Viewed together, these outline a political strategy toward science that is both systematic and dangerous: a full-scale war on the scientific community, the network of individual researchers across many institutions whose collaboration is essential for scientific progress.
Tag: open science
Philip Cohen on How “Citizen Scholars” Can Engage with the Public in Uncertain Times
I sat down with the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the CUNY Graduate Center for an interview.
Open Science keynote at Max Planck Institute in Rostock (audio version)
Audio of my keynote address, "Doing Demography in Public"
New research on the state of sociology
A new analysis of all English-language sociology dissertations over four years.
Quick update on American Sociological Review’s failure to meet current social science standards
Four complete replication packages for 20 quantitative data analysis articles. Ten of the 20 quantitative papers provide nothing.
Researchers: Which one of your skills do you think can’t be done by a machine?
Replacing us as researchers has already begun.
Citizen Scholar rounds a corner (draft complete)
Barn swallow on a post. Photo / PNC I have completed a draft of Citizen Scholar. The book offers a career model for social scientists based on reciprocity and openness, reflexivity and accountability. It changes our research workflow and our interventions as citizens, and enables them to better reinforce each other. Or, that's the plan.…
Continue reading ➞ Citizen Scholar rounds a corner (draft complete)
American Sociological Association, in absentia but not silent on open science
ASA is fundamentally, strongly, consistently, organizationally, against the crowning achievement of Nelson's work at OSTP: the Nelson Memo.
Why we need open scholarship, and you can, too
Trying to figure out whether I have struck the right tone, gone deep enough but not too deep, been appropriately assertive without being obnoxious, and pitched it at a level that will work for a large number of social scientists, including those in training
Letter in Science on Peer Review at NIH
When you change the way science works, plan for assessment, then fund assessment, then do it.
Family Inequality 