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A report by Inside Higher Education presents promising trials of journals that paid reviewers for writing a report. Turnaround times dropped and the quality of reports was high. It is certainly good that journals explore payment of reviewers, but I am skeptical that this can ease the “peer review crisis”, meaning to improve low turnaround times and reduce difficulties in recruiting reviewers in the first place.
As the report states, this is plausible because the compensation likely induces a sense of commitment and responsibility that accelerates the review process. I think the key question is: Does a payment model scale? When I get one invitation for a paid review report, I give it priority, but may also put other reports on hold and may decline other invitations for non-paid reports. What would happen when I get paid for all reports and all create the same sense of responsibility? Would one attach priority to all of them, putting research and teaching commitments second? I find this unlikely, so paid reports at scale may leave us in the same place as we are right now. Or researchers become more selective in accepting invitations. This is probably superior to accepting invites and not delivering a report, but it may also mean that fewer manuscript get reviewed at all, which is not desirable, in my opinion.
\n\n\n\nIn relation with this, I don’t follow this statement in the article: “There could be some percentage of papers that never get reviewed because it\u2019s not worth a journal\u2019s limited resources to peer review, which puts a quality stamp on the papers that do get reviewed,\u201d he said. This seems circular. I think the quality stamp derives from the review reports, so how can one say that a manuscript is of low quality if it is not sent to reviewers in the first place? There may be clear cases for desk rejections, but also many grey cases for which low quality is not obvious and papers that seem promising at first and do not stand closer scrutiny.
\n\n\n\nAnother point is the following: I believe that for papers on certain topics or using certain methods it is more difficult to find reviewers. The “field”, generally speaking, does not value them highly for reasons unrelated to quality. Maybe one would have to pay more for getting such papers reviewed, but even this may not help and may create wrong incentives for accepting peer review invitations in the first place.
\n\n\n\nThere may be other arguments for or against paying reviewers. While the goal of easing current issues with the peer review system is laudable, I think payment of reviewers is not clearly an effective instrument for achieving this goal.
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One reason I was so happy to be invited to the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History to talk about horned dinosaurs is because the museum has two of the coolest ones on display: Aquilops, the smallest and earliest ceratopsian in North America, and Pentaceratops, one of the largest and latest. Naturally I had to check in on my baby, and its rather more imposing relative.
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Here’s the Aquilops exhibit without any big hairy mammal heads mucking up the view.
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The skull of Aquilops in three versions: the actual holotype fossil down below, a reconstruction of the distorted skull with the missing bits sculpted in by preparator and reptile-reconstructor extraordinaire Kyle Davies (see more of his work here), and a reconstruction of the skull as it might have looked before it went through the ravages of taphonomy.
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And the holotype skull, OMNH 34557, by itself. If you’re wondering why I’m making with so many photos, it’s because my last attempt, 10 years ago, was not without criticism. I was still just rolling with an iPhone this time, but iPhones are a lot better these days, and I’m a less wretched photographer.
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And just to the left of the Aquilops cabinet is the monster Pentaceratops with its 10.5-foot-long skull (3.2 meters).
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The Pentaceratops is one of my favorite things in any museum. As a grad student back in the late 90s, I gave a lot of behind-the-scenes tours of the new museum as it was going up, and the Pentaceratops was a hit from the start. I actually preferred the view from the animal’s left side, now blocked by the wall behind it — the wide spread of the front and back legs made for a much more dynamic appearance. I should ask around and see if anyone has any photos of the skeleton from that side.
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There was a plan kicking around back then to completely wall in the Pentaceratops except for a front viewing window, the idea being that it was the jewel of the collection and would be presented as if in a giant jewelry display case. That plan got nixed — correctly — because it would have precluded this head-on view, which lets you imagine your last moments before 7 tons of angry ceratopsian turns you into a Jackson Pollock painting. My only (and minor) unhappiness about this view is that darned spotlight to the left of the frill, which glares in photos.
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You can scoot a smidge to the right and use the frill itself to block that light, but now you’re not quite looking at the animal head-on. Still, a heck of a nice view of a truly awesome critter. You can’t go wrong either way.
\nUnlike their cousins across the way in the “Bizarre Headgear” exhibit, who will only be on display until August 23, Aquilops and Pentaceratops are permanent fixtures at the museum. Check ’em out if you get the chance.
\nALSO, since you had the impeccable good taste to click on a post about Aquilops:
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The Aquilops merch train keeps rolling along, and coming down the pike is this life-size Dolores from Jurassic World Rebirth. I’ve seen fanboys online crying that the first life-size critter in the Hammond Collection line wasn’t a Compy or a baby Velociraptor. Ha ha, Aquilops FTW, theropods get back in line. Anyway, theoretically this thing will drop sometime this summer or fall. Chances are real good that its appearance on store shelves will not go unremarked here.
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OPML is the standard export format for blog feeds and includes the blog category and feed URL \u2013 Rogue Scholar uses the OpenAlex subject area subfield as category.
The OPML file is automatically generated from the Rogue Scholar API and linked from the footer of every Rogue Scholar page, or directly available here.
In addition Rogue Scholar is launching the hosted feed reader Miniflux at https://reader.rogue-scholar.org. Miniflux works as a standalone feed reader or together with feed readers installed on your desktop computer or mobile device. Authentication with the Rogue Scholar feed reader is via Front Matter authentication, linked to your Rogue Scholar account. Then use the Miniflux import feature to import the Rogue Scholar OPML feed:
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The Rogue Scholar Feed Reader hopefully encourages more users to read science blogs via feed readers and not depend on newsletters sent via email. Newsletters are fine and have become popular recently, but feed readers are arguably still the best way to read blogs. I am using the free and open source NetNewsWire on Mac and iPhone, and there are plenty alternatives for various platforms.
Miniflux also helps me see if something is wrong with one of the Rogue Scholar blogs. Either temporary network issues, or more persistent problems if a blog has moved or has breaking changes in the feed.
Please reach out with questions or comments about OPML and feed readers via Slack, email, Mastodon, or Bluesky.
tl;dr: With panoramax.libre.net.ar we have set up the first (public) Panoramax instance in the Americas. It allows the collection of street-level imagery in the Argentine territory.
\nUna versi\u00f3n en espa\u00f1ol es disponible en OpenStreetMap
\nPanoramax is an open-source system for creating a commons of street-level imagery, thus creating an openly licensed alternative to Google StreetView etc.\nAnd unlike some of the other alternatives, which openly license the images, the whole software stack itself is free & open source software too.\nPlus it is based around the idea of creating a federation of Panoramax servers or instances, similar to the Fediverse of Mastodon, PeerTube, Lemmy, etc.
\nSince the first time I posted about Panoramax, the federation has grown quite a bit, to more than 10 instances.\nBut, as seems (unfortunately ) quite normal for most federated systems, there still is some strong centralisation in terms of usage.\nThe instances of the French chapter of OpenStreetMap (OSM FR) and the French National Geographic Institute collect around 97% of all images so far.\nIn case of the OSM FR instance this is also due to the fact, that until now they were the only big instance that allowed uploading images from any place on earth, instead of geo-restricting uploads to a region or country.
\nFor Panoramax, such centralisation is not just problematic when thinking about the ability to work in local contexts or the federation\u2019s resilience, but also for the sustainability of those individual instances for storage reasons:\nStoring millions of high-resolution street-level images eats up a lot of storage.\nIn the case of the OSM FR instance, the around 51 million pictures take up 120 TB for the raw images, and another 66 TB for derivative images necessary for the efficient display and delivery of them.
\nAnd so, a couple of weeks ago, Christian Quest posted on the OSM community forum that the OSM FR instance is running out of space.\nHe also shared that around half of all of those images come from outside France, contributing to making the status quo not sustainable in the long-term.\nAnd for that reason, future uploads from abroad would very reasonably not be possible.\nAs someone who did upload quite a lot of images from here in Argentina, I definitely contributed to that problem and it also meant trying to move forward with getting a local instance up more urgently.
\nNot having a local instance wasn\u2019t even necessarily for lack of trying, but there\u2019s a number of factors that provide additional barriers:\nThe first, and maybe biggest one is the sheer cost of hardware.\nElectronics in general are extremely expensive in Argentina.\nNot just in relative terms, compared to local salaries, but even in absolute terms and outside any \u201cAI\u201d-driven cost explosions, thanks to tarriffs and fees associated with importing.\nThis means that hardware is generally run until it collapses and means the market for used hardware is not particularly plentiful and that the prices for used hardware here often are still higher than what one would have paid for it new in places like the EU or the US.\nAs such, the chances of getting hardware donations, that other locations can have luck with for such a project, are also quite slim, especially when starting from scratch.
\nSimilarly, public institutions like universities or municipalities, which in other places might be natural partners for such an effort, while potentially interested, lack the resources to help:\nThey are all bleeding money under the national government\u2019s intentional defunding of all public services.\nIf you read any German (or are willing to use machine translation) you can read my own reporting on that topic at Amerika21, but otherwise any media that has international coverage should help.
\nThe other alternative for getting a Panoramax instance up and running, that a range of other smaller instances seem to use, is self-hosting at home.\nBut, presence of hardware aside, even that can be not so simple, due to infrastructure constraints.\nEspecially in more rural contexts like my own:\nBeyond regular power cuts or outages, which a UPS could help get around, local internet providers often only offer very slow speeds. \nFor example, in my hometown the local cooperative \u2013 which manages public utilities including internet connections \u2013 offers slow aDSL speeds, with optic fibre being planned to come to some neighborhoods at some point in the next year.\nThat would mean actually using such a Panoramax instance would be sucking HD images through a straw.
\nAll of those factors meant that \u2013 despite trying, on and off and with different intensity, since 2024 \u2013 we didn\u2019t get a local instance of the ground so far.\nBut with the change to the OSM FR instance generating the necessary urgency it was time to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good any longer.\nAnd while Argentina as a country is huge, maybe it doesn\u2019t need hundreds of terabytes to get started?\nFirstly, the actual road network seems to be only ~1/4th of the one of France.\nAnd secondly, the number of local contributors that upload imagery, at least as estimated from the OSM FR instance, is quite manageable!
