Overture Over the last few years, I have been researching the militarized Kurdish landscape through a triangle of affinities linking the machine, the animal and the human. The interaction between the militaristic, the natural and the cultural unfolds as a sonic battle on the colonized landscape. Sonic booms, bird calls and songs of resistance echo in the same valleys.

To say that ours are darkening times is to acknowledge, that the present moment – the year is 2025 – is increasingly characterised by familiar modes of authoritarian oppression, of right-wing political cruelty and of inevitably rising geopolitical tensions in the context of which nuclear Armageddon and the necessity for autonomous weapon systems are frequently conjured up,  often in the same breath.

Abandoned Appalachia Series A Mid‑Century Push for Modern Utilities In the years after World War II, small cities across the southern Appalachian coalfields raced to install the public works that bigger towns already took for granted. Whitesburg’s answer was a stout, cinder‑block water‑treatment plant erected at the foot of School Hill, just yards from Main Street and the North Fork of the Kentucky River.

Following the theme of my previous two posts, I’ve run into another typing conundrum where I want to unpack a pre-existing Callable into a class with Generic[P, T] where P is a parameter specification type (i.e. ParamsSpec) After figuring out the right way to declare a generic featuring a ParamSpec, I updated the class-resolver package to use the shiny new (and more accurate) annotations.

Giving effective feedback is a skill that, like any other, needs to be honed. I wouldn’t claim to be an expert but there are methods in how to give feedback that means that your guidance is more likely to help the person improve. Giving feedback to colleagues on grant applications is particularly tricky. It’s partly the high stakes involved: people’s livelihoods can be at stake and applicants’ best ideas are laid bare, so care is needed.

Daré la conferencia inaugural del 1er Congreso Internacional de Estudios de Cómic: Memoria, Archivo y Cuerpo (6-9 Mayo 2025).

Thomas Dreier begleitete die Einführung der Creative Commons-Lizenzen in Deutschland. Rückblickend erläutert der Jurist, welche Erfolge und Herausforderungen das flexible Lizenzmodell hierzulande brachte und wie es sich auf Urheberrecht und digitale Kommunikation auswirkte.

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This post introduces Lucía Céspedes , a research associate at ScholCommLab. In this interview, Lucía tell us about her exciting work and encourages us to dare to write, rewrite, and publish, while letting go of the unachievable desire to read it all. Q#1 What are you working on at the lab?

April 2025 ReSA has released its 2024 Community Report, highlighting another impactful year of global collaboration to advance research software and support the people behind it. This year’s highlights include the Research Software Funders Forum’s involvement in the Global Research Council’s annual meeting and the successful hosting of its third international workshop in Sweden.

The first time I heard the expression "low hanging fruit" in science, I got excited. Simple projects that seem to be straightforward – seemingly untouched by other scientists. Projects you could pluck right off the tree and bite into, reaping the succulent fruity juice of success. In three months it would be wrapped up. An easy publication.