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Jean-Marc Mangin Steps Down as Head of Canada’s HSS Umbrella Federation
Recent Appointments
October 14, 2016

Jean-Marc Mangin Steps Down as Head of Canada’s HSS Umbrella Federation

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Existing Career Incentives Are Often Bad for Science
Higher Education Reform
October 4, 2016

Existing Career Incentives Are Often Bad for Science

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Good Replication Standards Start With the Data
International Debate
August 24, 2016

Good Replication Standards Start With the Data

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Evolving Door: Moving from Researcher to Research Manager
Career
August 11, 2016

Evolving Door: Moving from Researcher to Research Manager

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The Challenge of Regulating Research to Avoid Fraud

The Challenge of Regulating Research to Avoid Fraud

The more brazen the willingness to commit academic fraud, the harder it becomes to prevent, suggests Ian Freckelton. So while there is a role for codes of conduct or even criminal courts, finding ways to push temptation to deceive even further out of mind will likeley prove even more successful.

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What Does an Anthropologist Actually Do?

What Does an Anthropologist Actually Do?

Anthropologists use ethnographic methods designed to facilitate their competency in another culture to understand what people do, think, feel and say that might seem strange to an outsider but are completely familiar to an insider. But what does that mean in practice?

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Sharon Witherspoon Joins AcSS as Policy Chief

Sharon Witherspoon Joins AcSS as Policy Chief

Sharon Witherspoon, the former director of the Nuffield Foundation and a guiding light of the Q-Step initiative, has been named the acting […]

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Posts on Radicalization, Slavery Win Duckies

Posts on Radicalization, Slavery Win Duckies

A blog post arguing that treating all Muslims as threats plays into the hands of ISIS and another showing a time lapse […]

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Statistical Association Takes on Use, Abuse of P-values

Statistical Association Takes on Use, Abuse of P-values

Even as it insists it’s not really saying anything new, the American Statistical Association Board of Directors has laid down a marker in the debate over what constitutes “statistical significance.”

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Academics Urged to Flip Their Academic Writing

Academics Urged to Flip Their Academic Writing

The most frequent advice from Kip Jones to participants was, “Flip it!” Er, make that, “Flip it!” –Kip Jones’ most frequent workshop advice.

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I Have a Journal Article. How Do I Write a Blog Post About it?

I Have a Journal Article. How Do I Write a Blog Post About it?

If you can really do communication in an accessible way, explains Patrick Dunleavy, your writing may also circulate widely in other disciplines and in the external world outside universities, enhancing your reputation there. And you are in luck – he also explains one way to do that.

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Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Ian Quigg

Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Ian Quigg

In the final installment of the 10 top essays submitted to the ESRC reflecting on how a social science-influenced world will look in 2015, we present Ian Quigg’s ruminations on what capitalism will look like after another half century’s buffeting by the ‘perennial gale of creative destruction.’

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