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Official measures of research 'impact' are failing to keep pace with socially-networked academics

May 18, 2022 Phys Org

A survey of how academics use social media to encourage people to interact with their research argues that much of the public value of their work is probably being overlooked in official “impact” assessments.This post […]

Economics

Industry lobbying on WHO overshadowing public health policy, researchers suggest

May 18, 2022 Phys Org

Has the World Health Organization become collateral damage in the wars over global commerce? Producers of such products as commercial milk formulas, processed foods, alcoholic beverages, pharmaceuticals and electronic gaming software have been ramping up […]

Economics

Identifying links between incentives and ethical lapses

May 18, 2022 Phys Org

How and why do incentives elicit unethical behavior?This post was originally published on this website.

Society

NBA sees rise in acts of symbolic violence, decline in acts of physical violence

May 18, 2022 Phys Org

A new analysis of NBA basketball broadcasts from 1998 to 2018 reveals a decline in acts of physical violence, such as pushing and elbowing, and a rise in acts of symbolic violence, such as shouting, […]

Society

Study shows a '15-minute city' within reach for Vancouver

May 18, 2022 Phys Org

According to a new study published by Simon Fraser University researchers, 79 percent of residents in the City of Vancouver have access to a grocery store within a 15-minute walk and 99 percent had at […]

Society

New study sheds light on the phenomenon of female Jewish slavery and uncovers gang rape in Livorno's slave prison

May 18, 2022 Phys Org

Historian Prof. Tamar Herzig, Vice Dean for Research at Entin Faculty of Humanities, exposed previously unknown evidence of an organized gang rape of a group of enslaved Jewish girls and women from North Africa in […]

Economics

When harnessing the power of social media, engagement is a key performance indicator

May 18, 2022 Phys Org

The explosive growth of social media during the last decade has dramatically changed the dynamics of business-customer interactions. Yet relatively few firms have properly strategized their social media appearance and involvement, says Fang Fang Li, […]

Economics

Care ethics in social entrepreneurship promotes social sustainability

May 18, 2022 Phys Org

Practicing ethics of care in social entrepreneurship has immediate and long-term impacts on sustainability, according to a recent University of Eastern Finland study published in Entrepreneurship & Regional Development.This post was originally published on this […]

Economics

New model could improve matches between students and schools

May 18, 2022 Phys Org

For the majority of students in the U.S., residential addresses determine which public elementary, middle, or high school they attend. But with an influx of charter schools and state-funded voucher programs for private schools, as […]

Politics

The role party affiliation played in getting US to grim new milestone of one million COVID deaths

May 18, 2022 Phys Org

COVID-19 has now claimed the lives of 1 million Americans—a grim milestone made worse by the fact that probably a third of those fatalities could have been avoided. Estimates suggest that more than 318,000 deaths […]

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  • Official measures of research 'impact' are failing to keep pace with socially-networked academics

    May 18, 2022
    A survey of how academics use social media to encourage people to interact with their research argues that much of the public value of their work is probably being overlooked in official “impact” assessments.This post [...]
  • NBA sees rise in acts of symbolic violence, decline in acts of physical violence

    May 18, 2022
    A new analysis of NBA basketball broadcasts from 1998 to 2018 reveals a decline in acts of physical violence, such as pushing and elbowing, and a rise in acts of symbolic violence, such as shouting, [...]
  • Dismantling anti-Black racism in our schools: Accountability measures are key

    December 7, 2021
    Education is built on the belief that people can be more. In the words of the 20th-century American sociologist and writer W.E.B. DuBois, an important anti-racist leader and figure in the development of African American education, [...]
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    December 2, 2021
    From K-beauty to K-pop, Squid Game and Shang Chi, Asian pop culture is trending worldwide. Nancy Wang Yuen, a sociologist and author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism, told the Toronto Star “there has been historically, invisibility, stereotyping, lack of power, [...]
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    The tenure of Annamie Paul as leader of the Green Party of Canada was short. Paul is resigning as leader of the Green Party less than a year after she took over. When Elizabeth May stepped down as [...]
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    December 8, 2021
    With the return to university campuses this fall, there have been disturbing reports of both sexual assaults and sexist incidents. At Western University, for example, four students reported being sexually assaulted and there was mass student mobilization [...]
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