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We are a fully #openaccess publishing house, publishing peer reviewed scholarly literature, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. We are open for submissions by academics globally. #ReadUP
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'An Anthropology of Crosslocations' (2024) brings together seven anthropologists. In this #multigraph, Sarah Green and her co-authors introduce a radical new approach to understanding #location.

Read the #OAbook for free via: doi.org/10.33134/HUP....

#anthropology #ethnography #politicalgeography
The book cover of 'An Anthropology of Crosslocations' by Sarah Green, Samuli Lähteenmäki, Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki, Carl Rommel, Joseph J. Viscomi, Laia Soto Bermant, and Patricia Scalco. Next to the cover image is an endorsement from Matei Candea, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. The endorsement reads: “This fascinating and multistranded book opens up anew the question of how ‘somewheres’ come to be. Moving back and forth across the Mediterranean, tracing disconnections as much as connections, the authors carefully and vividly triangulate the rich complexity of spatial coexistence and the shifting struggles between overlapping ways of locating particular places.”
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Utelias mieli -podcastin uusimmissa jaksoissa käsitellään kiinnostavia aiheita, kuten suomalaisen ruokakulttuurin muutosta ja erilaisia vuorokausirytmejä.

Podcast on vapaasti kuunneltavissa. Löydät jaksolistan sekä jaksojen tekstiversiot täältä: www.helsinki.fi/fi/ajankohta...
Podcast: Utelias mieli | Helsingin yliopisto
Utelias mieli on Helsingin yliopiston oma podcast, joka puhuu tieteestä tunteella. Jokaisessa jaksossa haastatellaan yliopiston tutkijaa, joka kertoo oman alansa mielenkiintoisimmasta ja innostavimmas...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Onko huumorilla paikkaa yhteiskunnallisessa keskustelussa? Tule kuulemaan aiheesta Tiedonjulkistamisen neuvottelukunnan ja Suomen tiedetoimittajain liiton järjestämään Tiedeviestintäkongressiin 20.11. — tapahtuma on avoin!

Tutustu ohjelmaan ja ilmoittaudu 17.11. mennessä: tjnk.fi/fi/tapahtuma...
Tiedeviestintäkongressi 2025
TJNK:n ja Suomen tiedetoimittajain liiton yhteinen tiedeviestintäkongressi tulee jälleen, teemana tällä kertaa Huumori! Huumori on ihmisyhteisöjen liima, parisuhteiden pelastus, vaikeiden aikojen voit...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Upcoming #conference!

The 23rd Nordic Migration Research (NMR) Conference will be held at Södertörn University (Sweden) from 12–14 August 2026. The call for panel and paper proposals is now open.

Learn more: www.sh.se/institutione...

#CfP #migrationstudies #migration #Nordic
Nordic Migration Research conference - Södertörns högskola
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November 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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In 'The Birth and Death of Liberal Democracy in Hungary', Emilia Palonen explores the transformation of Hungary’s #political landscape in the post-communist era.

Find the #openaccess book at: doi.org/10.33134/pro...

#populism #polarisation #illiberalism #politicalscience #culturalstudies #Hungary
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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📣 Call for Papers!

'Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics' invites submissions for a special issue on Eduard Hanslick’s 'On the Musically Beautiful' (1854). The issue is scheduled for publication in September 2027. More info at: estetikajournal.org/announcements

#CfP #philosophy #aesthetics
November 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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"Social media still matters, but for many, it has become a space of pressure, fatigue, and diminishing returns."

Watchorn and Schnelle discuss the causes and effects of fragmented academic #socialmedia. Read the full post on the Scholarly Kitchen blog.

@scholarlykitchen.bsky.social #ScholCom
Guest Post — The Great Pullback: Why Academic Social Media’s Fragmentation Matters - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest bloggers share insights into the fragmented, tiring, and uncertain digital landscape for academics, and evidence that a shift is underway — with implications for scholarly communication ...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Are you a member of the ALPSP community—or considering joining? Take a moment to share your thoughts in the 2025 survey!

