When I was perhaps five, I asked my mom where the soul was. She told me it was between the head and the heart. Not being particularly good at metaphor, I took this rather more literally than she intended. I worked out that anatomically, this would place the soul somewhere around the left shoulder and upper chest region. For years afterwards, I took enormous care of that area. I favoured my left side in playground scraps. I slept on my right.

We are pleased to announce that—effective 1st January 2026—we have made two changes to grant record registration fees that aim to accelerate adoption of Crossref’s Grant Linking System (GLS) and provide a two-year window of opportunity to increase the number and availability of open persistent grant identifiers and boost the

Ted Habermann, Metadata Game ChangersJargon and acronyms are well known culprits to understanding in the scientific literature and many scientific writing guidelines include “avoid jargon” and “spell out all acronyms”. One might expect that these guidelines would apply even more emphatically in the metadata realm, where the information space is prescribed and to some extent abbreviated.

As we step into the new year, we reflect on the achievements of the Europe PMC team in 2025. Celebrating key developments shaped by user feedback, implementation of cutting-edge AI solutions, and continued commitment to supporting open science.

How audit rules and public infrastructure could break science’s publishing monopolies. An English version of my post for the Verfassungsblog from December 19, 2025. Scientific journals that feel straight out of 1665, prices that could come from a MrBeast meet-and-greet, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

rOpenSci’s activities and spaces are supported by a Code of Conductthat applies to all people participating in the rOpenSci community,including rOpenSci staff and leadership.It applies to all modes of interaction including GitHub project repositories,the rOpenSci discussion forum, Slack, Community Calls, Co-working and social sessions, training and mentoring sessions,and in person at rOpenSci-hosted events, including affiliated social

Las actividades y espacios de rOpenSci cuentan con el marco de un Código de Conducta (CoC)que se aplica a todas las personas que participan en la comunidad de rOpenSci,incluido el personal y la dirección de rOpenSci.Se aplica a todos los modos de interacción, incluidos los repositorios de proyectos de GitHub,el foro de debate de rOpenSci, Slack, eventos online como “Conversaciones con la comunidad”, sesiones de co-trabajo, talleres

Google Antigravity is Google’s new agentic development platform, designed to shift the focus from writing lines of code to orchestrating complex tasks. Built as a fork of Visual Studio Code (VS Code), it re-imagines the developer experience around managing autonomous agents.

A TCIP Primer and Roadmap for 2026

LinkML enables defining data models and data schemas in YAML informed by semantic web best practices. As such, each definition includes a prefix map. Similarly to my previous posts on validating the prefix maps appearing in Turtle files and in unfamiliar SPARQL endpoints, this post showcases describes a new extension to the Bioregistry that validates prefix maps in LinkML definitions.

For most of human history, science has been communicated through the spoken word. Knowledge moved from person to person through oral storytelling and apprenticeship style training. Writing helped to fix ideas in time and allowed for greater reach. Science spread through personal correspondence and in-person gatherings. The invention of the printing press was the beginning of truly widespread knowledge distribution.