A few days ago, on Sci-Fi Friday, you met Dr. Samara Makinde. You didn’t know it then, and neither did she, but her story wasn’t a standalone. What you read on Friday wasn’t just another TCIP short story. It was Chapter One of my debut novel — On the Wings of a Pig — and the opening act of a story I’ve been dreaming about for years.
After months of work behind the scenes, we’re thrilled to unveil the new OpenCitations website! Whether you’re a researcher, service provider, librarian, or open knowledge advocate, we want the new site to help you engage more easily and meaningfully with our work. This new website is part of a wider rebranding initiative that began earlier this year.
Peer review is a staple of science, a seemingly inescapable barrier that every researcher must cross in order to share their work with the world. The internet is awash with complaints about Reviewer #2 and long, drawn out review processes. Despite this, most academics believe peer review to be a gold standard process that protects the scientific record from poor quality studies.
Durante el semestre 2026-1 existe la opción de tomar el curso que impartiré en la carrera de Matemáticas Aplicadas de la Facultad de Ciencias de la UNAM. Modalidad: virtual Material : computadora o laptop, cámara, micrófono e internet Día y hora : Lu-Vi 18:00 a 19:00 hrs Asistencia : 90% indispensableCaracterísticas: Curso activo enfocado en la investigación y el uso de bioinformación, bioliteratura y biodatos.
Every so often, we get a chance to look back at our past work. Sometimes it’s with a cringe, sometimes with nostalgia, and occasionally, with an opportunity to rebuild. During a recent and much-needed time off, I found myself embarking on a project that was a blend of all three: a complete, ground-up rewrite of the Hydrogen Bond Analysis Tool (HBAT), a piece of software I first wrote nearly two decades ago.
por Florencia Gutiérrez Gutiérrez, Florencia; María Belén Portelli y Lucía Santos Lepera: Catolicismo social y mundos del trabajo. Actores y mediaciones (Argentina, siglos XIX y XX), Buenos Aires, Teseo, 2025, pp. 294.
I originally wrote and published this essay at The Connected Ideas Project, an excellent newsletter by my good friend and colleague Alexander Titus. If you’re not reading TCIP you’re missing out. After I finished my postdoc I was faculty in academia for eight years before moving to a consulting firm for five years, then joined a biotech startup two years ago.
White rami are usually thicker than gray rami, and sometimes they are visibly different in color, but they are always the more lateral connections between the sympathetic chain and the intercostal nerves, and the ones you’ll see first when you peel off the parietal pleura.
Depending on your exact definition of doing science, keeping track as precise as possible of your observations is an essential part of doing science. The precision should be high enough that mistakes are obvious. This pattern is, of course, not limited to doing science and we see this in open source development too. Unfortunately, in the modern way of doing science, this is not getting the attention it should get.
This week’s recap highlights the new Datavzrd tool for interactive visualization and communication of tabular data (I’m genuinely really looking forward to trying this one), tracing the shared foundations of gene expression and chromatin structure, PISA for visualizing cis-regulatory rules in genomic data, fast protein structure searching using structure graph embeddings, and a review/perspective on intrinsically disordered regions as
InvenioRDM is the open source turn-key research data management platform, with detailed documentation available here. InvenioRDM Starter facilitates deployment and configuration of InvenioRDM, allowing you to run InvenioRDM on your local computer within 15 min. This is achieved by providing a) a prebuilt Invenio-App-RDM Docker image, and b) a Docker Compose configuration file with sensible defaults.