Im Rahmen einer dreijährigen Projektförderung durch die VolkswagenStiftung wird am Open Research Office Berlin, angesiedelt an der Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin, ein „Legal Helpdesk“ aufgebaut und erprobt. Der Helpdesk stellt eine niedrigschwellige Anlaufstelle für Forschende aus Berliner Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbe-Einrichtungen dar, die dort bei rechtlichen Fragestellungen Hilfe und Unterstützung erhalten können.

There is a new market for academic fraud: selling fake patents.

Co-editors: Gábor Gergely, Júlia Havas, Victoria K. Pistivsek What is “Europe”? The term is far from self-evident. The emerging canon of Eastern European decolonial sociological scholarship shows that Europe is the product of the far-reaching legacies of global colonialism and ongoing ideological, cultural, and geopolitical contestations (Baker et al. 2024; Boatcă and Parvulescu 2020;

what are packages? R packages are collections of code, data, and documentation that extend R’s functionality beyond its core features. If you have an idea or notice a gap in the existing ecosystem, you can develop a package, test it, document it, and share it with the broader R community. You can distribute your package through the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) ¹ (CRAN) or GitHub.

Last year I had a brief keynote (here is the blog that I wrote about it) at TU Delft Library during Open Education Week. In the meantime I started as Director General of KB | The National Library. There is much that I learned about us as National Library. It is a wonderful place to be and to work for. And how do I stand in the things I put forward one year ago?

My four-year-old son has declared 36 to be the best number. His reason: 36 is the only number (he knows of) that is both a square and a staircase number AND an up-and-down-staircase number. “Staircase numbers” are what he calls triangular numbers (numbers that are the sum of the first $n$ integers). This name comes from the blocks he has that can be arranged into a staircase. He also calls them “step squad” numbers thanks to Numberblocks.

Because of the ambiguities inherent in the job, spy dramas tend to have morally grey characters, mutable moralities and can, though do not have to, engage in subversive critique of geopolitics and governments (cf Oldham 2017).

Original call here. Exploitation. Lowbrow. Cult. Underground. Trash. Poverty Row. Programmers. Pulp. Popular. Mass. … These descriptors of the “B” movie apply just as well to what we term “B-TV,” as they describe an aesthetics derived from the industrial realities that produced them.

Editor: Sabrina Mittermeier View the full call here >> https://intellectbooks.com/tv-matters TV Matters is a new series of short monographs (40,000 to 50,000 words) on television series, analysing their production history, cultural context, main themes, as well as fandom and audience reception. The focus is on shows that both have critical acclaim (as reflected by awards, media reviews), but more importantly, are genuinely ‘popular’.

The first time I saw one, I didn’t realize what I was looking at. It stood on the observation platform, its posture unnaturally still, skin flawless and smooth like porcelain. It looked human—two arms, two legs, a head—but something about the way it held itself screamed not human . It turned, catching me in its gaze. That’s when I saw its eyes: black pools with no whites, no iris, no pupils. Just featureless, bottomless voids.

If there are any readers in Canberra, I will be giving a lecture on the evening of Tuesday 25 February entitled, ‘The Great Disorientation’. It is based on a chapter from the book manuscript I am working on. The event is in-person only, but I can try to record and post it if there is interest.