\nBased on this, I wondered if it would maybe not be possible to just rent a \u201csmall\u201d dedicated server somewhere, just to get things off the ground.\nGiven the hardware costs, see above, it would have to be a hoster outside the country, as local options are also quite expensive.\nWhich isn\u2019t ideal latency-wise, but beggars can\u2019t be choosers.\nAnd so I started brainstorming more concretely with Daniel and Marcos about options and how we could setup an instance.
\nTo make use of his extensive first-hand Panoramax-hosting experience I also reached out to Christian Quest, who pointed out that French hoster OVH actually offers a dedicated server-type that\u2019s somewhat affordable at US $26.60/month and comes with four 4TB hard drives that can be setup into a software RAID and 500 GB SSD for storing the database etc1.\nIn a RAID5 setup, this would give 12 TB of usable storage for the images (or 16 TB, when paying slightly more for an option of four 6TB drives), and the rest of the specifications would also be enough to run an instance.\nAt least, as long as one makes use of the image blurring service that OSM FR graciously runs as a service, as the suggested machine type doesn\u2019t have a dedicated GPU.\nIn the 16 TB setup, this should be enough to store around 4 million images, assuming the same mix of image sources/qualities that OSM FR stores.
\nThat looked like it should last for at least a bit, as so far around 830,000 images taken in Argentina have been uploaded to the OSM FR instance over the past 2 years.\nAnd so we decided to go ahead and give it a try, to get us started and hopefully allows us to create a convincing demo.\nWhich in turn can hopefully help getting into more targeted conversations for support in the future.
\nWith the decision for the hosting type made, the actual setup to get us started wasn\u2019t too hard either:\nThe Panoramax team made a great documentation about deploying with docker compose and using OSM through OAuth as a login provider.\nAnd we benefitted even more from the detailed write-up by Matija Nalis, who had recently deployed the Panoramax instance of OSM Croacia, which took us to 99% of the way of deploying it (for the one exception see the details below).
And so we deployed our Panoramax instance to https://panoramax.libre.net.ar.\nAs far as I know, this is not only the first instance in Latin America, but in all of the Americas!2\nIt currently is setup to accept images taken within Argentina and Uruguay, but if any folks in neighboring countries need some space, we can see what we can do, just get in touch with us!
\nOverall, this was a lot easier, less painful and even cheaper than I had expected.\nAnd so we hope that this motivates others to give it a shot too.\nPanoramax can only work at a larger scale, if more folks are standing up local instances. \nMaybe not even at a national level, but at a regional or municipal level, bringing down storage needs and thus cost.
\nIn terms of admin effort and expertise needed:\nThere\u2019s a growing number of people who have Panoramax server admin experience, and in my experience everyone is super happy to help.\nHaving said that, having a small team of people willing to help is great, both to be able to get second opinions and help with the bus-factor - but also to turn it into a social effort! \nFor our little instance, that includes not only Marcos and Dani, but also Lucas, who offered to share his server admin expertise as well when he heard of our idea!
\nThe only thing missing from the detailed write-up about the OSM-HR instance was on how to set-up the software RAID.\nThe server setup of OVH comes without any of the HDDs configured, as it just formats the SSD instead.\nBut luckily that was not too hard to read up on.\nFor others who want to reproduce this, the steps are below.
\nTo get the 4 HDD setup as a RAID5 we went with LVM too, which is similar to the description for OSM-HR. \nTo prepare the HDDs, we first created the physical volumes:
\n![\"a](\"https://tzovar.as/assets/images/2026-05-18-panoramax.jpg\"/)
\npvcreate /dev/sda\npvcreate /dev/sdb\npvcreate /dev/sdc\npvcreate /dev/sdd\nThen we created the volume group vg1 by running vgcreate vg1 /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
Lastly, we created the actual LV: lvcreate -n panoramax-photos --type raid5 -i 3 -l 100%VG vg1
The parameters for this are
\n -n: name of volume\n --type raid5: raid type\n -i: use 3 devices out of the 4 (for single drive redundancy)\n -l 100%VG: use 100% of volume group\nAs a result we got:
\nroot@panoramax-ar:~# lvscan\n ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/panoramax-photos' [16.37 TiB] inherit\nFrom there on, the rest of the instructions of OSM HR will get you there!
\nTo be clear, depending on your local context this of course can still be out of financial reach, but it has a lot lower start-up cost than many alternatives. And I\u2019m lucky enough to be able to shoulder the cost, especially since we shut down openSNP last year, which was the main monthly server cost I paid before. But if you want to help pay these bills, feel free.\u00a0\u21a9
\nAt least the first publicly visible and accessible instance that aims to federate, of course there might be privately hosted instances.\u00a0\u21a9
\nGabriel Carrizo
\n\n\n\nParte del patrimonio archiv\u00edstico del Museo Nacional del Petr\u00f3leo de Comodoro Rivadavia (dependiente de la Secretar\u00eda de Ciencia y T\u00e9cnica de la Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco), est\u00e1 compuesto por una serie de fondos que contienen fotograf\u00edas industriales, un g\u00e9nero que se desarroll\u00f3 ampliamente desde el siglo XIX. Si bien este tipo de im\u00e1genes sol\u00edan ser producidas con el objetivo de expresar la mirada del empresariado para dar cuenta de los diversos factores que interven\u00edan en un ciclo productivo, en este caso tambi\u00e9n contribuy\u00f3 a modelar la mirada social sobre el mundo del trabajo en aquella \u00e9poca.
\n\n\n\nEn cuanto a lo que se buscaba plasmar en las fotograf\u00edas, podemos decir en primer lugar que se pretendi\u00f3 visibilizar los inicios y la creciente industrializaci\u00f3n en la zona a partir del hallazgo de petr\u00f3leo, para confirmar que el pa\u00eds ofrec\u00eda condiciones propicias para la explotaci\u00f3n. De esta manera la incipiente localidad se transformaba vertiginosamente en uno de aquellos tantos \u201cparajes fabriles de corte moderno\u201d, evidenciando la potencialidad econ\u00f3mica de este territorio que se transformaba a partir de la intervenci\u00f3n humana orientada a la explotaci\u00f3n de recursos naturales. En segundo lugar, se fotografi\u00f3 la ocupaci\u00f3n soberana del espacio patag\u00f3nico y su adaptaci\u00f3n a la producci\u00f3n capitalista, mostrando la apropiaci\u00f3n del paisaje y la capacidad de transformaci\u00f3n de la tecnolog\u00eda. En tercer lugar, desde fines del siglo XIX la fotograf\u00eda en la Argentina estaba al servicio de brindar informaci\u00f3n al estado, sumando im\u00e1genes a un catastro visual de las diversas regiones, buscando demostrar el grado de \u201ccivilizaci\u00f3n\u201d y de \u201cprogreso\u201d en cada una de ellas.
\n\n\n\nLa fotograf\u00eda que aqu\u00ed presentamos pertenece al fondo denominado \u201cPablo Sussenguth\u201d (Inventario n\u00b0 3990, Fondo YPF, Colecci\u00f3n Operarios), un empleado con formaci\u00f3n t\u00e9cnica que realizaba tareas de supervisi\u00f3n de las labores que se desarrollaban en los pozos petroleros, y que al parecer tuvo a su cargo esta forma de destinar informaci\u00f3n a los funcionarios nacionales ubicados en Buenos Aires. Muestra el pozo n\u00famero 8 que estall\u00f3 en agosto de 1914, siendo uno de los primeros en ser puesto en producci\u00f3n. El incendio del mismo daba cuenta de la falta de medidas de seguridad, en cualquier etapa del largo proceso que llevaba a la puesta en producci\u00f3n: ya sea por alguna chispa en la boca de pozo como en el almacenamiento, distribuci\u00f3n o descarga de combustible de un buque petrolero en el muelle.
\n\n\n\nComo ha mostrado la historiograf\u00eda en los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os, el estudio de este tipo de mundos laborales compuesto mayoritariamente por varones se convierte en una importante entrada al an\u00e1lisis de la construcci\u00f3n de la masculinidad obrera. De all\u00ed que este fondo fotogr\u00e1fico permite recuperar los sentidos asociados a la construcci\u00f3n de masculinidad en los inicios mismos de la explotaci\u00f3n petrolera en el pa\u00eds. Esta fotograf\u00eda en donde podemos observar un trabajador posando junto a un pozo en llamas, nos da indicios de cierta espectacularizaci\u00f3n del trabajo mostrando el arrojo, la hombr\u00eda, y las destrezas f\u00edsicas desplegadas en una diversidad de tareas que implicaban un importante riesgo. Aun conociendo los mismos, decid\u00edan enfrentarlos como una forma de validar ante sus pares la condici\u00f3n masculina, y as\u00ed reafirmar una particular masculinidad obrera capaz de soportar aquel trabajo. Como ha sostenido la historiadora Laura Caruso, estamos frente a im\u00e1genes que nos remiten al trabajo asociado a la \u00e9pica del esfuerzo, de la haza\u00f1a, del desaf\u00edo, y que por esto mismo era algo necesario de ser mirado y narrado. En otras fotograf\u00edas del mismo fondo podemos inferir el esfuerzo f\u00edsico que demandaba la preparaci\u00f3n de los tanques de almacenaje para ubicarlos en su lugar final, que en algunos casos implicaba trasladarlos por los cerros aleda\u00f1os a la explotaci\u00f3n. En otra de ellas puede verse que los transe\u00fantes suspenden su paso cotidiano por una de las calles centrales del campamento para detenerse a observar el traslado de un tanque, sobre todo al ver a los trabajadores arriba de los mismos. En s\u00edntesis, estas fotograf\u00edas de los trabajadores petroleros en los inicios de la explotaci\u00f3n petrolera en la Patagonia argentina contribuyeron a crear sentidos en torno a su labor, sus cuerpos y su hombr\u00eda en el imaginario social de la \u00e9poca.
