In this second podcast, David and Elke are looking at Governance in Crisis – as governance that is troubled but also governance in a period of crisis.
Samara June 12, 2108 Outskirts of Kansas City Wedged between a matching set of security guards in the back seat of an armored Reaper, Dr. Samara Makinde watched through bulletproof glass as Missouri farm country scrolled past like a documentary of the apocalypse.
“I did not realize how much I could do with what we already have.” A Nigerian health worker’s revelation captures what may be the most significant breakthrough in global health implementation during the current funding crisis.
by Jaap Geraerts, Henry Keazor, Demival Vasques Filho, Rebecca Welkens and Thorsten Wübbena This clear call for secrecy and discretion can be found as a kind of prologue in issues of the so-called ‘Mittheilungen des Museen-Verbandes’, which were published from 1899 to 1939. 2 They were distributed by the “International Association of Museum Officials in Defence Against Counterfeiting and Improper Trade Practices” (“Internationaler
Attending to the world feels like a constantly more challenging task. What to listen to? What to read? What to watch? Overwhelmed, dazed, collectively and individually we stumble from news story to news story. Stocks go up, bombs go down. Reality feels more abstracted and simulated, except for those constant reminders of the really real.
This post demonstrates the NFDI4BIOIMAGE Knowledge Graph (N4BIKG). Many aspects of this project are still very much in the flow including a consensus on which ontologies and terms to employ, how to define various namespaces and much more.
There’s a pervasive problem with semantics in artificial intelligence. It’s present at the creation – the term itself characterises the subject as a man-made simulacrum of something ‘natural’ the way we speak of artificial flavourings and artificial rubber.
Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! 🔗rOpenSci HQ 🔗Farewell to software review editor Julia Gustavsen This month we say farewell to Software Peer-Review Editor Julia Gustavsen.
A Tale of Two Conferences Part II: ASRA ‘Currents of Change’ Symposium 2025 (In-depth read, 15 min) TLDR/Summary Part II of a two-part blog series reporting on a pair of crisis/disaster risk conferences – this one covers the ASRA ‘Currents of Change’ Symposium, which offered a refreshing contrast to the UN’s symptom-focused approach detailed in Part I. ASRA brought systems
Zum 1. Juli 2025 startet der Lizenzierungsservice Vergriffene Werke (VW-LiS) neu. Dafür arbeitet die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB) eng mit der VG Wort und der VG Bild-Kunst zusammen. Simon Herrmann stellt im Interview die technischen Verbesserungen und rechtlichen Hintergründe des Projekts ausführlich vor.
Preparing publication quality images from your calculations is essential. To pre-visualize images to get the best orientations of your molecule, DTK2.0 includes two options: a new GUI called DensToolKitViewer and DTKQDMol.