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Academia Needs a Reality Check: Life is Not Back to Normal
APS Member/Author: Leah H. Somerville Academic scientists are facing an ominous start to the academic year. Some universities are welcoming students back to campus with detailed COVID-19 testing and prevention guidelines. Others have suddenly retracted in-person plans, moving to fully online courses as coronavirus cases spiked. “We all should be emotionally prepared for widespread infections — and possibly deaths — in our community,” a professor at Yale University wrote to students in a 1 July email. The problems don’t end there. Many academics are also grappling with ongoing racial injustices and associated protests, wildfires, and hurricanes.
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Friendly and Open Societies Supercharged the Early Spread of COVID-19
The case to “flatten the curve” is bolstered by new data showing a connection between social openness and the initial rapid spread of COVID-19.
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Persistent Problems and Modest Successes: First-ever Review of Gender Parity Within Psychological Science
Gender gaps for women in psychological science are closing, yet some remain, and more work is needed.
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People with Blindness Have Refined Spatial Hearing
Does loss of sight enhance a person’s sense of hearing? New research supports this commonly held belief in one intriguing way: by testing blind people’s ability to navigate their surroundings. [September 15, 2020]
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How’s That? It Doesn’t Take a Scientist to See Through Implausible Research Hypotheses
In reviewing key findings from the social-science literature, laypeople were able to accurately predict replication success 59% of the time.
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NIH Funding Research on Sleep Disparities in the U.S.
Like many adverse health patterns, the prevalence of sleep deficiency is higher in health disparity communities. Because of the many poor health outcomes associated with sleep deficiency, the National Institutes of Health has released a funding opportunity announcement for researchers to investigate the causal mechanisms behind sleep disparities.
