social science

Opinion: A Defence of Merit or a Case for Sustaining the Biases in Science?

When Scientists Used Machine Learning to Spot Bad Lines in 700 Bollywood Films

How the Social and Behavioural Sciences Can Help Us Beat the Pandemic

Retrospective: The Wire Science in 2019

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How Neoliberalism Fragmented Our Universities and Staved off Student Unrest

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Five Reflections on National Science Day

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Infinite in All Directions: Academia’s #MeToo, Moonmoons, Sophistry v. Knowledge