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History and Indigenous Studies professor Cody Groat joined Global News Morning to discuss Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew’s calls to abolish the Indian Act.

Watch the segment: globalnews.ca/video/121243...

#WesternU #SocialScience #IndigenousStudies #CanadianHistory
November 2, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Political Science professor Matthew Lebo provided expert insight on how U.S. midterm election results could affect Canada-U.S. relations.

Read more: www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

#WesternU #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #CanadaUSRelations
November 2, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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Political Science professor Cameron Anderson provided expert insight to CTV News on why Toronto’s municipal election turnout exceeded the provincial average.

Read more: www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

#WesternU #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #MunicipalElections
November 2, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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Here's to starting another week with new articles from Family Relations! bit.ly/FREarlyView

#FamilyScience #SocialScience #SocialSciences #SocialScienceResearch
November 2, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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DAN Management and Organizational Studies professor Geraint Harvey provided expert insight to Canadian Press on WestJet’s call for a national aviation strategy.

Read more: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/wes...

#WesternU #SocialScience #Management #Aviation
November 3, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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Sociology professor Kaitlynn Mendes provided expert insight to Canadian Press on the sentencing of an Alberta football coach who used AI to create sexualized images of players.

Read more: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/sports/alber...

#WesternU #SocialScience #Sociology #ArtificialIntelligence
November 2, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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Political Science professor Cameron Anderson provided expert insight to The London Free Press on why London re-elected its incumbent mayor while many other Ontario cities chose new leadership.

Read more: lfpress.com/news/london-...

#WesternU #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #LondonOntario
November 2, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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Does easier access to cannabis stores increase teen use? Western's Jason Gilliland and colleagues examined 419,000+ student responses. Their findings challenge common assumptions.
news.westernu.ca/2026/11/adol...
#WesternU #SocialScience #Research
November 3, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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🗣️"to believe that only STEM drives progress and economic growth reflects something wrong in education and our public culture, a remarkable degree of ignorance about how the world really works."

#SocialScience #Innovation
The myth of STEM only growth holds back the UK - LSE Impact
The view that STEM subjects on their own drive growth is misguided and presents a lopsided view of the value of the social sciences and humanities.
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November 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Local Government Program faculty member Kate Graham joined CBC London Morning to discuss the advice and support new city councillors need as they step into their roles.

Listen to the interviews: iqmediacorp.com/ExternalIfra...

#WesternU #SocialScience #LocalGovernment #MunicipalPolitics
October 30, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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Articles that address developmental history and family processes are featured in the October Family Relations: tinyurl.com/FR-Oct2026

#FamilyScience #SocialScience #SocialSciences #SocialScienceResearch
October 29, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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Spotlight: Hanna Wallach, partner research manager at Microsoft Research, uses machine learning to study the dynamics of social processes. 🌟
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#HannaWallach #AI #SocialScience
November 2, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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Most of our measures of a key cognitive process don't agree #Science #SocialScience #cognitiveprocess #sciencemetrics #negativeresults #researchchallenges #hypothesisvalidation
Most of our measures of a key cognitive process don't agree
It's widely acknowledged that it's nearly impossible to publish negative results in scientific journals. "We didn't see anything" is a much harder sell than finding that a hypothesis is clearly...
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November 3, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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Sociology professor Ted Hewitt provided expert insight to Global National News in a story about the re-election of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Watch the story: globalnews.ca/video/121221...

#WesternU #SocialScience #Sociology #Brazil
October 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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📋 We’re running a short academic survey on ethical decisions in medical emergencies (5–7 min).

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October 30, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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Looking back today at another well-cited JMF article from 2020, which examined parenthood wage gaps across the life course by gender and race in the U.S.: tinyurl.com/3a6rnn9s

#ThrowbackThursday #TBT #FamilyScience #SocialScience #SocialSciences #SocialScienceResearch
October 29, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Clocks fell back on Halloween weekend, and the safety arithmetic splits drivers from pedestrians

#UrbanStudies #SocialScience
Clocks fell back on Halloween weekend, and the safety arithmetic splits drivers from pedestrians
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November 3, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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Title: Genes may explain about a third of earnings differences, according to a study of 44,500 U.S. twin pairs

Link: ift.tt/s21EFCX

#Genetics #Earnings #TwinStudies #SocialScience #NatureAndNurture
November 1, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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📌 Vaishnavi Sapkale explores poverty beyond individual choices in “Bringing a Wider Socioecological Lens to the Psychology of Poverty.”

Read the full article: spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#MonkPrayogshala #VaishnaviSapkale #PsychologyOfPoverty #SocialScience #PovertyResearch
November 3, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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📋 We’re running a short academic survey on ethical decisions in medical emergencies (5–7 min).

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November 3, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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Psychology student Sarmad Rafi joined CBC’s The Current to discuss the opportunities and privacy risks of AI-powered automated license plate readers. Rafi also runs panopti.ca, which tracks ALPRs across Canada.

Listen to the segment: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

#WesternU #SocialScience #Psychology
October 30, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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Read the latest Journal of Marriage and Family research: bit.ly/JMFEarlyView

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October 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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Genes may explain about a third of earnings differences, according to a study of 44,500 U.S. twin pairs #Science #SocialScience #geneticsalary #twinstudy #incomeinequality #heredityfactors #usresearch
Genes may explain about a third of earnings differences, according to a study of 44,500 U.S. twin pairs
A massive analysis of census and tax records indicates that inherited genetic factors account for nearly one-third of the variation in earnings among steadily employed Americans in their late 20s and...
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November 1, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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📋 Help with a short 5–7 min university study on ethical decisions in medical emergencies.

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November 2, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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October 30, 2026 at 4:47 PM