Author: Michael Todd

Social Science Space editor Michael Todd is a long-time newspaper editor and reporter whose beats included the U.S. military, primary and secondary education, government, and business. He entered the magazine world in 2006 as the managing editor of Hispanic Business. He joined the Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy and its magazine Miller-McCune (renamed Pacific Standard in 2012), where he served as web editor and later as senior staff writer focusing on covering the environmental and social sciences. During his time with the Miller-McCune Center, he regularly participated in media training courses for scientists in collaboration with the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS), Stanford’s Aldo Leopold Leadership Institute, and individual research institutions.

Book Review: What Unions No Longer Do
Bookshelf
November 4, 2015

Book Review: What Unions No Longer Do

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Diplomacy or Destroyers: Uncle Sam’s Freedom of Navigation Choice
News
November 3, 2015

Diplomacy or Destroyers: Uncle Sam’s Freedom of Navigation Choice

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How Do Europeans Really Feel About Migrants?
Public Policy
October 23, 2015

How Do Europeans Really Feel About Migrants?

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STM and HSS – the Great OA Divide
Open Access
October 22, 2015

STM and HSS – the Great OA Divide

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Bringing Foundational Research in from the Cold

Bringing Foundational Research in from the Cold

Just as the ice on a frozen pond may prevent us from seeing the richness in the underlying water, so may the calcifications of the most recent research blind us to what classic theorists actually said and wrote. So argue three academics in a new article about the legacy of Kurt Lewin’s change management theory.

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Giving Euroscepticism an Honest Hearing

Giving Euroscepticism an Honest Hearing

A remarkably prescient special issue of the journal ‘International Political Science Review’ examines Euroscepticism’s migration ‘from the margins to the mainstream.’ Social Science Space talks to one of the issue’s guest editors.

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Bill: Make ‘National Interest’ Explicit in NSF Grants

Bill: Make ‘National Interest’ Explicit in NSF Grants

In February officials with the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National Science Board trooped up […]

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Three Countries, Three Methods to Preserve Social Science

Three Countries, Three Methods to Preserve Social Science

A recent panel drew social science advocates from three countries – Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States – to the same stage to discuss preserving the disciplines’ sometimes tenuous hold on support from policymakers

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Exploring The Genetic Basis of Enlistment

Exploring The Genetic Basis of Enlistment

How much – or how little – do genes contribute to the decision to enter the military? A lot, according to the first effort to pin down an answer to that question. One of the researchers answers questions about the study.

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New Congress Gets First Peek at Proposed NSF Budget

New Congress Gets First Peek at Proposed NSF Budget

Social science’s raise in the White House’s proposed National Science Foundation budget raises some Republican eyebrows.

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The Author of Risk Society: Ulrich Beck, 1944-2015

The Author of Risk Society: Ulrich Beck, 1944-2015

The German sociologist and public intellectual who posited that manufactured risk was a primary product of modernity died on New Year’s Day at age 70

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It’s Time to Take the Measure of Social Mobility

It’s Time to Take the Measure of Social Mobility

Despite its obsession with the concept of equal opportunity, the United States hasn’t actively monitored its residents’ social mobility for more than four decades. Now a group of social scientists have proposed an efficient way using existing tools to chart mobility.

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