Unlocking the Secrets of Scientific Publishing Have you or your researchers ever felt overwhelmed by the complexities of academic publishing? Do you find yourself asking questions like: Where should I publish? How can I maximize my impact?
As some readers know, I’ve recently joined Renaissance Philanthropy (RenPhil). While I hope to put many ideas from FreakTakes into practice at RenPhil, I’ll be particularly focused on one goal: building more BBNs.
Just a small public service announcement: If you’re using the Gemini protocol, my webste (well, in particular the blog posts), are now also accessible via Gemini at gemini://tilde.club/~gedankenstuecke/. You can also find a web-proxied version here.
Trump is back in office, letting Elon Musk loose and apparently giving in to Russia’s demands as far as Ukraine is concerned, all the while looking to see if he can get access to Ukraine’s minerals. Climate mitigating legislation has been and will be slashed further, while Ulrich Merz, newly elected Chancellor of Germany, is calling for greater European defence spending: these are troubling times.
‘In the not-too-distant future…’ For those of us of a certain age and from a certain geographic range, the lyric above was likely heard being sung by a range of voices including Joel Hodgson, Mike Nelson and/or any number of robot associates.
This is the second issue of the new 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. The big news this month is Rogue Scholar reaching another major milestone: 25,000 archived science blog posts!
Born to serve, bound by design—what happens when synthetic life begins to dream?
by Ian Marino, Thorsten Wübbena1 During the last two days of January 2025, the IEG had the pleasure of holding an online workshop in the context of the joint project “LivArch – Documenting Russia’s war against Ukraine: The challenges of living archives for historical knowledge production”. This project, which was featured on this very blog … „Trust, archives, and history.
Direct link to watch the full webinar recording here. TLDR/Summary Watch the full webinar video What was the background and context to the webinar? In 2023 our group published a report on Aotearoa New Zealand’s (NZ’s) vulnerability and resilience to a Northern Hemisphere nuclear war scenario. NZ is on the one hand a remote island … Continue reading "Managing the Risk of Catastrophic Electricity Loss: Webinar and Panel Discussion 26 Feb 2025"
Since the initial launch in 2021, our R-universe platform has steadily grown into a comprehensive infrastructure for publishing and discovering R material.As functionality keeps evolving and community adoption increases, we felt the need for a central documentation point.
The IETF announced their new AI Preferences Working Group (AIPREF), which will "work on standardizing building blocks that allow for the expression of preferences about how content is collected and processed for Artificial Intelligence models" . This is quite well timed; the IETF tries not to standardise too early before there is running code but also needs to move before it's too late and a bad defacto standard is chosen.