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My colleagues and I recently spoke with a group of talented, interesting students who just completed their first year of college about […] The post AI Doesn’t Drive Student Cheating. It Just Hitches a Ride appeared first on Social Science Space .

As a university researcher focused on education, I have spent hundreds of hours designing studies to help the field and that might […] The post A Promising Early-Career Researcher Details the Harms from Battering the NSF appeared first on Social Science Space .

Philosopher Tom Chatfield, the author of widely read guide to critical thinking, discusses the role that artificial intelligence can play in helping […] The post Quick Insight: Tom Chatfield on What Skills We Need in an AI Age appeared first on Social Science Space .

Since its inception, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made grant payments totaling more than $90 billion. These grants have gone […] The post Endowments and the Next New Deal: Thinking Bigger and More Creatively appeared first on Social Science Space .

In the Unted Kingdom, thousands of Palestine Action protestors have been arrested and charged with supporting terrorism. After the dreadful 7 October […] The post Tackling the Drivers of Terrorism appeared first on Social Science Space .

One of the promises of artificial intelligence is that it can be so smart it can identify its shortcomings and avenues for […] The post Quick Insight: Michael Bhaskar on AI Can Improve Itself appeared first on Social Science Space .

Political scientist Kenneth Prewitt, a keen observer of the role of social science in the larger world who used his observations to […] The post Kenneth Prewitt, 1936–2026: At the Nexus of Academe, Policy and Philanthropy appeared first on Social Science Space .

Quick Insight is a series of short videos in which experts from academe and the larger community surrounding the academy address a […] The post New Series Offers Quick Insights on Today’s Issues appeared first on Social Science Space .

Mazarin Banaji, the experimental psychologist at Harvard University widely known for the implicit association test she and her colleagues developed, has spent […] The post Quick Insight: Mahzarin Banaji on the Bias in the Machine appeared first on Social Science Space .

Stanford psychologist Hazel Rose Markus has been a leading scholar in understanding how culture and psychology interact, a research portfolio that saw […] The post Hazel Markus: We Don’t Have to be Afraid of Difference appeared first on Social Science Space .

The human brain works very hard behind the scenes even in the most mundane aspects of daily life, like enjoying a nice […] The post Daniel Yon on the Brain as Scientist appeared first on Social Science Space .

Anthropic, the company behind the generative AI tool Claude, claimed in March 2026 that it used an AI interviewer to conduct “the […] The post Qualitative Researchers Point Out The Limitations of AI’s Contributions appeared first on Social Science Space .

Daniel Goroff, a mathematician and economist with a long pedigree of policy roles at the intersection of the social sciences and public […] The post Sloan’s Danny Goroff to Take Reins at Social Science Research Council appeared first on Social Science Space .

Until recently, AI’s role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarize a paper, clean up a dataset or […] The post What Does It Mean Now That AI Is Creating Academic Papers? appeared first on Social Science Space .

Scientific discoveries rarely happen alone. Modern research often involves teams spanning institutions and even countries. Yet when research is published in academic […] The post Academic Authorship Confronts Ghosts, Gifts and Gender appeared first on Social Science Space .

The United States has a long tradition of celebrating its diverse communities with heritage observances throughout the calendar year. And yet not […] The post Recalling the Roots of Jewish American Heritage Month appeared first on Social Science Space .

Political theory is often presented as if it lives mainly in books. We imagine it in canonical texts, famous thinkers, and abstract […] The post Political Theory Beyond the Text appeared first on Social Science Space .

Critical thinking is an important skill, but in practice, it’s often taught in isolated moments rather than as something students can and should use every day. At a […] The post Making Critical Thinking a Daily Habit: Sage’s Critical Thinking Challenge Winners appeared first on Social Science Space .

The current crisis in higher education – marked by defunding, marketization, privatization, corporate governance, and the devaluation of the humanities – demands […] The post Anti-Universities, Archives and Abolitionism: Alternative Models to the University appeared first on Social Science Space .

Tom Gilovich finds it fun to study the whys and wherefores of how human beings make sense of the information delivered by […] The post Tom Gilovich On the Spotlight Effect appeared first on Social Science Space .