#scholarlypublishing #ScholCom
alpsp.bsky.social ALPSP @alpsp.bsky.social · Sep 8
📢 Calling all scholarly publishing professionals!

Would you like to have a hand in improving the ALPSP Membership for yourself and for others within the scholarly publishing community?

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October 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Avoimen tieteen ja tutkimuksen talvipäivät lähestyvät! Perehdy tapahtuman ohjelmaan ja ilmoittaudu mukaan 19.11. mennessä.

#avointiede #avointutkimus
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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The Nordic Journal of Migration Studies (NJMR) is a fully #openaccess journal that publishes theoretical and empirical analyses of #migratory processes. Explore the latest articles and book reviews at:
journal-njmr.org/articles

@njmr.bsky.social #migrationstudies #migration #scholarlypublishing
October 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Tuomas Tammisto's monograph 'Hard Work' (2024) combines a #PoliticalEcology focus on the connection between #environmental issues and power relations with a focus on how value is produced, represented, and materialized.

Read or download the book for free at: doi.org/10.33134/HUP...
The cover of 'Hard Work' by Tuomas Tammisto, accompanied by a quote from Dr. Sophie Chao from the University of Sydney. The quote reads: "A true labor of care and creativity, this ethnography promises to become a landmark work in environmental anthropology, political ecology, and Pacific studies."
October 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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"The failure of ChatGPT to follow the cooperative principles of communication in addressing mundane commonsense issues, suggests that the use of ‘digital human or ‘human talk’ is inappropriate."

George Gaskell writes about ChatGPT's limitations in adopting human conversational skills.

#AI #ChatGPT
lseimpactblog.bsky.social LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · Sep 26
👀 ICYMI: "At the heart of a satisfactory conversation, the philosopher Paul Grice, specifies four maxims; Quantity~ Quality ~ Relevance [&] Manner: avoid obscurity, ambiguity, and verbosity ~ it is not unreasonable to assume that it should follow them"

#ChatGPT #AcademicSky
ChatGPT doesn’t think like a human, so why does it speak like one? - Impact of Social Sciences
Large language models like ChatGPT adopt aspects of human speech to give the impression of human intelligence. George Gaskell highlights the limits of ChatGPT’s conversational ethics, common sense…
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October 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Open Access Week continues—check out the events on the official site!

#OAWeek #openaccess #publishing
sparcopen.bsky.social SPARC @sparcopen.bsky.social · 18d
So much is happening during #OAWeek! Check out our interactive map to find an #OpenAccess event near you or online to enjoy today or tomorrow. www.openaccessweek.org/events
2025 Events — International Open Access Week
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October 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Mari Toivanen's 'Remote and Roaming' situates #digitalnomadism within broader patterns of remote #work. The volume highlights the societal and global transformations currently unfolding in relation to #employment, #mobility, and #digitalisation.

Read the #openaccess book at: doi.org/10.33134/HUP...
October 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Godess-Riccitelli explores a potential avenue for applying ‘aesthetic methodology’ through an examination of Kant’s distinction between method and #aesthetic manner.

Read the article on the new issue of 'Estetika' at: doi.org/10.33134/eej...

#Kant #AestheticMethodology #artist #art
October 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Vielä ehdit ilmoittautua mukaan tähän maksuttomaan webinaariin!

#EPUB #saavutettavuus #julkaiseminen
helsinkiupress.bsky.social Helsinki University Press @helsinkiupress.bsky.social · Oct 2
Haluatko oppia lisää saavutettavien EPUB-kirjojen tekemisestä?

Saavutettavuuskirjasto Celia järjestää 30.10. klo 10-11 webinaarin InDesign-osaajille. Kouluttajana toimii saavutettavuusasiantuntija Jonas Lillqvist. Webinaari on maksuton ja suomenkielinen. Ilmoittaudu mukaan 28.10. mennessä!
Ilmoittautuminen webinaariin Saavutettavampia EPUB-kirjoja InDesignilla to 30.10.2025
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October 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Today marks the start of #OAweek! This year's theme is "Who Owns Our Knowledge?" The annual #OpenAccess Week is organized by SPARC in partnership with the Open Access Week Advisory Committee. Check out the various events happening around the globe this week at www.openaccessweek.org.
October 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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"AI crawlers, their impacts, and speculative solutions, raise a number of large ethical and strategic questions for libraries to grapple with. Is this really what we meant by “open”?"

