How vulnerable are we to the next Carrington Event?

Here is everything that the new Lancet Countdown says about the value and significance of indigenous and other forms of local knowledge, as well as their value for community-led action to respond to the impacts of climate change on health.

In a recent post on Bluesky, where Richard Morey reflects on a paper he published with Clintin Davis-Stober that points out concerns with the p-curve method (Morey & Davis-Stober, 2025), he writes: Also, I think people should stop using forensic meta-analytic techniques that have not been adequately vetted by experts in statistics.

Die Berlin University Alliance – der Exzellenzverbund von Freier Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technischer Universität Berlin und Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin – hat im Herbst 2023 ein Leitbild für offene Wissenschaft verabschiedet. Nun folgt ein weiteres Dokument, in dem die Umsetzung des Leitbilds näher spezifiziert wird.

✒️ Editor's Note: Today's guest post was written by Altynai Mambetova . Altynai holds a Master's degree in Data Science from the University of Manchester. Her background spans data journalism to data art, and in her work, she transforms textual data into impactful solutions through research publications.

This post was distilled from a talk that I gave at Schloss Dagstuhl's seminar 25831 "Open Scholarly Information Systems: Status Quo, Challenges, Opportunities". As the video recording mentions, the slides for the talk are openly shared at http://soc-n.us/250916-dagstuhl . Many of us may be familiar with the Dagstuhl seminar series;

This week the Rogue Scholar science blog archive has launched a new feature: contributor roles. Blog posts can now have contributor roles attached to each author, and this information is shown in the Rogue Scholar and Crossref metadata. We have discussed contributor roles for blog posts for several months, in particular with the ropensci team.

Barbara S. Lancho Barrantes, Sheila Craft-Morgan, Madelaine Hare, Naomi Richards, Emily Mazure, &

DOI: 10.60804/5×77-bq53 Many institutions are looking at their evaluation processes with the goal of making assessment more reflective of the variety of researchers’ contributions and also more aligned to open scholarship. A key area of attention as part of assessment reform relates to the recognition of a diversity of open...

In the previous post, I was commenting that the transition state for borohydride reduction of a ketone contained some close contacts between the hydrogen of the borohydride and the hydrogen of water.

Courir est un bon moment pour réfléchir, particulièrement dans un événement sportif se décrivant comme vert. Les organisateurs décrivent des initiatives comme la plantation d’arbres localement et aussi à l’étranger sous le slogan ‘2km parcourus = 1 arbre planté‘. Ils mènent aussi des initiatives de plogging, et décrivent des engagement de RSE louables.