AIxBio is here: Navigating the pacing problem and the future of global biosecurity

The African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA) is the umbrella body for the African library sector. It focuses on building the capacity of librarians and related professionals to promote equitable access to information, increase the visibility of African knowledge and research outputs, and adapt effectively to evolving knowledge and information trends in order to drive sustainable development on the continent.

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive consolidated authentication into a single Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, powered by a self-hosted Keycloak instance, by the end of last year. This week, this service started supporting passwordless authentication via magic links.

Wie steht es um Diamond Open Access in den Bundesländern? In der ersten SeDOA-Online-Veranstaltung berichteten vier Landesinitiativen über ihre Aktivitäten, Herausforderungen und ihre Wünsche an SeDOA. Die Veranstaltung eröffnete Möglichkeiten für länderübergreifende Vernetzung, Austausch und Synergien.

Today’s tech anomaly was odd. I’m working on a new WordPress theme and obviously WordPress has to load its assets like the CSS file and the JavaScript file. I just added some new code to the home page template and suddenly my CSS was not loading. In fact it was pointing to the next theme in the list, Blockbase, and loading its CSS. Nothing I could do with caching resolved this in the slightest.

With the beginning of a new year we like looking back at our achievements in the previous year. I do that as well and I am more than proud to report that we were able to teach more than 1000 people last year through the Digital Research Academy.

Appalachian History Series – The Day the River Entered the Mine: The 1959 Knox Disaster in Luzerne County On a cold January morning in 1959, people in the Wyoming Valley watched the ice heavy Susquehanna roll past the coal breakers and company towns that lined its banks. By mid day the river was no longer just beside the mines. It was inside them.

Repurposed Appalachia Series​ – Tracks Across the Sky: The Kinzua Bridge, the 2003 Tornado, and Pennsylvania’s Great Viaduct Ruin If you follow U.S. Route 6 across the northern tier of Pennsylvania, the road climbs into a high plateau of hardwood ridges, gas wells, and old company towns that locals call the PA Wilds. Near the little borough of Mount Jewett, a side road turns off toward a narrow valley where steel once walked across the sky.

Appalachian Folklore & Myths Series – Lanterns in the Raccoon Creek Valley: Moonville Tunnel and the Ghost Town in the Woods On a map of Appalachian Ohio, Vinton County looks like one more patch of green among many. In person, it feels different. The roads slip down into narrow hollows and climb back out again, and the trees close in until even a bright afternoon can look like evening.

Appalachian Folklore & Myths Series – Tailypo: A Southern Monster Tale with Deep Roots in Appalachian Communities On a cold night in the Southern mountains, a single sound can carry a long way. Wind slips through the trees. A loose board on a cabin wall creaks. Somewhere out in the dark, a dog barks once and then goes quiet. Inside, children lean closer to the fire while an older voice lowers to a whisper and begins a story.

Article in today’s Guardian From interviews that were published last week by the Financial Times and The Guardian, I get the sense that the new President of the Royal Society, Professor Sir Paul Nurse, is almost as sick of the Musk affair as I am. He may well be regretting consenting to these interviews because they have re-ignited the debate about the Royal Society’s handling of concerns raised within and without about actions by Musk that are