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Alberto Corsín Jiménez
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Anthropology of traps, technology, and captivating counterurbanisms. Co-editor, Cultural Anthropology, 2022-2026. Instituto de Lengua, Literatura y Antropología, CSIC

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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Jul 1
Hace un mes se publicó Historia Ilustrada del Confinamiento. El libro se puede descargar gratuitamente desde @editorialcsic.bsky.social He pensado hace un hilo diario con las historias que componen la trama del libro. Hoy empiezo con los mapas que desencadenaron nuestra investigación 🧵

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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 4d
I was drawn to Bellah’s magnum opus because I had read that towards the end of writing it, he developed an interest in play as a vector of cognitive and ethical awareness. And what a formidable book it is! Bellah’s adventurousness, curiosity and scholarship are inspiring and prodigious

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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 8d
Mundos en Transformación: Llamada a propuestas para el Primer Congreso de Innovación Frugal, Tecnologías Sociales y Ciencia Ciudadana en América Latina

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 13d
Very much enjoyed last week's meeting in Cambridge about the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model for scholarly publishing. There were lots of highly inspiring discussions, including an important discussion about strengthening coordination between initiatives in this area.

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Reimagining Scholarly Publishing: Outcomes From A Public Forum To Discuss The Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) Publishing Model – ASAPbio
At a meeting held on the 3rd December 2025 at Kings College, Cambridge over 50 delegates, comprising researchers, publishers, librarians, research funders and
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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 13d
Vivir para creerlo: A partir del 1 de enero de 2026 el CSIC deja de exigir la presentación de un certificado de alojamiento (distinto de la factura) emitido por el hotel en el que has pasado la noche para poder justificar los gastos.

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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 13d
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Today in “Dudes Rock”:

A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 14d
Today in “Dudes Rock”:

A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 14d
I’ve just come across Eeva Berglund’s wonderful review of our book Free Culture and the City. Truly humbled by her generosity, care-minded sensibility and insightful comparative eye

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August 2025 – Building texts
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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 16d
Joder, menudo palo. Qué vacío

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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 16d
‼️ÚLTIMA HORA | Muere Robe Iniesta, líder de Extremoduro, a los 63 años: “Hoy despedimos al maestro de maestros”
Muere Robe Iniesta, líder de Extremoduro, a los 63 años
"Hoy despedimos al maestro de maestros", reza el comunicado de su agencia de comunicación al informar de su fallecimiento
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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 16d
A most pertinent comparison. For what it's worth, our work on Madrid's municipalist urbanism might be of interest too. For example, www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... and www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 22d
Excited to participate in this conference—its call for papers is now open digicommons.org

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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 26d
The anthropology of...

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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 27d
Landscape traps, involved in experiments with human-nonhuman sociality and axial transitions from hunting to domestication

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 27d
At this time, people in the region were transitioning from mobile hunter-gatherers to sedentary pastoralists. Desert kites, used to funnel animals whilst hunting, were modified into enclosures, revealing early experiments in animal domestication.

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Mass-hunting in South-west Asia at the dawn of sedentism: new evidence from Şanlıurfa, south-east Türkiye
Collation of satellite imagery and new fieldwork in Şanlıurfa (south-east Türkiye) has revealed large numbers of stone-walled desert kites, some of which may date to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (c. 9500–7000 BC). The authors briefly explore the potential role of these structures in the processes of early sedentism and monumentality.
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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Nov 19
Tengo sentimientos encontrados sobre el proyecto de renovación del Museo de Antropología. Por supuesto, el acento descolonizador es importante y necesario. Pero el proyecto se antoja más de gestión cultural que de museografía radical antropológica. Y el informe en sí apenas es una propuesta de salas
culturagob.bsky.social Ministerio de Cultura @culturagob.bsky.social · Nov 19
📢 El Museo Nacional de Antropología y el Museo de América presentan los proyectos de sus nuevas exposiciones permanentes

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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Nov 19
Manifiesto del personal del CSIC en apoyo a la huelga de las universidades públicas madrileñas
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Ministerio de Cultura @culturagob.bsky.social · Nov 19
📢 El Museo Nacional de Antropología y el Museo de América presentan los proyectos de sus nuevas exposiciones permanentes

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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Nov 18
Just published Cultural Anthropology's @culanth.bsky.social latest issue! Articles on scale in radio astronomy, debt’s slow violence, marine inequality, fugitive kinships, financial activism, revolutionary temporalities, shifting conviviality, and contested soil.
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Vol. 40 No. 4 (2025) | Cultural Anthropology
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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Nov 12
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Nov 11
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Nov 10
Pensar los futuros de la IA y culturas algorítmicas pasa por conocer sus contextos históricos. Aquí nuestro granito de arena a la historia de la cultura digital en España en lo que va de siglo

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Free Culture and the City by Alberto Corsín Jiménez and Adolfo Estalella | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Free Culture and the City examines how and why free software spread beyond the world of hackers and software engineers and became the basis for an urban movement now heralded by scholars as a model...
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