M-PESA, a fintech platform, created alternative banking for those previously excluded from formal finance. While it advanced financial inclusion, it also highlighted deep inequalities and the extraction of value from vulnerable users. In this blog, Anna Elias, Erwin Tuijl, and Jasmin Hofman remind us that frugal innovation is not just ... The post What is Frugal About Gig Platforms? appeared first on Bliss.
A lot of things are less than ideal in the world at the moment, but I can’t help but be amazed at what one can do with a static website. WebR through quarto-live allows you to run R (you can also run Python with pyodide) in the browser. No server required. Like below: eyJhdHRyIjp7ImVkaXQiOnRydWUsImV2YWwiOnRydWV9LCJjb2RlIjoiMisyIn0= I can’t help but feel this is a little like magic.
Comparing housing prices over time is difficult because of all the heterogeneity in housing that can both affect prices and vary over time. The typical solution to this problem is to use a hedonic price index that attempts to model the relationship between housing characteristics and price, and uses this to control the change in these characteristics over time.
Wir freuen uns, verkünden zu können, dass ein englischsprachiger Artikel unserer quantitativen Studie “Scholarly Blogs: an analysis of infrastructural aspects based on German scholarly blogs” im Journal of Documentation (Ochsner et al. 2025a), sowie ein deutschsprachiger Artikel der Studie in Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis veröffentlicht wurden (Ochsner et al. 2025b). Die Artikel finden Sie hier:
Introduction References are an essential part of bibliometric research. For example, references are required to calculate bibliometric indicators such as the journal impact factor and the h-index. University rankings also rely on a proper recording of references, as the number of citations a institution receives is usually used as a criterion. The coverage of references within a bibliometric database therefore plays a significant role.
Am 19. September 2025 führten die DFG-geförderten Projekte OA Datenpraxis, openCost und Transform2Open gemeinsam den Workshop „Praktiken und Infrastrukturen des Open-Access-Monitorings“ auf den Open-Access-Tagen 2025 durch (Pampel et al. 2025). Nach einer kurzen Vorstellung der beteiligten Projekte diskutierten mehr als 30 Teilnehmende aktuelle Fragestellungen des Open-Access-Monitorings im Format World Café.
Your browser does not support the audio tag. Download: PDF | EPUB | MP3 | WATCH VIDEO According to a simple linear trend, losses per disaster are down by about 80% since 1980, as a proportion of GDP. — Roger Pielke Jr. In the world of scientific disinformation, Roger Pielke Jr. is a well known player.
Un cuento de Constancio S. Suárez. Elementos culturales del México prehispánico La pesadilla de Alejito o El almuerzo de azotes es una de las 70 historias infantiles publicadas por el impresor popular Antonio Vanegas Arroyo entre 1880 y 1917. Fue escrita por un oaxaqueño llamado Constancio S. Suárez.
On October 24th, I received the Leo Waaijers award at the Dutch Open Science Festival. The judges announced a shortlist from 26 nominations, which included the Barcelona Declaration coordinating team, EnvisionBox team, and myself as the founder of ResearchEquals. I include my acceptance remarks below — thank you for all the appreciations, it really fills me up and reinvigorates the work!
This is about the time of year when I get the sudden and irresistible urge to make kimchi.
Long-time SV-POW! reader Tyler Holmes came across a book with the very un-searchable title “Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs” — I tried to find it in the Internet Archive, but there are waaay too many books of that name.