TL;DR It’s annoying to be plagiarised, but what I’ve come to worry about more is how pay-to-publish predatory journals forgo peer review in order to prey on fellow academics and rob them of learning opportunities. Even if you know better than to publish in them, they are a symptom of the collective action problem that plagues much of academic publishing.

AIxBio is here: Navigating the pacing problem and the future of global biosecurity

JSKOS (JSON for Knowledge Organization Systems) is a JSON-based data model for representing terminologies, thesauri, classifications, and other semantic artifacts. Like the Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings (SSSOM), it can also encode semantic mappings. This post is about developing and implementing a crosswalk between them in the sssom-pydantic Python package.

The African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA) is the umbrella body for the African library sector. It focuses on building the capacity of librarians and related professionals to promote equitable access to information, increase the visibility of African knowledge and research outputs, and adapt effectively to evolving knowledge and information trends in order to drive sustainable development on the continent.

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive consolidated authentication into a single Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, powered by a self-hosted Keycloak instance, by the end of last year. This week, this service started supporting passwordless authentication via magic links.

Wie steht es um Diamond Open Access in den Bundesländern? In der ersten SeDOA-Online-Veranstaltung berichteten vier Landesinitiativen über ihre Aktivitäten, Herausforderungen und ihre Wünsche an SeDOA. Die Veranstaltung eröffnete Möglichkeiten für länderübergreifende Vernetzung, Austausch und Synergien.

This blog is part of a series on ‘the Politics of Food and Technology’, in collaboration with the SOAS Food Studies Centre. All of the blogs in this series are contributions made at the International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA) Conference in Istanbul-Bergen, October 2025, to the panel with a similar title.

Today’s tech anomaly was odd. I’m working on a new WordPress theme and obviously WordPress has to load its assets like the CSS file and the JavaScript file. I just added some new code to the home page template and suddenly my CSS was not loading. In fact it was pointing to the next theme in the list, Blockbase, and loading its CSS. Nothing I could do with caching resolved this in the slightest.

With the beginning of a new year we like looking back at our achievements in the previous year. I do that as well and I am more than proud to report that we were able to teach more than 1000 people last year through the Digital Research Academy.

Appalachian History Series – The Day the River Entered the Mine: The 1959 Knox Disaster in Luzerne County On a cold January morning in 1959, people in the Wyoming Valley watched the ice heavy Susquehanna roll past the coal breakers and company towns that lined its banks. By mid day the river was no longer just beside the mines. It was inside them.

Repurposed Appalachia Series​ – Tracks Across the Sky: The Kinzua Bridge, the 2003 Tornado, and Pennsylvania’s Great Viaduct Ruin If you follow U.S. Route 6 across the northern tier of Pennsylvania, the road climbs into a high plateau of hardwood ridges, gas wells, and old company towns that locals call the PA Wilds. Near the little borough of Mount Jewett, a side road turns off toward a narrow valley where steel once walked across the sky.