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My friend and colleague VP Nagraj published a new R package called ctrlvee that makes this a lot easier.
It does one thing. Put your cursor anywhere in an R script in Positron or RStudio, call the add-in, provide a URL, and a few milliseconds later you\u2019ll have all the code from that page in your editor, separated by chunk boundaries (along with some metadata and a note to check the license!).
![\"\"](\"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7WR6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbfbd671-9318-421e-93b9-8ea4f5ef9e9a_1410x782.png\")
The package README provides a demonstration using the \u201cData Validation and QA\u201d chapter of my Data Science Team Training book (dstt.stephenturner.us).
Install the package: install.packages(\"ctrlvee\")
Run the add-in. In Positron you\u2019ll open the command palette, search for Run RStudio Addin, then extract external R code and insert inline. You\u2019ll get a modal asking you for a URL.
Paste one in. E.g., https://dstt.stephenturner.us/validation.html
The R code from the website appears in your editor \ud83d\ude80
Here\u2019s a demo.
Here\u2019s what the extracted/inserted code looks like, from this source.
# -----------------------------------------------------------------\n# Chunks fetched by ctrlvee from: https://dstt.stephenturner.us/validation.html\n# Strategy: Rendered HTML page\n# Date: 2026-05-16 05:14:44\n# Chunks: 8\n# NOTE: Check the source license before reusing this code.\n# -----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nflu <- data.frame(\n week = c(1, 2, 3, 4, 4),\n county = c(\"Fairfax\", \"Arlington\", NA, \"Loudoun\", \"Loudoun\"),\n disease = c(\"Flu\", \"Flu\", \"Flu\", \"Flu\", \"Flu\"),\n cases = c(23, 41, 18, -5, 12),\n rate = c(2.1, 3.8, 1.6, NA, 1.1)\n)\n\nflu\n\n# ---- chunk boundary ----\n\nif (any(flu$cases < 0, na.rm = TRUE)) {\n stop(\"Negative case counts detected. Inspect raw data before proceeding.\")\n}\n\n# ---- chunk boundary ----\n\nstopifnot(\n \"Negative case counts\" = all(flu$cases >= 0, na.rm = TRUE),\n \"Missing county values\" = !anyNA(flu$county),\n \"Duplicate records\" = !anyDuplicated(flu[, c(\"week\", \"county\")])\n)\n\n# ---- chunk boundary ----\n\ninstall.packages(\"pointblank\")\n\n# ---- chunk boundary ----\n\nlibrary(pointblank)\n\nagent <- create_agent(tbl = flu, label = \"Weekly flu surveillance\") |>\n col_vals_gte(\n columns = cases,\n value = 0,\n label = \"Case counts must be non-negative\"\n ) |>\n col_vals_not_null(\n columns = c(week, county),\n label = \"Week and county cannot be missing\"\n ) |>\n rows_distinct(\n columns = c(week, county),\n label = \"No duplicate week/county records\"\n ) |>\n interrogate()\n\nagent\n\n# ---- chunk boundary ----\n\ncreate_agent(tbl = flu, label = \"Weekly flu surveillance \u2014 extended\") |>\n col_is_numeric(\n columns = c(cases, rate),\n label = \"Case count and rate must be numeric\"\n ) |>\n col_vals_in_set(\n columns = disease,\n set = c(\"Flu\", \"COVID-19\", \"RSV\"),\n label = \"Disease must be from the approved list\"\n ) |>\n col_vals_between(\n columns = week,\n left = 1,\n right = 52,\n label = \"Week must be between 1 and 52\"\n ) |>\n col_vals_gte(\n columns = rate,\n value = 0,\n na_pass = TRUE,\n label = \"Rate must be non-negative (NAs allowed)\"\n ) |>\n interrogate()\n\n# ---- chunk boundary ----\n\nif (!all_passed(agent)) {\n stop(\"Data validation failed. Review the agent report before proceeding.\")\n}\n\n# ---- chunk boundary ----\n\nlibrary(readr)\nlibrary(pointblank)\n\nflu <- read_csv(\"data/flu-2024.csv\")\n\n# Validate immediately after reading\nagent <- create_agent(tbl = flu, label = \"flu-2024 validation\") |>\n col_vals_gte(columns = cases, value = 0, label = \"No negative counts\") |>\n col_vals_not_null(columns = c(week, county), label = \"No missing keys\") |>\n rows_distinct(columns = c(week, county), label = \"No duplicate records\") |>\n interrogate()\n\nif (!all_passed(agent)) {\n stop(\"Validation failed \u2014 see agent report above.\")\n}Sure, if the pkgdown page or Quarto book or whatever has source code on GitHub, you could find the source and open that up directly. However, you won\u2019t find the source for everything, and the source will be crowded by markdown narrative you might not want if you\u2019re just looking for the code.
Wir freuen uns, Ihnen mitteilen zu k\u00f6nnen, dass unser Artikel \u201cEnsuring the long-term accessibility of scholarly blogs: Bloggers\u2019 attitudes and practices\u201d in Information Research ver\u00f6ffentlicht wurde. Der Artikel erscheint im Rahmen des Tagungsbands der iConference 2026 die vom 29. M\u00e4rz bis zum 2. April 2026 an der Edinburgh Napier University unter dem Motto \u201cInformation Literacies, Authenticity and Use: The Move Towards a Digitally Enlightened Society\u201d stattfand.
\n![](\"https://infrawissblogs.org/posts/2026-05-18-ensuring-the-long-term-accessibility-of-scholarly-blogs/iConf.png\"/)
Abbildung 1: Screenshot des Artikels \u201eEnsuring the long-term accessibility of scholarly blogs: Bloggers\u2019 attitudes and practices\u201c (Ochsner and Pampel 2026)
Der Artikel befasst sich mit der Integration von Wissenschaftsblogs in digitale Forschungs- und Informationsinfrastrukturen. Auf der Grundlage von 13 halbstrukturierten Interviews haben wir die Einstellungen und Praktiken deutscher Wissenschaftsblogger:innen hinsichtlich der langfristigen Zug\u00e4nglichkeit ihrer Blogs untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Teilnehmenden der langfristigen Zug\u00e4nglichkeit ihrer Blogs eine hohe Bedeutung zuweisen und den Wunsch nach deren Integration in bestehende digitale Infrastrukturen \u00e4u\u00dfern. Allerdings stehen Blogger:innen vor organisatorischen Herausforderungen, was zu einem unterschiedlichen Engagement bei der Archivierung f\u00fchrt \u2013 von der Beantragung formaler Identifikatoren wie ISSNs und DOIs bis hin zum R\u00fcckgriff auf individuelle Strategien wie lokale Backups. Wir fordern klare Richtlinien und verst\u00e4rkte Unterst\u00fctzung f\u00fcr Blogger:innen, um die langfristige Zug\u00e4nglichkeit wissenschaftlicher Blogs zu erleichtern. (Ochsner and Pampel 2026). Der Artikel kann hier gefunden werden:
\nOchsner, C., & Pampel, H. (2026). Ensuring the long-term accessibility of scholarly blogs: Bloggers\u2019 attitudes and practices. Information Research an International Electronic Journal, 31(iConf), 1761\u20131769. https://doi.org/10.47989/ir31iConf64176
\nDie Folien zum Vortrag auf der iConference wurden auf Zenodo ver\u00f6ffentlicht und sind hier auffindbar. Wir danken der iConference f\u00fcr die Gelegenheit, unsere Forschungsergebnisse vorzustellen, sowie den anonymen Gutachter:innen f\u00fcr ihr hilfreiches Feedback.
\nFurther information about the research group can be found on our official website.
\nThis text \u2013 excluding quotes and otherwise labelled parts \u2013 is licensed under the CC BY 4.0 DEED.
\nWe are happy to announce that our short paper \u201cEnsuring the long-term accessibility of scholarly blogs: Bloggers\u2019 attitudes and practices\u201d has been published in Information Research. The article is being published as part of the proceedings of the iConference 2026 which took place march 29th - april 2nd 2026 at Edinburgh Napier University under the theme: Information Literacies, Authenticity and Use: The Move Towards a Digitally Enlightened Society.
\n![](\"https://infomgnt.org/posts/2026-05-18-ensuring-the-long-term-accessibility-of-scholarly-blogs-bloggers-attitudes-and-practices/iConf.png\"/)
The article explores the integration of scholarly blogs into digital research and information infrastructures. Based on 13 semi-structured interviews we explored the attitudes and practices of German scholarly bloggers regarding the long-term accessibility of their blogs. We found that bloggers recognize the importance of making their blogs long-term accessible and express a desire for their integration into existing digital infrastructures. However, bloggers face organizational challenges, leading to varying levels of engagement in preservation practices, ranging from obtaining formal identifiers like ISSNs and DOIs to relying on individual strategies, such as local backups. We propose clearer guidelines and support systems to facilitate the long-term accessibility of scholarly blogs (Ochsner and Pampel 2026) The article can be found here.
\nOchsner, C., & Pampel, H. (2026). Ensuring the long-term accessibility of scholarly blogs: Bloggers\u2019 attitudes and practices. Information Research an International Electronic Journal, 31(iConf), 1761\u20131769. https://doi.org/10.47989/ir31iConf64176
\nThe slides for the talk were published on Zenodo and can be accessed here. We thank the iConference for giving us the opportunity to present our research and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback.
\nFurther information about the research group can be found on our official website.
\nThis text \u2013 excluding quotes and otherwise labelled parts \u2013 is licensed under the CC BY 4.0 DEED.
\n@online{ochsner2026,\n author = {Ochsner, Catharina and Pampel, Heinz},\n title = {Ensuring the Long-Term Accessibility of Scholarly Blogs:\n {Bloggers\u2019} Attitudes and Practices},\n date = {2026-05-18},\n url = {https://infomgnt.org/posts/2026-05-18-ensuring-the-long-term-accessibility-of-scholarly-blogs-bloggers-attitudes-and-practices/},\n langid = {en}\n}\nIt’s now fairly well established that the remains of the Krayt Dragon that C-3PO and R2-D2 walk past in an early Tatooine scene of Star Wars (1977) were re-used from the knockabout Disney film One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975).
