By Matt Boyd, Michael Baker, Amanda Kvalsvig & Nick Wilson (cross-posted from the PHCC Blog) Summary/TLDR The strategic divide in pandemic response Five years into the Covid-19 pandemic, with an estimated 27.3 million excess deaths globally,1 we now can look back and try to understand which control strategies worked best.

John Lewis, Data Operations Manager at Cambridge University Press, tells us why and how Cambridge uses ROR in this latest installment of our short case study series.

Will Landau presentó recientemente el R-multiverse, una nueva forma de publicar paquetes de R durante una “conversación con la comunidad” de rOpenSci ¹ .Después de ese evento, una sesión de cotrabajo permitió una conversación aún más intensa entre Will y el equipo de administración de R-multiverse, Jeroen Ooms y Maëlle Salmon, y personas interesadas de la comunidad.

Will Landau recently introduced the R-multiverse, a new way to publish R packages, during an rOpenSci community call. ¹ After that event, a coworking session allowed even more discussion between Will, his R-multiverse fellow administrators Jeroen Ooms and Maëlle Salmon, and community members.

Will Landau a récemment présenté le R-multiverse, une nouvelle façon de publier des paquets R lors d’une réunion de la communauté de rOpenSci ¹ .Après cet événement, une session coworking a permis à Will, à ses collègues administrateurs du R-multiverse Jeroen Ooms et Maëlle Salmon, ainsi qu’aux membres de la communauté, de discuter encore davantage.

What causes inflation in prices over time? Increases in the money supply, of course. Although there are many reasons for increasing prices over time, money supply is one of the few things that can do so and grow without bound. Case closed, right? Not quite. In practice we can’t perfectly observe how prices change over time and instead we must measure inflation with an index number.

{width=“70%; class=”zoomable”; height:200px;“} The European Bioconductor conference 2025 (EuroBioC2025) took place between September 17 and 19, 2025, and was hosted at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) in Barcelona by the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (MELIS-UPF)and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). The Catalan capital boasts a rich culture, a lively atmosphere, and a blend

Last week I had the privilege of attending the 2025 Progress Conference, which brought together a diverse cadre of people working on progress, metascience, artificial intelligence, and related fields. I was surprised by how optimistic the median attendee was about AI for science.

Two parts of the Library of Identification Resources have gotten major updates in the last year. First, the taxon coverage field (also labeled “For identifying …” in some places) is now linked to external databases, namely Wikidata and GBIF. Second, the scoring and sorting of search results in the Find resources tool was made more transparent and visible.

Open Science (OS) holds a powerful promise: to serve society by providing universal public access to knowledge.

Part one of this topic was posted more than ten years ago. I clearly forgot about it, so belatedly, here is part 2 – dealing with the stereochemistry of the reduction of tert-butyl-cyclohexanone by borohydride in water.