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With the production process rapidly evolving, science policy must consider how institutions could evolve

En el marco del llamado abierto al Programa de Campeon(a|e)s de rOpenSci 2026 —cuarta cohorte global y segunda cohorte en español— realizamos una nueva edición de Conversaciones con la comunidad.En esta oportunidad, Yanina Bellini Saibene moderó un encuentro con Erik Navarro, Diana García y Luis Verde Arregoitia, quienes compartieron sus experiencias como campeon(a|e)s y mentor(a|e)s del programa, los aprendizajes obtenidos y las oportunidades

This morning, Kathleen Fitzpatrick drew my attention to a Mastodon post by Babette Knauer about plans for the University of Groningen to get away from Big Tech. The article itself is well worth a read, with ambitious approaches to digital independence. I had some not-very-original thoughts on it.

If you read Paired Ends because you care about how biology, technology, and society co-evolve, this story was written for you.

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Your browser does not support the audio tag. Download: PDF | EPUB | MP3 | WATCH VIDEO When it comes to the exploitation of non-renewable resources, what’s up for debate is not if the rate of harvest will peak and decline, but when this peak will occur. Here, some recent history seems relevant. Back in the mid 2000s, peak-oil theorists stridently predicted that world oil production would soon peak.

The Data.gov team rolled out a beta-version of the next iteration of the Federal Data Catalog: https://catalog-beta.data.gov/. While there does not appear to be a new landing page as part of this release, there are notable changes to the look and feel of the catalog search page as well as to individual dataset pages (compare with https://catalog.data.gov). The beta-version is much more barebones.

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by Orysia Vira, Ukrainian Catholic University Street names are more than simple labels on a map ‒ they are historical documents that record the life of a city.

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