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I want to quote the Telegraph article I just linked, because it’s pretty amazing:
\n\n“The British view [on making the film] was definitely more tongue in cheek.\u201d
\nThat would be true from the very start of principal photography on A New Hope on March 22, 1976. Arriving in Tozeur, Tunisia, producer Gary Kurtz opened the Lockheed Hercules aircraft that he\u2019d chartered to ferry equipment over from London, and was surprised to find\u2026 a dinosaur skeleton. And not just any dinosaur, but the diplodocus from Disney\u2019s One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing.
\nHis new British crew had found the prop at Elstree, where it had been filmed a couple of years earlier, and had gleefully hidden it on the plane for a laugh. But no matter: it then became the skeleton we see when C3PO and R2D2 crash-land on Tatooine.
It’s hard to credit that a film crew would load an entire sauropod skeleton (or at least a substantial part of one) onto a cargo plan as a prank. But since this is the only story we have, I guess we need to accept it unless something else emerges.
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The best image I have seen of the Tatooine skeleton, from this Kickstarter page (which I found in the Matt Lamanna article discussed below).
But the real question \u2014 and one that has not been properly investigated, as far as I can see \u2014 is how did the One of Our Dinosaurs crew source the dinosaur in the first place?
\nThe only place I’ve seen this addressed at all as in Matt Lamanna’s article Dippy in Star Wars?. Here’s what Matt has to say:
\n\nAssuming this was indeed the case (i.e., that the krayt dragon skeleton is the same sauropod prop that was used in One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing), and that (as Matt Wedel had already demonstrated), that sauropod was almost certainly based on Diplodocus, I then tried to determine where the Disney Diplodocus could have come from; in other words, what real Diplodocus specimen(s) it might have been cast or sculpted from. Sadly, I was unable to do so. But the only Diplodocus skeleton (or the only substantial portion of one, anyway) at London\u2019s Natural History Museum during the 1970s was the cast of CMNH\u2019s very own Diplodocus carnegii that was presented to England by Andrew Carnegie himself in 1905.
\nSo, in a nutshell, although I can\u2019t absolutely, definitively prove it (yet?), I think there\u2019s an excellent chance that the krayt dragon in Episode IV was ultimately based on Diplodocus carnegii. Specifically, the evidence suggests that it was inspired by the cast of D. carnegii in London, either a sculpted replica of that cast or even potentially a second-generation cast of that cast.
(For much, much more on the Carnegie Diplodocus and its many casts, see Taylor et al. 2025.)
\nLooking at the Journey to Tataouine (sic) image above, clicking through and looking closely at the vertebrae, it’s clear that there are specific details of lamination and pneumaticity that I would not expect a prop sculptor to have bothered with, which makes me think this was likely a cast rather than a sculpt. Do others agree?
\nAnd if it was a cast, where from? One possibility is, as Matt suggests above, it’s a second-generation cast made from moulds taken from the London cast. But that doesn’t seem probable: I’ve never heard of moulds being taken from that cast, and one would think that if this laborious and potentially damaging task was undertaken, there would have been more casts made from molds, turning up in other museums in the UK.
\nAt one point, I thought another possibility is that the One of Our Dinosaurs crew simply bought a cast from Dinolab Inc. in the USA. As extensively documented in Taylor et al. (2023), Dinolab took moulds from the Concrete cast, and made and sold several second-generation casts around the world. But I’d got my chronology all mixed up: they made the moulds in 1989 and started selling casts in 1990 (Taylor et al. 2023:80), long after One of Our Dinosaurs was made.
\nAnother possibility is that second-generation moulds were taken from one of the other Carnegie casts \u2014 but again, it doesn’t seem likely that this would have been done only for the sake of a film prop, and I’ve never heard of other second-generation casts than those made by Dinolab.
\nWhich I think leaves only one final possibility, which I only thought of as I was writing the post: that the original Carnegie casts \u2014 which had made their way to Rocky Mount, NC, by the 1960s, but which we’d lost track of as of the publication of the 2013 paper \u2014 found their way into the hands of the film crew.
\nSince the 2013 paper, I have discovered that the original molds were not bulldozed in Avalon Airport some time after 1968, as we pessimisticaly concluded (Taylor et al. 2013:74). We now know that early in 1969 they were acquired by Arthur Pugh, of the eponymous museum consultancy firm in Houston, who planned to make a cast for the Rocky Mount museum. (That never happened, sadly.)
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Photograph of Arthur Pugh, printed in the Houston Chronicle on Sunday 19 January 1969. The headline of the short article accompanying was “THE HEAD BONE CONNECTED TO \u2026”. The text of the article read: Arthur Pugh of the Houston museum consultant form bearing his name holds the first cast of a dinosaur head made from the molds he has acquired. The molds, made from a dinosaur skeleton found in 1903, will be used to cast a skeleton replica for the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Also to be used in the reconstruction are 65 bones now owned by the museum. The whole skeleton contains 627 bones. Pugh estimates it will take 18 months to two years to complete the project. He first plans to cast a skeleton for the Rocky Mount, N.C., museum.
It’s likely that elements cast from these molds were indeed used to complete the “Diplodocus” (now Galeamopus) hayi skeleton HMNS 175 (formerly CMNH 10670, formerly CM 662), which HMNS acquired from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in 1963. The completed skeleton was mounted in 1975, and it’s likely that elements cast by Pugh still form part of the rearing mount that we featured less than a week ago. But what happened after that, we still don’t know. I’m now entertaining the idea that the old moulds’ final job was to provide the One of Our Dinosaurs prop. The chronology works out, as this film would have been in production within a year or two of Pugh acquiring the moulds.
\nSo can anyone shed any light on this supposition? All thoughts, and especially all actual information, is very welcome!
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Tippen Sie gerade auf einem Smartphone? Wischen Sie durch ein Men\u00fc mit Icons? Nutzen Sie eine Maus? Dann arbeiten Sie mit Ideen, die ein Mann vor \u00fcber 50 Jahren skizziert hat. Damals noch auf Papier \u2013 f\u00fcr einen Computer, den es noch gar nicht gab.
\nAm 17. Mai 2026 feiert Alan Curtis Kay seinen 86. Geburtstag. Der US-amerikanische Informatiker gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Vordenker der Computergeschichte \u2013 und ist dennoch dem breiten Publikum weit weniger bekannt als seine Ideen. Ein guter Anlass, ihn und sein Werk zu entdecken.\u00a0
\nAlan Curtis Kay wurde am 17. Mai 1940 in Springfield, Massachusetts, geboren als Sohn eines australischen Prothesenbauers und einer US-amerikanischen Musikerin. Diese ungew\u00f6hnliche Mischung aus Naturwissenschaft und Kunst sollte sein gesamtes Denken pr\u00e4gen. Kay war nicht nur Informatiker: Im Laufe seines Lebens arbeitete er als professioneller Jazzgitarrist, Komponist, Theatergestalter und klassischer Organist \u2013 ein Denker mit K\u00fcnstlerseele.
\nEr studierte Mathematik, Molekularbiologie und schlie\u00dflich Informatik an der University of Utah, wo er mit Ivan Sutherland \u2013 dem Pionier der Computergrafik \u2013 zusammenarbeitete. 1969 promovierte er mit einer Dissertation \u00fcber ein von ihm entwickeltes Konzept/System namens FLEX, ein fr\u00fcher Vorl\u00e4ufer dessen, was sp\u00e4ter als Personal Computer die Welt ver\u00e4ndern sollte.[1]
\n1968 hatte Kay eine Vision, die ihn nicht mehr loslie\u00df: ein flacher, tragbarer Computer, leicht genug f\u00fcr ein Kind, mit dem man lesen, schreiben, rechnen und programmieren konnte. Er nannte es das Dynabook. Gebaut wurde es nie, aber Jahrzehnte sp\u00e4ter hielt die Welt sein Konzept in H\u00e4nden: als iPad, als Kindle, als Laptop.
\nKay lie\u00df sich dabei von Seymour Papert inspirieren, dem Pionier des Lernens mit Computern am MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Seine \u00dcberzeugung: Computer sollten keine Rechenmaschinen f\u00fcr Experten sein, sondern Werkzeuge des Denkens f\u00fcr alle \u2013 besonders f\u00fcr Kinder.[2]
\nAb 1971 arbeitete Kay ein Jahrzehnt lang im legend\u00e4ren Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) [3] des Xerox-Konzerns in Kalifornien. Dort entwickelte er gemeinsam mit Kolleginnen und Kollegen zwei Erfindungen, die die Computerwelt bis heute pr\u00e4gen:
\nKay drehte in dieser Zeit Filme, in denen Kinder mit Computern spielten und eigene Programme schrieben \u2013 in einer \u00c4ra, in der Computer noch riesige, unzug\u00e4ngliche Maschinen f\u00fcr Spezialisten waren.
\n2003 erhielt Kay den ACM Turing Award \u2013 den h\u00f6chsten Preis der Informatik, oft als \u201eNobelpreis der Informatik\u201c bezeichnet. Die Begr\u00fcndung: \u201e… f\u00fcr viele der Ideen, die den heutigen objektorientierten Programmiersprachen zugrunde liegen, f\u00fcr die Leitung des Teams, das Smalltalk entwickelt hat, und f\u00fcr grundlegende Beitr\u00e4ge zum Personal Computing.\u201c
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Wer tiefer in Kays Denken eintauchen m\u00f6chte, findet in unserem Bestand sowie Fachdatenbanken wie zum Beispiel der \u201eACM Digital Library\u201c hervorragendes Material:
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Was bleibt von Alan Kay? Eine scheinbar paradoxe Aussage: 1997 erkl\u00e4rte er, die Computer-Revolution habe noch gar nicht stattgefunden \u2013 und steht bis heute zu dieser Einsch\u00e4tzung. F\u00fcr Kay sind Computer noch immer zu sehr Werkzeuge der Routine und zu wenig Instrumente des tiefen Denkens. Seine Vision war stets eine andere: Computer, die Menschen helfen, Ideen zu entwickeln, die Welt wirklich zu verstehen und Probleme grundlegend neu zu durchdenken.
