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Repertoires: How the Public Humanities Contend with Climate Change
In the first few minutes of a Zoom meeting, as the faces we expect appear one by one, it’s easy to fill the space by swapping notes about the weather...
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Repertoires: How Researchers Struggle to Stay in Sync
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...
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Repertoires: How Social Science Theory Gets Made and Remade
In 2008, technologist Chris Anderson famously predicted the end of theory, as massively abundant data reduced the need for researchers to develop and test explanatory models. “Who knows why people...
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Repertoires: How Forest Research Outlives Its Institutions
A mature forest can take decades to regenerate after it is harvested for timber. But what happens when the human institutions charged with its management change course or even disappear...
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Repertoires: How Geneticists Keep Circling Back to Race
Fifty years have come and gone since the discovery that there is more genetic variation within races than between them. Yet a recent book by anthropologist of science Duana Fullwiley...
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Introducing Repertoires: A Series on Scholarly Ways of Working
One important tool scholars use to produce knowledge about our physical environment is the computational model. Yet researchers who work with simulation-based models face challenges in sharing their outputs so...