It is estimated that children make up one-third of the world’s population. Nevertheless, they constituted 40 percent (49 million) of the 122.6 million forcibly displaced individuals in 2024.
A much cited essay by Bret Victor, "Explorable Explanations", argues for supporting and encouraging active reading in communicating ideas. Explanatory text should thus be complemented by interactive visualizations and computational demonstrations, allowing the reader to actively engage with the ideas. If you haven't read Victor's essay yet, please do so now, and then come back here. It's not very long.
That the arithmetic mean of a set of number is larger than the geometric mean is a foundational result in the theory of inequalities. This is a useful result for index numbers in particular as it gives that, for the same data, an index based on an arithmetic mean will always be larger than the corresponding index based on the geometric mean.
An in-depth read, ~15 min TLDR/Summary Global systems theorist Thomas Homer-Dixon gave a webinar on Nov 6, 2025 in which he described the Cascade Institute’s breakthrough approach to modelling global systemic risk. You can watch the full video of his presentation on the ASRA YouTube channel.
Each October, International Open Access Week invites the global scholarly community to reflect on how knowledge is created, shared, and sustained.
Don’t miss your chance to join LIS-Bibliometrics 2025, the annual conference for library and information professionals, researchers, and practitioners working with bibliometrics and research evaluation.
Eine Veranstaltung der Reihe „Quo vadis offene Wissenschaft in Berlin und Brandenburg“ für das Jahr 2025/2026 Termin: 13. November 2025, 14:00-15:30 Die Anmeldung zur Veranstaltung ist über diesen Link möglich.
29 talks from the 2025 Nextflow Summit are now available on YouTube
On the morning of Saturday 8 November 2025, I took part in the Comics Against Capitalism panel within the 22nd Annual Historical Materialism Conference in London.
I’ve now heard from several early-career folks some variant on this statement regarding manuscripts they intend to publish as papers: “I give the AI all my notes and it gives me a draft that isn’t perfect, but it’s easier to massage that draft into publishable shape than it would be to write it myself.” I […]
How the third chapter in the Echoes of Tomorrow series turns the mirror back on creation itself—and what happens when our technologies start reminding us who made them.