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

"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."

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Free-to-read version here (or feel free to DM me if you'd like to see the final version and don't have access):

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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...

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.

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'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...

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...

Thanks for the catch, Sebastian, we’re on it!

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.

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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…

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."

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

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 […]

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

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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!

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.

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.

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

This TikTok Artist Combines Monsters and Mental Heath | Harvard Magazine Ava Jinying Salzman’s artwork helps people process difficult feelings.

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

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...

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.

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

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."

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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…

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...

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.

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...

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."

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@faineg.bsky.social My diss, in case it’s of interest: repository.rice.edu/items/e08f59...

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

Context Widows or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement

this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.

Guest Post — Funding Research Services: How Libraries are Exploring Cost Recovery Models - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest bloggers share results of an exploratory survey of funding research services, offering a snapshot of a library community in transition.

With downward pressure on indirect costs at research institutions, some libraries are taking a closer look at direct charging to grant budgets for specialized services.

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When we talk about how changes in the U.S. federal funding landscape will affect the future of scholarship, this has just become my Exhibit A.

The case for preserving scholarly blogs - Impact of Social Sciences Poor preservation threatens the scholarly blogging ecosystem. What makes scholarly blogs sustainable and how can these practices be promoted?

💥New: The case for preserving scholarly

✍️ @pampel.bsky.social & @catharinaochsner.bsky.social

#AcWri #ScholComm #OpenResearch

Center for Open Science Awarded Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Preserve and Safeguard Publicly Funded Scientific Data 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.

📢 Excited to share that COS has been 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.

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Build Confidence in Science by Embracing Uncertainty Rather Than Chasing Reproducibility Despite calls to fund reproducibility studies, resources would be better spent on developing tools that help researchers assess uncertainty.

Finding that a study can't be reproduced is just the beginning of exploring the "variable space" that might explain why.

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