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Open Access from #PracticingAnthropology: Connecting the Dots: A Collaborative Ethnography of Plastic Leakages in Indonesia & the Philippines by Hardon, Pakasi, Hidayana, Taqueban, Moyer, van Zeben, Dey, Nichter & Lim Tan doi.org/10.1080/0888... @practicinganthro1.bsky.social #SfAA #anthropology

From memory spectacles on national TV to experiments in sensory transmission, today on Platypus explore the way reform-era China cultivated new ways of feeling information, redefining human potential in a technological world. blog.castac.org/2025/09/a-fe...

Exploring the Potential Merger of DSpace and DSpace-CRIS (Q+A Session) https://lyrasis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G_ZvVckjRZqnz2d1LSNfPg

📣 Save the date!! Next Community Call: R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages 📦 🚀 📆 Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC with Will Landau 👉 Information + find your local time + How to join: https://ropensci.org/commcalls/r-multiverse/ #rstats

Save 30% on #NewBook "Homesick," by Nicholas Shapiro, which examines the US government's distribution of over 120,000 toxic trailers following Hurricane Katrina, their devastating health effects, and the need to create new forms of accountability and change. #EnvStudies #FEMA buff.ly/YDhRXx0

仮説一覧のページはこちら hraf.yale.edu/ehc/hypotheses

ここのイエール大学のサイトすごいな。 仮説をずらっとリストして、それに対する支持／不支持を一覧してる。 知らなかった。 hraf.yale.edu/ehc/document...

Congratulations Dr Hee Chung Chun for brilliantly defending her dissertation on how teachers scaffold talk for adult novice learners in Korean language classes! A careful, insightful CA study. With co-chair @galinabolden.bsky.social & committee @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social & Hansun Waring🥂 #emca

I think that if you are trying to understand the Anthropic book settlement, and you are not doing it in light of the (extremely) failed Google book settlement from 2011, you will never be able to understand what is happening.

New issue of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 40, No. 3 (2025) academic.oup.com/dsh/issue/40/3 @adho-org.bsky.social @eadhorg.bsky.social

Very happy to see my review of the racial residential segregation literature with John Parman in the latest issue of Journal of Economic Literature @aeajournals.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Genes reveal a secret history of language. New research shows that as populations mix, their languages borrow and change to surprisingly consistent extents, driven by social forces, not just cognitive limits. #Linguistics #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Genes

"…a valuable resource for understanding the role of race in the sociopolitical context of history." — @choicereviews.bsky.social #SundayReview #ReadUP tinyurl.com/y5jjbz7u #TribalWorlds #AmericanHistory #Anthropology #IndigenousStudies

programming computers is socio-anthropology actually

New issue of Dao Vol. 24, No. 3 (2025) link.springer.com/journal/1171...

The child of someone I know was told to do their UCAS statement using chatGPT. As someone who reads UCAS statements and makes admissions decisions, for me this will be bad for the applicant. I wouldn't reject outright but it's difficult to know whether to accept with nothing real to read.

me, downloading the template for yet another grant proposal

Our posting is now up for a Lecturer (Asst prof) in Social Psych at the University of Auckland Please apply! Portal closes 20 Oct NZT. That's the 19th stateside bc here in New Zealand we live in the future I'm not on the committee so am unconflicted and happy to chat with interested folks

Important reading as you prepare for your semester

First chance to see newly uncovered Roman village in Somerset www.bbc.com/news/article...

Postdoc Opening | University of Arizona The SPECIEs Lab is hiring a 3-year postdoc. Focus: interdependence, cooperation, fieldwork w/ the Mayangna (Nicaragua), cross-cultural surveys, experiments. 🔗

two more in Ghostly Lessons! * Ricardo Roque considers the ghostly dynamic of the historical archive www.at-commons.com/pub/u9q4ocbz... * Lisette Jong asks if orangutans can speak and whether they conjure ghosts of human evolution science www.at-commons.com/pub/pneeteps...

