’Tis the season for Spotify Wrapped stats and I love it, both for seeing what everyone listens to and because it’s such a cool way of presenting data.

“`html New Legislation in Colorado Focused on Wild Bison Conservation Colorado is taking a significant step towards preserving its natural wildlife, specifically the wild bison, with a new bill set to bring about positive changes. This legislative initiative seeks to bolster conservation efforts and ensure the survival of this iconic species in the state.

We are thrilled to announce that our group at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science has been honored with the Open Access Award 2024 of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. This recognition, valued at €5,000, underscores our commitment to advancing Open Access in research, education, and knowledge transfer.

Recently I migrated this website from Ghost to Hugo. This site is now generated by Hugo, stored by Github, deployed on Cloudflare Pages, and content managed via Decap CMS. Hugo, Decap CMS, Cloudflare Pages, and GitHub together create a powerful and efficient stack for building, managing, and deploying static websites.

This stub post contains my notes about funding for open source software. It doesn’t follow a story like a lot of my posts, and is more like an ever-evolving notes sheet.

Most thyroid fine-needle aspirates fit neatly into one of the 6 categories of the Bethesda classification. But sometimes, cases are not so easy and it is worth thinking outside the boxes! This case was one of the latter. Although the targeted nodule was located in the thyroid gland in a patient with a history of thyroid nodules, something didn’t quite fit.

Um den freien Zugang zu Wissenschaft, Forschung und Lehre in Berlin zum Standard zu machen, wird die Open-Access-Strategie des Landes Berlin und der Berliner Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbe-Einrichtungen in Zuständigkeit des Landes Berlin zu einer Open-Research-Strategie weiterentwickelt. Das Open-Access-Büro Berlin konturiert die wesentlichen Zielmarken der Open-Research-Strategie in zehn Punkten.

Gene drives—a concept that might sound like something from science fiction—could reshape the way we address some of the world's most pressing challenges. Picture a future where we can eradicate devastating diseases, better protect our crops, and control invasive species. This technology holds the power to turn these visions into reality. However, with such transformative potential come significant risks and ethical questions.

Brandon Sanderson has been releasing a few chapters a week of his upcoming novel, Wind and Truth, on his publisher’s website leading up to its December 6 ^th release. This includes the audiobook chapters, but they’re posted to Soundcloud and there’s no good way to listen at 1.6x speed. This post is a note sheet on how to download audio from Soundcloud and prepare it for my audiobook reader.

Unter den Schlagworten „Humanität und Ordnung“ versammeln sich unterschiedliche politische Akteure. Die Stoßrichtung hinter der Losung scheint auf den ersten Blick zu sein, dass sowohl der Schutz für Flüchtlinge aufrechterhalten und gleichzeitig die Ausreiseregeln härter durchgesetzt werden.

Daniel C Burnston reviews The Brain Abstracted, by Mazviita Chirimuuta