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Instantly Shifting Classes Online Is Not Trivial
Teaching
March 11, 2020

Instantly Shifting Classes Online Is Not Trivial

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Free Webinar, March 12: “Natural Experiments: An Empowering Tool for Social Data Science”
Webinar
March 10, 2020

Free Webinar, March 12: “Natural Experiments: An Empowering Tool for Social Data Science”

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Free Webinar, April 16: Sociology in Action
Webinar
March 10, 2020

Free Webinar, April 16: Sociology in Action

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David Willetts Sees a ‘Failure to Understand the Value of Social Science’
Impact
March 9, 2020

David Willetts Sees a ‘Failure to Understand the Value of Social Science’

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Free Webinar, March 11: “Modernizing Your Human Resource Management Course”

Free Webinar, March 11: “Modernizing Your Human Resource Management Course”

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Join Talya Bauer and David Caughlin, instructors at Portland State University with over 40 years of collective experience teaching HRM, as they talk about preparing students for today’s workforce by integrating contemporary HRM topics into their courses, using up-to-date cases, highlighting emerging technologies, and the potential of data analytics.

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When Updates End

When Updates End

t’s Academic Book Week 2020! The theme this year is the environment, and makers, providers and readers of academic books will be celebrating them as vehicles for ground-breaking ideas. To kick off the week, David Beer, author of ‘The Data Gaze,’ discusses the notion of ‘digital atrophy’ and consumer capitalism within the technological and social environment we inhabit.

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Social Science Space Celebrates International Women’s Day 2020!

Social Science Space Celebrates International Women’s Day 2020!

Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day. Observed since 1911, the annual event “celebrat[es] the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality.” This year IWD is themed “Each for Equal,” and seeks both to raise awareness about and then against bias, and foster action to ensure equality.

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Should We Welcome “CRediT Check?”

Should We Welcome “CRediT Check?”

Getting named on a journal article is the ultimate prize for an aspiring academic. Not only do they get the paper on their CV (which can literally be money in the bank), but once named, all the subsequent citations accrue to each co-author equally, no matter what their contribution.

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Status List of 2020 Social Science Conference Cancellations

Status List of 2020 Social Science Conference Cancellations

Status List of 2020 Social and Behavioral Science Conferences Amid concerns about the spread of the new coronavirus and its accompanying disease, […]

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Academic Writing Needs More from Me, Myself and I

Academic Writing Needs More from Me, Myself and I

The move towards including the first person perspective is becoming more acceptable in academia, notes the University of Queensland’s Peter Ellerton, who adds, there are times when invoking the first person is more meaningful and even rigorous than not.

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NYU’s Social Science for Impact Forum

NYU’s Social Science for Impact Forum

Each year, NYU researchers analyze New York State Medicaid, New York City Department of Education, and New York City subsidized housing data to discover new patterns of family experiences and outcomes and inform new approaches to fighting poverty, reducing inequality, and expanding opportunity in our communities.

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Publishing More and Achieving Less

Publishing More and Achieving Less

Do sociology graduate students need to publish more today than they did a generation ago to get a faculty position? Do assistant professors need to publish more to get tenure?

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