Appalachian History On a February evening in 1948, nearly fifteen hundred people streamed into a freshly remodeled storefront on Main Street in Jenkins. The Champion Dairy Bar offered bright red-and-cream décor, ice cream, and a free carnation to every woman who walked through the door.
Appalachian Churches Tucked against the hillside at the foot of No. 4 Hill in Jenkins, Kentucky, St. George Catholic Church looks like a simple white frame church.
Anmerkung zu dieser Rubrik: Das Open Research Office Berlin erstellt monatlich eine Übersicht über Termine und Veranstaltungen zu Open Access und Open Research in Berlin bzw. an Berliner Einrichtungen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf unseren Partnereinrichtungen und auf Veranstaltungen, die sich an die Öffentlichkeit richten bzw.
The Anthropic Education Report showed 50% of Claude conversations about grading delegated assessment to the AI. How does one actually design AI-resistant assignments?
In der Welt der wissenschaftlichen Publikationen liegen viele Diamanten noch verborgen: Frei zugängliche Schätze, die weder Autor*innen noch Lesenden Gebühren verursachen und der wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft gehören. Doch wie findet man diese Diamanten? Wer darf sie definieren? Und wie stellt man sicher, dass sie sichtbar bleiben?
In the dying days of the Roman Republic, there existed a class of functionaries called nomenclatores . Their job was to whisper the names of approaching citizens into their patron’s ear so that the great man could greet each one as if they were intimates.
NoteReviewers Ryan Peterson (2025-11-24). Patrick Breheny (2025-12-12). What connotation do you attach to the word “bias”? A negative one? In this post we will see why not all bias is bad… at least when it comes to building predictive models. In fact, for many years, statisticians have recognized the benefits of biased estimators in reducing prediction error. Perhaps you knew this, but if not, don’t worry.
In my latest conversations with research funders, I talked with Hannah Hope, Open Research Lead at Wellcome, and Melissa Harrison, Team Leader of Literature Services at Europe PMC.
We are experiencing a programming revolution, with the democratization of artificial intelligence, but also with the creation and improvement of more traditional software tools to improve your code: local, free, deterministic.
Slides: https://jakubnowosad.com/agforum2025 This presentation covered three interconnected deep learning concepts appearing in spatial data science work.
Introduction Following the release of a new version of OpenAlex called ‘Walden’ in November 2025, the community reported a decrease in affiliation metadata coverage.