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 […]
How Do Students Choose Colleges?
It’s finally spring time! According to the College Board, most high school students take the SAT for the first time in the […]
Our Ailing Cities Need Social Science to Cross-Fertilize
There is a great need to understand the role of urbanisation in society and respond effectively, particularly given global economic and social insecurity, argues Mike Goldsmith. But the increasing specialization within disciplines means that such vital dialogues on cities are becoming difficult. An interdisciplinary effort is needed to bring the study of cities, their politics, policies and problems back into the mainstream of social science and to do it on a genuinely comparative basis.
A Sweet (Potato) Winner for Social Science
A paper that shines light on the enigmatic spread of the sweet potato throughout the populated bits of the Pacific Ocean and […]
Can Virtual Teams Work Together as Well as Traditional Teams?
A good team is like a well oiled machine. Members have a collective understanding of what needs to be done and how […]
Gregory Clark on Names
What’s in a name? According to economist Gregory Clark, a lot of divine-able information about your family’s past and perhaps a fair bit about your children’s future. In the latest edition of Social Science Bites, David Edmonds talks with Clark about his at-times controversial examination of surnames and their nexus with social mobility.
Reviewer: Journal Wilts Under Climate of Intimidation
As an echo of the latest just-released IPCC report on climate change, Elaine McKewon details how one journal blinked when climate change skeptics turned up the heat on an article exploring conspiracy ideation and the rejection of science.
Call for Papers: Diverse Regions: Building Resilient Communities & Territories
Less than a week remains to submit abstracts for the Regional Studies Association’s European Conference 2014, slated for June 16-18 in Izmir, […]
Britain’s New Open Access Policy Changes the Game
With the final consultation period now over, the open access policy for Britain’s next Research Excellence Framework has been released. Alma Swan looks at the rollout–which requires the deposit of articles into repositories–and finds this is pragmatic but good policymaking that should help shift the culture in British universities towards open access.
