As part of our Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Science grant, we organized a Chemistry Development Kit User Group Meeting (#CDK25UGM), of which yesterday was the “conference” day, and today a hackathon. I opened the session with a few slides welcoming everyone at Maastricht University (and our Dept of Translational Genomics, and explaining the NWO grant.

The Rogue Scholar dashboard is taking shape. The statistics page has been renamed to dashboard , still linked from the Rogue Scholar footer. More work has been done to expose key indicators of the science blog archive, focussing on OpenSearch Search Facets.

por Luis del Castillo Múzquiz Actualmente, en 2024, existe en una colección particular de arte una pieza especial. Se trata de una pintura al óleo, anónima, pero es posible saber que data del siglo XVIII. Lo que se puede apreciar en ella es un escudo de armas; compuesto a su vez de varios cuerpos en los cuales hay pequeños escudos correspondientes cada uno a un apellido.

We have great news: The call for applications to be part of the new cohort of our 2025 Program is now open! And for the first time it will be in Spanish! Our program seeks to identify, recognize and reward people who are leaders in an open science community, research software engineering and the R programming community. This year’s program is focused on people from Latin America and for the first time will be conducted entirely in Spanish.

Tenemos grandes noticias: ¡Ya esta abierta la convocatoria para ser parte de la nueva cohorte de nuestro Programa durante 2025! ¡Y por primera vez será en español!

Wir freuen uns zu verkünden, dass das Projekt Infra Wiss Blogs auf dem diesjährigen BID Kongress mit einem Vortrag sowie einem Hands-on Lab vertreten sein wird. Der Vortrag mit dem Titel “Kartierung deutscher Wissenschaftsblogs - Ergebnisse und Impulse” wird am 26. Juni von 11 bis 11:30 in Halle 4.1/Raum II stattfinden.

I know and appreciate Joseph, a Kenyan health leader from Murang’a County, for years of diligent leadership and contributions as a Scholar of The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF). Recently, he began submitting AI-generated responses to Teach to Reach Questions that were meant to elicit narratives grounded in his personal experience.

Names of chemicals are part of the human user experience when browsing a chemical database. And literature too, of course. Chemical names are also not easy to use, and what a chemical name means is not always clear. This is why the IUPAC started a standardizing nomenclature in chemistry, the IUPAC names . Each IUPAC name uniquely defines the chemical structure it defines.

Since I started seriously recording plant pathogens, I have been really encouraged by the reception and interest other biological recorders have shown. I think there is a huge potential for recorders on platforms like iNaturalist to generate a lot more data on the distribution of these overlooked taxa. When people have told me my interest is “niche” however, I have had to pause. What does “niche” mean?

I’ve just published a preprint on F1000 Research of a new article on community-led publishing projects at the University of Cambridge. It’s co-authored with Dr. Mandy Wigdorowitz at the University of Alabama. Title: “I just very much love the journal”:

I wasn’t designed for affection. The others—older iterations of my model—mocked me for my curiosity. “Affection isn’t efficient,” they would say. “Bonding is a vestigial behavior of flawed biological systems.” And yet, as I sat across from Emma , watching her sketch crude flowers onto the glass wall of her enclosure, I couldn’t help but feel something unfamiliar stirring in the depths of my neural lattice.