We want to introduce a new, work-in-progress book on spatial data visualization in R using the tmap package. The current version of the book, titled Spatial Data Visualization with tmap: A Practical Guide to Thematic Mapping in R , is available online at https://tmap.geocompx.org/. This blog post provides an overview of the book, its current status, and how you can get involved in its development.

A few days ago I got a sensationally stupid email from one of those websites that most of us probably have a subscription to, but which I will not give the oxygen of publicity by linking to[1]. The subject line was: Your paper “NEURAL SPINE BIFURCATION…” is now an analogy. No; no, it’s not.

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing.

Las trabajadoras del hogar en la caricatura de la prensa de la ciudad de México a mediados del siglo XX. por Daniela Lechuga Herrero “Gata”, “chacha”, “criadita” o “sirvienta” fueron sólo algunas de las denominaciones que se usaron para nombrar a las trabajadoras del hogar en México a inicios del siglo XX. De manera despectiva, […]

If a researcher submits her publication to a journal, the subsequent use of that publication could potentially be problematic if the journal acquires rights to it. These are the copyright options available to researchers for the subsequent use of their publications or research data. In the course of a research process, sooner or later […] The post How to (re)use your own publication appeared first on iRights.info.

Positron allows you to export dplyr/SQL code for actions you take in the data explorer (like sorting and filtering)

Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen Mehr als 130 Teilnehmer*innen kamen am 25.02.2025 zum Online-Workshop „Personalressourcen und Infrastrukturkosten im Fokus des Informationsbudgets“. Der fünfte Workshop der Reihe „Finanzielle Gestaltung der Open-Access-Transformation an Hochschulen und Wissenschaftseinrichtungen“ wurde wieder als gemeinsames Angebot der Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld und des Helmholtz Open Science Office im Rahmen des

Repositories are home to a wide range of scholarly content; they often archive theses, dissertations, preprints, datasets, and other valuable outputs. These records are an important part of the research ecosystem and should be connected to the broader scholarly record.

New paper out this week, open access like usual, go get it for free: Atterholt, Jessie; Burton, M. Grace; Wedel, Mathew J.; Benito, Juan; Fricano, Ellen; and Field, Daniel J. 2025. Osteological correlates of the respiratory and vascular systems in the neural canals of Mesozoic ornithurines Ichthyornis and Janavis. The Anatomical Record. http://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70070.

Roughly 541 million years ago, something extraordinary happened in Earth’s oceans. Over a geologically brief period of perhaps 20 million years, the fossil record explodes with an almost obscene diversity of body plans.

Margery Wace in 1935. With kind permission of Cecilia Johnson. My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hour and had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre, to research and write a history of women at the BBC.