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 […]
Thinking About Thinking: The Nexus of Neuroscience, Psychology and AI Research
The authors have identified a convergence among architectures, reflecting a combination of neural, behavioral and computational studies and so have begun a communitywide effort to capture this convergence.
We Unintentionally Hit a Nerve When Bemoaning the State of Peer Review
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to fix peer review. An astronomic number of ideas to repair peer review followed a tweet about the system.
Scientific Collaboration Across Borders Just Gets Harder
The development of scientific capacity in many parts of the world and the building of academic ties is critical when it comes to responding to a new virus or tracking changes in climate. And yet …
Can a Mathematical Model Spot a Liar?
Besides our own critical faculties, is there a mathematical model that could help us unravel disinformation? Dorje C. Brody suggests there may be.
Tips For Citing Blogs in Your Research: Lessons from Urban Planning
The question of what kinds of blogs were already being cited by academics, and what criteria they were using to guide their choice of blogs animated research by two urban planners.
Social Scientists Explain Community Bail Funds
Community vail funds are set up as a way to help the more than 80 percent of the over 650,000 people in jail in the U.S. have not been convicted and are presumed innocent but can’t afford bail.
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.
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.
