Appalachian Figures Micajah Burnett is usually remembered as the Shaker architect whose limestone houses and twin spiral staircases still surprise visitors at Pleasant Hill in Mercer County. He is less often remembered as a frontier boy from Wayne County, growing up on the edge of the Appalachian plateau before he ever laid out a village street or calculated a water system.

Introduction From November 17 to 25, 2025, Bioconductor held its first in-person training workshop in West Africa.

PKP invites Open Monograph Press users and community members to join OMP Fest for a half-day on Wednesday March 25th, 2026, 9 AM PT, and shares a Call for Proposals. We invite you to join us in March for OMP Fest, a half-day event to celebrate the use of OMP in the PKP user community! […] The post Save the Date! PKP is hosting “OMP Fest” to celebrate our Community and Open Monograph Press appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.

Appalachian Figures On a modern map, Elk Spring Valley in Wayne County, Kentucky looks like one more fold in the Appalachian foothills. In the early nineteenth century it was a busy crossroads, a place where Virginia and North Carolina families filtered into Kentucky, then followed the rivers and roads south into Tennessee.

The compound spiro-dibenzocycloheptatriene (figure 1) made headlines a year ago by claiming that the ipso carbon atoms across the molecule were bound together by a single electron σ bond.

A couple of days ago, I stumbled over a Mastodon post by @johl, in which [he shared vimwiki](https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki) as his approach for taking notes in vim. Which immediately piqued my interest, as I have so far been just taking my notes in plain vim without a way of linking them.

Five principles for the future of computing: private, dedicated, plural, adaptable, and prosocial.

Der Verein edusharing-network e.V. bietet gemeinsam mit den Expert:innen von iRights.Law ein Webinar zu den rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen rund um KI-Lerndaten und deren Nutzung in Bildungs- und KI-Infrastrukturen. Das Webinar findet im Rahmen der Webinarreihe „KI-Infrastruktur für Bildung“ statt. Es behandelt inhaltlich insbesondere die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen, wenn KI-Lerndaten gesammelt, genutzt oder geteilt werden.

Refugee status and political activities have morphed from mutually constitutive categories in the period of anticolonial struggles to binaries in post-independence Africa. The fluid categorizations of the anticolonial era are in contrast to contemporary categorizations of refugees that preclude political activities and replace them with an apolitical, humanitarian refugee profile.

Appalachian Figures On November 29, 2024, Robert Elledy “Bob” Gable died in Lexington at the age of ninety. Obituaries described him as a Navy veteran, Stanford trained engineer, governor’s candidate, arts patron, and for seven years the chair of the Republican Party of Kentucky. Beneath that public résumé is a story that belongs squarely in Appalachian history.

Appalachian Figures On a farm called Strawberry Hill outside Grantsville, Maryland, a sickly girl once spent more time in the woods than in a classroom. She memorized wildflowers instead of spelling lists and pressed ferns into homemade notebooks.