Ever since a certain someone bought Twitter, I’ve been quite invested into using the Fediverse as my main social web efforts. My Mastodon timeline does a good job for short-form text updates. And Pixelfed is a great nascent Instagram-replacement. One thing I particularly enjoy about both of them is the fact that they bring back the simple, chronological timeline.

Germany and Kenya have signed a Comprehensive Migration and Mobility Partnership which is celebrated as a „win-win“ for both countries. While Kenya’s government is keen to appease its disaffected citizens with quick-fix job opportunities abroad, Germany remains far more reluctant to open its doors.

Alex Pliutau and I discuss what Go programmers should know about Rust, and why the two languages make perfect partners.

Discover Le Chat: Free ChatGPT Alternatives with Canvas, Internet Search, and Flux.1 Image Generation

Hello my friends. Today, I’m sharing a different kind of post. I spend a lot of time considering the implications of the technology we are developing, and I want to share some thoughts on what I consider the FABRIC of our society and the future human experience. This is outside of my traditional post, so I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.

PEP 735 introduced dependency groups in packaging metadata, which are complementary to optional dependencies in that they might not correspond to features in the package, but rather be something like development or release dependencies. I am slowly working towards updating my cookiecutter template cookiecutter-snekpack to use PEP 735. So far, uv and tox have released support - all that’s left is ReadTheDocs.

Anmerkung zu dieser Rubrik: Das OABB erstellt monatlich eine Übersicht über Termine und Veranstaltungen zu Open Access und Open Research in Berlin bzw. an Berliner Einrichtungen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf unseren Partnereinrichtungen und auf Veranstaltungen, die sich an die Öffentlichkeit richten bzw. die offen sind für Angehörige der Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbeeinrichtungen in Berlin.

Today, The Geneva Learning Foundation launched a new set of “Teach to Reach Questions” focused on how health workers protect community health during extreme weather events. This initiative comes at a crucial time, as world leaders at COP29 discuss climate change’s mounting impacts on health. As climate change intensifies extreme weather events worldwide, health workers are often the first to respond when disasters strike their communities.

Have you ever wished you could talk to another health worker who has faced the same challenges as you? Someone who found a way to keep helping people, even when things seemed impossible? That’s exactly the kind of active learning that Teach to Reach Questions make possible. They make peer learning easy for everyone who works for health. What are Teach to Reach Questions?

Open community resources are increasingly used to promote open research practices, and are themselves an open practice. They are a powerful way to create shared ownership of a resource and provide agency to add or change them. However, they also present new struggles around embedding them in institutional practice, which we experienced in our own work.

Tim Lewens reviews Why Human Nature Matters, by Matteo Mameli, and The Quest for Human Nature, by Marco J Nathan