Why your physics project needs an anthropologist Picking a site for an observatory should be about more than science. Humanities scholars have a crucial role in responsible siting. By Jaco de Swart

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03623-w It is uncommon for a social scientist to have a seat at a meeting about an astronomical observatory, let alone for them to jointly lead one. For one-quarter of attendees to be social-science scholars is almost unprecedented. But that’s exactly what happens at meetings about the Tau Air-shower Mountain-based Observatory (TAMBO), a proposed detector to be built in the Peruvian Andes to look for cosmic particles called tau neutrinos.