When Pygmalion carved Galatea from ivory, he fell so deeply in love with his creation that he begged Aphrodite to bring her to life. The goddess, moved by his devotion, granted his wish. ¹ It’s a beautiful myth about art, obsession and the blurring lines between creation and creator. What the myth doesn’t tell us is whether Galatea charged a monthly subscription fee. ¹ Ovid, Metamorphoses , Book 10, 243-297.

Warning: This article is divided into two parts but both have detailed descriptions of sexual violence in the book and TV series, Rivals. In episode one of the 2024 television period drama Rivals, middle-aged Lizzie Vereker (Katherine Parkinson) tells her new 20-year-old neighbor, Taggie O’Hara (Bella Maclean), “It’s 1986.

When the creation of the BBC Written Archives Centre in Caversham was agreed, at a meeting of the Board of Management on 17 November 1969, it was done so with a view to history.

AI-generated genomes, R news for my posit::conf() FOMO, biosecurity, mirror life, teaching and AI, ELSI for AI, in defense of CRAN, Anthropic Economy Index, OpenAI report on how people use ChatGPT

Die Nachnutzung der eigenen Publikation kann möglicherweise problematisch werden, wenn die Publikation bei einem Journal eingereicht wurde und dieses Nutzungsrechte daran erwirbt. Welche urheberrechtlichen Möglichkeiten Forschende bei der Nachnutzung der eigenen Publikation oder Forschungsdaten haben, wird hier erklärt.

DOI 10.60804/80tg-6d89 With Elisabeth Shook  The Data Citation Corpus aggregates data citations from multiple sources, and one of our areas of interest is to expand its disciplinary coverage. Through a collaboration between Make Data Count and ICPSR (the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research), citations for social science datasets...

An idea for a masters-level class or journal club alternative: “Where are they now?” but for big splash papers published in the 2000s. Take a few papers published around 20 years ago, then follow what happened subsequently.

The following is a transcript of our invited presentation to the Environment Canterbury regional council on 10 Sept 2025 as part of Council’s external speaker series and in support of a food resilience strategy. You can click to watch the recorded version which is followed by Q&A with the councillors.

Si la vie te donne un tas de fichiers Markdown à analyser ou à éditer, est-ce que tu fais chauffer tes muscles regex avant de te lancer ? Et si tu utilisais plutôt des outils plus spécifiques ? Dans ce billet, nous allons donner un aperçu des moyens programmatiques d’analyser et d’éditer les fichiers Markdown : Markdown, R Markdown, Quarto, fichiers Hugo, et plus encore.

Si la vida te da un montón de archivos Markdown para analizar o editar, ¿calientas tus músculos regex y te pones en marcha? ¿Y si utilizas herramientas más específicas? En este post, daremos una visión general de las formas programáticas para analizar y editar archivos Markdown: Markdown, R Markdown, Quarto, archivos Hugo, lo que se te ocurra. 🔗¿Qué es Markdown? Markdown es un lenguaje de marcado creado por John Gruber y Aaron Swartz.

If life gives you a bunch of Markdown files to analyse or edit, do you warm up your regex muscles and get going? How about using more specific tools instead? In this post, we shall give an overview of programmatic ways to parse and edit Markdown files: Markdown, R Markdown, Quarto, Hugo files, you name it. 🔗What is Markdown? Markdown is a (punny, eh) markup language created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz.