Vuelvo tras la pausa del verano. De paso, anuncio el cambio del día de publicación de las entradas: pasa de los miércoles por la tarde a los jueves por la tarde. En la última entrada de esta serie dije que la identificación de saltos y omisiones es una tarea relativamente simple hoy en...
El acercamiento a las redes sociales de Rosendo Pineda, un destacado político porfirista, operador clave del grupo conocido como “los científicos”, ofrece una oportunidad para asomarse a la mecánica política de la época.
I was looking at the different NFDI consortia in the Research Organization Registry (ROR), and found that the only two that have a parent relations to the NFDI (ror:05qj6w324) are NFDI4DS (ror:00bb4nn95) and MaRDI (ror:04ncnzm65). This felt strange to me, so I started looking around Wikidata to see if I could automatically make a curation sheet to send along to them.
Last night we had our first event in the newly (re-)launched Charlottesville R Users (CRU) group. We had about 30 or so attendees — about half from academia and half from industry, with a few from local government organizations.
Anyone who’s been reading this blog for a while knows that Matt and I are both all in on open access. What is the point of “publishing” something that not everyone can read?
In everyday research, a lot of mostly heterogeneous data is generated, which is often processed and analyzed collaboratively.
Im Forschungsalltag entstehen viele, meist heterogene Daten, die oft kollaborativ verarbeitet und analysiert werden. Dabei kommen teils komplexe Workflows und ML-Pipelines zum Einsatz, die aus zahlreichen Transformations- und Analyseschritten bestehen.
Land lies at the heart of contemporary politics. As a site of contestation and negotiation, land is central to struggles that affect us all. The Oxford Handbook of Land Politics , edited by ISS Professor Jun Borras and Jennifer Franco, brings together contributions from leading scholars in critical agrarian studies, offering ... The post The politics of land: Introducing an important new collection appeared first on Bliss.
Appalachian History Series A curious death in Greenbrier County In late January 1897 a Lewisburg weekly carried a short notice about a young wife’s death. The Greenbrier Independent identified her only as “Mrs. Shue,” reported the date, and moved on. Few readers could guess that Elva Zona Heaster Shue’s passing would become one of Appalachia’s most retold stories. Local memory says a ghost pointed the finger at a killer.
By John Kerr, Matt Boyd, & Nick Wilson (Blog crossposted from PHCC ‘the Briefing‘) TLDR/Summary: There is increasing concern over catastrophic threats such as nuclear conflict, engineered pandemics, and emerging technologies including artificial intelligence. Our just published survey research shows New Zealanders want their government to take these risks seriously.
Lots of exciting innovations are being made in scientific publishing, often raising fundamental questions about established publishing practices. In this guest post, Ludo Waltman and André Brasil discuss the recently launched MetaROR publish-review-curate platform and the questions it raises about good practices for Crossref DOI registration in this emerging landscape.