This week’s recap highlights a new Nextflow workflow for calculating polygenic scores with adjustments for genetic ancestry, a paper demonstrating that whole exome plus imputation on more samples is more powerful than whole genome sequencing for finding more trait associated variants, a new deep-learning-based splice site predictor that improves spliced alignments, a new method for accurate community profiling of large metagenomic datasets, and

OER und KI – wie geht das zusammen? Till Kreutzer im OERinfo-Erklärvideo zu den Fragen, was beim Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz zu beachten ist und wie sich hybride Kreationen als Open Educational Resources nutzen lassen. Paul Klimpel und Till Kreutzer arbeiten als Anwälte bei iRights.Law und engagieren sich als Autoren bei iRights.info.

Over 730 organizations have already confirmed their participation in Teach to Reach 11, a peer learning platform, network, and community for health workers facilitated by the Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF). This announcement came during TGLF’s first partnership briefing held on 16 October 2024.

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Open Educational Resources (OER) lassen sich leicht nachnutzen – sofern man ein paar Punkte beachtet. Till Kreutzer geht im Erklärvideo von OERinfo auf die korrekte Kennzeichnung von Autor*in, Titel, Fundstelle und Lizenzhinweis ein und zeigt, wie man Bearbeitungen am besten kennzeichnet. Paul Klimpel und Till Kreutzer arbeiten als Anwälte bei iRights.Law und engagieren sich als Autoren bei iRights.info.

Tech companies and large consumer businesses are grappling with how best to protect end-user data while maintaining pace of innovation and competitive edge. Two distinct approaches have emerged: top-down and bottom-up privacy. Understanding these approaches is essential for anyone involved in privacy engineering, product development, or driving tech policy decisions.

In the latest episode of “Breitband” on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, there is an interview with Dorothea Strecker from our research group at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science on shadow libraries (Belanger 2024). The occasion for the interview was the lawsuit for damages against LibGen in the United States.

Scholarly blogs can disseminate current research content quickly and beyond their own specialist community and put it up for discussion. Open communication without paywalls increases the visibility of scholarly research. Researchers as well as information infrastructure and cultural institutions therefore have an interest in supporting scholarly blogs as an Open Access publication format.