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El federalismo itinerante de Juan Pablo de Anaya provocó enfrentamientos contra el presidente Anastasio Bustamante (18371841) desde el noreste, Texas, Yucatán y Tabasco.

A guest post by Ivan Jayapurna

In today’s digital scholarly landscape, ensuring research is findable, accessible, and trusted is crucial for national development and global collaboration. For Malawi, a key step toward this goal is now underway. The Malawi Research and Education Network (MAREN) is spearheading an initiative to transform how Malawian research is shared and discovered worldwide.

Software powers modern research across many scientific disciplines, but it’s often hidden in plain sight, buried as unstructured text within the article body.  This means that often software is difficult to identify and track in scholarly publications. SoFAIR is a project dedicated to automatically extracting software mentions from scientific literature.

This is an English translation of my original German contribution to the Merkur Blog in response to the contributions by Gehring and Tautz. “Scientific publishing” may sound like a minor rung in the ivory tower. It is not. The system […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

We held the first TESSERA hackathon over the Indian AI Impact summit in Delhi today, thanks to sponsorship from OpenUK.

Responsibly using AI for a structured first pass manuscript / grant proposal review can reduce reviewer variance while keeping human judgment central. Bonus: a prompt I use for my own draft proposals.

I’m honoured to be giving a talk on Diamond Open Access at the 89th Annual Conference of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, DPG), specifically at the Spring Meeting of the Matter and Cosmos Section (SMuK). This invitation by the DPG, one of the largest physical societies in the world, is a great privilege, […]

A contribution to the United Nations Independent Scientific Panel on the Effects of Nuclear War

Nach dem Militärputsch in Myanmar/Burma im Jahr 2021 sehen sich Studierende und Lehrende der University of Yangon sowie anderer Bildungseinrichtungen erneut mit militärischer Gewalt, Unterdrückung, Inhaftierung und Krieg konfrontiert.