This post is part of a living literature review on societal collapse. You can find an indexed archive here. Reflecting about the end of our modern civilization requires counterfactual thinking, because fortunately it hasn’t happened yet. But this is not the only way counterfactuals help us understand collapse better. We can also create counterfactuals to reflect about past events.

Das Projekt PALOMERA (Policy Alignment of Open Access Monographs in the European Research Area) richtete am 28. und 29. Oktober eine Abschlusskonferenz in Ljubljana aus, auf der die jüngst erschienenen Recommendations for Open Access Books vorgestellt wurden.

This is reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/expand-your-bluesky-network-with-r. ---I’m encouraging everyone I know online to join the scientific community on Bluesky.Bluesky for Science Stephen Turner·Nov 16Read full storyIn that post I link to several starter packs — lists of accounts posting about a topic that you can follow individually or all at once to start filling out your network.I started

This post is inspired by the Bluesky Network Analyzer made by @theo.io. I’m encouraging everyone I know online to join the scientific community on Bluesky. In that post I link to several starter packs — lists of accounts posting about a topic that you can follow individually or all at once to start filling out your network. I started following accounts of people I knew from X and from a few starter packs I came across.

Critically Endangered African Penguins – Seeking Peace and Food The Struggle for Survival The critically endangered African penguins are facing a continuous struggle in their quest for survival. Their natural habitats are rapidly diminishing due to several human and environmental threats.

Today in my stats class, my students saw me realize, in real-time, that you can include random intercepts in poisson models that you couldn’t in ordinary gaussian models, and this might be a nicer way to deal with overdispersion than moving to a negative binomial model.

The science blog archive Rogue Scholar depends heavily on GitHub Actions. They are used to trigger content and metadata extraction of new blog posts and to register DOIs for these posts with Crossref. More recently they have also been used to push this content and metadata to the new InvenioRDM-based Rogue Scholar platform. GitHub Actions are workflows that typically operate on the command line.

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Masturina Binti Md Mansor, a PhD student at the Universiti Putra Malaysia, was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend Asia &

Ever since a certain someone bought Twitter, I’ve been quite invested into using the Fediverse as my main social web efforts. My Mastodon timeline does a good job for short-form text updates. And Pixelfed is a great nascent Instagram-replacement. One thing I particularly enjoy about both of them is the fact that they bring back the simple, chronological timeline.

Germany and Kenya have signed a Comprehensive Migration and Mobility Partnership which is celebrated as a „win-win“ for both countries. While Kenya’s government is keen to appease its disaffected citizens with quick-fix job opportunities abroad, Germany remains far more reluctant to open its doors.

Alex Pliutau and I discuss what Go programmers should know about Rust, and why the two languages make perfect partners.