Invincible insects: cockroaches have evolved over 300 million years to become the ultimate survivors, with abilities that will shock and amaze you.

Die Organisation Communia setzt sich für die Gemeinfreiheit in Europa ein. Das Ziel: Bibliotheken, Archive, Universitäten und andere Wissensinstitutionen sollen sich weiter rechtssicher öffnen und ihren öffentlichen Auftrag im digitalen Wandel erfüllen. Dafür hat Communia Forderungen für ein digitales Wissensgesetz erarbeitet. iRights.info veröffentlicht die deutsche Fassung. Justus Dreyling arbeitet als Policy Director bei Communia.

Por fin, en esta entrada comenzaré a hablar de la selectio de las variantes que permitirá establecer el texto crítico. En ChrysoCollate esta operación es relativamente simple. En puridad, no se trata de una colación completamente automatizada, pues ChrysoCollate —a diferencia de CollateX— no es capaz realizar un alineamiento de textos y evaluar la cercanía de las lecturas, labor que debe ser realizada manualmente por el editor.

Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying to look at the back of your own head, but there's a knack to it.

Every episode in a tv series starts with a recap. So… Previously, on Portal: the Regime Shift — In fall of 2023, one of the ruling families of Portal — the Desert Pocket Mouse ( Chaetodipus penicillatus for my mammalogy friends) — fell from favor with no warning. With each passing month, hopes for a recovery faltered and then dimmed. By fall of 2024, this once thriving population had become a dismal shade of yore.

Every year we release metadata for the full corpus of records registered with us, which can be downloaded for free in a single compressed file. This is one way in which we fulfil our mission to make metadata freely and widely available.

Last Friday, thousands of scientists protested against US government cuts on research funding with the Stand up for Science movement.  There were more than 30 demonstrations all over the US, and a handful in other countries (several of them taking place in France). So, what does it mean to “Stand up for Science”?

Die Fachzeitschrift Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis veröffentlichte soeben einen Call for Papers, auf den wir auch gern an dieser Stelle kurz hinweisen. Thema sind offene Bildungsmethoden bzw. Open Educational Practices (OEP). Diese „beziehen sich auf Lehr- und Lernmethoden, die den freien Zugang zu Bildungsmaterialien, pädagogischen Ressourcen und Forschungsergebnissen fördern.

I remember when synthetic biology was supposed to be the existential threat. The conferences, the white papers, the Senate hearings filled with grim predictions of a world where DNA synthesis and gene editing would put pandemic-class pathogens in the hands of anyone with a credit card and an internet connection. It hasn’t quite turn out that way, yet.

As shocks and surprises mount up, in time so do the anniversaries. Another year passes since a disaster was visited on a people and a place. Today is one of those days. On 11 March 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake struck the Tohoku region, triggering a massive tsunami and nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Ronald J Planer and Claudio Tennie review The Human Evolutionary Transition, by Magnus Enquist, Stefano Ghirlanda and Johan Lind