Like many awesome internet phenomena, blogging started in the late nineties. Nature authors and editors recognized the effort early. In 2006 there were already more than 45 million blogs, and at least 50 science blogs made it in the top 50,000 and 5 in the top 3,500.
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I’m still making my way through Brian Curtice’s excellent and detailed post on Greg Paul’s (2025) recent erection of a new titanosaur genus (Curtice 2025), but I just want to comment on this one passing thought of Brian’s: The species tells me where it was found if named by “Old Timers,” the genus almost can […]
Die Kreativität im KI-Zeitalter steht vor einer wichtigen Herausforderung: Einerseits sind die KI-Modelle hungrig nach immer neuen Trainingsdaten, mit möglichst viel Schöpfungshöhe. Andererseits pochen die Urheberinnen dieser Daten bzw. die Inhaber der Rechte an den Daten auf eine angemessene Vergütung. Eine neue Initiative namens „Really Simple Licensing“, abgekürzt RSL, verheißt eine unkomplizierte Lösung.
Deux chercheurs français viennent de publier les résultats d’une enquête en ligne diffusée dans trois départements d’Occitanie une semaine après une vague de chaleur durant l’été 2022. Jusqu’ici, nous manquions cruellement d’informations quantitatives sur les comportements qui sont adoptés pour faire face à la chaleur en France.
Data and knowledge originating from heterogeneous sources often use heterogeneous controlled vocabularies and/or ontologies for annotating named entities. Semantic mappings are essential towards resolving these discrepancies and integrating in a coherent way.
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A pivotal moment in my academic career, or at least one I remember clearly, was when a very senior professor in the US sent me his book proposal for an academic book/monograph on the author Thomas Pynchon. The other thing he included was a crossed off list of all the presses he had courted with the proposal and with whom he had not succeeded.
Your browser does not support the audio tag. Download: PDF | EPUB | MP3 | WATCH VIDEO There is a tendency, among both scientists and non-scientists, to assume that our current scientific theories are correct in some fundamental sense … but the history of science suggests otherwise.
TL;DR It’s annoying to be plagiarised, but what I’ve come to worry about more is how pay-to-publish predatory journals forgo peer review in order to prey on fellow academics and rob them of learning opportunities. Even if you know better than to publish in them, they are a symptom of the collective action problem that plagues much of academic publishing.
