Straight from Elesevier’s own mouth, in a letter sent by a “Customer Experience Champion” in response to Professor Iris Van Rooij’s enquiry: (This is in the context of scholarly papers being fed to their LLM.) Folks, when you send your work to Elsevier journals, you are literally giving them away. Given them rights that explicitly invite them to ride roughshod over your rights. Is that what you want? Huh? Is it?

Tablero Infovestigación La investigación digital es un proceso detallado, meticuloso y robusto, caracterizado por utilizar fuentes de información digitales de calidad aplicar métodos, herramientas y técnicas informáticas para recolectar, analizar y utilizar información disponible en línea siguiendo un método que incluya el diseño de preguntas singulares y relevantes, el descubrimiento de datos el análisis y la discusión de los resultados,

Actualizo el blog cada 14 días (los miércoles por la tarde) independientemente de la temporada del año, incluyendo periodos de vacaciones y feriados.

This week’s recap highlights analysis of human de novo mutation rates from a four-generation pedigree reference, how LLMs internalize scientific literature and citation practices, the py_ped_sim forward pedigree and genetic simulator for complex family pedigree analysis, and a review on predicting gene expression from DNA sequence using deep learning models like Enformer and Borzoi.

In the previous post, I introduced the N=N double bond in nitrosobenzene dimer, arguing that even though it was a formal double bond, its bond dissociation energy made it nonetheless a very weak double bond! This was backed up by a technique known as energy decomposition analysis or EDA.

Do you recognize this? You read something and then you think something else because of that, and this Something is so banal, so self-evident, so obvious – and then you want to quote the relevant standard work (book, article, ISO standard), but you can’t find anything? Has this self-evident fact really never been written down before?

Kennt Ihr das? Ihr lest etwas, und denkt etwas anderes dazu, und dieses etwas ist so banal, so selbstverständlich, so offensichtlich – und dann wollt Ihr dazu das relevante Standardwerk (Buch, Aufsatz, ISO-Norm) zitieren, aber ihr findet nichts? Wurde diese Selbstverständlichkeit wirklich bisher noch von niemandem aufgeschrieben?

My old blog had (has) comments via the Blogger.com platform, but I did not have anything for the new blog. A couple of options are used, like Disqus and comments via GitHub. However, these both have the downside of a vendor lock-in and the whole point of moving my blog was to break out from such lock-ins.

Last week, I was interviewed on the program Breitband on Deutschlandfunk Kultur about the ruling of a Belgian court against four shadow libraries, as well as the Open Library of the Internet Archive (Krempl, 2025). The broadcast is now available online. Enjoy listening! Further information about the research group can be found on our official website.

It wasn’t that long ago—2018—that the biggest bioethics story in the world was CRISPR Baby Scientist Goes to Prison . The Chinese researcher He Jiankui announced the birth of twin girls whose genomes he had edited in an attempt to confer HIV resistance. The backlash was immediate and global: scientists condemned it, governments tightened oversight, and He was tried and sentenced to three years in prison.

Leiden Madtrics readers might already be familiar with what some have called a “great project” but a “terrible acronym”: GLOBAL, the Guidance List for the repOrting of Bibliometric AnaLyses. Last summer, we invited bibliometricians to join the GLOBAL Delphi study to co-develop a reporting guideline for bibliometric analyses.