Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in the social sciences to simulate human behavior, based on the assumption that they can generate realistic, human-like text. Yet this assumption rem...

Online communities steward a complex set of public information goods. These goods face a range of urgent threats: strategic information pollution and governance capture; legitimacy attacks by external...

Online communities steward a complex set of public information goods. These goods face a range of urgent threats: strategic information pollution and governance capture; legitimacy attacks by external...

By one account, roughly 70% of Americans regard misinformation as a major threat, outpacing fears about climate change and infectious disease (1). This is true although the current and longer-term imp...

By one account, roughly 70% of Americans regard misinformation as a major threat, outpacing fears about climate change and infectious disease (1). This is true although the current and longer-term imp...

Organizations too often fail to prepare for their inevitable end; The Wind Down shares best practices for healthy closures.

Northwestern’s Faculty Senate voted to sign an amended version of the Mutual Defense Compact signed by faculty senates at several Big Ten Academic Alliance universities at its meeting Wednesday evenin...

Research council launches 100m kroner fund as Norwegian government calls for the protection of academic freedom

Campus newspapers are confronting ethics debates as foreign students ask that their names and views be removed from past articles.

The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.

ALT: a cartoon of snoopy flying through the air

A letter released by the American Association of Colleges and Universities calls out the Trump administration's "unprecedented government overreach" as well as "political interference" that they say…

The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.

Statement signed by Harvard, Princeton and Brown leaders denounces White House’s ‘undue government intrusion’

A Call for Constructive Engagement

The National Science Foundation said the studies "could be used to infringe on" speech rights.

ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

Foundation leaders say charitable organisations could be next in the firing line – but must ‘stand together’ to resist

Opinion: It’s time for public resistance.