Notes from the 2026 International AI Safety Report

The success of the Open Science movement relies on research products and infrastructures being open, accessible and sustainably curated. Recent global events, ranging from the defunding of research infrastructure in the United States to wartime threats in Ukraine, demonstrate the vulnerability of open science to geopolitical forces and demand the development of responsive and resilient open systems.

There are many academia-specific keywords: “grant”, “stipend”, “precarity”. But what is the correct designation for the leader of a research group who writes projects, manages people, supervises students, etc? Manager? Supervisor? Mentor? Because these are very different concepts. It could be easier to stick with the concept of “principal investigator” (aka PI), I know. But, let’s face it, that word ends up being a little bland right?

At rOpenSci we’re continually grateful for the support and engagement of our community who help make our open-source ecosystem stronger, more inclusive, and more collaborative. The software peer review program is one of the best examples of this: bringing together people from diverse expertise and backgrounds to improve the quality, reproducibility, and usability of scientific software across the R ecosystem.

A couple of months ago, Ludo Waltman and André Brasil raised some questions about good practices for Crossref DOI registration, asking for input from the scholarly communication community.

DataCite’s public data file is now available in the Dimensions BigQuery Lab through a partnership with Digital Science, making it easier for users to explore and analyze metadata for more than 100 million research outputs.

read this article in English Am 24. und 25. September 2025 fand der 7. VIVO-Workshop 2025 im Vortragsraum der TIB statt. An zwei Tagen gab es zahlreiche Vorträge und Diskussionen rund um das Open-Source-Forschungsinformationssystem VIVO, um (offene) Forschungsinformationen und alles, was die Community in diesem Umfeld bewegt.

Ce billet est la traduction du billet du blog officiel de Zotero annonçant la publication de la version 8 de Zotero.

What's "tacit knowledge" in biosecurity, and is it really a barrier? A look at the 2025 RAND paper "Contemporary Foundation AI Models Increase Biological Weapons Risk." 1.7k words, 8 min reading time.

Way back in 2010, when I was young and stupid, I wrote as follows in my History Of Sauropod Studies book-chapter (Taylor 2010:368–370): Ballou (1897) included, as one of his six figures, the first published life restoration of a sauropod, executed by Knight under the direction of Cope (Fig.

Es ist erstaunlich, wie schnell die Zeit vergeht – seit der Veröffentlichung der neuesten DINI-Thesen sind fast anderthalb Jahre vergangen. Vieles hat sich seitdem verändert und weiterentwickelt. In diesem Blogbeitrag werfen wir einen Blick zurück, aber noch wichtiger, wir schauen nach vorne. Wir initiieren eine Beitragsreihe, die sich mit den verschiedenen thematischen Thesen-Bereichen auseinandersetzen wird.