Das OERcamp findet vom 4. bis 6. September 2025 in Hannover an zwei Standorten statt: an der Hochschule Hannover und an der Multi Media BBS (Multi Media Berufsbildende Schulen der Region Hannover). Beide Orte liegen direkt nebeneinander an der Expo Plaza Hannover. Die Anmeldung ist für alle drei Tage oder gezielt für einzelne Schwerpunkte möglich, vom Community-Treffen über das große Barcamp bis zum Tag der Praxis-Workshops am Samstag.

One more Positron-related post! It’s a quick one, just to highlight one feature I think is really neat and helpful: the Connections Pane. In a newer research project I’m working on, I have geocoded data for every foreign aid project run by most donor countries since 1989.

From April 23rd to 25th, 2025, we hosted the first Bioconductor microbiome course in Brazil, a three-afternoon workshop held at the Interunits Post-Graduate Program of Bioinformatics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) (link) in Belo Horizonte.

The past is powerful evidence for arguments about the present. Since the time of Livy and Tacitus, it’s been common to cite history to advance some ideological, cultural, or political idea. While there’s nothing wrong with this in principle, these lines of discourse often break down because (1) people know very little history and (2) what little history they do know is usually wrong.

Warning: I do not specialize in digital literacy and my understanding of such matters is limited. Still, I blog this for discussion and learning only. Since 2020, libraries have made a commendable push to arm undergraduates with the tools to navigate our chaotic information landscape.

This is the sixth and the final blog post in a series on spatial machine learning with R. You can find the list of other blog posts in this series in part one.

I am not a staunch advocate of Bayesian methods — I can totally see how for some questions a frequentist approach may provide more satisfactory answers. In this post, we’ll explore how for a simple scenario (negative binomial regression with small sample size), standard frequentist methods fail at being frequentist while standard Bayesian methods provide good frequentist guarantees.

When I saw that the TidyTuesday dataset was the the XKCD color survey this week, I had to jump in! source(here::here("_defaults.R")) library(tidyverse) library(tidytuesdayR) library(tinytable) library(mgcv) library(marginaleffects) library(ggdist) library(ggdensity) library(geomtextpath) set.seed(2025-07-08) # eval: false # downloading &

In public and political discourses, 2015 was constructed as the peak of a ‘refugee crisis.’ While a crisis is supposed to be temporary by definition, it seems that many references to migration have since been associated with the label ‘crisis.’ We argue that a ‘permanentification’ of a regime of crisis has been taking place over the last years.

The UK and Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER) conference, takes place on Thursday 4th of September 2025 and Friday 5th of September 2025 in Edinburgh, UK. There are also two free co-located pre-conference events taking place at the same location on Wednesday 3rd of September 2025 at 1-5 pm. UKICER will include keynotes from Keith Quille from TU Dublin, Judy Robertson and Serdar

All of the posts here now have Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) thanks to a tool called Rogue Scholar. [1] What this means is that details of our meetings are more: Findable — every blog post is searchable via rich metadata and full-text search. Citeable — every blog post is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), to make them citable and trackable.