Der rasche Anstieg der Zahl der Asylsuchenden in Deutschland 2015 hat den Titel ‚Langer Sommer der Migration‘ hervorgebracht. Die Aufnahme und Versorgung von über einer Millionen Geflüchteter stellte die Kommunen in Deutschland vor eine neue Herausforderung.
À l’occasion de la Journée du logiciel libre, des membres des équipes d’Érudit et du Public Knowledge Project (PKP), partenaires dans Coalition Publica, décrivent l’importance des logiciels libres dans leur travail et leur place centrale dans nos actions. Découvrez ce que signifie utiliser un logiciel libre et ce qu’en pensent les membres de nos équipes!
This Software Freedom Day, Érudit and PKP get together as Coalition Publica to share why software freedom matters to us, and how it is at the heart of our efforts. Continue on to learn what it means to use free software, and for personalized messages from folks across our teams. La version française est disponible […] The post Érudit and PKP Celebrate Software Freedom Day Together as Coalition Publica appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.
“So, what experiment should we do next?” asks the student. And two different tabs open up side to side in your mind. Tab 1: Taking a stroll in your field In this tab, there are no real rules. You are wandering on the signaling pathways, thinking back to the intersections that you encountered before and at the same time, looking for new ones that could appear in the continuation of this little walk.
On behalf of the Nominating Committee, I’m pleased to share the slate of candidates for the 2025 board election. Each year we do an open call for board interest. This year, the Nominating Committee received 51 submissions from members worldwide to fill five open board seats.
Your browser does not support the audio tag. Download: PDF | EPUB | MP3 | WATCH VIDEO All models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful. — George Box In science, there’s an inherent trade off between comprehensibility and realism. Realistic models tend to be intricate … even convoluted. But to be comprehensible, a model must be simple.
por Lucía Cortez Que el Estado, en todas sus dimensiones, sea uno de los temas más visitados por los estudios del campo de las humanidades y las ciencias sociales posiblemente no sea una novedad.
This is a critical moment for work on gender in emergencies. Across the humanitarian sector, we are witnessing a coordinated backlash. Decades of progress are threatened by targeted funding cuts, the erasure of essential research and tools, and a political climate that seeks to silence our work. Many dedicated practitioners feel isolated and that their work is being devalued. This is not a time for silence.
Happy Peer Review Week! [ TLDR: To make my latest tumble down a deep rabbit hole marginally less bumpy, I downloaded >200K peer review documents for >30K articles in four open access journals published by BMC (an imprint of Springer Nature). You can find links to download these archives in full here or at the bottom of this post.
In November 2022, I migrated from Twitter to Mastodon. Since then, I also started administering a Mastodon server, and have gotten much more into the technical details of hosting services. I semi-understand ActivityPub, which Mastodon is built on – so I wondered, how does Bluesky actually work?
Previously, we discussed non-equilibrium dynamics in tidal dwarf galaxies. These are the result of interactions between giant galaxies that are manifestly a departure from equilibrium, a circumstance that makes TDGs potentially a decisive test to distinguish between dark matter and MOND, and simultaneously precludes confident application of that test.