https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2024/11/our-open-source-tool-allows-ai-assisted-qualitative-research-at-scale/
Mar 31, 2025 - The interactional skill of large language models enables them to carry out qualitative research interviews at speed and scale. Demonstrating the ability of...
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/12/podcast-series-dives-into-public-curators-guide/
Dec 9, 2025 - An examination of the public’s trust in science, and ways to buttress that precious commodity, center a four-part series of podcasts presented […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2023/07/webinar-how-can-public-access-advance-equity-and-learning/
Jul 10, 2023 - The U.S. National Science Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have teamed up present a 90-minute online session examining...
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2024/08/exploring-hybrid-ethnography-with-liz-przybylski/
Aug 22, 2024 - Dr. Liz Przybylski was thinking ahead when she wrote Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between. They unwittingly predicted that we would […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/09/its-silly-to-expect-ai-will-be-shorn-of-human-bias/
Sep 16, 2025 - In July, the United States government made it clear that artificial intelligence (AI) companies wanting to do business with the White House […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/12/steps-to-increase-public-trust-in-science/
Dec 9, 2025 - In the second episode of this four-part series on The Authority File, Tracey Brown, director of Sense about Science, and Camille Gamboa, […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/07/leor-zmigrod-on-the-ideological-brain/
Oct 20, 2025 - Flexibility is a cardinal virtue in physical fitness, and according to political psychologist and neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod, it can be a cardinal […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2026/01/why-is-it-so-difficult-to-agree-about-masks-and-respiratory-infections/
Jan 13, 2026 - The Northern Hemisphere is experiencing its regular seasonal increase in viral respiratory infections. Traditional schedules have not fully adjusted post-Covid...
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2019/10/brexit-and-the-crisis-of-academic-cosmopolitanism/
Oct 28, 2019 - A new report from the Royal Society about the effects on Brexit on science in the United Kingdom has our peripatetic Daniel Nehring mulling the changes that...
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/cdc-meltdown-or-hissy-fit/
Sep 2, 2025 - At the time of writing, there is a new stand-off between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Trump administration […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2023/07/jane-m-simoni-named-new-head-of-obssr/
Jul 7, 2023 - Clinical psychologist Jane M. Simoni has been named to head the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2016/06/book-review-the-oxford-handbook-of-creative-industries/
Jan 27, 2020 - Candace Jones, Mark Lorenzen, Jonathan Sapsed , eds.: The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 576 pp. $170.00, […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2026/01/ice-good-people-and-dirty-work/
Jan 28, 2026 - Watching recent events in Minneapolis from the comfortable distance of several thousand miles and a large ocean, my mind turned to an […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2024/05/analyzing-the-impact-social-media-and-mental-health/
Jul 11, 2024 - The social and behavioral sciences supply evidence-based research that enables us to make sense of the shifting online landscape pertaining to mental health....
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/10/the-contemporary-relevance-of-the-social-sciences-report-launch/
Oct 16, 2025 - Join the Campaign for Social Science for the launch of The Contemporary Relevance of the Social Sciences, the latest report from the […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2024/12/nas-report-examines-nexus-of-ai-and-workplace/
Dec 20, 2024 - A 2024 report by the National Academies explores the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology and their potential effects on economic...
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2024/07/ai-database-created-specifically-to-support-social-science-research/
Jul 9, 2024 - A new database houses more 250 different useful artificial intelligence applications that can help change the way researchers conduct social science research.
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/07/a-look-at-how-large-language-models-transform-research/
Jul 23, 2025 - Generative AI, especially large language models (LLMs), present exciting and unprecedented opportunities and complex challenges for academic research and...
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/12/stop-the-rot-fight-the-malaise-and-reclaim-the-void/
Dec 11, 2025 - Reflecting on my 17 years of tertiary education and 19 years of teaching and learning, university life was mostly supportive and always […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2026/02/andrea-medina-smith-on-making-research-data-more-fair/
Feb 10, 2026 - It’s become cliche since Clive Humbly coined it in 2006, but data is indeed the new oil. It’s a mantra repeated by […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/10/has-bad-science-become-big-busines/
Oct 1, 2025 - Researchers are dealing with a disturbing trend that threatens the foundation of scientific progress: scientific fraud has become an industry. And it’s […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/10/four-with-social-science-ties-named-macarthur-fellows-for-2025/
Oct 17, 2025 - Four individuals with backgrounds in social and behvioral sciences received John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowships for 2025, the foundation...
