Several social and behavioral scientists received awards from the National Academy of Sciences earlier this year. Troland Research Awards The Troland Research […]
The Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom earlier this year conferred the award of Academician in the Social Sciences (denoted […]
Stanford cognitive psychologist James L. McClelland and Harvard psychologist Elizabeth Shilin Spelke are the inaugural recipients of the National Academy of Sciences […]
The latest winner of the William H. Riker Prize continues a tradition of mixing CASBS fellows with Riker Prize awardees.
Two economists battling world poverty and the institution they helped create have received the highest honor offered by the Social Science Research […]
Sense About Science, in conjunction with Nature and the Kohn Foundation, is seeking to award an individual who has promoted sound science […]
A paper that shines light on the enigmatic spread of the sweet potato throughout the populated bits of the Pacific Ocean and […]
Blogs dealing with political unrest, global violence and nuclear weapons were awarded as among the best in the English-speaking international studies community last Friday.
In recent years there has been an increased focus on how research papers and supplemental data can be preserved openly. Andy Tattersall, Liz Such, Joe Langley and Fiona Marshall argue equal attention should also be paid to curating communication outputs aimed at engaging non-academic audiences.
Michael Burawoy, whose embrace of public sociology and the public at work lead him to describe his influential academic niche as “industrial […]
To address research credibility issues, we must reform the role of metrics, rankings, and incentives in universities.
In recent years there has been an increased focus on how research papers and supplemental data can be preserved openly. Andy Tattersall, Liz Such, Joe Langley and Fiona Marshall argue equal attention should also be paid to curating communication outputs aimed at engaging non-academic audiences.
A new people has emerged in the digital age, that of ‘internet famous’ celebrities. And that new people has a class of […]
Xenotransplantation is a fascinating subject – for obvious reasons, as it involves transplanting organs or other body parts across species boundaries (in […]
