Last note before a pause. Images from my Yashica T4, quotes from Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows .

Repurposed Appalachia Series The Early Years Tucked away in Burke County, North Carolina, the Henry River Mill Village tells a story of industrial ambition, close-knit community life, and cinematic fame.

por José Luis Reyes Santos El exilio español de 1939 durante la presidencia de Lázaro Cárdenas trajo a suelo mexicano a varios residentes españoles.

Late last year, I sat down with our friends at the Research Organization Registry (ROR) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to discuss how OA.Report uses ROR IDs to support HHMI with OA policy compliance checking. Read the case study This was a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the critical role and success of ROR IDs and persistent identifiers (PIDs) in general.

This is the May issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive.

Academic Retrieval Augmented Systems (RAG) live or die on the sources they retrieve, so what happens if they retrieve retracted papers? In this post, I will discuss the ways different Academic RAG systems handle them, and I will end with some suggestions to vendors of such systems.Thanks for reading Aaron’s Musings about Librarianship!

There was a time in late 2023 to early 2024 when I and probably many others in the R community felt like R was falling woefully behind Python in tooling for development using AI and LLMs. This is no longer the case. The R community, and Posit in particular, have been on an absolute tear bringing new packages online to take advantage of all the capabilities that LLMs provide.

Die Veröffentlichung von Zugriffsstatistiken war lange ein fester Bestandteil des DINI-Zertifikats. Doch mit der neuen Version für 2025 schlägt die DINI AG E-Pub einen radikalen Kurswechsel vor: Es wird empfohlen, auf die Veröffentlichung solcher Statistiken zu verzichten. Warum dieser Schritt notwendig ist, welche Herausforderungen dahinterstecken und welche Alternativen wir sehen, möchten wir in diesem Beitrag näher erläutern.

I thought I was done with exploring anomeric effects in small sulfur rings. However, I then realised that all the systems that I had described had an odd number of atoms and that I had not looked at any even numbered rings.

Last year I reminisced on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Macintosh computer.

I made my first podcast appearance on the Foresight Institute’s podcast! The episode turned out to be a phenomenal one-hour summary of the most important ideas FreakTakes has covered. YouTube and Spotify embeddings are below.