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 […]
140 Thoughtless Characters Cost Dear in Academia
The censuring of an academic in the US for sending out an offensive tweet has led many university tweeters to pause for thought.
How Scholars Can Be Strategic Communicators
As academics, we are not usually trained – or even encouraged – to seek an audience for our research beyond the world of peer review. This leaves us ill-equipped for the policy world, a competitive place in which scholars enjoy few advantages. To bring our ideas and findings into the policy arena, we must adopt a style of engagement that enable us to compete effectively with these other groups for the attention of decision-makers.
Lessons from civil society
As academics think about impact, they can draw on some of the lessons and strategic approaches used by civil society and campaigning groups.
The Psychology of the “Psychology Isn’t a Science” Argument
Every so often the internet is set ablaze with opinion pieces on a familiar question: Are “soft” sciences, like psychology, actually science?
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Social Science Research Symposium – McGill Reporter Funding NIH behavioral research is a waste of money – Baltimore Sun Study maps the future of […]
The Humanities as Human Relations
Do the Humanities not have an intellectual basis as legitimate and rigorous as that of the natural and social sciences? And are not the Humanities in fact an essential part of higher education? Try considering the Humanities as a form of Human Relations.
Why Social Science Research Matters
Michael Lubell, accomplished professor of physics, explains why the social sciences are critical to the advance of science and technology, and explains why we need to protect the social sciences from political attempts to de-fund them.
A Guide for These Uncertain Times
The language of science doesn’t always lend itself to making persuasive arguments. There’s the theory of evolution. The overwhelming consensus on climate change. And the uncertainty, of, well, just about everything.
