Slovakia is emerging as a hub for African students seeking affordable, EU-recognized education, thanks to competitive tuition, a safe environment, and growing international support. Yet, life after graduation raises questions: Do students stay or leave, and what barriers shape their decisions?
This week the Rogue Scholar science blog archive has launched a new feature: contributor roles. Blog posts can now have contributor roles attached to each author, and this information is shown in the Rogue Scholar and Crossref metadata. We have discussed contributor roles for blog posts for several months, in particular with the rOpenSci team.
Barbara S. Lancho Barrantes, Sheila Craft-Morgan, Madelaine Hare, Naomi Richards, Emily Mazure, &
DOI: 10.60804/5×77-bq53 Many institutions are looking at their evaluation processes with the goal of making assessment more reflective of the variety of researchers’ contributions and also more aligned to open scholarship. A key area of attention as part of assessment reform relates to the recognition of a diversity of open...
Die Kooperationsvereinbarung zwischen der Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek – Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek (GWLB) und TIB für die Fächer Geschichtswissenschaft, Philosophie, Religionswissenschaft und Theologie eröffnet Studierenden und Forschenden weitreichende Vorteile: Durch die enge Zusammenarbeit werden zusätzliche elektronische Ressourcen bereitgestellt.
In the previous post, I was commenting that the transition state for borohydride reduction of a ketone contained some close contacts between the hydrogen of the borohydride and the hydrogen of water.
Courir est un bon moment pour réfléchir, particulièrement dans un événement sportif se décrivant comme vert. Les organisateurs décrivent des initiatives comme la plantation d’arbres localement et aussi à l’étranger sous le slogan ‘2km parcourus = 1 arbre planté‘. Ils mènent aussi des initiatives de plogging, et décrivent des engagement de RSE louables.
The DataCite team traveled to Brisbane for the International Data Week 2025, the leading international conference on research data. It is jointly organised by the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA). It was a great opportunity to connect with familiar and new faces.
M-PESA, a fintech platform, created alternative banking for those previously excluded from formal finance. While it advanced financial inclusion, it also highlighted deep inequalities and the extraction of value from vulnerable users. In this blog, Anna Elias, Erwin Tuijl, and Jasmin Hofman remind us that frugal innovation is not just ... The post What is Frugal About Gig Platforms? appeared first on Bliss.
A lot of things are less than ideal in the world at the moment, but I can’t help but be amazed at what one can do with a static website. WebR through quarto-live allows you to run R (you can also run Python with pyodide) in the browser. No server required. Like below: eyJhdHRyIjp7ImVkaXQiOnRydWUsImV2YWwiOnRydWV9LCJjb2RlIjoiMisyIn0= I can’t help but feel this is a little like magic.
Comparing housing prices over time is difficult because of all the heterogeneity in housing that can both affect prices and vary over time. The typical solution to this problem is to use a hedonic price index that attempts to model the relationship between housing characteristics and price, and uses this to control the change in these characteristics over time.