Anthropologist & Historian | Guatemala & Mexico | Colonial Indigenous Economies | 19c History of Statistics | History of Anthropology
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Trump ordena purgar los famosos museos Smithsonian de ideología "antiestadouniense" - BBC News Mundo
Información:
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Trump ordena purgar los museos Smithsonian de ideología "antiestadouniense" - BBC News Mundo
La orden ejecutiva indica que las "narrativas divisivas" deben ser purgadas de los museos y centros de investigación operados por el Instituto Smithsonian en Estados Unidos.
Direct Attacks on Science/Social Science in Higher Education through Capping Indirect Cost Rates: Why Anthropologists Should Care
Anthropology News
Direct Attacks on Science/Social Science in Higher Education through Capping Indirect Cost Rates: Why Anthropologists Should Care - Anthropology News
“Congress should cap the indirect cost rate paid to universities so that it does not exceed the lowest rate a university accepts from a private
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Pionnières du monde funéraire
Historien.nes de la santé
Pionnières du monde funéraire
Pionnières du monde funéraire ! La mort a changé leur vie Juliette Cazes Éditions du trésor 31 octobre 2024 ISBN : 979-10-91534-92-5 Gardie...
Behind every great woman in science, there’s another great woman in science
Nature
Behind every great woman in science, there’s another great woman in science
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others.
Open repositories cannot ignore retractions and corrections
Impact of Social Sciences
Open repositories cannot ignore retractions and corrections - Impact of Social Sciences
Repositories for academic papers often do not reflect retractions and corrections to published papers, can this be resolved?
‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown
Nature
‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown
Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Call for members to the operational committees of the ISC Regional Focal Point for Latin America and the Caribbean
International Science Council
Call for members to the operational committees of the ISC Regional Focal Point for Latin America and the Caribbean - International Science Council
Join us in strengthening science for sustainability in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Heads Up, History Buffs: Most of Kent State’s Sanborn Maps Are Now in the Public Domain | Kent State University
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Heads Up, History Buffs: Most of Kent State’s Sanborn Maps Are Now in the Public Domain
Heads Up, History Buffs: Most of Kent State’s Sanborn Maps Are Now in the Public Domain | Kent State Today, University Libraries, College of Arts & Sciences Research & Science, Community & Society,...
Come ROR with us: Using ROR IDs in place of Funder IDs
Blog on Crossref
Come ROR with us: Using ROR IDs in place of Funder IDs - Crossref
Today, we’re delighted to let you know that Crossref members can now use ROR IDs to identify funders in any place where you currently use Funder IDs in your metadata. Funder IDs remain available, but...
Sexual harassment allegations linked to drop in citations
Nature
Sexual harassment allegations linked to drop in citations
But numbers remain steady for researchers who commit scientific misconduct.
Does authorship mean anything when academic papers are simply citable tokens?
Impact of Social Sciences
Does authorship mean anything when academic papers are simply citable tokens?
The bibliometric infrastructure of citations has become an inescapable organising feature of academic life. Drawing on a range of evidence of the use and misuse of citations data, Stuart Macdonald …
Trekking across Nepal to bridge its gender gap in the sciences
Nature
Trekking across Nepal to bridge its gender gap in the sciences
Biochemist Babita Paudel strives to change Nepal’s standing as the Asian country with the lowest participation of women in science.
Will AI jeopardize science photography? There’s still time to create an ethical code of conduct
Nature
Will AI jeopardize science photography? There’s still time to create an ethical code of conduct
Generative artificial-intelligence illustrations can be helpful, but fall short as scientific records.
Les comparto un capítulo sobre cómo los índices de la Escribanía de Cámara y Sección de Tierras de Guatemala (ahora en el Ministerio de Gobernación) son guías de la geografía del territorio guatemalteco desde el siglo XVI hasta el siglo XIX.
