This book is squarely at the intersection of being an objectively great thing to have in the world, and a subjectively great thing to have on my gaming shelf. I’ve been playing tabletop RPGs since I was 16, and running Dungeons &

This one starts with a personal note. I’ve never blogged much about the media whirlwind that accompanied the announcement of Sauroposeidon. Rich Cifelli and I did tons of interviews, separately and together, for local and national television news, newspapers, and magazines.

Ergebnisse der Studie „Open-Science-Kompetenzen von Forschenden objektzentrierter Daten in der Erd- und Menschheitsgeschichte“ Für den Arbeitsschwerpunkt Open Science im Projekt WiNoDa wurden Haltungen, Erwartungen und Kompetenzbedarfe zu offener Wissenschaft erhoben.

Results of the study “Open science competencies of researchers working with object-related data in Earth and human history” For the Open Science focus area of the WiNoDa project, attitudes, expectations, […]

For over 8 years, the Coalition Publica partnership between Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) has been a force in consolidating support for Canada’s diamond open access scholarly publishing communities.

Imperfect World

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 🔗rOpenSci at LatinR We’re excited to continue supporting LatinR as a community partner in 2025. Registration is now open for the free LatinR Conference, bringing together researchers, developers, and open science advocates from across the region.

I would like this book just for being funny. I would like this book just for being well-illustrated. I would like this book just for covering lots of different dinosaurs and other Mesozoic critters, some familiar and many others only recently described, from more dinosaur-bearing formations than I was previously familiar with.

In a global scholarly environment still searching for grounded, practical approaches to decolonizing knowledge, the Public Knowledge Project offers a meaningful contribution, due in no small part to our sustained investment in multilingualism, led with care and expertise by Emma Uhl.

What can students learn from Generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT? What roles can chatbots play in collaborative engineering? Tutor? Facilitator? Pair programmer? Task master? Or something else?

Recent accessibility efforts in scholarly publishing are driven in part by acts such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and new Title II regulations requiring digital accessibility, with key compliance deadlines approaching in 2026. PKP shares the work it is doing to ensure accessibility in its publishing platforms.