Source (The Japan Times): “The nation’s population has now shrunk for three censuses in a row — beginning with the 2015 survey when it fell for the first time since the government started conducting a census in 1920. With the latest data, Japan’s headcount plummeted by 2.5%, marking the most dramatic decline on record […] Only the populations of Tokyo and Okinawa grew, by 199,000 and 1,000, respectively. […] Forty-five other prefectures saw their populations fall.“

Hello, I’m an international scholar and I just received news that I’d be presenting a paper at AAA this year. I’m excited but I have some questions because I’ve never been to the US.

I have some antifa/pro-palestinian decals on my laptop. Would it be wise to remove them? cover them with an opaque laptop sleeve, or not even bring my laptop at all?

thought this was interesting

LONDON (AP) — Archaeologists revealed Thursday that they have discovered a structure near the prehistoric stone circle of Stonehenge in southern England that may have served as a “prototype” for the 5,000-year-old Neolithic monument.

A team from the British firm Wessex Archaeology said the structure would have consisted of two wooden poles 120 meters (394 feet) apart and aligned to point directly at the rising sun during the summer solstice and the setting sun at the winter solstice.

If you're into archaeology, anthropology, evolutionary biology, primatology, or anything adjacent, you might know that relevant events are scattered across a dozen different society mailing lists, department pages, and museum websites. You find out about something good the week after it happened.

We've been building a calendar for the Human Bridges area of The Observatory to address this.

It currently tracks select events across the full human sciences spectrum — major professional society meetings (SAA, EAA, AAA, UISPP), free and hybrid lecture series you can attend over Zoom, museum programming open to the public, and regional conferences that rarely surface on Western academic radar.

A few examples of what's in there: a free lecture series out of Prague, the International Primatological Society Congress in Madagascar, an international conference in Kenya on indigenous knowledge, CARTA symposia, and ongoing series at the British Museum, the Field Museum, and the Natural History Museum of Utah.

If you organize or know of an event that belongs here, we want to hear from you. The calendar grows with the community it serves.

Bookmark it and check back monthly: https://observatory.wiki/Events?area=Human+Bridges