Featured Interviews
Fieldwork Diaries: Elisa Bandini, Serra da Capivara National Park, Brazil.
Elisa Bandini talks us through a day in the field.
Conference Reports Events, Places and People
Trick and Trope in the Clash between Science and the Humanities
A workshop debate prompts some thoughts on ‘science vs. the humanities’.
Conference Reports Events, Places and People
ESLR Workshop 2019
ESLR met in Leipzig this summer for its annual workshop – Alba Motes Rodrigo talks us through it.
Methods Pitch to Publication
Family Ties
Kinbank – a new database for kinship terms from around the world The words we use to describe are family are such a visceral part of life that the thought that it might be organised differently is rarely considered. For […]
How Research Works
The Publishing Black Box: What happens after you click Submit?
Every one of us researchers has, as some point in their career, to go through the process of submitting a paper and all those who have submitted – and even those who as yet have not – know some detail of what happens behind the curtains. But who really knows the whole process? Here we try to get into the details of what happens from submission to the final response.
Interviews
The road to an ERC Starting Grant in Primatology
Alba Motes Rodrigo interviewed Dr. Catherine Hobaiter for Cultured Scene about the process of applying for an ERC grant to fund her work on chimpanzees. ERC Starting Grants are oriented towards early-career researchers based in the EU who want to […]
How Research Works
Work-Life Balance
Our resident Agony Aunt offers guidance on the key questions bothering early-career researchers, with additional advice crowd-sourced from Twitter. In this edition: Work-life (or, life-work) balance!
Interviews
Conference Haiku
Kate Cross uses haikus to distil the essence of a talk and then tweets them into the world for everyone to enjoy. We ask her about this creative form of science communication. Cultured Scene: The haikus are a creative way […]
News
HELLO AGAIN!
With this issue, we come to the end of an exciting year for our young Society. I am proud of our Society’s activities and specifically of our journal and all its contributors. We have again a series of very exciting […]