\nIn Zeiten K\u00fcnstlicher Intelligenz, in denen Maschinen immer mehr Aufgaben \u00fcbernehmen, klingt Kays Frage aktueller denn je: Nutzen wir Technologie wirklich, um kl\u00fcger zu werden \u2013 oder nur, um schneller zu sein? Am 17. Mai feiert er seinen 86. Geburtstag. Ein guter Anlass, sein Denken (wieder) zu entdecken \u2013 in unserer Bibliothek und online.
\n[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
\n[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook
\n[3] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC
\n[4] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk_(Programmiersprache)
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A report by Inside Higher Education presents promising trials of journals that paid reviewers for writing a report. Turnaround times dropped and the quality of reports was high. It is certainly good that journals explore payment of reviewers, but I am skeptical that this can ease the “peer review crisis”, meaning to improve low turnaround times and reduce difficulties in recruiting reviewers in the first place.
As the report states, this is plausible because the compensation likely induces a sense of commitment and responsibility that accelerates the review process. I think the key question is: Does a payment model scale? When I get one invitation for a paid review report, I give it priority, but may also put other reports on hold and may decline other invitations for non-paid reports. What would happen when I get paid for all reports and all create the same sense of responsibility? Would one attach priority to all of them, putting research and teaching commitments second? I find this unlikely, so paid reports at scale may leave us in the same place as we are right now. Or researchers become more selective in accepting invitations. This is probably superior to accepting invites and not delivering a report, but it may also mean that fewer manuscript get reviewed at all, which is not desirable, in my opinion.
\n\n\n\nIn relation with this, I don’t follow this statement in the article: “There could be some percentage of papers that never get reviewed because it\u2019s not worth a journal\u2019s limited resources to peer review, which puts a quality stamp on the papers that do get reviewed,\u201d he said. This seems circular. I think the quality stamp derives from the review reports, so how can one say that a manuscript is of low quality if it is not sent to reviewers in the first place? There may be clear cases for desk rejections, but also many grey cases for which low quality is not obvious and papers that seem promising at first and do not stand closer scrutiny.
\n\n\n\nAnother point is the following: I believe that for papers on certain topics or using certain methods it is more difficult to find reviewers. The “field”, generally speaking, does not value them highly for reasons unrelated to quality. Maybe one would have to pay more for getting such papers reviewed, but even this may not help and may create wrong incentives for accepting peer review invitations in the first place.
\n\n\n\nThere may be other arguments for or against paying reviewers. While the goal of easing current issues with the peer review system is laudable, I think payment of reviewers is not clearly an effective instrument for achieving this goal.
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One reason I was so happy to be invited to the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History to talk about horned dinosaurs is because the museum has two of the coolest ones on display: Aquilops, the smallest and earliest ceratopsian in North America, and Pentaceratops, one of the largest and latest. Naturally I had to check in on my baby, and its rather more imposing relative.
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Here’s the Aquilops exhibit without any big hairy mammal heads mucking up the view.
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The skull of Aquilops in three versions: the actual holotype fossil down below, a reconstruction of the distorted skull with the missing bits sculpted in by preparator and reptile-reconstructor extraordinaire Kyle Davies (see more of his work here), and a reconstruction of the skull as it might have looked before it went through the ravages of taphonomy.
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And the holotype skull, OMNH 34557, by itself. If you’re wondering why I’m making with so many photos, it’s because my last attempt, 10 years ago, was not without criticism. I was still just rolling with an iPhone this time, but iPhones are a lot better these days, and I’m a less wretched photographer.
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And just to the left of the Aquilops cabinet is the monster Pentaceratops with its 10.5-foot-long skull (3.2 meters).
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The Pentaceratops is one of my favorite things in any museum. As a grad student back in the late 90s, I gave a lot of behind-the-scenes tours of the new museum as it was going up, and the Pentaceratops was a hit from the start. I actually preferred the view from the animal’s left side, now blocked by the wall behind it — the wide spread of the front and back legs made for a much more dynamic appearance. I should ask around and see if anyone has any photos of the skeleton from that side.
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There was a plan kicking around back then to completely wall in the Pentaceratops except for a front viewing window, the idea being that it was the jewel of the collection and would be presented as if in a giant jewelry display case. That plan got nixed — correctly — because it would have precluded this head-on view, which lets you imagine your last moments before 7 tons of angry ceratopsian turns you into a Jackson Pollock painting. My only (and minor) unhappiness about this view is that darned spotlight to the left of the frill, which glares in photos.
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You can scoot a smidge to the right and use the frill itself to block that light, but now you’re not quite looking at the animal head-on. Still, a heck of a nice view of a truly awesome critter. You can’t go wrong either way.
\nUnlike their cousins across the way in the “Bizarre Headgear” exhibit, who will only be on display until August 23, Aquilops and Pentaceratops are permanent fixtures at the museum. Check ’em out if you get the chance.
\nALSO, since you had the impeccable good taste to click on a post about Aquilops:
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The Aquilops merch train keeps rolling along, and coming down the pike is this life-size Dolores from Jurassic World Rebirth. I’ve seen fanboys online crying that the first life-size critter in the Hammond Collection line wasn’t a Compy or a baby Velociraptor. Ha ha, Aquilops FTW, theropods get back in line. Anyway, theoretically this thing will drop sometime this summer or fall. Chances are real good that its appearance on store shelves will not go unremarked here.
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tl;dr: With panoramax.libre.net.ar we have set up the first (public) Panoramax instance in the Americas. It allows the collection of street-level imagery in the Argentine territory.
\nUna versi\u00f3n en espa\u00f1ol es disponible en OpenStreetMap
\nPanoramax is an open-source system for creating a commons of street-level imagery, thus creating an openly licensed alternative to Google StreetView etc.\nAnd unlike some of the other alternatives, which openly license the images, the whole software stack itself is free & open source software too.\nPlus it is based around the idea of creating a federation of Panoramax servers or instances, similar to the Fediverse of Mastodon, PeerTube, Lemmy, etc.
\nSince the first time I posted about Panoramax, the federation has grown quite a bit, to more than 10 instances.\nBut, as seems (unfortunately ) quite normal for most federated systems, there still is some strong centralisation in terms of usage.\nThe instances of the French chapter of OpenStreetMap (OSM FR) and the French National Geographic Institute collect around 97% of all images so far.\nIn case of the OSM FR instance this is also due to the fact, that until now they were the only big instance that allowed uploading images from any place on earth, instead of geo-restricting uploads to a region or country.
\nFor Panoramax, such centralisation is not just problematic when thinking about the ability to work in local contexts or the federation\u2019s resilience, but also for the sustainability of those individual instances for storage reasons:\nStoring millions of high-resolution street-level images eats up a lot of storage.\nIn the case of the OSM FR instance, the around 51 million pictures take up 120 TB for the raw images, and another 66 TB for derivative images necessary for the efficient display and delivery of them.
\nAnd so, a couple of weeks ago, Christian Quest posted on the OSM community forum that the OSM FR instance is running out of space.\nHe also shared that around half of all of those images come from outside France, contributing to making the status quo not sustainable in the long-term.\nAnd for that reason, future uploads from abroad would very reasonably not be possible.\nAs someone who did upload quite a lot of images from here in Argentina, I definitely contributed to that problem and it also meant trying to move forward with getting a local instance up more urgently.
\nNot having a local instance wasn\u2019t even necessarily for lack of trying, but there\u2019s a number of factors that provide additional barriers:\nThe first, and maybe biggest one is the sheer cost of hardware.\nElectronics in general are extremely expensive in Argentina.\nNot just in relative terms, compared to local salaries, but even in absolute terms and outside any \u201cAI\u201d-driven cost explosions, thanks to tarriffs and fees associated with importing.\nThis means that hardware is generally run until it collapses and means the market for used hardware is not particularly plentiful and that the prices for used hardware here often are still higher than what one would have paid for it new in places like the EU or the US.\nAs such, the chances of getting hardware donations, that other locations can have luck with for such a project, are also quite slim, especially when starting from scratch.
\nSimilarly, public institutions like universities or municipalities, which in other places might be natural partners for such an effort, while potentially interested, lack the resources to help:\nThey are all bleeding money under the national government\u2019s intentional defunding of all public services.\nIf you read any German (or are willing to use machine translation) you can read my own reporting on that topic at Amerika21, but otherwise any media that has international coverage should help.
\nThe other alternative for getting a Panoramax instance up and running, that a range of other smaller instances seem to use, is self-hosting at home.\nBut, presence of hardware aside, even that can be not so simple, due to infrastructure constraints.\nEspecially in more rural contexts like my own:\nBeyond regular power cuts or outages, which a UPS could help get around, local internet providers often only offer very slow speeds. \nFor example, in my hometown the local cooperative \u2013 which manages public utilities including internet connections \u2013 offers slow aDSL speeds, with optic fibre being planned to come to some neighborhoods at some point in the next year.\nThat would mean actually using such a Panoramax instance would be sucking HD images through a straw.
\nAll of those factors meant that \u2013 despite trying, on and off and with different intensity, since 2024 \u2013 we didn\u2019t get a local instance of the ground so far.\nBut with the change to the OSM FR instance generating the necessary urgency it was time to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good any longer.\nAnd while Argentina as a country is huge, maybe it doesn\u2019t need hundreds of terabytes to get started?\nFirstly, the actual road network seems to be only ~1/4th of the one of France.\nAnd secondly, the number of local contributors that upload imagery, at least as estimated from the OSM FR instance, is quite manageable!
