Deadline approaching: We are accepting submissions for our conference "Poetry and Knowledge" until June 1, 2025.

We welcome abstracts on all fields and forms of knowledge. Papers on core areas of Islamic knowledge—such as Qur'anic studies, Hadith studies, and Islamic law—are especially encouraged.

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CALL FOR PAPERS | Conference Announcement

Poetry and Knowledge: The Production and Transmission of Knowledge in Arabic Verse (1100–1800)

We invite papers for our upcoming conference in #Münster, Germany (November 20–22, 2025), focusing on Arabic poetry as a medium of knowledge. Check out the full CfP and feel free to share!

Deadline: June 1, 2025
Location: Münster, Germany

We look forward to your submissions!

Call for Papers:
https://www.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIslam/Forschen/Tagungen/poetry-and-knowledge.html

#arabicliterature #arabicpoetry #didacticpoetry #knowledge

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"Whether you choose to receive a vaccine, or to access one for your children, is a personal choice, butwe want to make it easier for that decision to be an informed one."

mRNA vaccines are not just about COVID and threatened bans risks the future of cancer care! https://independentsage.substack.com/p/mrna-vaccines-are-not-just-about

#Knowledge #vaccines #mRNA #KnowledgeIsPower

See the true size of a country compared to another country…

https://thetruesize.com

#map #maps #geography #earth #country #size #science #cartography #information #info #knowledge #tip #tips #world

Torn between a knowledge base and a CMS? 🤔 We’ve lined them up side by side:

✅ Features

✅ Real-world examples

✅ And that one burning question: Can they swap roles?

Get the answers and find your perfect match here: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/knowledge-base-software-vs-content-management-system/
#cms #knowledge #oss #technology #opensource #FLOSS #Europe

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📄 Transform your wiki content into professional PDF documents!
Our new tutorial walks you through creating custom PDF templates in XWiki:

✔️ Adding company branding
✔️ Inserting dynamic content (dates, users, metadata)
✔️ Customizing layouts without coding skills

The step-by-step guide makes it easy for anyone to create polished reports, documentation, or knowledge base exports.

Check out the full tutorial: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/Create-and-customize-PDF-Template/

#Knowledge #PDF #Tutorial #FOSS #OpenSource #OSS #FLOSS #tech

Events! April 8, 2025 online: "Wikidata for Provenance Research" with Ruth von dem Bussche, Laurel Zuckerman, Achim Raschka , panel moderated by Meike Hopp.
What provenance data is available in #wikidata How can it be retrieved and used in provenance projects? Get to know people who are involved in wiki projects that create and use data for provenance research.

Starts 7 pm French time
Starts 1 pm NY time
https://www.arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung.org/tdp/kuwiki-ag-wikipedia-arbeitsgemeinschaft-kunstwissenschaften/

#provenance #art #knowledge #learning #museum

Ca. bare 50uker igjen av 2025 #knowledge

Last week, the #GIGA welcomed its Academic Advisory Board for the Midterm Audit of the Institute. The audit provided a great opportunity to present the quality of our #research, #knowledge exchange and #academic services, reflect on progress, and discuss next steps with the board members.

Thank you to everyone involved in this collaborative process! Together we will continue to expand our contributions to understanding global challenges. 💪

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Bummed. A discord server I modded on is gone. The server admin think might have been hacked but I have no way to reach to ask. It wasn’t very active but it was rich in pins and reference. Just a reminder that all your communities are ephemeral. Back up your knowledge bases from time to time.

#discord #knowledge #libraries #gone

"#Information is a difference that makes a difference (G. Bateson, 1972, p. 315), and what it ‘‘does’’ or what it means is thus dependent on what is already in place and what alternatives are being distinguished."

(S. Oyama, 2000, p. 3)
https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Ontogeny-of-Information/

Or, as more clearly defined in #Kihbernetics: #Information is the difference between the results of #Knowledge-based #Prediction (function A) and the #Perception (function B) of sensory inputs that will make a difference once integrated into a new knowledge #state of the dynamical (learning) system.

https://www.publicbooks.org/the-encyclopedia-project-or-how-to-know-in-the-age-of-ai/

Much is made if the #ethics of #AI. But the real challenge is the #epistemology: how to know what is real.

The Internet is a pile of equally-weighted content optimized for engagement, not factual accuracy, and #LLMs repeat that same optimization back to us. We're drowning in a sea of shallow #content untethered from #knowledge.

"we must learn to assess not accept, synthesize not summarize, appreciate not appropriate, consider not consume."

#aiethics #alternativefacts

Discover why ‘I Don’t Have Time for #pkm is a costly misconception and how managing your #knowledge can save time (and is time well spent).

