Imperfect World

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! 🔗rOpenSci HQ 🔗rOpenSci at LatinR We’re excited to continue supporting LatinR as a community partner in 2025. Registration is now open for the free LatinR Conference, bringing together researchers, developers, and open science advocates from across the region.

I would like this book just for being funny. I would like this book just for being well-illustrated. I would like this book just for covering lots of different dinosaurs and other Mesozoic critters, some familiar and many others only recently described, from more dinosaur-bearing formations than I was previously familiar with.

How does documentation and multilingualism intersect with inclusive global publishing? Get an inside perspective in this interview with Emma Uhl, PKP Documentation and Multilingualism Specialist.

What can students learn from Generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT? What roles can chatbots play in collaborative engineering? Tutor? Facilitator? Pair programmer? Task master? Vibe coder? Coursework cheater? Or something else?

Recent accessibility efforts in scholarly publishing are driven in part by acts such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and new Title II regulations requiring digital accessibility, with key compliance deadlines approaching in 2026. PKP shares the work it is doing to ensure accessibility in its publishing platforms.

Strengthening multilingual publishing, metadata integrity, and integrating invitation-based roles and reviewers.

On October 15th, 2025, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB, the German National Library of Science and Technology) announced the PKP Open Journal Systems (OJS) Deutschland Consortium 2026 – 2028 on the TIB Blog. Diesen Beitrag auf Deutsch lesen. At PKP, part of our mission has always been to support sustainable, community-driven open scholarly infrastructure.

People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature) is a Vietnamese non-profit organization founded in 2006, dedicated to protecting biodiversity and promoting sustainable development. PanNature works to harmonize the relationship between people and nature through policy advocacy, field-based conservation, and community partnerships, aiming to improve environmental governance and ensure responsible use of natural resources.

Appalachian History Series On the edge of downtown Harlan, just off U.S. 421, stands a small brick Catholic church that most travelers never notice. Holy Trinity Catholic Church is easy to miss in a county better known for coal camps, labor wars, and union ballads than for Roman collars and rosaries.

Appalachian History A hilltop church in a coal town Climb the long concrete stairway above the old company town of Pocahontas, Virginia, and you reach a modest white frame church with a red metal roof and a square tower crowned by a cross. Inside, the little sanctuary opens like a storybook. Ten life sized oil murals ring the walls and ceiling, with the Last Supper spreading across the apse behind a carved white high altar.