\nBased on this, I wondered if it would maybe not be possible to just rent a \u201csmall\u201d dedicated server somewhere, just to get things off the ground.\nGiven the hardware costs, see above, it would have to be a hoster outside the country, as local options are also quite expensive.\nWhich isn\u2019t ideal latency-wise, but beggars can\u2019t be choosers.\nAnd so I started brainstorming more concretely with Daniel and Marcos about options and how we could setup an instance.
\nTo make use of his extensive first-hand Panoramax-hosting experience I also reached out to Christian Quest, who pointed out that French hoster OVH actually offers a dedicated server-type that\u2019s somewhat affordable at US $26.60/month and comes with four 4TB hard drives that can be setup into a software RAID and 500 GB SSD for storing the database etc1.\nIn a RAID5 setup, this would give 12 TB of usable storage for the images (or 16 TB, when paying slightly more for an option of four 6TB drives), and the rest of the specifications would also be enough to run an instance.\nAt least, as long as one makes use of the image blurring service that OSM FR graciously runs as a service, as the suggested machine type doesn\u2019t have a dedicated GPU.\nIn the 16 TB setup, this should be enough to store around 4 million images, assuming the same mix of image sources/qualities that OSM FR stores.
\nThat looked like it should last for at least a bit, as so far around 830,000 images taken in Argentina have been uploaded to the OSM FR instance over the past 2 years.\nAnd so we decided to go ahead and give it a try, to get us started and hopefully allows us to create a convincing demo.\nWhich in turn can hopefully help getting into more targeted conversations for support in the future.
\nWith the decision for the hosting type made, the actual setup to get us started wasn\u2019t too hard either:\nThe Panoramax team made a great documentation about deploying with docker compose and using OSM through OAuth as a login provider.\nAnd we benefitted even more from the detailed write-up by Matija Nalis, who had recently deployed the Panoramax instance of OSM Croacia, which took us to 99% of the way of deploying it (for the one exception see the details below).
And so we deployed our Panoramax instance to https://panoramax.libre.net.ar.\nAs far as I know, this is not only the first instance in Latin America, but in all of the Americas!2\nIt currently is setup to accept images taken within Argentina and Uruguay, but if any folks in neighboring countries need some space, we can see what we can do, just get in touch with us!
\nOverall, this was a lot easier, less painful and even cheaper than I had expected.\nAnd so we hope that this motivates others to give it a shot too.\nPanoramax can only work at a larger scale, if more folks are standing up local instances. \nMaybe not even at a national level, but at a regional or municipal level, bringing down storage needs and thus cost.
\nIn terms of admin effort and expertise needed:\nThere\u2019s a growing number of people who have Panoramax server admin experience, and in my experience everyone is super happy to help.\nHaving said that, having a small team of people willing to help is great, both to be able to get second opinions and help with the bus-factor - but also to turn it into a social effort! \nFor our little instance, that includes not only Marcos and Dani, but also Lucas, who offered to share his server admin expertise as well when he heard of our idea!
\nThe only thing missing from the detailed write-up about the OSM-HR instance was on how to set-up the software RAID.\nThe server setup of OVH comes without any of the HDDs configured, as it just formats the SSD instead.\nBut luckily that was not too hard to read up on.\nFor others who want to reproduce this, the steps are below.
\nTo get the 4 HDD setup as a RAID5 we went with LVM too, which is similar to the description for OSM-HR. \nTo prepare the HDDs, we first created the physical volumes:
\npvcreate /dev/sda\npvcreate /dev/sdb\npvcreate /dev/sdc\npvcreate /dev/sdd\nThen we created the volume group vg1 by running vgcreate vg1 /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
Lastly, we created the actual LV: lvcreate -n panoramax-photos --type raid5 -i 3 -l 100%VG vg1
The parameters for this are
\n -n: name of volume\n --type raid5: raid type\n -i: use 3 devices out of the 4 (for single drive redundancy)\n -l 100%VG: use 100% of volume group\nAs a result we got:
\nroot@panoramax-ar:~# lvscan\n ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/panoramax-photos' [16.37 TiB] inherit\nFrom there on, the rest of the instructions of OSM HR will get you there!
\nTo be clear, depending on your local context this of course can still be out of financial reach, but it has a lot lower start-up cost than many alternatives. And I\u2019m lucky enough to be able to shoulder the cost, especially since we shut down openSNP last year, which was the main monthly server cost I paid before. But if you want to help pay these bills, feel free.\u00a0\u21a9
\nAt least the first publicly visible and accessible instance that aims to federate, of course there might be privately hosted instances.\u00a0\u21a9
\nGabriel Carrizo
\n\n\n\nParte del patrimonio archiv\u00edstico del Museo Nacional del Petr\u00f3leo de Comodoro Rivadavia (dependiente de la Secretar\u00eda de Ciencia y T\u00e9cnica de la Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco), est\u00e1 compuesto por una serie de fondos que contienen fotograf\u00edas industriales, un g\u00e9nero que se desarroll\u00f3 ampliamente desde el siglo XIX. Si bien este tipo de im\u00e1genes sol\u00edan ser producidas con el objetivo de expresar la mirada del empresariado para dar cuenta de los diversos factores que interven\u00edan en un ciclo productivo, en este caso tambi\u00e9n contribuy\u00f3 a modelar la mirada social sobre el mundo del trabajo en aquella \u00e9poca.
\n\n\n\nEn cuanto a lo que se buscaba plasmar en las fotograf\u00edas, podemos decir en primer lugar que se pretendi\u00f3 visibilizar los inicios y la creciente industrializaci\u00f3n en la zona a partir del hallazgo de petr\u00f3leo, para confirmar que el pa\u00eds ofrec\u00eda condiciones propicias para la explotaci\u00f3n. De esta manera la incipiente localidad se transformaba vertiginosamente en uno de aquellos tantos \u201cparajes fabriles de corte moderno\u201d, evidenciando la potencialidad econ\u00f3mica de este territorio que se transformaba a partir de la intervenci\u00f3n humana orientada a la explotaci\u00f3n de recursos naturales. En segundo lugar, se fotografi\u00f3 la ocupaci\u00f3n soberana del espacio patag\u00f3nico y su adaptaci\u00f3n a la producci\u00f3n capitalista, mostrando la apropiaci\u00f3n del paisaje y la capacidad de transformaci\u00f3n de la tecnolog\u00eda. En tercer lugar, desde fines del siglo XIX la fotograf\u00eda en la Argentina estaba al servicio de brindar informaci\u00f3n al estado, sumando im\u00e1genes a un catastro visual de las diversas regiones, buscando demostrar el grado de \u201ccivilizaci\u00f3n\u201d y de \u201cprogreso\u201d en cada una de ellas.
\n\n\n\nLa fotograf\u00eda que aqu\u00ed presentamos pertenece al fondo denominado \u201cPablo Sussenguth\u201d (Inventario n\u00b0 3990, Fondo YPF, Colecci\u00f3n Operarios), un empleado con formaci\u00f3n t\u00e9cnica que realizaba tareas de supervisi\u00f3n de las labores que se desarrollaban en los pozos petroleros, y que al parecer tuvo a su cargo esta forma de destinar informaci\u00f3n a los funcionarios nacionales ubicados en Buenos Aires. Muestra el pozo n\u00famero 8 que estall\u00f3 en agosto de 1914, siendo uno de los primeros en ser puesto en producci\u00f3n. El incendio del mismo daba cuenta de la falta de medidas de seguridad, en cualquier etapa del largo proceso que llevaba a la puesta en producci\u00f3n: ya sea por alguna chispa en la boca de pozo como en el almacenamiento, distribuci\u00f3n o descarga de combustible de un buque petrolero en el muelle.
\n\n\n\nComo ha mostrado la historiograf\u00eda en los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os, el estudio de este tipo de mundos laborales compuesto mayoritariamente por varones se convierte en una importante entrada al an\u00e1lisis de la construcci\u00f3n de la masculinidad obrera. De all\u00ed que este fondo fotogr\u00e1fico permite recuperar los sentidos asociados a la construcci\u00f3n de masculinidad en los inicios mismos de la explotaci\u00f3n petrolera en el pa\u00eds. Esta fotograf\u00eda en donde podemos observar un trabajador posando junto a un pozo en llamas, nos da indicios de cierta espectacularizaci\u00f3n del trabajo mostrando el arrojo, la hombr\u00eda, y las destrezas f\u00edsicas desplegadas en una diversidad de tareas que implicaban un importante riesgo. Aun conociendo los mismos, decid\u00edan enfrentarlos como una forma de validar ante sus pares la condici\u00f3n masculina, y as\u00ed reafirmar una particular masculinidad obrera capaz de soportar aquel trabajo. Como ha sostenido la historiadora Laura Caruso, estamos frente a im\u00e1genes que nos remiten al trabajo asociado a la \u00e9pica del esfuerzo, de la haza\u00f1a, del desaf\u00edo, y que por esto mismo era algo necesario de ser mirado y narrado. En otras fotograf\u00edas del mismo fondo podemos inferir el esfuerzo f\u00edsico que demandaba la preparaci\u00f3n de los tanques de almacenaje para ubicarlos en su lugar final, que en algunos casos implicaba trasladarlos por los cerros aleda\u00f1os a la explotaci\u00f3n. En otra de ellas puede verse que los transe\u00fantes suspenden su paso cotidiano por una de las calles centrales del campamento para detenerse a observar el traslado de un tanque, sobre todo al ver a los trabajadores arriba de los mismos. En s\u00edntesis, estas fotograf\u00edas de los trabajadores petroleros en los inicios de la explotaci\u00f3n petrolera en la Patagonia argentina contribuyeron a crear sentidos en torno a su labor, sus cuerpos y su hombr\u00eda en el imaginario social de la \u00e9poca.
\n\n\n\nRedes de Atarraya
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My friend and colleague VP Nagraj published a new R package called ctrlvee that makes this a lot easier.
It does one thing. Put your cursor anywhere in an R script in Positron or RStudio, call the add-in, provide a URL, and a few milliseconds later you\u2019ll have all the code from that page in your editor, separated by chunk boundaries (along with some metadata and a note to check the license!).
