Der Franc-CFA steht im Zentrum der neokolonialen Beziehungen Frankreichs zu mehreren westafrikanischen Staaten. Kritiker:innen werfen der Währung vor, die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung der Region zu behindern und dadurch Flucht- und Migrationsbewegungen nach Europa zu begünstigen. Diese Kritik wird zunehmend von rechtspopulistischen Akteur:innen oft mit irreführenden Argumenten aufgegriffen.

Old posts, new papers

This time last year, when we reflected on ROR’s milestones in 2024, one of the major highlights was the launch of version 2 of the ROR schema and API. Now, as we think back on 2025, where we were a year ago makes a nice bookend to one of the major highlights of the current year: last week’s sunset of version 1 of the ROR schema and API.

An investigation of the kinetics of the reaction between titanocene pentasulfide and sulfenyl chloride leading to the formation of the S7 allotrope of sulfur was accompanied by supporting DFT calculations which led to the conclusion that of five possible mechanisms for the reaction, the most probable corresponded to a variant of the concerted σ-bond metathesis (Scheme 1, […]

read this article in English Wie in den vergangenen Jahren möchten wir auch diesmal einen Überblick über die wichtigsten technischen und funktionalen Erweiterungen des TIB AV-Portals geben. Das Scrum-Team hat 2025 erneut zahlreiche Verbesserungen umgesetzt, die sowohl die infrastrukturelle Basis als auch die Nutzungsmöglichkeiten des Portals ausgebaut haben.

The "missing middle" for omics data analysis in Python

Researchers are people of science, of facts, of specifics. With the duty of being unbiased, they set their assumptions aside and prioritize what the data tells them above everything else. And yet, when that son of a Reviewer 2 criticizes their data… Oof, man… Tough blow.

Home GUIDO BACCIAGALUPPI & ELISE CRULL THE EINSTEIN PARADOX REVIEWED BY Thomas Ryckman The Einstein Paradox Guido Bacciagaluppi &

Sizing up

As is my custom, I am writing, for my own historical logging, to show what I read and wrote this year. This year I have been working at Knowledge Commons, which has been a great environment with lovely people and a worthwhile project. It has meant that much of my time has been consumed with technical matters as is proper, but I did still manage to get up early in the morning and write.

por Carlos Ariel Díaz Abad En el siglo XIX, mientras el Imperio Británico afianzaba su dominio en el subcontinente indio, la región histórica del Punjab se convertía en un hervidero religioso.