Four months after my open letter calling on the Royal Society to take action over Elon Musk FRS’s breaches of their code of conduct had attracted thousands of signatures from the scientific community, but only a very muted response from that most learned organisation, I was beginning to think I should let the matter go. After all, Musk is no longer part of the Trump administration, his relationship with the president

Presentations On June 11, 2025, the webinar of the project Infra Wiss Blogs funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) took place on the topic of “Blog archiving with Rogue Scholar using the example of WordPress hosted blogs”. The webinar highlighted the possibilities and challenges of archiving scholarly blogs. At its core was the presentation of Rogue Scholar, a platform for archiving scholarly blogs. Around 50 people took part.

Am 11.06.2025 fand das Webinar des von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderten Projektes Infra Wiss Blogs zum Thema “Blogarchivierung mit Rogue Scholar am Beispiel von WordPress gehosteten Blogs” statt. Das Webinar beleuchtete die Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen der Archivierung wissenschaftlicher Blogs. Im Kern stand die Vorstellung von Rogue Scholar, einer Plattform zur Archivierung von Wissenschaftsblogs.

A Tale of Two Conferences Part I: UNDRR Global Platform 2025 (In-depth read, 18 min) TLDR/Summary The 2025 UN Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction The costs of disasters continue to spiral upward. In 2020 alone, direct disaster losses reached $200 billion annually, but when cascading and ecosystem impacts are included, the true cost balloons … Continue reading "The Hard Landing Ahead – Why Current Disaster Strategies Are Doomed to Fail"

Continúo la discusión de la última entrada. Las omisiones no debidas a homoioteleuton y homeoarcton, así como las lagunas por pérdida de material, suelen tener valor conjuntivo pleno entre dos manuscritos. Es decir, son errores que sirven para confirmar que dos manuscritos están emparentados entre sí, ya sea porque uno desciende del otro...

Armin Medosch, The Rise of the Network Commons: A History of Community Infrastructure, Volker Grassmuck and Adam Burns (eds.), TOD […]

In some ways, there has been little news in the iNaturalist ‘GenAI’ story: Beyond some vague posturing towards “going to work on improving ways to get feedback from the community” , saying (but not demonstrating) that they are ‘listening’, and somehow doing some ‘webinar’ at some point in the future, there’s been very little commitment from any iNaturalist staff or leaders.

This post is part of a living literature review on societal collapse. You can find an indexed archive here. For this post I aim to essentially create a little repository of catastrophic risk lists, so other people can find those more easily and get an overview of how groups of experts with different backgrounds categorize and evaluate risks.

According to official data from the National Institute of Statistics of Cambodia, in 2009 about 77 percent of Cambodians aged 15–49 considered it acceptable for a man to curse his wife. Although this figure is high, it represents a decrease of about 16 percentage points compared to the previous estimate from 2005. Analyzing these changes is important for gaining a better understanding of the phenomenon of violence against women and girls.

Sie ist Dreh- und Angelpunkt für die Frage, ob eine geistige Leistung als Werk gilt und damit urheberrechtlichen Schutz genießt: die Schöpfungshöhe. Es ranken sich Mythen um sie, ihre Bestimmung ist nicht trivial und hängt vom Einzelfall ab. Doch es gibt klare Kriterien und Beispiele zur Orientierung. Die „Schöpfungshöhe“ ist ein unbestimmter Rechtsbegriff , also nicht im Gesetz selbst definiert.

In media, policy and scholarship, forced migrants are typically portrayed as either inherently vulnerable and in need of external protection, and/or as naturally violent and threatening and therefore not deserving of care. We know very little, however, about forced migrants as actors and providers of care themselves.