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Scientific Collaboration Across Borders Just Gets Harder
International Debate
July 21, 2022

Scientific Collaboration Across Borders Just Gets Harder

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Can a Mathematical Model Spot a Liar?
Innovation
July 20, 2022

Can a Mathematical Model Spot a Liar?

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Tips For Citing Blogs in Your Research: Lessons from Urban Planning
Communication
July 18, 2022

Tips For Citing Blogs in Your Research: Lessons from Urban Planning

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Social Scientists Explain Community Bail Funds
Public Policy
July 11, 2022

Social Scientists Explain Community Bail Funds

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Reviewing a SSHRC-Award Effort to Connect Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge

Reviewing a SSHRC-Award Effort to Connect Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge

Today, writes Carole Lévesque, we rightly insist on the importance of researchers favoring the co-production of knowledge. Research is done with Indigenous people, not on Indigenous people.

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Don’t Mistake Cruelty for Rigor in Peer Review

Don’t Mistake Cruelty for Rigor in Peer Review

The authors – all journal editors -believe that feedback given in peer review should be rigorous, but will be more readily incorporated if kindly given, to the advancement of science.

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Political Scientists Explain Why Gun Legislation Always Stalls in US Congress

Political Scientists Explain Why Gun Legislation Always Stalls in US Congress

Political scientists Monika McDermott and David Jones help readers understand why further restrictions never pass, despite a majority of Americans supporting tighter gun control laws.

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As a Black Sociologist and a Mom, What I’ve Learned Listening to Other Black Moms During Pandemic

As a Black Sociologist and a Mom, What I’ve Learned Listening to Other Black Moms During Pandemic

Loren Henderson describes her work with BarBara Scott as part of a small body of descriptive research, mostly by researchers of color, countering negativity and victim-blaming in earlier studies of Black families.

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Indigenous Societies and the True Value of Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Indigenous Societies and the True Value of Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Recent studies have underscored that conservationists can learn a lot from traditional ecological knowledge about successful resource management.

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‘Belonging’ on Campus: Three Ways to Make it So

‘Belonging’ on Campus: Three Ways to Make it So

Michelle Samura doesn’t question that belonging on campus is an important consideration. Rather, she suggests that people question generally accepted ways of talking about belonging.

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Patients Can Benefit When Psychologists Open Up About Their Own Mental Illnesses

Patients Can Benefit When Psychologists Open Up About Their Own Mental Illnesses

the authors’ research finds that, far from being immune to the conditions they treat in others, psychologists grapple with mental health difficulties or illnesses just as much as their patients do.

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Explaining Why Men Kill Women Is a Harder Question Than Many Think

Explaining Why Men Kill Women Is a Harder Question Than Many Think

The author warns that policies intended to prevent intimate partner femicide should not become narrowly focused around gendered factors such as men’s attitudes to women and toxic masculinity.

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