Dearly Departed Languages
Why Greek and Latin medical terminology is better off dead.
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Bruno Latour, a Veteran of the ‘Science Wars,’ Has a New Mission
He has long been a thorn in scientists’ sides. Today, Latour wants to help rebuild trust in science.
A Monograph for Tomorrow
Open access looks set to shake up the humanities and social sciences book landscape for the better.
Norwegian Humanities Research Is Thriving
Evaluation of humanities research in Norway.
Some Social Scientists Are Tired of Asking for Permission
If you took Psychology 101 in college, you probably had to enroll in an experiment to fulfill a course requirement or to get extra credit.
Social Scientists Tell Congress: 'Don't Cut Our Funding'
Linguists, anthropologists and political scientists take to Capitol Hill to defend their research.
EU Research ‘Still Failing to Include Social Sciences’
Without input from other disciplines, new technologies will fail to improve lives, report warns
A Lack of Ideological Diversity Is Killing Social Research
Without more conservative perspectives in the academy, lawmakers will increasingly ignore and potentially defund social science.
The Changing Role of Non‐English Papers in Scholarly Communication
The Changing Role of Non‐English Papers in Scholarly Communication
Evidence from Web of Science showing that English is increasingly being used as the dominating language from natural sciences and social sciences to arts and humanities.
Social norms as solutions
Climate change, biodiversity loss, antibiotic resistance, and other global challenges pose major collective action problems: A group benefits from a certain action, but no individual has sufficient incentive to act alone.
Who is Doing Big Data?
A new survey shoots down the idea that early-career researchers aresomehow more likely to be digital natives and therefore more apt to conduct computational social science than those whose PhDs were issued more than a decade ago.
The Rise of the Trump Academic
We can all recognise the ambitious researcher at the conference who is anxious to advertise their own work. It resonates with my current work on academic self-promotion via university profile pages. And I start to wonder, is a new academic habitus beginning to emerge?
Mellon Foundation grant of nearly $1M to fund open access platform MUSE Open
Mellon Foundation grant of nearly $1M to fund open access platform MUSE Open
Johns Hopkins University Press' Project MUSE online platform will host scholarly monographs and materials in humanities and social sciences.
Why I Am Suing the Government
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is alarming. Like many researchers in computing and social science, writing scripts, bots, or scrapers that collect online data is a normal part of my work.
Social-progress panel seeks public comment
Marc Fleurbaey and colleagues explain why and how 300 scholars in the social sciences and humanities are collaborating to synthesize knowledge for policymakers.
Psychologists grow increasingly dependent on online research subjects
Psychologists grow increasingly dependent on online research subjects
Scientists make greater use of online workers from Amazon Mechanical Turk, but practice raises concerns
In death, there is life
Big-name scientists may end up stifling progress in their fields
Recognize the value of social science
A professional body for UK social scientists can help to improve research practice — and not just in public engagement, says Andrew Webster.
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