This morning, Kathleen Fitzpatrick drew my attention to a Mastodon post by Babette Knauer about plans for the University of Groningen to get away from Big Tech. The article itself is well worth a read, with ambitious approaches to digital independence. I had some not-very-original thoughts on it.
If you read Paired Ends because you care about how biology, technology, and society co-evolve, this story was written for you.
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Your browser does not support the audio tag. Download: PDF | EPUB | MP3 | WATCH VIDEO When it comes to the exploitation of non-renewable resources, what’s up for debate is not if the rate of harvest will peak and decline, but when this peak will occur. Here, some recent history seems relevant. Back in the mid 2000s, peak-oil theorists stridently predicted that world oil production would soon peak.
The Data.gov team rolled out a beta-version of the next iteration of the Federal Data Catalog: https://catalog-beta.data.gov/. While there does not appear to be a new landing page as part of this release, there are notable changes to the look and feel of the catalog search page as well as to individual dataset pages (compare with https://catalog.data.gov). The beta-version is much more barebones.
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by Orysia Vira, Ukrainian Catholic University Street names are more than simple labels on a map ‒ they are historical documents that record the life of a city.
AIxBio, Claude's Constitution, UK AI+Science, exams with chatbots, R updates (Posit, R Data Scientist, R Weekly), reading what Adam Kucharski is reading, AI vs reality at Salesforce, papers+preprints.
read this article in English Im Januar 2026 startet das neue Konsortium „PKP Open Journal Systems Deutschland 2026–2028“. 14 Einrichtungen aus Deutschland haben gemeinsam ihre Unterstützung für das Public Knowledge Project (PKP) erklärt und sich für die nächsten drei Jahre zu Mitgliedsbeiträgen verpflichtet. Auf diese Weise tragen sie zur nachhaltigen und gemeinsamen Finanzierung relevanter Open-Access-Infrastruktur bei.
Ten years ago, I had a bad cold. This was not unusual as I have hypogammaglobulinemia (which means an abnormally low concentration of gamma globulin in the blood that leads to an increased risk of infection). But this cold was pretty terrible and quickly led to a secondary bacterial infection requiring antibiotics. I was coughing a lot and very hard. And I was starting to get headaches. That should have worried me far earlier than it did.
The OJS Deutschland Consortium 2026 – 2028 is off to a strong start with 14 new members committing to collective investment in sustaining PKP open infrastructure.