Duke Research Blog

Unless you’re okay with people stealing your data for their own research, conducting studies based on social media is next to impossible. To our luck, Duke’s Polarization Lab‘s Max Allamong...

https://researchblog.duke.edu/2024/04/19/navigating-the-complex-world-of-social-media-and-political-polarization-insights-from-dukes-polarization-lab/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=navigating-the-complex-world-of-social-media-and-political-polarization-insights-from-dukes-polarization-lab

The COVID-19 pandemic sometimes feels like a problem we had to deal with yesterday, not one we’re left to face today. Harris Solomon, an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, and Peter ...

https://researchblog.duke.edu/2024/04/18/post-covid-the-new-normal-in-the-health-care-system/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=post-covid-the-new-normal-in-the-health-care-system

More than 40 years since its signing, the United States still has not ratified an international agreement known as the “constitution of the oceans.” In a webinar held April 2, two of the worl...

https://researchblog.duke.edu/2024/04/15/what-comes-next-for-the-law-of-the-sea-treaty/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-comes-next-for-the-law-of-the-sea-treaty

Look at the nearest window. What did you see first—the glass itself or what was on the other side? For birds, that distinction is a matter of life and death. Every year, up to one billion birds...

https://researchblog.duke.edu/2024/04/11/we-are-killing-birds-solutions-exist-research-can-help/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-are-killing-birds-solutions-exist-research-can-help

If you’re looking to revisit the nuanced history of the Swatantra Party in post-colonial India, you’ve come to the right place! During Aditya Balasubramanian’s talk on his book, ‘Toward a...

https://researchblog.duke.edu/2024/04/04/echoes-of-liberty-revisiting-the-swatantra-partys-vision-for-indias-economy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=echoes-of-liberty-revisiting-the-swatantra-partys-vision-for-indias-economy

“Claims to knowledge are claims to power” This phrase succinctly encapsulates Dr. Rama Salla Dieng’s talk on the intricate relationship between information and the patriarchy that exists, a...

https://researchblog.duke.edu/2024/04/04/the-invisible-role-of-women-in-africas-liberation-movements/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-invisible-role-of-women-in-africas-liberation-movements

In a society where it seems like the power to create meaningful change on climate concerns is concentrated in the hands of few, witnessing the youth attempt to counter this dynamic is always insp...

https://researchblog.duke.edu/2024/04/02/students-offer-their-voices-of-change-to-climate-commitment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=students-offer-their-voices-of-change-to-climate-commitment

For some people, the word “rainforest” conjures up vague notions of teeming jungles. But Camille DeSisto sees something more specific: a complex interdependent web. For the past few years, th...

https://researchblog.duke.edu/2024/04/01/to-get-a-fuller-picture-of-a-forest-research-requires-a-team-effort/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=to-get-a-fuller-picture-of-a-forest-research-requires-a-team-effort

If your community relied on COVID-19 rapid tests to reopen safely during the first year of the pandemic, there’s a good chance Rajiv Shah had something to do with it. Not just for his ambition ...

https://researchblog.duke.edu/2024/03/30/big-bets-on-humanity-how-rajiv-shahs-audacity-is-winning-the-fight-against-pandemics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=big-bets-on-humanity-how-rajiv-shahs-audacity-is-winning-the-fight-against-pandemics

“I have been interested in storytelling and the environment since my earliest memories,” says Ashley Hillard, a documentary filmmaker with an interest in wildlife management and conservation ...

https://researchblog.duke.edu/2024/03/27/biodiversity-is-essential-and-its-not-a-nice-to-have/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=biodiversity-is-essential-and-its-not-a-nice-to-have