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Pedagogical Strategy in the Wake of the Replication Crisis

As the replication crisis continues to reshape the behavioral and social sciences, we face a distinct pedagogical challenge when introducing students to foundational literature. How do you balance teaching classic, highly influential theories that ma...

Shifting Ethical Standards for Scraping Public Behavioral Data

The widespread commercialization of public social media data has created an ethical gray area for academic researchers utilizing large-scale web scraping for observational sociology and psychological trend analysis. According to the data ethics guide...

Invitation to participate in a study on Acceptability of AI in education (takes 15 minutes)

As part of a thesis in cognitive ergonomics at Université Côte d’Azur, we are looking for higher education teachers (professors, teaching assitants, lecturers, PhD students with teaching duties etc.) to participate in a study about the perception and...

Evaluating Predictive AI in Public Policy Evaluation

As local governments increasingly experiment with predictive machine-learning models to allocate social services and welfare resources, there is a fierce debate regarding data biases and systemic equity. How can we as social scientists design better ...

The Impact of Ghost Kitchens on Urban Social Life

The rise of delivery-only ghost kitchens is removing traditional storefronts and communal dining spaces from urban neighborhoods, potentially weakening local social cohesion. Should this digital restructuring of urban space be viewed primarily as a n...

The Ethics of Behavioral Nudging

Governments increasingly use nudge theory–the strategic design of choice architecture to move people's decisions in predictable ways—to influence public behavior regarding everything from vaccinations to tax compliance. Where should social science fa...

Algorithmic Governance in Public Policy

Governments are increasingly using predictive algorithms to allocate social services and manage urban resources, yet these systems often mirror historical biases found in their training data. How can Social Science departments better prepare future p...

The Gig Economy and Social Safety Nets

As digital platforms decouple labor from traditional employment contracts globally, Social Science researchers are debating the future of worker protections. Should universal basic income (UBI) be viewed as a necessary systemic response to the volati...

Institutional Autonomy vs. State Oversight

The 2026 Academic Freedom Index reports a sharp drop in institutional autonomy in the US due to state-level neutrality mandates that restrict how faculty teach social issues. The Question: If a Social Science department is legally required to be ide...

AI as a "Social Agent" (Psychology Focus)

In 2026, we are moving past seeing AI as software. Scholarship in A Social Identity Theory of Digital Identity (published March 6, 2026) argues that our digital personas are now indistinguishable from our "offline" identities.The Question: If an AI c...

AI as a "Non-Canonical" Historian

Can AI help us recover "lost" history, or does it just reinforce existing biases?The Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) 2026 theme is "Lost in Abundance." As we digitize millions of records, we risk focusing only on the "can...

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Pedagogical Strategy in the Wake of the Replication Crisis

Shifting Ethical Standards for Scraping Public Behavioral Data

Invitation to participate in a study on Acceptability of AI in education (takes 15 minutes)

Evaluating Predictive AI in Public Policy Evaluation

The Impact of Ghost Kitchens on Urban Social Life

The Ethics of Behavioral Nudging

Algorithmic Governance in Public Policy

The Gig Economy and Social Safety Nets

Institutional Autonomy vs. State Oversight

AI as a "Social Agent" (Psychology Focus)

AI as a "Non-Canonical" Historian

Pedagogical Strategy in the Wake of the Replicatio...

Shifting Ethical Standards for Scraping Public Beh...

Invitation to participate in a study on Acceptabil...

Evaluating Predictive AI in Public Policy Evaluati...

The Impact of Ghost Kitchens on Urban Social Life