El capítulo:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...Understanding global anti-gender politics
LSE Review of Books
Understanding global anti-gender politics
Transnational Anti-Gender Politics: Feminist Solidarity in Times of Global Attack edited by Aiko Holvikivi, Billy Holzberg and Tomás Ojeda brings together analyses of anti-gender movements in count…
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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
DEIA and Doing the Right Thing
The Scholarly Kitchen
DEIA and Doing the Right Thing - The Scholarly Kitchen
Now is a time when we must continue to stand against censorship and to support the scholarly community in both our words and our actions, according to our ethics and beliefs.
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“We are a target”: scientific society under pressure after Trump DEI crackdown
Nature
“We are a target”: scientific society under pressure after Trump DEI crackdown
The American Society for Microbiology deleted terms such as equity from its website, sparking protests from members.
Convocatoria 2026
Ichan Tecolotl
» Convocatoria - CIESAS
Ichan Tecolotl, Revista de divulgación enfocada en temas de antropología, ciencias sociales y humanidades, con una periodicidad mensual y editada por el Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores...
Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos
Nature
Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos
The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages.
Weathering the Storm: What Will 2025 Bring for Academia?
The Scholarly Kitchen
Weathering the Storm: What Will 2025 Bring for Academia? - The Scholarly Kitchen
My glass of optimism is usually full. But my glass is leaking now, or maybe it’s broken? The realities of the new political landscape have cast its shadow on the future of academia.
I spent a year studying campus sexual violence. Here’s what I found out
Nature
I spent a year studying campus sexual violence. Here’s what I found out
Institutions that don’t respond to sexual-assault allegations are failing to protect people who could be targeted in future, says Nicole Bedera.
E. P. Thompson and the American Working Class
JSTOR Daily
E. P. Thompson and the American Working Class - JSTOR Daily
Published in 1963, Thompson’s influential The Making of the English Working Class quickly led to questions about the nature of the American working class.
Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data | Library Innovation Lab
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Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data | Library Innovation Lab
In recent months the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers,...
As data goes off-line under Trump, researchers upload backups
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As data goes off-line under Trump, researchers upload backups
A team of scholars has worked since November to archive resources that are valuable to themselves and the public—just in case they were taken down.
USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites - POLITICO
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USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites
The directive could affect information across dozens of programs including climate-smart agriculture initiatives.
Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin
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Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
Safeguarding Research ✊ - Safeguarding as much publicly available material as possible.
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Safeguarding Research ✊
Organizing to safeguard as much publicly available research, GLAM-collections, etc. pp. as possible.
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The monster in the room | Science
Science Magazine
AES Editorial Intern Program: Call for Applications (due Friday, March 7, 2025)
American Ethnological Society
AES Editorial Intern Program: Call for Applications (due Friday, March 7, 2025) - American Ethnological Society
Interested in getting involved with the discipline in a new way? Consider applying to the American Ethnological Society Editorial Intern program! We are
Chaos erupts in US science as Trump’s team declares freeze on federal grants
Nature
Chaos erupts in US science as Trump’s team declares freeze on federal grants
The freeze’s effect on research is still unclear, but scientists fear ‘incalculable’ damage.
The Winners and Losers of Generative AI in the Freelance Job Market
Oxford Internet Institute
OII | The Winners and Losers of Generative AI in the Freelance Job Market
A new study led by an international research team, including Dr Fabian Braesemann from the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford, shows how Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are reshaping...
Are we all Unethical?
Anthrometronom
Are we all Unethical?
Franz Templin discusses the role of formalized review processes in determining ethical conduct in ethnographic research...
Writing Creatively For Work Or Study
Blog – Helen Kara
Writing Creatively For Work Or Study
I have written a book called Writing Creatively For Work or Study: Easy Techniques to Engage Your Readers which is now available for pre-order and will be published in May. This is my first trade b…
PRESS RELEASE: Doomsday Clock set at 89 seconds to midnight, closest ever to human extinction
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Archiving the Scholarly Internet | Katina Magazine
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Archiving the Scholarly Internet
While its results are fewer in number and slower to load than Google Scholar, Internet Archive Scholar provides a free, open, transparent, and nonprofit alternative to the popular commercial tool. Most...
