Graduate students, the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) invites you to submit your scholarly work to be considered for the Eric R. Wolf Prize.

Since 1960 there has been a steady decline in the number of children born each year in the United States. As a result, the number of eighteen- to twenty-one-year-old adults will decline from approxim...

There was only one newspaper in Philadelphia that published on Friday, July 5, 1776. It was a German-language newspaper and got the scoop about what the Continenal Congress had done the day before.

One of my favorite courses to teach is an upper-level anthropology seminar called “Animality and the Human Question.” Part multi-species ethnogra...

Although research has bipartisan support in the US Congress, and trust in science is above 75% across the country, the Trump administration seems as determined as ever to mortally wound the nation’s s...

Anthropologists and other scholarly authors are increasingly expected to disclose and describe their use of generative AI. In this commentary, we sketch emerging practices of AI disclosure and attrib...

***Description*** This dataset contains full/un-excerpted transcripts of three interviews, and of a group discussion/peer review session, conducted...

This article explores some current efforts to reconfigure research practices in the field of social/cultural anthropology, in ways that intersect with the open research movement but cannot be reduced ...

Cancer Research UK’s decision to stop funding article processing charges marks a significant shift in how they approach open access. In its April 1st announcement (not an April Fool), the org…

In the first few minutes of a Zoom meeting, as the faces we expect appear one by one, it’s easy to fill the space by swapping notes about the weather...

March 24, 2026 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is pleased to launch a new two-year pilot program to increase the number of open access scholarly books published […]

What can farm records teach us about same-sex relationships? Researcher Tim Jerrome shares his work exploring queer rural experiences.

Ava Jinying Salzman’s artwork helps people process difficult feelings.

Conceptual frameworks of 'Open Science' and their implementation by funders, journals, institutions and other organisations have been criticised on the grounds that they are tailored primarily to quan...

Over the past few years, repositories have been encountering a growing number of bots trying to access their resources. These bots, or crawlers, navigate the internet, gathering data and indexing i…

The last few working days of a very long year are an apt moment to reflect on how we experience time within the research enterprise. A recent book by science...

or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement

Today's guest bloggers share results of an exploratory survey of funding research services, offering a snapshot of a library community in transition.

Poor preservation threatens the scholarly blogging ecosystem. What makes scholarly blogs sustainable and how can these practices be promoted?

The Center for Open Science (COS) was awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to develop a community-driven strategic plan for ensuring long-term preservation, accessibility, and usability of federally-funded scientific data.

Despite calls to fund reproducibility studies, resources would be better spent on developing tools that help researchers assess uncertainty.

How Volunteers Make Sacred Harp Singing Possible When hundreds of singers gathered at the Laurelhurst Club in Southeast Portland for the 34th Pacific Northwest Sacred Harp Singing Convention in mid-O...

Subscribe to the email version of the ARL Monitor. ARL Monitor: Public Edition (Fall 2025) In the Government Affairs section of this issue, research funding on either side of the 49th parallel gets...

In 2008, technologist Chris Anderson famously predicted the end of theory, as massively abundant data reduced the need for researchers to develop and test explanatory models. “Who knows why people...

The Machine Actionable Plans (MAP) Pilot project is in its final phase, providing institutions with resources to enable them to explore the potential uses of machine-actionable data-management plans (...

The report defines social interoperability and describes the network of campus units involved in major areas of university research support services. It concludes by offering recommendations for culti...

Light-based analysis of botanical collections link plants to Earth’s changing climate.