» Trust Fall
06/13/20 15:00 from Invisibilia
Hacking, phishing, surveillance, disinformation... these are tools used to silence dissidents and influence elections. But what happens when these same methods are used against an ordinary citizen? The story of a man fighting an enemy he...

» From Communications Studies to Captured Content: A Junior Fellow’s Contribution to the Mass Communication Web Archive
08/20/25 09:00 from The Signal
In this blog post, 2025 Junior Fellow Kailyn Slater describes her work evaluating and expanding the Mass Communications Web Archive,

» An Unlikely Superpower
03/27/20 03:03 from Invisibilia
What if you had a superpower that allowed you to see part of the world that was to come? At the age of 60, a Scottish woman named Joy Milne discovers she has a biological gift that allows her to see things that will happen in the future ...

» The Great Narrative Escape
05/20/21 03:00 from Invisibilia
Imagine a TV show with no plot, no characters, no tension... and yet, it went viral! In this episode, we have a story that questions storytelling as we know it. Plus, co-hosts Kia Miakka Natisse and Yowei Shaw take a spectacularly unspec...

» When Women Say “Ta-Ta” to Ta-Tas
10/01/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
An anthropologist fighting cancer navigates the social pressure to get breast reconstruction after a mastectomy. ✽ “I’ve decided to go… The post When Women Say “Ta-Ta” to Ta-Tas appeared first on SAPIENS .

» International Friend of Mystery
09/30/21 14:40 from Invisibilia
You know the old saying--keep your friends close and your enemies closer. But what if you can't tell the difference? In this episode, the story of two friends who got caught up in a Top Secret operation that tested their assumptions abou...

» Dreamscapes of Refusal: A Chorus
10/20/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
SAPIENS poet-in-residence for 2025 listens to a chorus of dreams in her field recordings from Kashmir. ✽ “Dreaming has a… The post Dreamscapes of Refusal: A Chorus appeared first on SAPIENS .

» 08/31/23 PHD comic: 'New Book! Oliver's Great Big Universe!'
12/14/21 14:53 from PHD Comics
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: " New Book! Oliver's Great Big Universe! " - originally published 8/31/2023 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!

» American consumers are worried about their energy bills, the job market and the increased cost of groceries
10/22/25 12:45 from The Rural Blog

» There and back again
12/31/23 15:38 from anthro{dendum}
It’s fitting that I’m writing my last post for this site in Cabo Pulmo, Mexico, where I’d did all my doctoral fieldwork. That was back between 2009-2012. I joined the previous incarnation of this site, Savage Minds, after a guest bloggin...

» The Talk of the Office
04/05/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Reckoning with a reckoning.

» Friends with Benefits
10/21/21 14:47 from Invisibilia
A lot of us think that it's a bad idea to get physical with friends. We worry it'll get messy, maybe even ruin the friendship. But if physical intimacy between friends weren't so taboo, what could our friendships look like? In this episo...

» Reminder: Apply by Oct. 20 to host a journalist with support from Report for America
10/14/25 12:45 from The Rural Blog

» Recommended Formats Statement: Updates for 2025-2026
07/15/25 11:00 from The Signal
The Library of Congress has published the updated 2025-2026 Recommended Formats Statement. Updates have been made to preferred and accepted formats across multiple content categories, and are captured in a Change Log.

» Cold-Water Swimming Brings New Life to Aging Bodies
09/23/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
A researcher dips into life at a community pool in Cambridge, England, to find out why so many people over… The post Cold-Water Swimming Brings New Life to Aging Bodies appeared first on SAPIENS .

» Cattle ranchers concerned about Walmart’s impact on U.S. beef industry
10/22/25 12:55 from The Rural Blog

» Therapy Ghostbusters
09/23/22 03:00 from Invisibilia
In San Jose, California, a community clinic was stumped as to why their clients were seeing ghosts. This week, a story about grappling with ghosts of our past and one clinic's attempt to heal intergenerational trauma.

» States warn millions of SNAP and WIC recipients that a continued shutdown will pause November benefits
10/24/25 11:55 from The Rural Blog

» Power Tools
10/07/22 17:45 from Invisibilia
Bad bosses. Obnoxious coworkers. Unfair compensation. There are so many reasons people feel disempowered in the workplace. But how can our feelings about power enable or disrupt the larger dynamics we hate at work? This week, Yowei Shaw ...

» Chronicling the Creation, Distribution, and Consumption of Media: Inside the Mass Communications Web Archive
07/02/25 09:30 from The Signal
In this interview, Amber Paranick and Kelly Bennett discuss their work on the Mass Communications Archive, a collection that documents how media is created, distributed, and consumed in the digital age. Drawing on their expertise as refe...

» Tired of waiting for the Trump administration to enforce silica limits, coal miners protest
10/14/25 12:50 from The Rural Blog

» Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project #3: The Blogroll (plus)
12/24/23 14:57 from anthro{dendum}
As promised, here’s a list of the anthropology and archaeology blogs that are still active from Jason Antrosio’s archive from 2017. I found one site that’s actually not active, so that brings us down to 76 blogs that ar...

