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No Paper Needed: Anthropology Association Builds New Review System

Associations Now

By building a new digital system intended to cut the time needed for academic reviews of books, the American Anthropological Association hopes to refine digital workflows and save money. Good news for anthropologists: Your peer-reviewing process is about to enter the 21st century. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will fund the endeavor.

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Future of Work Manifesto

Jamie Notter

Maddie is the one who wrote it up, but it was the result of a weekend retreat last fall of twelve people (including me, Maddie and Charlie; Maddie lists them all in her post) in, of all places, Omaha, Nebraska. Work is the process of creating something for the purpose of human flour­ishing. Let’s get rid of what doesn’t do that.

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