Appalachian Figures Rodney Leon “Rod” Brasfield turned a quiet Lewis County town into a running character on one of America’s biggest radio stages. From the late 1940s through the 1950s, the Grand Ole Opry’s premier comedian regularly told listeners he hailed from Hohenwald, and he worked that hometown into his bits with affectionate precision.

Throughout the year 2021, Disney+ released a series of…well, series, which took place in and followed various characters of the wider hyperdiegesis conventionally referred to as the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

If you live, like me, in The Guardian bubble, you will be heartened by the outspoken defence of the BBC in the last two days (The Guardian, 2025). But this defence clearly doesn’t come from all sides.

Just about exactly a year ago, on 19 November 2024, I e-mailed a group of colleagues expressing concern about the Terms of Use researchers had to sign up to it secure access to the immeasurably rich collections of the BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) at Caversham.

All the talks from posit::conf(2025) and the 2025 Nextflow Summit are on Youtube. I embedded all the recordings into a single page for each: openRxiv (bioRxiv+medRxiv) launches a partnership with q.e.d. to enable automated AI reviews of preprints . R Weekly 2025-W46 : Writing your own ggplot2 geoms, reverse dependency check speedrun: a data.table case study, NYC election.

Auf Obsidian bin ich in meiner Mastodon-Timeline gestoßen. Dort kochte vor einiger Zeit das Thema “Wissensmanagement” hoch.

Kürzlich ist der Sammelband #BlickVomTellerrand – Die Bezugsdisziplinen der Sozialen Arbeit und ihre Perspektiven auf die Digitalisierung im Open Access erschienen. Herausgegeben wurde das Werk von Prof.in Dr.in Daniela Cornelia Stix (Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus–Senftenberg), Prof.

I came across Obsidian on my Mastodon timeline. Some time ago, the subject of “knowledge management” was a hot topic there.

Confession time: I have yet to find a satisfyingly regular and repeatable method for measuring neural canal diameters. A LOT of dinosaurian neural canals are not cylindrical but flare out on either end, like two trumpet bells set back-to-back.

Anita Cherry: Like Father Like Daughter  History was made in the winter of 1973 in the coal seams of Jenkins, Kentucky. Alongside Diana Baldwin, Anita Cherry became one of the first two women in the United States to work underground in a coal mine.

Appalachian Figures From Double Creek to Hindman James Still was born on July 16, 1906, in the Double Creek/Double Branch community near LaFayette, Alabama. After studies at Lincoln Memorial University (’29) and graduate work at Vanderbilt (M.A., 1930), he arrived at the Hindman Settlement School in the summer of 1931.