This is the December 2025 issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users.
Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) ist heutzutage bereits ein fester Bestandteil im Alltag vieler Menschen. Doch gerade für Senior:innen stellt der Umgang mit der neuen Technologie oft eine Herausforderung dar. „Was ist KI überhaupt?“ oder „Wie funktioniert KI eigentlich?“ sind Fragen, die in der Stadtbibliothek Osnabrück immer häufiger gestellt werden.
Gute Usability von Websites trägt maßgeblich zu einem zufriedenen digitalen Besuch von Nutzenden bei. Seit Mai 2025 verfügt die Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek RheinMain aus Wiesbaden über eine neue Website. Der Prozess der Umgestaltung war lang und es gab ein großes Ziel: Die Bedürfnisse der Zielgruppen identifizieren und die Usability der HLB Website auf das nächste Level heben!
Here are a couple more backwards-headed raptor photos, courtesy of ceratopsian palaeontologist and home-brewing consultant Andy Farke: Here’s what he had to say about them: Your recent post spurred me to snap these photos of a burrowing owl doing backwards head things.
Vor etwas mehr als zwanzig Jahren wurde die LIBREAS von engagierten Studierenden des Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin gegründet, um eine Zeitschrift herauszubringen, deren Inhalte sie selbst interessiert und die sie selbst gerne lesen möchten.
Forgotten Appalachia Series – Hope Cottage and the Ivis Community Center of Knott County, Kentucky If you follow Right Fork of Troublesome Creek out from Hindman, the road narrows into a string of houses, churches, and hollows that once centered on a small country post office called Ivis. For more than half a century that post office linked an out of the way community to the wider world.
Appalachian Figures Series – The Story of Abisha Johnson of Knott, Kentucky On a narrow shelf of land along Caney Creek in Knott County, Kentucky, a hillside campus climbs toward the trees. Students hurry past the Founder’s Shack on their way to class, and visitors read a historical marker that tells how Alice Lloyd and June Buchanan built a work college in this valley.
Appalachian History Series – Founder’s Shack of Pippa Passes, Kentucky: One Room Beginning of Alice Lloyd College On most college campuses the oldest building is a brick hall or a stone chapel. At Pippa Passes the story begins in a small shack of rough boards and a sagging roof, tucked beside the creek that gave the institution its name.
At the 4th Ontologies4Chem Workshop in Limburg an der Lahn, I proposed an initial crosswalk between the Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings (SSSOM) and the Wikidata semantic mapping data model. This post describes the motivation for this proposal and the concrete implementation I’ve developed in sssom-pydantic.
Our next meeting is Monday 2nd February at 2pm. We’ll be discussing Semantic Waves with Jane Waite and Paul Curzon.
Appalachian Figures Series – The Story of George Johnson of Mason, West Virginia On a cold week in November 1966, the Mason County sheriff’s office suddenly became the front desk for a national monster story. Within days of the first “man sized bird” sighting near the old TNT area north of Point Pleasant, reporters were calling, cars were lining the back roads, and frightened residents were phoning in strange lights and red eyes in the dark.