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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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Read research about parenthood in the October Family Relations: tinyurl.com/FR-Oct2026

#FamilyScience #SocialScience #SocialSciences #SocialScienceResearch
November 5, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Open-access articles on on gender, work, and family decisions are featured in the October JMF: tinyurl.com/JMF-Oct2026

#FamilyScience #SocialScience #SocialScienceResearch #OpenAccess
November 4, 2026 at 4:57 PM
westernusocsci.bsky.social
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
westernusocsci.bsky.social
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
buzmedia.bsky.social
One Seattle station carries more riders than all twelve Eastside light rail stations combined

#UrbanStudies #SocialScience
One Seattle station carries more riders than all twelve Eastside light rail stations combined
The Urbanist
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November 4, 2026 at 5:47 AM
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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
westernusocsci.bsky.social
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
westernusocsci.bsky.social
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
westernusocsci.bsky.social
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
purescience.news
Science advocates react to Democrats’ historic midterm rout: ‘It’s a new day in Washington’s #Science #SocialScience #bluewave #scienceadvocacy #democraticrout #midterm2022 #accountability
Science advocates react to Democrats’ historic midterm rout: ‘It’s a new day in Washington’s
Researchers and advocates say they hope the “blue wave” could signal more accountability after two years of attacks on science
purescience.news
November 4, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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New contribution requesting with requests for answers: Carlos Paes on "The crowd and the star: a small scapegoat model, eight pile-ons, and a request for suggestions" rofasss.org/2026/11/04/t... #networks #memetics #pileons #scapegoating #socialscience #abm #simulation #netlogo
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November 4, 2026 at 12:09 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.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM
eiui.bsky.social
#SocialScience has not become mainstream in #conservation, yet is critical to success. Why? Based on a review of publications of 4 large international NGOs & interviews with scientists & managers, Montambault identified enablers & #barriers to application of social science doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
Title, authors’ names and affiliations, and abstract from a paper about integrating social science research into conservation practices from the perspectives of practitioners and environmental non-governmental organization publications
November 5, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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#FREE #BOOK

The Worst Thing We've Ever Done;
One Juror's Reckoning with #RacialInjustice
by Carol Menaker

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176 Pages
isbn 9781647424619
#Nonfiction, Social & #CulturalStudies, #SocialScience, #Discrimination & #RaceRelations
The Worst Thing We've Ever Done ebook by Carol Menaker - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The Worst Thing We've Ever Done One Juror's Reckoning with Racial Injustice" by Carol Menaker available from Rakuten Kobo. In May of 1976, twenty-four-year-old Carol Menaker was impaneled with e...
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November 4, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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Self-perceived masculinity and femininity predict political views better than biological sex #Science #SocialScience #masculinity #femininity #politicalviews #genderidentity #politicscience
Self-perceived masculinity and femininity predict political views better than biological sex
A recent paper published in Politics and the Life Sciences outlines how internal perceptions of masculinity and femininity strongly predict political engagement and ideological leanings. Moving...
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November 4, 2026 at 6:12 AM
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New research reveals the psychological profile of reality dating television stars #Science #SocialScience #realitytv #narcissism #datingshows #psychology #selfworth
New research reveals the psychological profile of reality dating television stars
People who participate in reality dating television programs tend to have higher levels of grandiose narcissism, derive much of their self-worth from physical appearance, and experience less anxiety...
purescience.news
November 4, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Schizophrenia is linked to broad difficulty reading emotions from body language and faces #Science #SocialScience #schizophrenia #emotionrecognition #mentalhealth #germanstudy #facialexpressions
Schizophrenia is linked to broad difficulty reading emotions from body language and faces
A small study of men in Germany found that those with schizophrenia were less accurate than healthy men at recognizing emotions from both body movements and facial expressions shown as simple moving...
purescience.news
November 5, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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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...
purescience.news
November 3, 2026 at 2:03 PM
buzmedia.bsky.social
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
Streetsblog
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November 3, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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Spotlight: Hanna Wallach, partner research manager at Microsoft Research, uses machine learning to study the dynamics of social processes. 🌟
aipeoplewiki.com/people/hanna...
#HannaWallach #AI #SocialScience
November 2, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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📋 We’re running a short academic survey on ethical decisions in medical emergencies (5–7 min).

Participate here:
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November 3, 2026 at 7:00 AM
westernusocsci.bsky.social
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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📌 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