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A Sign Of The Times: Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

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A Sign Of The Times: Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields Title: Embracing Statistics: A Pillar of Modern STEM Education In today’s rapidly evolving landscape of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), statistics is emerging as a pivotal discipline, transcending its traditional role as a mere supporting tool.

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Training Computational Social Science PhD Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers

Political Science Now

However, because computational social science (CSS) is still relatively new to the social sciences, it can feel like a hidden curriculum for many PhD students. Read the full article. We conclude with practical recommendations for departments and professional associations to better support PhD students.

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The Timing Is Right for Anthro-Journo

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“Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Yet, the social science with perhaps the most to offer budding journalists, anthropology, has often been excluded from the chosen courses.” “The

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

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We engaged in a collaborative project based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) designed to explore how AI tools might support undergraduate learning in anthropology. This particular tool allows users to upload their own documents—course readings, research articles, archives, etc.—so

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What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

ED Surge

The concept could eventually “be a more efficient way of distributing grants than a traditional foundation, government funding agency, or corporation structure,” Werbach told EdSurge, also noting, however, that there are “a variety of concerns and reasons for skepticism about DAOs.” DAOs have popped up with various goals and functions.

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Same Old Story in Silicon Valley

Political Science Now

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. In a recent fascinating APSR article by Alina Utrata, we are invited to reconsider these futuristic ambitions of outer space colonialism through a historical lens.

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Hospitality and Care towards the (Un)knowable Stranger in Greek Orthodox Charities

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The stranger as a general category of analysis stands out within the social sciences precisely for what Georg Simmel dubbed this “constellation” of “near[ness] and far[ness] at the same time.” Filoxenia is splashed across newspaper articles , tourism websites , and travel blogs. As I did so, I waved to the manager, Giorgos.