Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

AI—or artificial intelligence—is often used as a way to summarize data and improve writing. But AI tools also represent a powerful and efficient way to analyze large amounts of text to search for ...

The University of Michigan recently earned the top spot for the second year in a row in the Consortium of Social Science Associations’ 2023 College & University Rankings, which decides how much ...

The Tuesday after spring break, students from Purdue University’s Computational Social Science Lab eagerly gathered in the Joe and Maggie Kernan Social Science Research Lab on Beering Hall’s second ...

SAFELab's Desmond Upton Patton. ChatGPT seems to be part of every conversation about artificial intelligence since the chatbot was released in November 2022 —including those happening in academia.

When Meghann Lucy, a graduate affiliate of the Center for Innovation in Social Science, or CISS, collected data on cases of hoarding, she wanted to identify the patterns of where these cases were most ...

The availability of big data has created opportunities to study human behavior at unprecedented scale and detail. Parallel developments in artificial intelligence, network science, and complex systems ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will appoint a planning committee to plan and execute a public hybrid workshop to develop and assess ideas for a national ...

Unesco has officially opened nominations for the 2026 Unesco/Juan Bosch Prize for the Promotion of Social Science Research in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a statement released ...

Sustainability science is an emerging field of academic research. Sustainability scientists focus on understanding and addressing the complex interactions between humans and the natural world from an ...