Disclaimer: This blog post is derived from the research presented at the 9th International Visual Methods Conference, at Istanbul, Turkey. Fig.

Meine Hauptaufgabe bei WiNoda ist es, Selbstlernkurse zu verschiedenen Themen zu erstellen, die wir via Moodle zur Verfügung stellen wollen. Das Angebot an Kursen rund ums Forschungsdatenmanagement ist bereits erfreulich groß. Allerdings sind viele Kurse noch etwas generisch – oder sehr spezifisch. So gibt es bspw.

My main task at WiNoda is to create self-study courses on various topics that we want to make available via Moodle. The range of courses on research data management is already quite large. However, many courses are still somewhat generic – or very specific. For example, there are excellent programs for training data stewards – but this qualification does not meet the needs of a collection curator or excavation manager.

Anlässlich des Weltflüchtlingstags am 20. Juni veröffentlicht das UN-Flüchtlingshilfswerk (UNHCR) den sogenannten Global Trends-Bericht , um Einblicke in die globalen Fluchtbewegungen des Vorjahres zu geben.

Anmerkung zu dieser Rubrik: Das Open Research Office Berlin erstellt monatlich eine Übersicht über Termine und Veranstaltungen zu Open Access und Open Research in Berlin bzw. an Berliner Einrichtungen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf unseren Partnereinrichtungen und auf Veranstaltungen, die sich an die Öffentlichkeit richten bzw.

Today’s piece is a guest post by Alex Obadia. Alex is a new program director at the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). As Alex puts it, his focus is “currently on designing new enabling trust primitives for a world where many more substrates (e.g. DNA, materials, thoughts) are programmable.” I met Alex last month at the ARIA Summit.

Thirty years after my first contact with computational (ir)reproducibility, I am happy to note that many things have improved. Reproducibility, computational and otherwise, is increasingly recognized as an important aspect of scientific quality control, and mostly considered worth striving for.

We’re pleased to announce a new collaboration between the Bioconductor Training Committee and Physalia Courses, aimed at expanding access to high-quality training in bioinformatics and computational biology. This partnership builds on shared goals around education, community engagement, and inclusivity.

The highly prestigious journal Nature this week announced that it is going to be publishing all peer reviews alongside the articles it publishes. This means that the reviews attached to each publication will be available for all to read, although reviewer identities will remain anonymous unless they opt to sign their review.

Fragt man, welche Hürden der Transformation zu Open Access, Open Research und Open Science besonders im Weg stehen, dann lautet eine der häufigsten Antworten: Es sind die rechtlichen Unsicherheiten. Oft möchte man gern, weiß aber nicht, ob man darf. Oder man fragt sich, zum Beispiel, wie der § 38 UrhG Abs. 4 eigentlich auszulegen ist?

Four months after my open letter calling on the Royal Society to take action over Elon Musk FRS’s breaches of their code of conduct had attracted thousands of signatures from the scientific community, but only a very muted response from that most learned organisation, I was beginning to think I should let the matter go. After all, Musk is no longer part of the Trump administration, his relationship with the president