Am 5. und 6. Dezember fand der „22. International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories” statt, auf welchem auch das SUB-Kooperationsprojekt „Edition des Ugaritischen Poetischen Textkorpus” (EUPT) vorgestellt wurde. Doch was sind „Treebanks” (z. Dt. „Baumbanken”) überhaupt und welchen Nutzen haben sie für die Forschung und Entwicklung?

Interested in using computer vision to help understand, manage, and conserve nature? We hiring for a new position to join our team working on models, software, and community outreach in our existing projects using airborne imagery to monitor and understand natural systems at large scales. The Weecology lab at the University of Florida has an opening for a computer vision developer to join our team.

Open Science doesn’t make publishing easier. That that’s all for the better: our research efforts are complex, so why should the publishing be. Sure, I am not talking about references formatting or moving the Methods section to the right location, or some silly statement that all authors agree with the manuscript when you are the only author. No, let’s talk about data. What should you publish? How, and when?

Hey, my friends! Today, we're venturing into a realm that's as vast and complex as life itself: the world of biological data and its implications for U.S. biotechnology leadership. This is based on the white paper from the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) titled "Leveraging Biological Data." Like last week, the podcast audio is AI-generated, and they keep calling this a report.

(Blog post) “MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier” by Cory Doctorow. This blog post is about the collective action problem of moving academic publishing away from the big corporate publishers that extract millions of dollars/year from scholarly research while contributing very little in return. It reports on an encouraging report by SPARC about MIT’s success in canceling their Elsevier subscriptions.

We just published a dataset of canopy tree maps for 100 million trees in the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) with information on location, species identify, size, and whether the tree is alive.

If you’re interested in big ecological datasets, natural history, and predictive cross-scale ecology (like we are) then you should check out the upcoming Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Unifying Ecology Across Scales (July 28 – Aug 2) and the associated Gordon Research Seminar (GRS;

For big data and complex data processing, data pipelines have emerged as a popular solution for managing and manipulating data. They provide a systematic approach to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from various sources, enabling organizations to derive valuable insights. However, as with any technology trend, data pipelines have not been immune to misuse and overuse.

Last week an exciting new addition to the R ecosystem was announced: webR. webR lets you run R from inside your browser, without installing R ¹ . This is a really exciting development for educational materials, because it makes it possible to provide interactive materials where students can modify, create, and run code right inside a web page with zero setup.

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted all of our lives in a very short period of time.Spring and summer are usually very busy as students prepare to go the field to engage in various data collection efforts.The pandemic has also disrupted these carefully planned activities as travel is suspended and local and remote field stations have closed indefinitely.A lost field season can be a major setback for a dissertation timeline and