Appalachian History On a February night in 1865, riders splashed out of the hills and into the farms along Bolts Fork in western Boyd County. By dawn, horses were gone, homes had been stripped, and a Union cavalryman on leave lay dead near Cannonsburg.

Appalachian History Leslie County did not appear on the map until 1878, when the legislature carved it from Clay, Harlan, and Perry Counties and named it for Governor Preston H. Leslie. Its new seat, Hyden, rose at the mouth of Rockhouse Creek on the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River, in a landscape of steep ridges and narrow bottoms. That geography matters.

Appalachian History Rowan County on the War’s Ragged Edge When the Civil War reached the upper Licking River, Rowan County was still a young place. Created in 1856 from parts of Fleming and Morgan Counties, it had a new courthouse at Morehead, scattered farms along Triplett Creek and the Licking, and roads that threaded east and west toward Mt. Sterling, Flemingsburg, and the Virginia line.

A couple of days ago - in light of Mozilla (once again) doubling down in poor decision making - I was saying how it’s a good idea to donate to alternative projects instead, every time Mozilla fails us. But all joking aside, given the state of the world , it’s indeed a good time to support our best shots at maintaining independent software stacks.

Biotech policy: Recent policy discussions echo NSCEB recommendations across investment, defense, and data.

The Open Science Magnifiers project (funded by the Berlin University Alliance), aims to monitor a wide diversity of open research practices. We are collaborating with various communities in exploring and establishing different Open Science Monitoring approaches.

Erlaubt das Urheberrecht die Nutzung von Werken des Rappers „Haftbefehl“ im Schulunterricht? Hier gibt es einen Überblick über mögliche erlaubte Nutzungen von Songtexten, Musikvideos und dem neu erschienenen Netflix-Dokumentarfilm. Das Erscheinen des Dokumentarfilms über den Rapper „Haftbefehl“ entfachte die Diskussion darüber, ob dessen Werke Teil des Lehrplans werden sollten.

There's outrage in the computer science community over a new feature rolled out by the ACM Digital Library that generates often inaccurate AI summaries. To make things worse, this is hidden behind a 'premier' paywall, so authors without access (for example, having graduated from University) can't even see what is being said. Why are these paper AI summaries harmful? The summaries themselves are deeply average.

We thank our community for the excellent keynote speaker suggestions for BOSC 2026. The next phase of our selection process invites you to share any concerns about the suitability of the nominated individuals. Our invited speaker selection process and criteria outline the factors we consider when selecting speakers for BOSC 2026, including characteristics that will exclude a speaker.

As we finish celebrating our 25th anniversary, we can look back on a truly transformational year, defined by the successful delivery of several long-planned, foundational projects—as well as updates to our teams, services, and fees—that position Crossref for success over the next quarter century as essential open scholarly infrastructure.

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 proudly continued supporting LatinR as a community partner in 2025. Here we share a list of resources and recordings for the tutorials and talks delivered by our staff and community memebers at LatinR.