is Pointing
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Free Online Course Reveals The Art of ChatGPT Interactions
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Why Social Science? Because It Makes an Outsized Impact on Policy
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