» Highlights From a Transfer Report
04/07/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Some welcome good news.

» Brazil is going to eat you up! {part 5}: trying to not eat myself
12/29/23 15:59 from anthro{dendum}
This is not an academic text. Wow. It has been several months since I last posted something here in AD. It’s kinda weird trying to survive a pandemic amid a coup d’état attempt here in Brazil. For that and for my lack of prod...

» 3 Questions for Todd Nicolet, Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning at UNC
04/06/23 21:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
On online learning and alternative academic careers.

» Rural communities hit hard by deaths from explosion at ammunition plant in Tennessee
10/14/25 12:42 from The Rural Blog

» Nun of Us Are Friends
09/23/21 15:16 from Invisibilia
It's a basic tenet of friendship that you get to choose your friends. We look at two institutions that took away that choice: convents circa the 1960s and a summer program with unusual rules. What do we lose and what do we gain when we g...

» American agricultural industry successfully prevents MAHA strategy plan from bashing key pesticides
10/14/25 12:30 from The Rural Blog

» Thank You!
01/25/24 08:39 from anthro{dendum}
Dear Readers, Over the years, some of us (the past and present members of the collective that runs this blog) have been fortunate enough to meet some of you. We say fortunate, because such encounters have always been positive. Many of yo...

» Marketing Is a Code Word
04/04/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Marketing is a go-to solution but sometimes masks deeper issues.

» The Goodbye Show
04/27/23 18:40 from Invisibilia
In their final episode, Invisibilia searches for the right way to say goodbye.

» The Chaos Machine: An Endless Hole
04/29/21 18:47 from Invisibilia
Yowei gets a tip about Russian trolls in Stockton, California and falls down a hole of swirling conspiracy theories. At the center is a scrappy, controversial website that has become one of the most popular sources of local news in town....

» Closing the border for cattle trade hurts American and Mexican livestock managers
10/17/25 11:45 from The Rural Blog

» The 2023 Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project
12/05/23 18:26 from anthro{dendum}
As many of us already know, in the last decade or so we’ve seen some big changes with anthropology & archaeology online, particularly in relation to blogs. In short, there aren’t too many these days. This is due to what w...

» Surveillance and Suspicion From the Margins
09/17/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
A Venezuelan anthropologist reflects on distrust he felt from residents of informal settlements in Santiago, Chile—and how his experiences track… The post Surveillance and Suspicion From the Margins appeared first on SAPIENS .

» Do You Remember Who Spoke at Your Commencement?
04/04/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Does it matter who speaks and what they say?

» New Community of Practice for Exploring Content Provenance and Authenticity in the Age of AI
07/18/25 09:52 from The Signal
Today’s post is from Abbey Potter and Isabel Brador of the Digital Strategy Directorate and Kate Murray of the Digital Collections Management & Services Division here at the Library of Congress. Since January 2025, a new Library of C...

» Looking back, looking forward
12/20/23 07:45 from anthro{dendum}
The blog may be shutting down, but I’m not! I started blogging in 2001 and my personal blog, Keywords, is still going strong. Check out this recent post about the movie Killers of the Flower Moon. I’ve also started a newslett...

» Irked by cars and crowds, rural New Englanders try different coping strategies to manage 'leaf-peepers'
10/14/25 12:26 from The Rural Blog

» The Politics of Mourning After Itaewon
10/21/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
After the deadly 2022 Itaewon crowd crush, South Korea faced a failure of prevention—and mourning. A group of anthropologists explores… The post The Politics of Mourning After Itaewon appeared first on SAPIENS .

» Journalists can help rural communities by reporting on local drinking water data and quality
10/24/25 11:45 from The Rural Blog

» Sunset
12/13/23 07:25 from anthro{dendum}
Dear readers, We are sorry to say that after eighteen years, we are going to be shutting down this blog at the end of the year. We will write a longer farewell post later on, but we wanted to announce that we are closing this site and pr...

» Despite a shortage of medical care in rural America, some residents insult and undermine their doctors
10/22/25 12:50 from The Rural Blog

» USDA will release $3 billion and reopen Farm Service Agency core services
10/24/25 11:45 from The Rural Blog

» A simple website helps donors save the most vulnerable NPR and PBS stations
10/22/25 12:30 from The Rural Blog

» Invisibilia Takes Control
09/06/22 03:00 from Invisibilia
2022 feels like walking a tightrope. We're grappling with control of our bodies, our time, the direction of our country - while trying to not spin out and just doomscroll. So this season, Invisibilia takes on control. The narratives we h...

» As traditional food bank volunteers age, finding enough workers to staff pantries is becoming a challenge
10/17/25 11:50 from The Rural Blog

» Advising Day
04/04/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
An idea worth stealing.

» Announcing Library of Congress Leadership for the FADGI Still Image Working Group
08/28/25 11:00 from The Signal
Hana Beckerle and Spencer Zidarich of the Library’s Collections Digitization Division (CDD) have been named as the Library of Congress co-leads for the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Still Image Working Group, eff...

» Opinion: American farmers grow the nation's food but can end up with little to show for it
10/22/25 12:35 from The Rural Blog