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/10/could-distributed-peer-review-better-decide-grant-funding/
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding...
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2020/09/a-more-private-but-less-useful-census/
Sep 15, 2020 - Census data can be pretty sensitive – it’s not just how many people live in a neighborhood, a town, a state or […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/category/impact/
Blog posts and resources demonstrating the impact of the social and behavioral sciences in policy , society and academe.
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/rejecting-university-rankings-throwing-the-baby-out-with-the-bath-water/
Oct 20, 2025 - This week Berend van der Kolk published a call to ban university rankings. He concludes: ”So, let’s have (inter)national and/or local discussions […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/12/canadas-sshrc-names-2025-impact-winners/
Dec 15, 2025 - One researcher studies how war affects children, another took a literal worm’s eye view to examine rural development, while two others scrutinized […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/category/communication/
Blog posts and resources relating to social science communication. To start a new discussion on communication, visit the forum via the above link.
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/11/an-introduction-after-the-university/
Dec 5, 2025 - Around the world, universities find themselves in crisis, with higher education governance, academic labor, and the meaning of scholarship undergoing profound...
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/10/casbs-welcomes-2025-26-cohort-of-fellows/
Oct 2, 2025 - Some 33 individuals from academe and private industry make up the 2025-26 class of fellows from the Center for Advanced Study in […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/resources-on-structural-racism-from-social-science-space-and-beyond/
Dec 22, 2023 - Structural Racism & Inequality Resources from Social Science Space and Beyond The very roots of social and behavioral science lie in examinations of...
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/07/promoting-reproducibility-must-start-in-the-classroom/
Oct 20, 2025 - Many people have been there. The dinner party is going well until someone decides to introduce a controversial topic. In today’s world, […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/census-2020/
Dec 22, 2023 - Brought to You by SAGE Publishing:Social Science and the U.S. 2020 Census “The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/05/advocating-for-and-supporting-academic-freedom/
May 28, 2025 - Libraries are considered safe places, secure places to read and meet diverse (but sometimes like-minded) people who celebrate literacy by expanding different...
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/10/beware-the-funhouse-mirror-how-social-media-misleads-us-about-public-opinion/
Oct 27, 2025 - In today’s digital age, social media platforms often appear to offer a direct line to “what the public thinks.” But what if […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/02/michael-burawoy-1947-2025-patron-saint-of-public-sociology/
Mar 31, 2025 - Michael Burawoy, whose embrace of public sociology and the public at work lead him to describe his influential academic niche as “industrial […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/12/there-is-a-cost-to-being-honest-about-science/
Dec 8, 2025 - When people trust science, they can make better decisions, follow helpful rules and work together on big problems like health, climate change […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2026/02/mukulika-banerjee-on-indian-democracy/
A key insight social anthropologist Mukulika Banerjee had while observing electoral behavior in a Bengali village was that — at least in […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/about-socialsciencebites/
Jan 31, 2024 - The Social Science Bites podcast hosts bite-size interviews with leading social scientists. Each episode offers a unique perspective on how our social...
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/12/an-ai-authorship-protocol-aims-to-sharpen-a-sometimes-fuzzy-line/
Dec 12, 2025 - The latest generation of artificial intelligence models is sharper and smoother, producing polished text with fewer errors and hallucinations. As a philosophy...
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/10/the-musee-des-confluences-celebrating-secularism-and-the-sciences/
What does one do on a wet Sunday afternoon in Lyon, France? The shopping malls are closed, as are many of the […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/02/what-does-rfks-confirmation-tell-us-about-the-us-and-health-care/
Feb 18, 2025 - The constitutional processes are now complete and Robert F Kennedy, Jr. has been confirmed as U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services […]
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https://www.socialsciencespace.com/category/international-debate/
Blog posts and resources relating to International issues. To start a new discussion on international issues, visit the forum via the above link.
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