Cal Alumni Association

Being Kind Is Good for Your Health (The Science of Happiness Podcast)

Scroll down for a transcription of this episode. Join our limited newsletter The Science of Habits to get curated, science-backed tips to help make your New Years resolution stick in 2024. This week, ...
UVA Today

Here’s What It Takes to Do Good Science Under Pressure

Writing for The Conversation and republished below, University of Virginia sociologist Fiona Greenland and her colleague, Michelle Fabiani of the University of New Haven, explain how work cultures ...
Cal Alumni Association

Encore: The Science of a Good Night’s Sleep (The Science of Happiness Podcast)

Scroll down for a transcription of this episode. This week we revisit our science-backed tips for a good night’s sleep with sleep scientist Eti Ben Simon and host of the Sleep with Me podcast Drew ...
Astronomy

Why good science is needed more than ever, and so is good faith

The following is an excerpt from Paul Sutter’s Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust In an Age of Doubt, from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Science makes for poor politics, which makes it ripe for ...
STAT

Fast science can be good science, even more so when lives are at stake

Drug development has been conducted at the same slow and incremental pace for so long that some have worried that speeding it up would mean cutting corners and sacrificing patient safety or the ...
Scientific American

For Good Science, You Need Engaged Citizens

The White House has rehired a climate scientist who was forced out by the Trump administration, and is proposing to dramatically increase the budget of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
STAT

A new nonprofit wants to rewrite the playbook for how the U.S. government funds science

WASHINGTON — The Good Science Project is hoping to push the NIH and other government science agencies to be faster, bolder, and more efficient. The new nonprofit, launched this week, highlights ...