This is a quick post to announce that on Monday, April 7 there will be a virtual panel discussion about dark matter and MOND involving Scott Dodelson and myself. It will be moderated by Orin Harris at Northeastern Illinois University starting at 3pm US Central time*. I asked Orin if I should advertise it more widely, and he said yes – apparently their Zoom set up has a capacity for a thousand attendees.

DOI 10.60804/82EM-7E16 Views from Kai Li, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee Please describe your previous research project(s) that related to data use, and the main findings from that research. I was trained as a scientometrics researcher.

Beim #OERcamp treffen sich Menschen, die sich für freie und offene Bildung interessieren und engagieren – seit der ersten Veranstaltung 2012 in Bremen. Neben einem jährlichen Barcamp gibt es inzwischen verschiedene Formate, zum Beispiel die #OERcamp Werkstatt. Gastgeber Jöran Muuß-Merholz beantwortete im Vorfeld einige Fragen. iRights.info: Jöran, erzähl uns doch bitte etwas über die #OERcamp Werkstatt.

In 2024, thanks to the DataCite Global Access Fund, the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Mexico) developed a project to promote open science. In this blog, we tell you about the development of the project and its results.

En 2024, gracias al Fondo de Acceso Global de DataCite, la Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (México) desarrolló un proyecto de promoción de la ciencia abierta. En este blog te contamos sobre el desarrollo del proyecto y sus resultados.

🔗Encontrarse para compartir conocimiento, crear comunidad y generar nuevos proyectos. Así se presentó el programa de Campeon(a|e)s en la primera “Conversaciones con la comunidad” en español que se realizó el 12 de marzo de 2025 y en el que participaron aspirantes de distintos países como Argentina, México, Uruguay, Colombia, Perú, Chile y Estados Unidos.

Introduction At work (Fred Hutch Cancer Center) we’ve been working on an R package (sixtyfour) over the last ~1.5 years. This post is a quick intro to the package with some learnings about working with AWS. sixtyfour is a science-focused, more humane R interface to AWS.

Youko Marian Horiuchi Beltrán, DR © Ilustración digital Ciudad de México, marzo 2021 Sitio de la autora Youkonejo Instagram Esta es una reproducción digital, con fines de divulgación, de una obra original proporcionada por su autor o propietario. Todos los derechos están reservados por la artista.

The websites and blog posts of the OBF go back a long way, with the first posts having been published all the way back in June 2001. Keeping them accessible and findable under stable links is not an easy feat, especially given that since 2001 we’ve changed the way we create and serve those pages more than once, most recently in March of this year.

GigaScience Press is pleased to announce an upcoming Cassyni webinar on algorithm based detection of diseases using AI-based approaches taken from social media to protein networks.

tl;dr: Here’s a small addition to how you can also scramble images so that “AI” scrapers will end up with a poisoned data set Earlier this year, I’ve written about how I setup this static website to not only serve human-readable data, but also “poisoned data” to mess with the scrapers that are used to collect the training data sets for generative “AI”. As static website deployments via Codeberg Pages et al. aren’t offering a