The package README provides a demonstration using the \u201cData Validation and QA\u201d chapter of my Data Science Team Training book (dstt.stephenturner.us).
Install the package: install.packages(\"ctrlvee\")
Run the add-in. In Positron you\u2019ll open the command palette, search for Run RStudio Addin, then extract external R code and insert inline. You\u2019ll get a modal asking you for a URL.
Paste one in. E.g., https://dstt.stephenturner.us/validation.html
The R code from the website appears in your editor \ud83d\ude80
Here\u2019s a demo.
Here\u2019s what the extracted/inserted code looks like, from this source.
# -----------------------------------------------------------------\n# Chunks fetched by ctrlvee from: https://dstt.stephenturner.us/validation.html\n# Strategy: Rendered HTML page\n# Date: 2026-05-16 05:14:44\n# Chunks: 8\n# NOTE: Check the source license before reusing this code.\n# -----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nflu <- data.frame(\n week = c(1, 2, 3, 4, 4),\n county = c(\"Fairfax\", \"Arlington\", NA, \"Loudoun\", \"Loudoun\"),\n disease = c(\"Flu\", \"Flu\", \"Flu\", \"Flu\", \"Flu\"),\n cases = c(23, 41, 18, -5, 12),\n rate = c(2.1, 3.8, 1.6, NA, 1.1)\n)\n\nflu\n\n# ---- chunk boundary ----\n\nif (any(flu$cases < 0, na.rm = TRUE)) {\n stop(\"Negative case counts detected. Inspect raw data before proceeding.\")\n}\n\n# ---- chunk boundary ----\n\nstopifnot(\n \"Negative case counts\" = all(flu$cases >= 0, na.rm = TRUE),\n \"Missing county values\" = !anyNA(flu$county),\n \"Duplicate records\" = !anyDuplicated(flu[, c(\"week\", \"county\")])\n)\n\n# ---- chunk boundary ----\n\ninstall.packages(\"pointblank\")\n\n# ---- chunk boundary ----\n\nlibrary(pointblank)\n\nagent <- create_agent(tbl = flu, label = \"Weekly flu surveillance\") |>\n col_vals_gte(\n columns = cases,\n value = 0,\n label = \"Case counts must be non-negative\"\n ) |>\n col_vals_not_null(\n columns = c(week, county),\n label = \"Week and county cannot be missing\"\n ) |>\n rows_distinct(\n columns = c(week, county),\n label = \"No duplicate week/county records\"\n ) |>\n interrogate()\n\nagent\n\n# ---- chunk boundary ----\n\ncreate_agent(tbl = flu, label = \"Weekly flu surveillance \u2014 extended\") |>\n col_is_numeric(\n columns = c(cases, rate),\n label = \"Case count and rate must be numeric\"\n ) |>\n col_vals_in_set(\n columns = disease,\n set = c(\"Flu\", \"COVID-19\", \"RSV\"),\n label = \"Disease must be from the approved list\"\n ) |>\n col_vals_between(\n columns = week,\n left = 1,\n right = 52,\n label = \"Week must be between 1 and 52\"\n ) |>\n col_vals_gte(\n columns = rate,\n value = 0,\n na_pass = TRUE,\n label = \"Rate must be non-negative (NAs allowed)\"\n ) |>\n interrogate()\n\n# ---- chunk boundary ----\n\nif (!all_passed(agent)) {\n stop(\"Data validation failed. Review the agent report before proceeding.\")\n}\n\n# ---- chunk boundary ----\n\nlibrary(readr)\nlibrary(pointblank)\n\nflu <- read_csv(\"data/flu-2024.csv\")\n\n# Validate immediately after reading\nagent <- create_agent(tbl = flu, label = \"flu-2024 validation\") |>\n col_vals_gte(columns = cases, value = 0, label = \"No negative counts\") |>\n col_vals_not_null(columns = c(week, county), label = \"No missing keys\") |>\n rows_distinct(columns = c(week, county), label = \"No duplicate records\") |>\n interrogate()\n\nif (!all_passed(agent)) {\n stop(\"Validation failed \u2014 see agent report above.\")\n}Sure, if the pkgdown page or Quarto book or whatever has source code on GitHub, you could find the source and open that up directly. However, you won\u2019t find the source for everything, and the source will be crowded by markdown narrative you might not want if you\u2019re just looking for the code.
Wir freuen uns, Ihnen mitteilen zu k\u00f6nnen, dass unser Artikel \u201cEnsuring the long-term accessibility of scholarly blogs: Bloggers\u2019 attitudes and practices\u201d in Information Research ver\u00f6ffentlicht wurde. Der Artikel erscheint im Rahmen des Tagungsbands der iConference 2026 die vom 29. M\u00e4rz bis zum 2. April 2026 an der Edinburgh Napier University unter dem Motto \u201cInformation Literacies, Authenticity and Use: The Move Towards a Digitally Enlightened Society\u201d stattfand.
\nAbbildung 1: Screenshot des Artikels \u201eEnsuring the long-term accessibility of scholarly blogs: Bloggers\u2019 attitudes and practices\u201c (Ochsner and Pampel 2026)
Der Artikel befasst sich mit der Integration von Wissenschaftsblogs in digitale Forschungs- und Informationsinfrastrukturen. Auf der Grundlage von 13 halbstrukturierten Interviews haben wir die Einstellungen und Praktiken deutscher Wissenschaftsblogger:innen hinsichtlich der langfristigen Zug\u00e4nglichkeit ihrer Blogs untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Teilnehmenden der langfristigen Zug\u00e4nglichkeit ihrer Blogs eine hohe Bedeutung zuweisen und den Wunsch nach deren Integration in bestehende digitale Infrastrukturen \u00e4u\u00dfern. Allerdings stehen Blogger:innen vor organisatorischen Herausforderungen, was zu einem unterschiedlichen Engagement bei der Archivierung f\u00fchrt \u2013 von der Beantragung formaler Identifikatoren wie ISSNs und DOIs bis hin zum R\u00fcckgriff auf individuelle Strategien wie lokale Backups. Wir fordern klare Richtlinien und verst\u00e4rkte Unterst\u00fctzung f\u00fcr Blogger:innen, um die langfristige Zug\u00e4nglichkeit wissenschaftlicher Blogs zu erleichtern. (Ochsner and Pampel 2026). Der Artikel kann hier gefunden werden:
\nOchsner, C., & Pampel, H. (2026). Ensuring the long-term accessibility of scholarly blogs: Bloggers\u2019 attitudes and practices. Information Research an International Electronic Journal, 31(iConf), 1761\u20131769. https://doi.org/10.47989/ir31iConf64176
\nDie Folien zum Vortrag auf der iConference wurden auf Zenodo ver\u00f6ffentlicht und sind hier auffindbar. Wir danken der iConference f\u00fcr die Gelegenheit, unsere Forschungsergebnisse vorzustellen, sowie den anonymen Gutachter:innen f\u00fcr ihr hilfreiches Feedback.
\nFurther information about the research group can be found on our official website.
\nThis text \u2013 excluding quotes and otherwise labelled parts \u2013 is licensed under the CC BY 4.0 DEED.
\nWe are happy to announce that our short paper \u201cEnsuring the long-term accessibility of scholarly blogs: Bloggers\u2019 attitudes and practices\u201d has been published in Information Research. The article is being published as part of the proceedings of the iConference 2026 which took place march 29th - april 2nd 2026 at Edinburgh Napier University under the theme: Information Literacies, Authenticity and Use: The Move Towards a Digitally Enlightened Society.
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The article explores the integration of scholarly blogs into digital research and information infrastructures. Based on 13 semi-structured interviews we explored the attitudes and practices of German scholarly bloggers regarding the long-term accessibility of their blogs. We found that bloggers recognize the importance of making their blogs long-term accessible and express a desire for their integration into existing digital infrastructures. However, bloggers face organizational challenges, leading to varying levels of engagement in preservation practices, ranging from obtaining formal identifiers like ISSNs and DOIs to relying on individual strategies, such as local backups. We propose clearer guidelines and support systems to facilitate the long-term accessibility of scholarly blogs (Ochsner and Pampel 2026) The article can be found here.
\nOchsner, C., & Pampel, H. (2026). Ensuring the long-term accessibility of scholarly blogs: Bloggers\u2019 attitudes and practices. Information Research an International Electronic Journal, 31(iConf), 1761\u20131769. https://doi.org/10.47989/ir31iConf64176
\nThe slides for the talk were published on Zenodo and can be accessed here. We thank the iConference for giving us the opportunity to present our research and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback.
\nFurther information about the research group can be found on our official website.
\nThis text \u2013 excluding quotes and otherwise labelled parts \u2013 is licensed under the CC BY 4.0 DEED.
\n@online{ochsner2026,\n author = {Ochsner, Catharina and Pampel, Heinz},\n title = {Ensuring the Long-Term Accessibility of Scholarly Blogs:\n {Bloggers\u2019} Attitudes and Practices},\n date = {2026-05-18},\n url = {https://infomgnt.org/posts/2026-05-18-ensuring-the-long-term-accessibility-of-scholarly-blogs-bloggers-attitudes-and-practices/},\n langid = {en}\n}\nIt’s now fairly well established that the remains of the Krayt Dragon that C-3PO and R2-D2 walk past in an early Tatooine scene of Star Wars (1977) were re-used from the knockabout Disney film One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975).
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I want to quote the Telegraph article I just linked, because it’s pretty amazing:
\n\n“The British view [on making the film] was definitely more tongue in cheek.\u201d
\nThat would be true from the very start of principal photography on A New Hope on March 22, 1976. Arriving in Tozeur, Tunisia, producer Gary Kurtz opened the Lockheed Hercules aircraft that he\u2019d chartered to ferry equipment over from London, and was surprised to find\u2026 a dinosaur skeleton. And not just any dinosaur, but the diplodocus from Disney\u2019s One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing.
\nHis new British crew had found the prop at Elstree, where it had been filmed a couple of years earlier, and had gleefully hidden it on the plane for a laugh. But no matter: it then became the skeleton we see when C3PO and R2D2 crash-land on Tatooine.
