Introduction In my previous post I tested eight academic RAG or RAG‑like tools—Elicit, scite assistant, SciSpace, Primo Research Assistant, Undermind, AI2 Scholar QA, and several "Deep Research" modes from OpenAI, Gemini, and Perplexity—to see how they handled a well‑publicised 2020 paper that has since been retracted : “The association between early‑career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and

This week’s recap highlights PhyloSketch for interactively drawing and manipulating phylogenies, Uncalled4 for nanopore DNA and RNA modification detection, Severus for SV calling from long reads, CREsted for modeling synthetic cell type-specific enhancers, and a review on transformers and genome language models.

Die Regelungen zum Datenschutz gelten auch für die Nutzung von KI-Systemen – und betreffen weit mehr Bereiche und Akteur*innen als die Vorgaben der KI-Verordnung. Auszug aus dem aktuellen prompt/ Newsletter vom iRights.Lab.

Im Jahr 2024 unterstützte der Publikationsfonds des Landes Brandenburg Open-Access-Publikationen von Wissenschaftler*innen aus verschiedenen Fachbereichen. Diese Titel repräsentieren eine breite Palette von Disziplinen und sind Zeugnis der vielfältigen Forschungslandschaft des Landes. Zurzeit bringen wir Ihnen einige dieser Veröffentlichungen in unserem Blog näher.

This essay discusses recent developments within the Kurdish diaspora over the past decade. It looks at the new opportunities and challenges this stateless diaspora faces following its rapid expansion. Referring to an old Kurdish proverb that describes the situation of the Kurds as having „no friends but mountains“, the diaspora is described as a new friend.

Version 2 of the ROR API will become the query default in July 2025, and version 1 of the ROR API and dataset will be deprecated entirely in December 2025.

This is the fourth part of a blog post series on spatial machine learning with R. You can find the list of other blog posts in this series in part one. Aims of this post This post aims to give a minimal example on how to use mlr3 for a spatial prediction task. We want to get from measurements of temperature at specific locations in Spain to a spatially continuous map of temperature for all of Spain.

Am 04.04.2025 veranstaltete das von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderte Projekt OA Datenpraxis ein Webinar zum Thema “Offene Metadaten für Hochschulrankings am Beispiel des Leiden Ranking”. Für das Webinar konnten Nees Jan von Eck (CWTS Leiden) und Anja Oberländer (Universität Konstanz) als Vortragende gewonnen werden.

When people talk about the future of artificial intelligence, the loudest voices often come from opposite ends of a spectrum: unshakable optimists and doomsday prophets. But in a forecast like AI 2027 , what we’re given isn’t hype or horror, it’s foresight grounded in a deep understanding of how systems evolve, how capabilities scale, and most importantly, how institutions react under pressure. The report doesn’t make a prediction.

The “publish or perish” culture pushes researchers to publish papers (regardless of the state of their research) for career survival. Academic jobs are tied to people’s publication records; and although change is happening, it is at a glacial pace. Since the system is gamified in this way, people are tempted to play. And they play to “win”.  This leads to many side effects that distort the way science is done.

Musing sabout librarianship - Substack A Home Full of Memories—And a New Door Opening When I first hit “Publish” on Musings About Librarianship on Blogger back in 2009, I was a wet behind the ears librarian nervously sharing half-baked thoughts. I never imagined that my tiny blogger corner would grow into a gathering place for thousands of curious colleagues around the world.