Kate Dohe examines the challenges academic #libraries face in the #AI era. Read more on the Scholarly Kitchen.
Guest Post - “Have You Proved You’re Human Today?” Open Content and Web Harvesting in the AI Era - The Scholarly Kitchen
AI web harvesting bots are different from traditional web crawlers and violate many of the established rules and practices in place. Their rapidly expanding use is emerging as a significant IT managem...
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October 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Tiedekulmassa perehdytään tiistaina 21.10. klo 17–19 sienten maailmaan. Sienten saloihin johdattavat Luonnontieteellisen keskusmuseon yli-intendentti Tuula Niskanen, yliopistonlehtori
Sari Timonen, apulaisprofessori Tuula Jyske ja laboratoriomestari Jutta Varis.

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Salaperäiset sienet | Tiedekulma | Helsingin yliopisto
Sienet kykenevät kommunikoimaan, loistamaan pimeässä ja elämään jopa tuhansia vuosia. Ne eivät ole eläimiä eivätkä kasveja, niitä elää sinunkin sisälläsi, ja ne taipuvat myös tulevaisuuden rakennusmat...
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October 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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"Just as in sport, where performance is reduced to a set of statistics, academic worth is increasingly compressed into numerical indicators that may overlook the quality, creativity, or broader societal relevance of research."

Wallaschek compares #research careers and sport on the LSE Impact Blog.
October 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Brian Conway's book 'Sacred Callings: An Eventful Analysis of the Global #Catholic Priesthood' (2025) introduces and tests a new critical events theory to help explain variation in #priesthood trends.

Read or download the book for free via: doi.org/10.33134/HUP...

#sociology #religion #openaccess
A quote from Brian Conway's book 'Sacred Callings', page 8. The quote reads: " ”I argue that [--] critical events theory, and attention to historical contingency and context, should be taken seriously alongside alternative explanations such as modernisation in accounting for the longitudinal development of the Catholic male workforce."
October 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Curious about ORCID iDs? 🔍 Check out the latest #FeedingTheElephant post to learn all about them 👇
hnetbookchannel.bsky.social The H-Net Book Channel @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social · Oct 8
Are you a social science or humanities scholar who has heard about ORCID iDs but isn't completely sure what it does? In today's #FeedingTheElephant post, James Shulman explains the importance of having an ORCID id.
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ORCID iDs for the Humanities | H-Net
A guest post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
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October 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Tieteessä tapahtuu -lehden numeron 4/2025 julkaisut käsittelevät muun muassa eläinhistoriaa, luontokadon syitä ja seurauksia sekä tarinallisuutta rahoitushakemusten tehokeinona.

Numero on avoimesti luettavissa osoitteessa: www.tieteessatapahtuu.fi/numerot/4-2025
VOL 43 NRO 4 (2025)
Tieteessä tapahtuu -lehti kokoaa yhteen eri tieteenalat. Se on foorumi ajankohtaisille ja yleistajuisille tiedeartikkeleille sekä keskustelulle tieteestä ja tiedepolitiikasta.
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October 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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"Tekoälykeskustelussa on paljon hypetystä, jolla luodaan kiireen tuntua ja myydään palveluita tai tuotteita. Mutta jos ei tiedä, mihin on menossa, on turha kiirehtiä – etenkin kun matkalla on myös vaaroja."

Professori Hannu Toivonen antaa Think Open -blogissa neuvoja tekoälyn turvalliseen käyttöön.
October 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Kadir Kılıç explores the contradiction in Kant’s writings on genius as both continuous and discontinuous with imitation.
Read the full article in the latest issue of 'Estetika': doi.org/10.33134/eej...

#Kant #imitation #aesthetics #openaccess
October 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM