Appalachian Figures Why Baker matters Edwin T. Baker served eight years in the California Assembly, then two years on the Los Angeles City Council, during a moment when Southern California was growing fast and demanding a bigger voice in state government.
Over 100 recorded talks from posit::conf(2025) are now available on YouTube
Safeguarding research and protecting knowledge infrastructures from political, digital, and structural threats was among the topics of this year’s Barcamp Open Science in Berlin.
Vom 6. bis 8. Oktober 2025 versammelte sich in Göttingen die europäische und internationale Open-Access-Community unter dem Motto „Crafting the Future of Diamond Open Access: Technical, Social &
New Zealand has a geographic advantage that could be a strategic liability. Our isolation protects us from many regional and global threats, but makes us uniquely vulnerable to the one consequence nearly all global catastrophes share: the collapse of international trade and supply chains.
Appalachian History A round valley with a very old story Stand at the Pinnacle Overlook above Cumberland Gap and look down on the town of Middlesboro. The basin that cradles the streets is strikingly circular. For decades geologists mapped and argued about that circle’s origin.
I participated in the LLM Hackathon for Applications in Materials Science & Chemistry September 11-12, 2025. It was a great opportunity to think and learn about how LLMs can be used in science. It was also a chance to meet new people in the community, or collaborate live with folks I know from online.
Gonzalo Aurelio Esteva y Landero, miembro del servicio exterior mexicano en el reino de Italia de 1891 a 1914, llevó adelante un ejercicio eficaz. Destacó particularmente su cabildeo en el Vaticano en torno a la designación del arzobispo de México en 1908.
LLMs for learning to code, R updates (R Data Scientist, R Weekly), RAG, layoffs & AI, DuckDB for data science, Anthropic+Iceland, AI in science, AI in drug discovery, Nextflow &
In common with the other authors of this series of blogs, I am a regular user who knows first-hand the importance of the BBC’s Written Archives.
Roughly a decade ago, Netflix’s then–Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos made a pessimistic remark about the future of reality TV on the platform at an investors’ conference, calling the genre “disposable,” and something that Netflix is not really invested in making.