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BIOinformaciónCursosBiological Sciences
Published in BIOgarabatos

Durante el semestre 2026-1 existe la opción de tomar el curso que impartiré en la carrera de Matemáticas Aplicadas de la Facultad de Ciencias de la UNAM. Modalidad: virtual Material : computadora o laptop, cámara, micrófono e internet Día y hora : Lu-Vi 18:00 a 19:00 hrs Asistencia : 90% indispensableCaracterísticas: Curso activo enfocado en la investigación y el uso de bioinformación, bioliteratura y biodatos.

Biological Sciences
Published in Paired Ends
Author Stephen Turner

I originally wrote and published this essay at The Connected Ideas Project, an excellent newsletter by my good friend and colleague Alexander Titus. If you’re not reading TCIP you’re missing out. After I finished my postdoc I was faculty in academia for eight years before moving to a consulting firm for five years, then joined a biotech startup two years ago.

Human AnatomyNervous SystemTutorialEarth and related Environmental Sciences
Published in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Author Matt Wedel

White rami are usually thicker than gray rami, and sometimes they are visibly different in color, but they are always the more lateral connections between the sympathetic chain and the intercostal nerves, and the ones you’ll see first when you peel off the parietal pleura.

CurationOpenscienceChemical Sciences
Published in chem-bla-ics

Depending on your exact definition of doing science, keeping track as precise as possible of your observations is an essential part of doing science. The precision should be high enough that mistakes are obvious. This pattern is, of course, not limited to doing science and we see this in open source development too. Unfortunately, in the modern way of doing science, this is not getting the attention it should get.

PapersBiological Sciences
Published in Paired Ends
Author Stephen Turner

This week’s recap highlights the new Datavzrd tool for interactive visualization and communication of tabular data (I’m genuinely really looking forward to trying this one), tracing the shared foundations of gene expression and chromatin structure, PISA for visualizing cis-regulatory rules in genomic data, fast protein structure searching using structure graph embeddings, and a review/perspective on intrinsically disordered regions as

Rogue ScholarOpen InfrastructureComputer and Information Sciences
Published in Front Matter

InvenioRDM is the open source turn-key research data management platform, with detailed documentation available here. InvenioRDM Starter facilitates deployment and configuration of InvenioRDM, allowing you to run InvenioRDM on your local computer within 15 min. This is achieved by providing a) a prebuilt Invenio-App-RDM Docker image, and b) a Docker Compose configuration file with sensible defaults.

ForschungsbewertungForschungsinformationImpactMetricsOpen AccessOther Social SciencesGerman
Published in pulse49.com
Author Ulrich Herb

Am 26. Juni 2025 durfte ich an der Fachhochschule Münster über ein Thema sprechen, das vielen Wissenschaftler*innen unter den Nägeln brennt: Wie publiziere ich sinnvoll, sichtbar und nachhaltig? In meinem Vortrag „Publikationsstrategien für Wissenschaftler*innen“ ging es unter anderem um: Warum überhaupt publizieren? Zwischen Publish or Perish und echter Wissenschaftskommunikation: Reputation, Karrierewege

BlogsMedia and Communications
Published in CST Online
Author Richard Wallis and Christa van Raalte

Richard Wallis and Christa van Raalte argue for greater honesty and pragmatism in addressing the talent pipeline. The prominence of the creative industries in the UK government’s industrial strategy as one of eight growth sectors to be prioritised will be welcomed by most of us involved in screen education. It is as yet unclear, however, how the proclaimed undertaking to develop an appropriately skilled workforce will manifest itself.

SocietyScience FictionBiotechnologyOther Engineering and Technologies
Published in The Connected Ideas Project
Author Alexander Titus

Samara June 12, 2108 Outskirts of Kansas City Wedged between a matching set of security guards in the back seat of an armored Reaper, Dr. Samara Makinde watched through bulletproof glass as Missouri farm country scrolled past like a documentary of the apocalypse.