Appalachian Figures In the spring of 1948, eastern Kentucky sent a familiar courthouse figure to Washington. William Lewis had been a teacher, sheriff, prosecutor, and circuit judge across the upper Cumberland for half a century before he ever took a seat in the U.S. House. When he finally did, at age seventy-nine, he represented the old Ninth District for just the balance of one term, then stepped back home to London.

Appalachian Figures Born in the coal camp country of Yeaddiss in Leslie County, Kentucky, Hugh X. Lewis carried the cadence of the hills into Nashville’s studios, onto syndicated television, and back home to Appalachian radio across six decades.

The science blog archive Rogue Scholar this week started supporting versioning of blog posts. This is a core feature of the InvenioRDM repository platform used by Rogue Scholar, but Rogue Scholar uses DOIs from Crossref rather than DataCite, the default DOI registration agency for InvenioRDM. Crossref versioning was made possible with the Crossref schema 5.4.0 released in March.

In this blog post, Poppy Riddle examines how OpenAlex and Crossref APIs handle key bibliographic metadata elements, focusing on differences in the reporting of abstracts and language attributes.

On September 30, 2025, 11:00 a.m. CEST, we will have a webinar about data journals at WiNoDa. You can find more information here.

Einleitung: Was CoreTrustSeal für Forschende bedeutet und warum Repositorien es brauchen Am 30. September 2025 um 11:00 Uhr CEST findet bei WiNoDa ein Webinar zum Thema Data Journals statt.

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci!

Appalachian History Where is “Tunnel Hill”? Locals use Tunnel Hill for the crest above a pair of side-by-side railroad bores just northwest of Hazard. On the maps the spot falls within the unincorporated community historically called Dunraven. A quick way to pin it on the ground is the county’s own road index, which lists Tunnel Hill Cemetery in Dunraven.

10 years ago, on September 28th, 2015, I pushed the first commit of “C ^[1] ”, which would later form the basis of Citation.js. Back then, it was a simple webapp that took bibliographical data from manual input from a form and converted it to APA.

We recently posted a preprint criticizing the idea of Type S and M errors (https://osf.io/2phzb_v1). From our abstract: “While these concepts have been proposed to be useful both when designing a study (prospective) and when evaluating results (retroactive), we argue that these statistics do not facilitate the proper design of studies, nor the meaningful interpretation of results.” In a recent blog post that is mainly on p-curve analysis, Gelman

Repurposed Appalachia In a narrow hollow north of downtown Kimball sits one of McDowell County’s most intact company stores. The Houston Coal Company Store, later known to locals as the Koppers Store, anchored daily life for the Carswell mining camp and still reads clearly as an early twentieth century company showpiece.