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Thinkers Wanted!

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab is recruiting people who love to solve puzzles, logic games, and analytic problems to participate in research studies that explore
crowdsourced reasoning.

We’re looking for highly motivated, inquisitive, open-minded individuals to solve challenging problems alone or in teams. You can join the CREATE research study if you:

  • Are 18 years or older
  • Read and write English fluently
  • Have reliable internet access and will accept cookies from the study website

What will we learn from CREATE?
CREATE research studies will help us learn more about how people reason when solving complex problems, and how they communicate their reasoning to other people. We are particularly interested in how teams share and evaluate possible solutions, and how they collaborate to develop a common solution.

Our findings will inform and shape the tools and processes that intelligence analysts use to develop and communicate their reasoning. Our goal is to help the Intelligence Community reason comprehensively and communicate clearly so that they can, in turn, help our policymakers and government leaders make better decisions.

Although this research is focused on helping the Intelligence Community, the same insights can also help other professionals who solve hard problems from incomplete evidence.

Who is funding this research?
The CREATE research studies are funded by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).

What if I still have questions?
Send any questions to info@create.jhuapl.edu.

The St Antony's International Review is now accepting abstract submissions for its upcoming special issue Anthropocene: Embodying Climate Breakdown. This special issue, to be published in February 2020, invites authors to investigate how the Anthropocene is shaping notions of human security, power, agency, and justice—and, in turn, how they are shaping the Anthropocene. Additionally, it aims to address how international affairs are changing in the face of climate breakdown, and how the effects of climate breakdown are distributed, felt, and negotiated—particularly in the realm of international relations. More information about the scope of the issue and suggestions for contributions are included in the attached Call for Abstracts.

Abstract submissions of up to 500 words should be made via an online STAIR submissions form by 5 May 2019. Any questions or inquiries can be directed to stair-journal@politics.ox.ac.uk.

About STAIR:

STAIR is the University of Oxford's peer-reviewed journal of international affairs. Founded in 2005, STAIR has carved out its distinctive niche as a cross-disciplinary outlet for research on the most pressing contemporary global issues, providing a forum in which emerging can publish their work alongside established academics and policymakers. Past contributors include John Baylis, Alexander Betts, Robert Keohane, and Sarah Percy.