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 […]
Poverty Action Lab and Its Leaders Honored by SSRC
Two economists battling world poverty and the institution they helped create have received the highest honor offered by the Social Science Research […]
Nominations Sought For Evidence-Based Champion
Sense About Science, in conjunction with Nature and the Kohn Foundation, is seeking to award an individual who has promoted sound science […]
Peer Review: The Nuts and Bolts
Using a collection of concerns raised by their peers, Sense about Science’s Voices of Young Scientists writing team set off to interview […]
Usability testing at SAGE
Would you like to help shape the features and functionality of SAGE’s online products? We are conducting monthly usability testing and would […]
OA in Britain: We Have a Rule, Now Let’s Get Some Data
The landscape for open access in Britain’s social science and humanities fields is very different and very similar to the better studied STEM fields, a new report from the British Academy finds.
Aussie Academics Keep Publishing, and May Start Perishing
Under attack from some quarters for research that is portrayed as wasteful or out of touch, it’s time, argues Jason Ensor, to find newer and more public ways to engage the community beyond the ivory tower.
Snowden and … Sophocles? Whistleblowing in Antigone
While figures like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have been in the public eye in recent years, whistleblowers are not a new […]
Academic Excellence and Other Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
‘It’s not what you know but who you know’ is a trope that’s common in many careers but which the academy often claims to avoid. Except that in many cases it doesn’t.
