The goal is not unanimity, but a process that surfaces assumptions, documents disagreement, and allows decisions to evolve with evidence

OpenCitations aggregates and deduplicates bibliographic information from CrossRef, Europe PubMed Central, and other sources to construct a comprehensive, open index of citations between scientific works. This post describes the opencitations-client package which wraps the OpenCitations API and implements an automated pipeline for locally downloading, caching, and accessing OpenCitations in bulk.

This is a list coming straight from my experience and it is NOT a listicle (I hate that word.

On a quiet afternoon in Cullman you can walk east from the sunken railroad tracks and find a neighborhood that still hints at a very different origin story from most Southern towns. A state marker calls it “Die Deutsche Kolonie Von Nord Alabama.” Modest frame houses and larger Victorian homes line a grid of streets that were once the heart of a planned German colony.

On a narrow shelf of land below the Allegheny Mountains, the railroad made a city out of what had begun as a construction camp. When the Pennsylvania Railroad chose Altoona as the place to base its mountain crossing between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, it did more than lay track.

A river town that once watched steamboats and stagecoaches come and go found itself, in November 1861, at the center of a small Civil War battle with long shadows. The raid on Guyandotte and the burning that followed lasted only a few hours, but they left scars in the streetscape, in the local archive, and in the way neighbors remembered each other for generations.

por Julieta I. Martínez López Teoberto Maler, explorador y fotógrafo austriaco, llegó a México en 1864 como soldado del cuerpo de voluntarios austro belgas del Ejercito Imperial Mexicano. Tras la caída del Imperio, Maler decidió permanecer en México y trabajar como fotógrafo en Guerrero, Oaxaca y Chiapas.

Parallel proposals target training data and model access to reduce biosecurity risk

Städte und Gemeinden sind die Orte, in denen die Aufnahme und Integration von Geflüchteten in der Praxis stattfindet. Welche Ressourcen sind wichtig, um diese Aufgabe erfolgreich zu gestalten, und inwiefern unterscheiden sich Integrationserfahrungen auf lokaler Ebene?

The stagnation in global malaria mortality reduction has forced a re-evaluation of the tools and strategies currently deployed in high-burden countries. While biological challenges such as insecticide resistance and parasite mutations are well-documented, a critical bottleneck remains the capacity of the human workforce to implement technical strategies with precision.

The comprehensive policy review by Halima Mwenesi and colleagues “Rethinking human resources and capacity building needs for malaria control and elimination in Africa” argues that the stagnation in global malaria progress is fundamentally a human resources crisis rather than solely a biological or technical failure.