I have always been interested in the extremes of galaxy properties, especially to low surface brightness (LSB). LSB galaxies are hard to find and observe, so they present an evergreen opportunity for discovery. They also expose theories built to explain bright galaxies to novel tests. Fundamental properties of galaxies include their size and luminosity.

Yesterday I renamed the Front Matter blog to blog.front-matter.de, i.e. changing the top-level domain from .io to .de. I did this for two reasons: * The internet country code top-level domain .io has a complicated history, and I wanted to migrate away from it for some time.

Some quick notes based on experiments with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and (Claude](https://claude.ai). Model Context Protocol (MCP) is all the rage right now, and I’ve been slow to take a look. Kingsley Idehen recently wrote The Semantic Web Project Didn’t Fail — It Was Waiting for AI (The Yin of its Yang) where he argued that Large Language Models (LLMs) provide (finally) a user-friendly way to query triple stores (i.e., knowledge graphs).

The global malaria response is currently navigating a convergence of crises. Epidemiologically, the reduction in mortality has plateaued. Biologically, threats from Anopheles stephensi and partial artemisinin resistance are accelerating. Financially, the 2025 landscape is defined by a severe contraction in foreign assistance, necessitating a radical optimization of resources.

✒️ Editor's Note: Today's guest post was written by Catharina Sänger . With a curious mind and a passport full of lab stamps, Catharina has explored science across the globe. She studied Biochemistry in Frankfurt, Germany, including research projects in Boston and Melbourne, before moving toward Molecular Biology for her PhD at ETH Zurich.

Appalachian Figures Hardy Myers is usually remembered as Oregon’s long serving attorney general, the lawyer who helped defend the state’s Death with Dignity Act at the United States Supreme Court and who made consumer protection and open government central to his office. Less well known is that his story begins in a company lumber town on the edge of the southern Appalachians.

I am pleased to announce that my book Scholarly Publishing in Transition is now available Open Access under https://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-46556 You can find an overview of the book here:https://pulse49.com/scholarly-publishing-in-transition/ I hope the Open Access edition will make the text more widely useful, and I appreciate every comment, share, or recommendation.

Deutschland ist ein Einwanderungsland und profitiert von Zuwanderung. Kommunen kommt eine zentrale Rolle als „Orte des Ankommens“ zu. Doch wie können sie dieser Rolle nachkommen, wenn politische wie finanzielle Rahmenbedingungen und ein negativer, gesellschaftlicher Diskurs einem vor Ort positiven Klima für Ankommen und Verwurzelung entgegenstehen?

Home KATHRYN NAVE A DRIVE TO SURVIVE REVIEWED BY Matteo Colombo A Drive to Survive Kathryn Nave Reviewed by Matteo Colombo A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life ^◳ Kathryn Nave Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press, 2025, £57.00 / OA ISBN 9780262551328 / 9780262381673 Cite as: Colombo, M. [2025]: ‘Kathryn Nave’s A Drive to Survive ’, BJPS Review of Books , 2025 ,

Conventional Comments provides a framework for offering clear and actionable feedback in peer review

Running a marathon is a big deal. It takes a lot of time to train to run a good time, and it takes a while to recover. So, if you’re chasing a marathon PB (personal best) time, you need to choose which Marathon to target wisely. How can we use data to help our decision?