The following text presents a condensed summary of "The state of global catastrophic risk research: a bibliometric review" by Jehn et al. (2025), published in Earth System Dynamics. The paper represents the first systematic bibliometric analysis of global catastrophic risk (GCR) and existential risk (ER) literature, examining a large number of documents to map the field's development, identify research clusters, and assess current challenges.

We all know this person. Or we are this person. You troubleshoot broken connections in the lab, fix the department printer, teach undergrads how to use the Nanodrop and pH-meter, and share all your best Excel hacks. Congratulations: you're the Swiss Army knife of your lab. But guess what?

Insights report about Nigeria’s Immunization Agenda 2030 Collaborative surfaces surprising solutions for both demand- and supply-side immunization challenges When 4,434 practitioners from all 36 states asked why children in their communities remained unvaccinated, the problems they thought they understood often had entirely different root causes. “I ended up being surprised at the answer I got,” said one health worker.

In the previous post I followed up on an article published on the theme “Physical Organic Chemistry: Never Out of Style“. Paul Rablen presented the case that the amount of o (ortho) product in electrophilic substitution of a phenyl ring bearing an EWG (electron withdrawing group) is often large enough to merit changing the long […]

tl;dr Download and unzip this: “Open in Positron” Quick Action Put Open in Positron.workflow in ~/Library/Services. Now you can right click on folders in Finder, go to Quick Actions, and select “Open in Positron” to open folders as projects in Positron. One thing I’m still adjusting to in Positron is how it treats projects and folders.

By Kim Hartley & Michelle Barker Research software and the people who support it have emerged over the past decade from behind the scenes to become a recognised cornerstone of open science. Research software is now commonly recognised as central to the global research ecosystem, on par with data, publications, and hardware.

Wissenschaftliche Blogs haben sich als wichtige Plattformen etabliert, um Forschungsergebnisse und -diskurse sowohl innerhalb von Fachcommunities als auch gegenüber der breiten Öffentlichkeit zugänglich zu machen. Angesichts der sich wandelnden Social-Media-Landschaft gewinnt die Rolle nicht-kommerzieller Infrastrukturen wie Blogs oder das Fediverse an Bedeutung.

(This post is copied from some notes I gave to our summer interns at Rowan almost without modification.

por Tatiana Pérez Ramírez Sobre: León Garduño, Angela. Para contener los males de la pobreza: la conformación del sistema de beneficencia durante el Segundo Imperio Mexicano. México: Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana/ Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, 2024.

Though my blog focuses on academic discovery and retrieval, these days you can’t really understand those topics without grappling with concepts like Transformer models, agents, and reasoning.

Kate Lapage introduces a self-study module on responsible research metrics created by the bibliometrics team at the University of Southampton.