Als Auftakt der Reihe „Quo vadis offene Wissenschaft in Berlin und Brandenburg 2024/25“ und im Rahmen der International Open Access Week fand am 21. Oktober die Online-Diskussionsveranstaltung „Open Access Monitoring – Chancen und Herausforderungen für die offene Wissenschaft“ statt. Zitiervorschlag: Weinberg, L. &

In the picturesque Bay Area, residents are currently dealing with an unexpected nuisance – raccoons that seem to have a peculiar taste for pristine lawns. This wildlife issue has stirred a debate among locals as they search for effective ways to combat these lawn-damaging invaders. Here’s how you can deal with this pesky problem.

This week’s recap highlights an AI agent for automated multi-omic analysis (AutoBA), rapid species-level metagenome profiling and containment (sylph), a review on genome-wide association analysis beyond SNPs, private information leakage from scRNA-seq count matrices, and a method to “unlearn” viral knowledge in protein language models as a means to develop safe PLM-based variant effect analysis (PROEDIT). Others that caught my attention include

In this interview with Curvenote cofounder Rowan Cockett, we envision a world in which an authoring and publication platform helps scientists collaborate earlier, publish faster, and easily use structured metadata to create fully connected and highly interactive publications and portfolios.

For the third year in a row, Crossref hosted a roundtable on research integrity prior to the Frankfurt book fair. This year the event looked at Crossmark, our tool to display retractions and other post-publication updates to readers.

DOI 10.60804/1516-e177 Blog post by Ian Mathews, CEO at Redivis, Zach Chandler, Director of Open Scholarship Strategy at Stanford University, Erin DeLaney, Head of Design at Redivis Analyze data citations for any repository by forking this analytical workflow on Redivis! At Redivis, we believe that data-driven research should be accessible, reproducible, and as open as possible.

Interested in using computer vision to help understand, manage, and conserve nature? We hiring for a new position to join our team working on models, software, and community outreach in our existing projects using airborne imagery to monitor and understand natural systems at large scales.

Do you think the FAIR principles for Research Software are working? The FAIR Principles for Research Software were published in March 2022 and described in a paper in October 2022.

Back in 2013, John Conway was doing some paintings and Darren Naish was drawing lots of animals for a book. I chipped in to help with their artwork and some back and forth ensued. All this happened on Twitter, and I wrote it up in an SV-POW! post with lots of embedded tweets.

Die Open-Access-Community war vom 10. – 12. September 2024 zu Gast in Köln, bei nicht ganz so schönem Wetter wie erhofft, aber die Regenschauer hielten sich in Grenzen, so dass niemand nass wurde … soweit bekannt.

Autumn again, polycrisis persists