A survey of Indian academic library involvement with #OpenScience concludes that “systemic infrastructure and capacity gaps are more pressing than [lack of researcher] motivation.” www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

holy shit when did spindrift start making cherry

Thanks for the boost, and also for modeling what it looks like to #DefendResearch 🫶

Lisa Schiff@lschiff.bsky.social · 4w ago

Great guest Scholarly Kitchen post from @marcellaflamme.bsky.social of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) about the harm the #OMB proposed reg changes would have on research #libraries and #knowledge overall! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/09/g...

Thanks for the invitation to share where we landed!

alicemeadows.bsky.social@alicemeadows.bsky.social · 4w ago

Continuing @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social's series of posts on the #OMB proposed rule change, it's great to get a #library perspective today from @marcellaflamme.bsky.social of @arl.org scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/09/g...

Microbiome science begins with cold hands and a barcode that has to survive the wind. New on Platypus, @victor.secco@bsky.social follows sampling expeditions on the Belgian coast to trace the invisible labour that turns soil and water into data — and asks who gets the credit.

My favorite piece of #America250 trivia, which I learned at the Newseum (RIP). Our republic, multilingual from the start. cardinalnews.org/2026/07/02/t...

The first newspaper to report on the Declaration of Independence published in German

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.

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Putting this here for teaching this fall: I love the mix of instructor-, class-, and individually designed questions. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

In Praise of the Oral Exam: Returning to Face-to-Face Conversation in the Age of AI

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

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Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Another red alert for American science

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...

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How would today’s GAO report have looked different if it had approached publisher resistance to no-cost zero embargo as a compliance issue, rather than a neutral business decision? www.gao.gov/products/gao...

"Contemporary science is evolving at a breathtaking pace, but archival practice is struggling to keep up—especially when it comes to capturing not just the final products of research but the full, dynamic process by which science is made." www.aip.org/library/ex-l...

The Future of Archives of Science: An Interview with Polina Ilieva

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Thanks to @kopyor.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute this piece to @amethno.bsky.social's next issue! We offer a primer on publisher expectations for the disclosure of AI use and consider local adaptations for a field like anthropology. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

American Ethnologist | AAA Ethnology Journal | Wiley Online Library

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...

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New interview-paper dropped yesterday. I'm so grateful for @timelfen.bsky.social and @marcellaflamme.bsky.social's intellectual companionship, and to PECE/EMERGE/xcol for their amazing work. Complete interview transcripts also now live on the CADS DataverseNL instance: dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtm...

'Emerging Forms of Open Research in Social/Cultural Anthropology' -- Interviews with PECE, EMERGE, and xcol - Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology

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

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Proud to have contributed this interview piece to the just-published MORPHSS special issue on openness in HSS. We profile three initiatives in anthropology that are doing openness in the key of generative reuse rather than reproducibility. journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/...

Sam Moore: "Funders cannot claim to want open access while withdrawing funding from open access. Instead, the support needs to be better targeted to the kinds of publishing models they want."

Why funders shouldn’t withdraw money from open access publishing

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…

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My latest #Repertoires post for @arl.org thinks with How to Weather Together (@bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social) about associations as adaptation infrastructure in uncertain times.

Kudos to @carl-abrc.bsky.social on this initiative to broaden the base of support for open monograph publishing at Canadian university presses 👏 www.carl-abrc.ca/news/carl-fu...

CARL Fund for Advancing Open Access Book Publishing - Canadian Association of Research Libraries

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 […]

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So cool to see these young people recognized as the “children as researchers delegation” at this week’s #ECSA2026 meeting. Good luck with your research!

Welbeck Primary School@welbeckps.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Year 5 pupils have just presented to 70 academics at the University of Oulu on ‘How much nature do children need?’ They spoke confidently about their research through experiences in nature, questionnaires, observations and linking with pupils in Koli #ScienceatWelbeck #50ThingsatWelbeck @ecsa.ngo

If you're researching queer history in England, farm records might be one of the last places you'd check. Yet for #LGBTQHistoryMonth, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares how he's tracing queer histories within our farm archives, and gives tips for future research. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Queer histories in the farm records

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

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Looking forward to reading more work in this vein at next month's D&S workshop on AI-enabled science 🦾

Data & Society@datasociety.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In one illustration of how AI is reshaping scientific practice, AI on the Ground Program Director Ranjit Singh considers the research a computational biologist is conducting on fruit flies, and the lessons it holds for the field. datasociety.net/points/simul...

This profile makes me proud to have been a folk and myth concentrator, twenty-plus years later.

This TikTok Artist Combines Monsters and Mental Heath | Harvard Magazine

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

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In the MORPHSS report **Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM**, we explore the narrow focus of existing frameworks of open research & propose more inclusive ways of accommodating the diversity of open practice across all disciplines.

Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM (A MORPHSS Project Report)

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...

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Very excited to help bring this event to fruition over the next two years, as ARL carries forward a commitment to the production of new knowledge that goes back to legacy offerings like our SPEC Kits and Research Library Issues publication. publications.arl.org

Association of Research Libraries@arl.org · 6mo ago

Big news! 🚀 We're launching IMPACT: Research Library Summit in July 2028! This new multitrack experience for scholars, researchers, and practitioners will advance the role of libraries in the research enterprise. www.arl.org/news/big-new... #IMPACT28 #Libraries

ICYMI Allen Institute For #AI (Ai2) Announces Launch of Theorizer ("Turning Thousands Of Papers Into Scientific Laws") allenai.org/blog/theorizer @ai2.bsky.social

Love how this new piece from @ubcokanagan.bsky.social's CE2 Lab brings #OpenScience to reflexive #ResearchCreation: "This protocol is offered as a (re)generative qualitative framework, open to iteration, variation, and adaptation." www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fq...

See our most recent resource on how repositories can mitigate the impact of AI bots. Spoiler alert, there is no silver bullet if you want to keep your repository open!!! coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

Mitigating the impact of AI bots

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…

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Anyone here know of studies of think tanks & research institutes, & their publications? I’m particularly interested in finding those that sponsor open-access journals but will take anything that discusses their publishing strategies.

Upcoming UKSG Webinar (Feb. 5, 2026): The Open Access – #AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train? www.uksg.org/events/free-... #LLMs #oa #trainingdata #scholcomm #publishing @uksg.bsky.social

On what would have been my dad's 83rd birthday, I'm starting a trial subscription to @theglobeandmail.com. He would probably have preferred a French-language outlet, but it's part of my 2026 goal to deepen engagement with @arl.org's Canadian members and their national context.

My last piece of writing for 2025. "If the constant challenge of staying in sync leads researchers to fixate on its accomplishment, then libraries can offer paths back to the wonder of discovery." www.arl.org/blog/reperto...

Repertoires: How Researchers Struggle to Stay In Sync — Association of Research Libraries

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...

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I was already feeling like this in 2018! I’m not following the space anymore, but interesting to hear that that’s still true.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 8mo ago

brushing up on semi-recent academic lit on drones (theory and other non-technical areas) and it is amazing how so many people publishing on the subject are still extremely locked into a *massively* out-dated US-led War on Terror mode of thinking about drone tech