It’s hard to credit that a film crew would load an entire sauropod skeleton (or at least a substantial part of one) onto a cargo plan as a prank. But since this is the only story we have, I guess we need to accept it unless something else emerges.
\nThe best image I have seen of the Tatooine skeleton, from this Kickstarter page (which I found in the Matt Lamanna article discussed below).
But the real question \u2014 and one that has not been properly investigated, as far as I can see \u2014 is how did the One of Our Dinosaurs crew source the dinosaur in the first place?
\nThe only place I’ve seen this addressed at all as in Matt Lamanna’s article Dippy in Star Wars?. Here’s what Matt has to say:
\n\nAssuming this was indeed the case (i.e., that the krayt dragon skeleton is the same sauropod prop that was used in One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing), and that (as Matt Wedel had already demonstrated), that sauropod was almost certainly based on Diplodocus, I then tried to determine where the Disney Diplodocus could have come from; in other words, what real Diplodocus specimen(s) it might have been cast or sculpted from. Sadly, I was unable to do so. But the only Diplodocus skeleton (or the only substantial portion of one, anyway) at London\u2019s Natural History Museum during the 1970s was the cast of CMNH\u2019s very own Diplodocus carnegii that was presented to England by Andrew Carnegie himself in 1905.
\nSo, in a nutshell, although I can\u2019t absolutely, definitively prove it (yet?), I think there\u2019s an excellent chance that the krayt dragon in Episode IV was ultimately based on Diplodocus carnegii. Specifically, the evidence suggests that it was inspired by the cast of D. carnegii in London, either a sculpted replica of that cast or even potentially a second-generation cast of that cast.
(For much, much more on the Carnegie Diplodocus and its many casts, see Taylor et al. 2025.)
\nLooking at the Journey to Tataouine (sic) image above, clicking through and looking closely at the vertebrae, it’s clear that there are specific details of lamination and pneumaticity that I would not expect a prop sculptor to have bothered with, which makes me think this was likely a cast rather than a sculpt. Do others agree?
\nAnd if it was a cast, where from? One possibility is, as Matt suggests above, it’s a second-generation cast made from moulds taken from the London cast. But that doesn’t seem probable: I’ve never heard of moulds being taken from that cast, and one would think that if this laborious and potentially damaging task was undertaken, there would have been more casts made from molds, turning up in other museums in the UK.
\nAt one point, I thought another possibility is that the One of Our Dinosaurs crew simply bought a cast from Dinolab Inc. in the USA. As extensively documented in Taylor et al. (2023), Dinolab took moulds from the Concrete cast, and made and sold several second-generation casts around the world. But I’d got my chronology all mixed up: they made the moulds in 1989 and started selling casts in 1990 (Taylor et al. 2023:80), long after One of Our Dinosaurs was made.
\nAnother possibility is that second-generation moulds were taken from one of the other Carnegie casts \u2014 but again, it doesn’t seem likely that this would have been done only for the sake of a film prop, and I’ve never heard of other second-generation casts than those made by Dinolab.
\nWhich I think leaves only one final possibility, which I only thought of as I was writing the post: that the original Carnegie casts \u2014 which had made their way to Rocky Mount, NC, by the 1960s, but which we’d lost track of as of the publication of the 2013 paper \u2014 found their way into the hands of the film crew.
\nSince the 2013 paper, I have discovered that the original molds were not bulldozed in Avalon Airport some time after 1968, as we pessimisticaly concluded (Taylor et al. 2013:74). We now know that early in 1969 they were acquired by Arthur Pugh, of the eponymous museum consultancy firm in Houston, who planned to make a cast for the Rocky Mount museum. (That never happened, sadly.)
\nPhotograph of Arthur Pugh, printed in the Houston Chronicle on Sunday 19 January 1969. The headline of the short article accompanying was “THE HEAD BONE CONNECTED TO \u2026”. The text of the article read: Arthur Pugh of the Houston museum consultant form bearing his name holds the first cast of a dinosaur head made from the molds he has acquired. The molds, made from a dinosaur skeleton found in 1903, will be used to cast a skeleton replica for the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Also to be used in the reconstruction are 65 bones now owned by the museum. The whole skeleton contains 627 bones. Pugh estimates it will take 18 months to two years to complete the project. He first plans to cast a skeleton for the Rocky Mount, N.C., museum.
It’s likely that elements cast from these molds were indeed used to complete the “Diplodocus” (now Galeamopus) hayi skeleton HMNS 175 (formerly CMNH 10670, formerly CM 662), which HMNS acquired from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in 1963. The completed skeleton was mounted in 1975, and it’s likely that elements cast by Pugh still form part of the rearing mount that we featured less than a week ago. But what happened after that, we still don’t know. I’m now entertaining the idea that the old moulds’ final job was to provide the One of Our Dinosaurs prop. The chronology works out, as this film would have been in production within a year or two of Pugh acquiring the moulds.
\nSo can anyone shed any light on this supposition? All thoughts, and especially all actual information, is very welcome!
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Tippen Sie gerade auf einem Smartphone? Wischen Sie durch ein Men\u00fc mit Icons? Nutzen Sie eine Maus? Dann arbeiten Sie mit Ideen, die ein Mann vor \u00fcber 50 Jahren skizziert hat. Damals noch auf Papier \u2013 f\u00fcr einen Computer, den es noch gar nicht gab.
\nAm 17. Mai 2026 feiert Alan Curtis Kay seinen 86. Geburtstag. Der US-amerikanische Informatiker gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Vordenker der Computergeschichte \u2013 und ist dennoch dem breiten Publikum weit weniger bekannt als seine Ideen. Ein guter Anlass, ihn und sein Werk zu entdecken.\u00a0
\nAlan Curtis Kay wurde am 17. Mai 1940 in Springfield, Massachusetts, geboren als Sohn eines australischen Prothesenbauers und einer US-amerikanischen Musikerin. Diese ungew\u00f6hnliche Mischung aus Naturwissenschaft und Kunst sollte sein gesamtes Denken pr\u00e4gen. Kay war nicht nur Informatiker: Im Laufe seines Lebens arbeitete er als professioneller Jazzgitarrist, Komponist, Theatergestalter und klassischer Organist \u2013 ein Denker mit K\u00fcnstlerseele.
\nEr studierte Mathematik, Molekularbiologie und schlie\u00dflich Informatik an der University of Utah, wo er mit Ivan Sutherland \u2013 dem Pionier der Computergrafik \u2013 zusammenarbeitete. 1969 promovierte er mit einer Dissertation \u00fcber ein von ihm entwickeltes Konzept/System namens FLEX, ein fr\u00fcher Vorl\u00e4ufer dessen, was sp\u00e4ter als Personal Computer die Welt ver\u00e4ndern sollte.[1]
\n1968 hatte Kay eine Vision, die ihn nicht mehr loslie\u00df: ein flacher, tragbarer Computer, leicht genug f\u00fcr ein Kind, mit dem man lesen, schreiben, rechnen und programmieren konnte. Er nannte es das Dynabook. Gebaut wurde es nie, aber Jahrzehnte sp\u00e4ter hielt die Welt sein Konzept in H\u00e4nden: als iPad, als Kindle, als Laptop.
\nKay lie\u00df sich dabei von Seymour Papert inspirieren, dem Pionier des Lernens mit Computern am MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Seine \u00dcberzeugung: Computer sollten keine Rechenmaschinen f\u00fcr Experten sein, sondern Werkzeuge des Denkens f\u00fcr alle \u2013 besonders f\u00fcr Kinder.[2]
\nAb 1971 arbeitete Kay ein Jahrzehnt lang im legend\u00e4ren Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) [3] des Xerox-Konzerns in Kalifornien. Dort entwickelte er gemeinsam mit Kolleginnen und Kollegen zwei Erfindungen, die die Computerwelt bis heute pr\u00e4gen:
\nKay drehte in dieser Zeit Filme, in denen Kinder mit Computern spielten und eigene Programme schrieben \u2013 in einer \u00c4ra, in der Computer noch riesige, unzug\u00e4ngliche Maschinen f\u00fcr Spezialisten waren.
\n2003 erhielt Kay den ACM Turing Award \u2013 den h\u00f6chsten Preis der Informatik, oft als \u201eNobelpreis der Informatik\u201c bezeichnet. Die Begr\u00fcndung: \u201e… f\u00fcr viele der Ideen, die den heutigen objektorientierten Programmiersprachen zugrunde liegen, f\u00fcr die Leitung des Teams, das Smalltalk entwickelt hat, und f\u00fcr grundlegende Beitr\u00e4ge zum Personal Computing.\u201c
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Wer tiefer in Kays Denken eintauchen m\u00f6chte, findet in unserem Bestand sowie Fachdatenbanken wie zum Beispiel der \u201eACM Digital Library\u201c hervorragendes Material:
\nWas bleibt von Alan Kay? Eine scheinbar paradoxe Aussage: 1997 erkl\u00e4rte er, die Computer-Revolution habe noch gar nicht stattgefunden \u2013 und steht bis heute zu dieser Einsch\u00e4tzung. F\u00fcr Kay sind Computer noch immer zu sehr Werkzeuge der Routine und zu wenig Instrumente des tiefen Denkens. Seine Vision war stets eine andere: Computer, die Menschen helfen, Ideen zu entwickeln, die Welt wirklich zu verstehen und Probleme grundlegend neu zu durchdenken.
\nIn Zeiten K\u00fcnstlicher Intelligenz, in denen Maschinen immer mehr Aufgaben \u00fcbernehmen, klingt Kays Frage aktueller denn je: Nutzen wir Technologie wirklich, um kl\u00fcger zu werden \u2013 oder nur, um schneller zu sein? Am 17. Mai feiert er seinen 86. Geburtstag. Ein guter Anlass, sein Denken (wieder) zu entdecken \u2013 in unserer Bibliothek und online.
\n[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
\n[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook
\n[3] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC
\n[4] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk_(Programmiersprache)
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