Collective solutions for individual problems: self-organised participation structures in Barcelona
Researching Sociology @ LSE
Collective solutions for individual problems: self-organised participation structures in Barcelona
In this blog post, Olaf Tietje shows how the current popular protests against mass tourism in Barcelona (Spain) are linked to the dissatisfaction of the residents of the Raval district. The transfo…
“Let it Go” and “Defying Gravity”: Queer Anthems in Lockstep
JSTOR Daily
“Let it Go” and “Defying Gravity”: Queer Anthems in Lockstep - JSTOR Daily
The leading songs from Wicked and Frozen emphasize the importance of self-determination and being true to oneself.
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How language barriers are impeding science learning
Global
How language barriers are impeding science learning
Learning science in your native language can improve understanding, but many students in Africa lack this opportunity.
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📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections."
More info:
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#WomensHistory #GLAM
WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers
First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…
“The world is an amazing place”: Anthropology and the 1990s
History of Anthropology Review
“The world is an amazing place”: Anthropology and the 1990s
by Michael Edwards When I was growing up in Australia in the early 1990s, my parents were a little strict about not letting me watch too many cartoons and ads on commercial TV. Instead, I watched a…
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Call for Pitches: Signal/Noise
Anthropology News
Call for Pitches: Signal/Noise - Anthropology News
Issued: January 17, 2025 Pitches due: rolling until February 7, 2025 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites
Jack Goody between Social Anthropology and World History: BOOK LAUNCH (online & in person), January 23, 2025
History of Anthropology Review
Jack Goody between Social Anthropology and World History: BOOK LAUNCH (online & in person), January 23, 2025
To mark publication of the 50th and final volume in the series “Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia,” there will be a book launch at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthrop…
The Question of Genocide | The Weekly Read
Duke University Press News
The Question of Genocide | The Weekly Read
The Weekly Read for January 18, 2025, is “The Question of Genocide,” a written dialogue between Jonathan Beller and Ali Musleh published in Social Text issue 161. Read this article for free t…
James Q. Whitman, From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World – Cambridge University Press, November 2024
Progressive Geographies
progressivegeographies.com/2025/01/17/james-q-…
James Q. Whitman, From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World – Cambridge University Press, November 2024
James Q. Whitman, From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World – Cambridge University Press, November 2024 Today we think of land as the para…
Does Altering A Dataset Merit Retraction?
The Scholarly Kitchen
Does Altering A Dataset Merit Retraction? - The Scholarly Kitchen
Self-archiving on personal sites is perfectly permitted under many journal data policies. But what happens when an author alters the underlying data?
Call for Participants: 2025 Canadian History and Environment Summer Symposium
NiCHE
Call for Participants: 2025 Canadian History and Environment Summer Symposium
The 2025 Canadian History and Environment Summer Symposium (CHESS) will be hosted by the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. This year’s theme is “Contamination...
Staging Arrests as Historical Method
History Workshop
Staging Arrests as Historical Method
What did it mean to arrest someone in early modern England? Lucy Clarke explores through practice-as-research and staging arrests.
CfP: Law and the Critique of Political Economy: 60th Anniversary of Reading Capital
Critical Legal Thinking
CfP: Law and the Critique of Political Economy: 60th Anniversary of Reading Capital
“Of course, we have all read, and all do read Capital. For almost a century, we have been able to read it every day, transparently, in the dramas and
Domain Seizures and German ISP Blockade Add to Libgen's Troubles * TorrentFreak
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Domain Seizures and German ISP Blockade Add to Libgen's Troubles * TorrentFreak
LibGen continues to face trouble. Besides technical problems, domain seizures and site blocking continue to plague the shadow library.
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Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future edited by Irfan Ahmed (2024): A Review by Adarsh Shahi
Doing Sociology
doingsociology.org/2025/01/11/anthropo…
Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future edited by Irfan Ahmed (2024): A Review by Adarsh Shahi - Doing Sociology
What do we do when we do anthropology? Ethnography? An almost reflexive answer in today’s time. This growing conflation between ethnography and anthropology—with one often substituting for the other—concerned...
