While the replication crisis is leading to changes in journal policies and data transparency practices in psychology, political science and economics, nothing much happens in sociology. Do we have nothing to worry about because research in sociology is more replicable than in other fields? Perhaps. We don’t really know because very few studies in sociology are ever replicated.

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! 🔗rOpenSci HQ 🔗rOpenSci Champions Program 2025 In Spanish: Apply before April 30th! 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!

Over the past few months at work we’ve been looking into web framework options for a project that currently uses R Shiny. Our needs have grown beyond what Shiny can provide. We decided to try Rails, SvelteKit, and HTMX/FastAPI to see which one would best suit our needs.

This is a follow-up to my earlier post entitled "Going for robustness", focusing on scientific research.

En la entrada anterior comenzamos a explorar las opciones de colación semi-automatizada en ChrysoCollate, en la ventana «Pre-edit», explicando el funcionamiento de la primera forma de edición: «Auto-edit variant locations common to all witnesses»: En esta entrada explicaré cómo funciona la siguiente opción.

Various reform movements are working hard to improve the research system, focusing on issues ranging from research assessment, diversity and inclusion, and research culture to scientific publishing, open science, reproducibility, research integrity, and several others. The agendas of the different reform movements are interconnected and partly overlapping, but sometimes they are also in tension.

Für Musiknoten gilt im Urheberrecht ein Kopierverbot. So die häufige Annahme. Doch stimmt das so pauschal überhaupt? Welche Ausnahmen gibt es von dieser Annahme? Das erklärt Paul Klimpel in diesem Text. Das Urheberrecht erlaubt zwar in bestimmten Konstellationen, Kopien zu machen – etwa zu für den Privatgebrauch oder zu Bildungszwecken – nimmt Noten aber von dieser gesetzlichen Erlaubnis aus.

The question of safe and regulated entry for protection seekers into a state of refuge is still one of the most pressing issues of the asylum system in Europe. While the debate on externalizing asylum is at a new high point, it fails to address a crucial question: how can protection remain accessible in a world of shifting borders?

Chris Mungall (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Keynote talk for joint BOSC/BOKR session (title TBA) Dr. Chris Mungall is a Senior Scientist at the Berkeley Lab, where he heads the Biosystems Data Science department.

As part of my project recording the plant-pathogenic fungi and oomycetes of Ireland, I received an Irish Naturalists’ Journal grant to buy a new microscope. I finally have it and I am excited to use it in my micromycological research this year! The microscope I got is a Motic Panthera C2 Trinocular.

I still remember the moment it hit me. It was past midnight in a near-empty office, and I was huddled over a draft policy memo on biotech. My task was to outline guidelines for biotech-enabled military systems that didn’t even exist yet. I found myself scribbling notes about self-driving labs, “rogue” machine biohackers, and fail-safe mechanisms, essentially spinning a story about a hypothetical future.