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 […]
NSF Guidelines Amidst Foreign Threats To Research Security
Reflecting concerns that foreign governments have illicitly obtained research developed by the United States, posing threats to research security and hindering international collaboration, the National Science Foundation released “NSF Guidelines for Research Security Analytics.”
Tipster’s Note Offers View of Academic Publishing’s Achilles Heel
An investigation by Undark and Retraction Watch finds that some journals’ special issue are being targeted by academic paper mills.
Oppenheimer: Science, Culture and Politics
The new film ‘Oppenheimer’ offers several interesting views of the scientific endeavor that resonate as much in the social sciences and the humanities as in the physical sciences.
Big Profits, Big Harm: Explaining Human Rights Misbehavior by Developing Country Firms
The authors explore why so many successful firms are abusing human rights when, historically, abusive behaviors were motivated by financial distress and underperformance.
U.S. Science Funding Bill Advances – With Raft of Restrictions
Partisan touchstones like critical race theory and environmental, social, and governance investments are among the issues encrusting the funding bill for American science currently making the rounds on Capitol Hill.
Musical Ways of Knowing
Our long-time blogger David Canter considers what he has learned while completing his PhD in music composition. He spent a lifetime as a social scientist, requiring every argument to be bolstered by some form of empirical evidence, or at least a supportive citation from the works of others. The contrast of developing an approach to composing music that can be regarded as ‘a contribution to knowledge’, has made him aware that there are many ways of knowing which scientists, especially social scientists and psychologists, ignore at their peril.
Understanding and Improving Workplace Neurodiversity
The authors seek to shape the discourse around neurodiversity as a strength in the workplace.
Hidden Identities: Uncovering Gender Bias in Soccer Evaluation
if you couldn’t tell the gender of the players, would you find watching men’s or women’s soccer more enjoyable? A new study suggests the likely answer is … both.
