The NumFOCUS Diversity & Inclusion in Scientific Computing (“DISC”) Unconf took place as a hybrid event in São Paulo, Brazil, from March 14 to 16, 2025.Our community manager, Yanina Bellini Saibene, and rOpenSci Champions, Andrea Gomez Vargas and Liz Hare, participated.In this short post we report on our experience at and around the unconference.

While this was not the primary hack project during the ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe last autumn, but I really like BioHackrXiv and I got the question if I could have a look at getting the ORCID logo in generated PDF. The ORCID was already in the YAML metadata of report markdown, so it sounded easy.

Acquisition of pathology whole-slide images (WSI) generates confidential patient metadata which must be handled appropriately for non-clinical purposes. Free software with multi-vendor support to remove identifying metadata from WSI is available but may be difficult to use by teams with varying information technology comfort. This post describes my design of a cross-platform file drag-and-drop interface to help resolve this challenge.

This week, I took some time out to read Elly Griffith’s most recent book, The Frozen People . I thought this sounded quite an interesting genre-fusing novel, welding together detective fiction and SF/time travel. Sure, it’s hardly the first to do so, but it sounded worth a read. I’d met the author a few years’ back through a mutual connection: Lesley Thompson, another British crime writer.

Background Sparked by highly publicised cases of scientific misconduct as well as the identification of issues surrounding questionable research practices and irreproducibility of research findings, a scandalization process ensued (Penders, 2024). This scandalization initially started around narratives of a crisis concerning the research (processes) in some psychological and biomedical (sub)disciplines.

** Poster in institute repository:** https://doi.org/10.34734/FZJ-2024-06811 Graphs are powerful tools for representing real-world objects and relations in numerous domains, such as bioinformatics, pattern recognition, and computer vision. However, quantifying their similarity or difference is crucial despite the computationally expensive execution.

Malgré la disponibilité de plus de 10’000 styles sur le dépôt officiel de Zotero, il se peut que l’on ne trouve pas exactement LE style qui réponde à 100% à nos besoins. L’objectif de ce billet est de fournir des conseils pratiques et méthodologiques d’ordre général à celles et ceux qui souhaiteraient se lancer dans l’adaptation, voire dans la création d’un style CSL.

A CREAM, University of Westminster Conference June 19th and 20th 2025, University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus, LONDON, NW1 5LS Organisers Dr. Christopher Hogg – C.Hogg@westminster.ac.uk (University of Westminster) Dr. Kate McNicholas Smith – K.McNicholassmith@westminster.ac.uk (University of Westminster) Dr. Douglas McNaughton – D.Mcnaughton@brighton.ac.uk (University of Brighton)

Here we are most of the way through March and I’m just getting around to my first “weekly” recap. It’s been a busy month — I’m writing a few papers of my own which I’ll share here when they’re published, and I took some much needed R&R in Portugal where I traded my stack of research papers for some escapist sci-fi. But I’m back now and making my way through a deep backlog.

It started like every other outbreak had, silently, invisibly, spreading before anyone realized it was already too late. Except this time, it wasn’t too late. For the first time in human history, we saw it coming. I stood inside The Helix, the nerve center of the Global Biosecurity Command (GBC), watching as the latest AI-generated pathogen forecast flickered across the glass wall.

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