Canva is bringing its Affinity software to Linux, saying that an official build for the platform is now in 'active development'.
Affinity is free, but not open-source software, offering raster, vector, photo processing and publishing tools in a unified app.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/11/affinity-linux-release-confirmed?v2
Good move: "European funders put weight behind emerging ‘publish, review, curate’ approach for #preprints."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03445-w
I don't get the argument that public institutions "have to be where people are". Why?
Pornhub has about the same amount of monthly active users as X. No one thinks our EU commissioners or the Swedish parliament must be on Pornhub.
In the pre-socials era no one expected the prime minister to make his statements in the gossip press "because that's where people are".
I think its time to dismiss that "where people are" argument altogether. No one will listen to me, but still 😐. #plus1
RE: https://mastodon.social/@KaliuzhnaN/117546409100617101
Finally! I was begining to suspect they won't meet their deadline of "some time in 2026", but now they got it done!
If academia were to emprace this approach, it could be the journal replacement experts have been calling for since the 1990s!
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230206
#openaccess #openscience #publishing
Seit heute können Wissenschaftler*innen in Deutschland und 10 weiteren europ. Ländern ihre Ergebnisse auf #OpenResearchEurope veröffentlichen – kostenfrei und unabhängig von einer Projektförderung. Am 1. Dezember bietet das CERN ein Info-Webinar an. Mehr dazu:
https://sohub.io/lqm7
RE: https://fedihum.org/@christof/117360220538265955
Please note, wir haben die Bewerbungsfrist bis zum 14.11.2026 verlängert!
Am Digital Humanities Tag (Mittwoch, 04.11.2026) gibt es gleich zwei spannede Workshops bei uns:
10-12 Uhr: Einführung DH – Von Textanalyse bis KI-Tools
13-15 Uhr: Textvisualisierung & Data Mining
Für Studierende/Promovierende aus Geistes-/Sozialwissenschaften der @unibremen
Keine Programmierkenntnisse nötig!
Gestaltet von Jonas Kaiser vom Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem (BIS) der @UniOldenburg
#DigitalHumanities #DH #UniOldenburg #Workshop #Forschung #DataLiteracy
Guten Morgen ☀️
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis - Reading Mode
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/03/08/closing-central-madrid-to-cars-resulted-in-9-5-boost-to-retail-spending-finds-bank-analysis/
our disappearing night skies …
Photo of 14,000 satellite trails shows how busy space is becoming
Astrophotographer and teacher Brendan Larsen spent 2 hours taking 578 photos of one section of sky in New Zealand to see how satellites are changing our night skies. These shocking images reveal their impact
Für neue KI-Rechenzentren ließ Google in Finnland rund 400.000 Bäume auf mehr als 500 Hektar fällen. Die Folgen für Natur und Anwohnerïnnen sind gravierend, die Bauarbeiten inzwischen gestoppt. Christiane Schulzki-Haddouti @SchulzkiHaddouti zeigt, wie der Fall zum Symbol für die ökologischen Kosten des KI-Booms wird. https://www.riffreporter.de/de/technik/google-rechenzentren-finnland-wald-ki
📢 New blog post!
How do you make a complex, ontology-driven knowledge graph accessible to researchers without SPARQL skills?
Naomi Beutler shares her workflow for “flattening” a graph-based dataset into a clean, analysis-ready table. Based on her work with the @NFDI4Memory #FAIRData Fellowship at the #DHLab_IEG, she shows the transformation of 17th-century benefice records into a user-friendly tabular format: https://dhlab.hypotheses.org/9065
📣In case you missed it
1️⃣ Commission to investigate how Booking.com combats scams and fraud
🔗 https://link.europa.eu/rrvt7d
2️⃣ New EU Strategy for the Arctic
🔗 https://link.europa.eu/DGJcXc
3️⃣ €20.5 million to support the EU media sector
🔗 https://link.europa.eu/xryqRk
"Workers describe an environment where employees have genuine concerns about security or being asked to develop security products with AI, but feel unable to voice them, lest Yen berates them in front of everyone or threatens their employment at the company."
Proton is just garbage
(Article title: Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning)
https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/
Der FID #Romanistik – @fidromanistik – wünscht sich Vorschläge zu Literatur, Lizenzen und Services!
https://blog.fid-romanistik.de/2026/10/16/ihre-anregungen-fuer-neue-angebote-des-fid-romanistik-4/
RE: https://fedihum.org/@erre1998/117403788465651192
Hier noch einmal eine Erinnerung, dass unsere Ringvorlesung #DH im Fokus am kommenden Montag startet! Mit dem Vortrag von @lingucat : "HDGDL dein ALLER größter Fan JoSiE - Korpuslinguistische Zugänge zu Intensivierung in YouTube-Kommentaren" - herzlich willkommen in Zoom oder vor Ort in Rostock! #rosDH
Once or twice it also descended into a recursive loop of just "Hmm – wait – hmmm. Hmm – wait – hmmm...", until you stop it.
Es beginnt eine neue Forschungsgruppe (DFG) zum Heftroman 😃 : Mit dabei ein digitales Korpus, #CLS, #DH, @fotis_jannidis, @peertrilcke, Henny-Sluyther-Gäthje, @lkonle, Claudia Stockinger, Christine Haug (Sprecherin), Robert Jäschke, Vivien Petras, Joseph Imorde, und die @DNB_Aktuelles als Koooperationspartner. https://www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/newsuebersicht/news/grosser-erfolg-eines-kleinen-formats-die-vielschichtigkeit-und-relevanz-von-heftromanen-bafc6a1e.html
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