Archives for 2021

A Micro Syllabus on Asian American Experiences and Politics
Resources
May 17, 2021

A Micro Syllabus on Asian American Experiences and Politics

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Watch the Forum: A Turning Point for International Climate Policy
Webinar
May 17, 2021

Watch the Forum: A Turning Point for International Climate Policy

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The Insufferable Smugness of Working from Home
Business and Management INK
May 17, 2021

The Insufferable Smugness of Working from Home

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Olivier Sibony on Decision-Making
Social Science Bites
May 17, 2021

Olivier Sibony on Decision-Making

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COVID-19: Blood on Whose Hands?

COVID-19: Blood on Whose Hands?

Lessons will be learned from this pandemic and it is right that there should be inquiries to spell them out. It will not, however, be helpful to see this as a partisan exercise in blaming individuals for acting within the limits of what was possible in systems that others had designed for very different purposes.

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Should We Be Concerned that Data Journalists Are Doing Science Now?

Should We Be Concerned that Data Journalists Are Doing Science Now?

Gone are the days when science journalism was like sports journalism, where the action was watched from the press box and simply conveyed. News outlets have stepped onto the field. They are doing the science themselves.

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Robin Dunbar Explains Why His ‘Number’ Still Counts

Robin Dunbar Explains Why His ‘Number’ Still Counts

Exactly 30 years ago, Robin Dunbar was pondering a graph of primate group sizes plotted against the size of their brains: the larger the brain, the larger the group size. I was curious to know what group size this relationship might predict for humans. The number his calculations gave was 150.

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Duke Policy Professor Wins NSF Early-Career Prize

Duke Policy Professor Wins NSF Early-Career Prize

Nicholas Carnes, a Duke University social scientist and scholar of public policy, is one of two recipients this year of the National Science Foundation’s Waterman Award.

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Eleanor Bernert Sheldon, 1920-2021: Pioneer in Social Indicators Movement

Eleanor Bernert Sheldon, 1920-2021: Pioneer in Social Indicators Movement

Eleanor Bernert Sheldon, a pioneer in the use of social indicators as an important tool of social science, died on May 8 at the age of 101.

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Ronald Inglehart, 1934-2021: Founder of the World Values Survey

Ronald Inglehart, 1934-2021: Founder of the World Values Survey

Ron Inglehart, a political scientist whose work on surveying values around the world set new and higher bars on what such studies could achieve, has died at age 86.

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Writing Scholarly Articles That Get Cited More Than the Competition

Writing Scholarly Articles That Get Cited More Than the Competition

When readers — even academic readers — do not understand an article, they are unlikely to read it, much less absorb it, share it and be influenced by its ideas.

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Whose Work Most Influenced You? Part 4: A Social Science Bites Retrospective

Whose Work Most Influenced You? Part 4: A Social Science Bites Retrospective

In this montage drawn from the last two years of Social Science Bites podcasts, interviewer David Edmonds poses the same question to 25 notable social scientists: Whose work most influenced your own?

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