Academic Life and Culture

‘Obviously ChatGPT’ — how reviewers accused me of scientific fraud

A journal reviewer accused Lizzie Wolkovich of using ChatGPT to write a manuscript. She hadn’t — but her paper was rejected anyway.

(divorcing) WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE

This website is a long-time dream finally bearing fruit, a needed remix of the widely circulated article WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE originally written and published in 1999.

A future for digital public goods for monitoring SDG indicators

Digital public goods (DPGs), if implemented with effective policies, can facilitate the realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, there are ongoing deliberations on how to define DPGs and assure that society can …

A guide for social science journal editors on easing into open science

Journal editors have a large amount of power to advance open science in their respective fields by incentivising and mandating open policies and practices at their journals. The Data PASS Journal Editors Discussion Interface (JEDI, an online …

A Public Option for Clinical Trials? Lessons from Convalescent Plasma

The case of clinical trials for convalescent plasma during COVID-19 illustrates important lessons for realizing public sector approaches to biomedical research and development. These lessons, centering on mission, transparency, and spillover effects, …

Adopting Open Educational Resources as an Equity Strategy

Social determinants of learning (SDOL) impact students’ abilities to successfully complete their courses. An economic barrier for vulnerable students is the skyrocketing cost of textbooks. An innovative strategy to promote equity in educational …

All the Weight of Our Dreams On Living Racialized Autism

For those of us who are autistic and racialized, we often struggle to find representation in mass media, academic work about autism or race, and the activist and advocacy movements that focus on autism, neurodiversity, disability rights, or racial …

Applying Social and Behavioral Science to Federal Policies and Programs to Deliver Better Outcomes

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ARIADNE – a scientific navigator to find your way through the resource labyrinth

Performing high-quality research is a challenging endeavor, especially for early career researchers (ECRs). Most research is characterized by an experiential learning approach, which can be time-consuming, error-prone, and frustrating. While most …

Artificial intelligence and responsibility gaps: What is the problem?

Recent decades have witnessed tremendous progress in artificial intelligence and in the development of autonomous systems that rely on artificial intelligence. Critics, however, have pointed to the difficulty of allocating responsibility for the …