Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

The Political Networks Online Colloquium aims to bring together a community of scholars to provide feedback on ongoing research about political networks. Each month we will meet for one hour to discus...

Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.

In late July, Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), released Science—A Golden Age, setting forth a strategy to revitalize US research and innova...

Measuring American Attitudes Towards Higher Education

Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.

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Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 01 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02570-wCode underlying published findings in the social sciences often fails to reproduce reported results when others re-run it on the original data. This Comment proposes four recommendations to strengthen computational reproducibility, facilitating the trustworthiness and reliability of research.

Rethinking democracy for the age of AI and information abundance. A working group of the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science. Click to read Informational Democracy, a Substack public...

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Hallucinations, rocket ships, deranged billionaires: how do we get out?

For more than two decades, Knight Foundation has commissioned research to better understand Americans’ lived experience with the First Amendment and free expression. As the country marks its 250th ann...

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Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

Luka Bekavac and Alice Palmieri examine whether X's DSA corrective measures will give researchers the data needed to audit systemic risks.

It's just one more parable in a long line of product releases by AI firms with potentially dangerous consequences, write shirin anlen and Sam Gregory.

Abstract. AI companion chatbots feel like intimate confidants but exist as part of corporate data systems. Drawing on Communication Privacy Management (CPM

What does a power-shifting agenda look like?