Early ethnographers often wrote such practices off as "primitive". Supposedly, they said, more "advanced" societies would rather use measurement standards. But our data shows that, at least on a regional level, people have persisted using body-based units even long after standards were invented.

New special issue of Advances in Archaeological Practice Vol. 13 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Caring for Culture in the 21st Century @saa-aap.bsky.social @apsap.bsky.social @archaeojake.bsky.social @sherr-spadefoot.bsky.social @drdonnayates.bsky.social @dremilinesmith.bsky.social

To AI or not to AI? "We have to figure out how to ask our search engine the same question essentially in different forms until we generate the kind of results that are most effective for the research that we're doing" 👏👏👏 digitalcommons.unf.edu/instructionp...

A great podcast and incredible resource from our member library at University of North Florida. Check out Episode 19 for research tips, our eHRAF Archaeology database, and invaluable advice on constructing search strings! @libraryberyl.bsky.social digitalcommons.unf.edu/instructionp...

“As governments eliminate programs that feed people, global citizens should understand the downstream effects of hunger and malnutrition—and how ... institutions like the comedores act as a dam against the swelling tide of food insecurity.” Read more: www.sapiens.org/biology/arge...

HRAF President Carol Ember was interviewed for this article in New Scientist: www.newscientist.com/article/2488...

Fibished reading Shamanism by @manvir.bsky.social. Stellar book. Reads like an engaging travelogue laced with HRAF and Erowid. Ends with some very relevant discussion around contemporary anthropology's reluctance of dealing with systematic cross-cultural research.

That paper got me excited about doing cross-cultural research using archival data. But I was out of ideas, and one day on Old Twitter, I complained about not having ideas. Luckily @felixthehauskat.bsky.social DM'd me about an idea: string figures. That was a rabbit hole. bsky.app/profile/roop...

🔬The NSF–Jacobs Foundation workshop on Deconstructing the Universal Mind explored cultural variation, open science, and what comes next for cross-cultural research. 🔗 Highlights: cps-vo.org/group/cise-s... #LEVANTE #Science #Research

🧵 1/ CCEs @michelleakline.bsky.social , @nicolewen.bsky.social and Nachita Rosun all contributed to ….“Meet A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning” 📣💪🤩 edited by the lovely @sheinalew.bsky.social

out now in Open Mind: the expanded Natural History of Song Discography, an audio resource with 1007 songs in many languages + their metadata open-access paper: doi.org/10.1162/opmi... open-access audio corpus: zenodo.org/records/14927216 from @milabertolo.bsky.social, Marty Snarskis & many others

What is shame for? It’s not just a social emotion—it’s an evolved defense mechanism against being devalued by others. New cross-cultural research shows shame works the same way across the globe. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #EvolutionaryPsychology #Emotions #Anthropology

Did you know that our field guide to cross-cultural research on childhood learning is completely FREE? books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...

Now out in JPSP! Behavioral economic experiments w/ Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Jews in the U.S., Israel and Fiji show that belief in God can facilitate cooperation, even across religious divides! More about our work (co-led with @jeremyginges.bsky.social) below! psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

What do mushrooms, political power, artificial intelligence, gender equality, moral gods and egalitarianism have in common? They're all subjects of the fascinating new eHRAF-based research featured in the latest Academic Quarterly: hraf.yale.edu/hraf-academi...

Your astonishing artifact for the week is this 4,600-year-old LEGO-looking gold hair helmet. 🧪🏺

🦠 Where future pandemics might start A new study maps global hotspots for disease outbreaks, showing how climate change, deforestation, and crowded cities are creating the conditions for the next epidemic. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #SciComm #GlobalHealth #Pandemics 🧪

Once cut off in Brazil’s Javari valley, communities are increasingly turning to the trappings of the outside world – from the internet to solar power and biscuits – with as yet unknown effects on their health, culture and future. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

From the archives

Anthropologists, we are all in this together.

Learn about Oklahoma State University’s Department of Sociology & other sociology departments in the 2025 ASA Guide to Grad Departments of Sociology. Now completely online & free for ASA members. Available for a fee to nonmembers. https://bit.ly/ASAGradGuide