This is the April issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users.Blogs added to Rogue Scholar Nine blogs from six different subject areas were added in April. Welcome everybody!

Appalachian History Series A Newspaper Born in the Fire of Bloody Harlan In early May 1931 thousands of miners in Harlan and neighboring Bell County, Kentucky, walked off the job to protest brutal conditions and another round of wage cuts.

Das Erscheinen des CCPL-Kommentars ist auch eine gute Nachricht für alle Beteiligten in der Forschung, die in ihrer Forschungspraxis auf CC-Lizenzen zurückgreifen. Welche Informationen und Hilfestellungen das Werk für die Wissenschaft bietet. Der erste juristische Kommentar inklusive Handbuch zu allen Fragen rund um die Creative Commons Public License (CCPL) ist kürzlich im Open Access erschienen.

A reflection on teaching and learning.

The global DataCite community is supported by a fully remote team of 21 members, located in 12 countries and speaking more than 20 languages. Once a year, the team meets somewhere in the world to interact in person, remind one another that we are humans rather than 2-D images on screens, and brainstorm topics of current and strategic importance.

Thanks to the Event Fellowship from Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF), I was privileged to attend the 2025 International Statistical Genetics Workshop (ISG). ISG is an intensive, week-long workshop held annually in Boulder, Colorado that provides hands-on training in the principles and application of over a dozen open-access bioinformatics tools for analysis of genomic data.

Revolutionising Reasoning in Large Language ModelsContinue reading on Medium »

It’s been a decade long journey, but the publication of a completely gapless telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genome assembly finally marks the end of the Bauhinia Genome Project.

System 1 vs. System 2: Bringing Deliberate Thinking to AIContinue reading on Medium »

Converting Data into a Knowledge GraphContinue reading on Medium »

The software that we use to do our work is our academic software stack . I often see requests for advice on which software works well. Since recommendations from labs that have road-tested a few options are quite valuable, I thought I would document what we’re currently using and why. I have tried to note if we’ve switched, tried alternatives and if we’re happy. The lab is Mac-based and we prefer FOSS solutions.