Social Science Space

Geographer Catherine Nakalembe, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, and here she details the intersection of artificial intelligence, mapping technology and small-holder agriculture to improve lives in sub-Saharan Africa. The 2020 Africa Food Prize&nbs...

Sage’s 7th-annual Critical Thinking Bootcamp is a free online event providing practical tools for academic librarians and faculty to support AI literacy and critical thinking. Speakers will share ready-to-use resources, frameworks, and approaches that attendees can take away and apply directly in their own teaching or library instruction.

This free event includes:

I was adding some final flourishes on the topic of ‘iatrocracy’ to my forthcoming book with Natewindé Sawadogo – Sickness and Social Order: Professions, States and Markets since you ask – when I decided to dig more deeply into the history of the word.

Richard Smith, former editor of the British Medical Journal, gave it currency in August 2020,

One of the promises of artificial intelligence is that it will mimic, and perhaps even improve, on human thinking. One of those hoped-for improvements was that AI would not exhibit human biases. Turns out that in one area, AI can indeed mimic human thinking, and it’s in that field of bias. As Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji — one of the creators of the widely ...

Political scientist Adam Seth Levine, the SNF Agora Professor of Health Policy and management at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins, focuses his research on what he terms the science of collaboration in democratic life. That has seen his co-found, with fel...