@StefanTSiegel for #NoteLab
https://notelab.hypotheses.org/1507

1️⃣ Kihbernetic #System with
2️⃣ fundamental #Processes: a recursive #Autopoietic self-production for growth and learning, and a linear #Allopoietic production of "other things", such as behavior and waste, distributed in
3️⃣ Control #Levels, of #Regulation, immersed in, and dealing with things in the system's environment, #Control for managing the workload of different regulators, and #Guidance to provide long-term goals and preserve the identity of the system, all using
4️⃣ #Variables: sensory #Input of data and other resources, motor #Output of behavior, #Information as the difference that will make a difference in the subsequent (updated) #Knowledge state, all interconnecting
5️⃣ #Functions: the #Control-ed #Reaction to external stimuli, the #Perception of sensory states, the #Prediction of the expected outcome of past behavior, and the repeated #Integration of new information into an updated knowledge state.

3yr #Postdoc JOB JOB JOB
in🐢 long-term deep time 🐢 studies of Animal-Plant-Human interactions spanning ancient history,age of encounter,recent past; ready to facilitate understandings re: different concepts of temporal normality in different #knowledge systems; contribute to research questions on integrating knowledges of historically minoritized communities (e.g., #Indigenous Knowledges, #nomadic knowledges, knowledges of #resistance) + #histsci.
https://www.mpg.de/20979291/postdoc3 @histodons #histodons

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How do we define knowledge? How does it relate to meaning or action?
Next up in our audio-#glossary "ABC of Refiguring Spaces": K for #Knowledge explained by sociologist René Tuma! #wisskomm #socialscience
👇🔠🎧
https://sfb1265.de/en/glossary/#knowledge

The librarian I am working with is a legend. No, seriously, he is so cool, knowledgeable and helpful, I want to befriend him out of pure admiration. I have never met such a thoughtful and skilled person during my time in the uni/academia.

#librarians for the win!

#librarian #academia #library #knowledge

#oneabstractaday

This book is the first in English to survey indigenous #knowledge of seasonal, astronomical, and agricultural information in Arab Gulf almanacs. It provides an extensive analysis of the traditional information available, based on local almanacs, #Arabic texts and poetry by #Gulf individuals, ethnographic interviews, and online forums. A major feature of the book is tracing the history of terms and concepts in the local seasonal knowledge of the Gulf, including an important genre about weather stars, stemming back to the ninth century CE. Also covered are pearl diving, fishing, #seafaring, and pastoral activities. This book will be of interest to scholars who study the entire #Arab region, since much of the lore was shared and continues through the present. It will also be of value to scholars who work on the #IndianOcean and Red Sea Trade Network, as well as the history of folk #astronomy in the Arab World.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-95771-1#about-this-book

@islamicstudies #islamicstudies

Don't be so sure: French Skepticism

#philosophy #skepticism #knowledge

https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/french-skepticism?s=09

A change in the narrative around #artificial #intelligence systems such as ChatGPT, and it's consequences for #human #knowledge. That's what our researcher @hannescools advocates for today in De Morgen ⬇️
https://www.demorgen.be/meningen/nee-artificiele-intelligentie-en-chatgpt-vormen-geen-terminatorachtige-bedreiging~b0e97f3d/

Why is #ChatGPT and future language models destined to change the landscape of Higher #Education (HE)? 😎

Because the #essays they produce are already indistinguishable from poorly written essays, where there are plenty of words but few ideas.

Essay #writing is key in HE, and it relies on the assumption that writing requires awareness and knowledge, which can be assessed.

This assumption has been violated: #knowledge and awareness can be expressed by AIs too!

We should #assess differently.

All right, here we go with a real #introduction. I’m an Associate Professor in media and #communications at the LSE in #London. I’m interested in #values #ethics and #technology. I wrote. Book called Undoing Optimization. It’s about so-called #smartcities but also about #animals, #decolonial #knowledge and #gardening. I like using #queer theory to shift how people think about networks and #collaboration. Originally Canadian.

#introduction on a snowy Sunday morning here in Berlin. I'm a historian of science and technology working on the intersection of sericulture (silk cultivation) and #biology in #Japan. I'm recently exploring the #history of a #silk weaving culture in Japan's southern periphery. My interests & collaborations are interdisciplinary #writing #CreativeNonFiction #AnimalHistory #Insects #textiles #art #biomaterials #enthist #environment #STS #envhum #archaeology #histsci #wisdom #knowledge #histodons

#introduction Hi, I'm Rai ... I'm a #mad PhD student, exploring #survivor #knowledge in #mentalhealth. Beyond that I'm a mum of an amazing 4.5 year old, a mental health trainer, an #OpenDialogue practitioner and writer. Procrastination is one of my most impressive art forms, and I'm here on Mastodon as Twitter can feel like a toxic space and I'm hoping for a different kind of feel here. Also a bit dizzied by having more characters to use ... anyways, that's me. Hi :)

My buddy Sichu and I have begun work on a #P2P #didactic #protocol; an #open, #emergent #knowledge #engine for our #species. Clearly we are not the first to #work on this, but we are taking an approach which #sets our #project apart from all the #rest. We are putting #collaborative #teaching and #learning at the center of the #autopoetic "main #loop " of the #thing, so it #dynamically #optimizes for #reflectivity. Looking for others #interested in getting #involved!