I am a member of the Society for Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) – have been since 2017. I joined their yearly conferences every other year starting in 2017, but I will not be joining the 2025 conference in Budapest, Hungary. For me, the big selling point of SIPS are the people – the location choice for 2025 (unintentionally) signals that some people are less important.

In a discussion about what decisions are, John Krakauer emphatically pronounced that “decisions happen for reasons”, in answering ‘no’ to my question if it wasn’t a decision with which foot to start walking from a stand-still. A recent article from the laboratory of Carolina Rezaval in Birmingham studied a decision-making process in male Drosophila fruit flies where the reasons for each decision seemed apparent.

Am 05. September 2024 fand das 10. Open Science Barcamp unter dem Motto „Connect, Unlock, Together!“ statt. Der Ort war dieses Mal die Fachhochschule Potsdam und der lokale Organisationspartner, die Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg.   In 14 Sessions wurden diverse Aspekte von Open Science und damit auch Open Access aus vielfältigen Perspektiven beleuchtet.

This week’s recap highlights Google/Deepmind’s new AlphaProteo tool for protein design, tools for protein structure alignment and analysis, biases in polygenic risk scores due to overlap and kinship, highly variable gene selection in single cell RNA-seq, and reconstruction of a 4.2 billion year old last universal common ancestor of life on Earth (spoiler alert: CRISPR-Cas is >4B years old!). Others that caught my attention include a new

von Martin Prell Daten und Zielstellung Im Juli 2024 hatte ich dank eines FAIR-Data-Stipendiums von NFDI4Memory am DH Lab des IEG die Gelegenheit, ein Datenset zu transformieren, das wenige Jahre zuvor am Lehrstuhl für Geschlechtergeschichte der Universität Jena entstanden war: Das in der staatlichen Bücher- und Kupferstichsammlung Greiz befindliche handschriftliche Reisetagebuch zur Kavalierstour des pietistischen Grafen und

I’m teaching a class on quantitative methods in linguistics, and after getting tired, over the years, of debugging everyone’s computer before we could get to the content of learning R (much less quantitative methods), I decided to seize control. I’m running the course through GitHub Classroom which comes with an educational allowance for using GitHub codespaces.

Die Autor*innen sind aktive Mitglieder des scholar-led.network und setzen sich damit gemeinsam und kollaborativ für eine von Großverlagen unabhängige, nicht profitorientierte Publikationskultur jenseits von APCs und BPCs ein. Ein frischer Wind weht durch die Open-Access-Welt: Diamond statt APC, öffentliche Infrastrukturen statt Transformationsvertrag.

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R es un lenguaje y un entorno para la computación estadística.Existen varias herramientas y enfoques para interactuar con R, pero no todos son accesibles con lectores de pantalla.Esta guía proporciona una visión general de las herramientas y técnicas disponibles para las personas que usan lectores de pantalla en diferentes sistemas operativos, con consejos prácticos y recursos para ayudarles a navegar por el entorno R.Puede que esta guía no esté

R is a language and environment for statistical computing.There are several tools and approaches for interacting with R, but not all are accessible with screen readers.This guide provides an overview of the tools and techniques available to screen reader users across different operating systems, with practical tips and resources to help them navigate the R environment.This guide may not be complete, but I hope it serves as a valuable starting

We are excited to announce the launch of our new project, “Infra Wiss Blogs - Kooperative Informationsinfrastruktur für wissenschaftliche Blogs” funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG 2023). Blogs have become an indispensable component of digital science communication, serving as a platform for scholarly communication, a diary for documenting research findings in the context of open science, or a showcase for communicating