The rise of Large Language Models in academic writing. Postdoctoral researcher Dr Verena Haage was reviewing a manuscript for a reputable neuroscience journal when she began to notice unusual inconsistencies. Haage noticed that some figures had strange proportions, or illogical experimental timepoints, and that figures were arranged in a senseless order.

What the discovery of a new mammoth lineage in Mexico teaches us about the shifting paradigms of life

Climate change, nuclear winter, and stratospheric aerosol injections

In an era marked by unprecedented challenges, the importance of open, accessible education has never been clearer. TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology alongside with the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) Research Center L3S – is proud to have been part of the Project “OER with Ukraine”, a collaborative initiative fostering Open Educational Resources (OER) to support Ukrainian academics, teachers, and students.

Seit dem Antritt der Bundesregierung unter Kanzler Merz werden Asylsuchende an deutschen Grenzen zurückgewiesen. Der Beitrag zeigt anhand der Weisung des Bundesinnenministers, dass immer noch eine intensive Auseinandersetzung über die Geschichte des Sommers der Migration 2015 stattfindet. Dies hat auch Auswirkungen auf Europa.   In den Jahren vor 2015 war die Welt noch in Ordnung.

Dave Hone and me with a Sinclair brontosaur somewhere in Utah, back in May of 2023. I started my recent UK adventure in the city of London, where my son and I stayed for a couple of days with my friend and colleague Dave Hone and his partner Connie.

What do your students know ? What can they actually do and what approaches can students develop to solve challenging problems? The KSA framework from arm.com aims to map out the knowledge, skills and abilities that students (and employees) require to succeed as technical professionals. Join us on Monday 6th October at 2pm GMT to discuss this framework its authors.

Open Science an kleinen Einrichtungen ist doch eh zum Scheitern verurteilt? Oder etwa doch nicht? Besonders kleine Einrichtungen haben einen großen Nachteil beim Implementieren von neuen Services: Ressourcen. Es beginnt beim fehlenden Personal, geht über die Ausstattung der Einrichtung und endet im leidigen Thema Finanzierung. Doch wie genau kann die Umsetzung aussehen, wenn die Ressourcen begrenzt sind?

This week’s recap highlights biobank-scale relatedness estimation, SNP calling and haplotype phasing with long RNA-seq reads, predicting expression-altering promoter mutations with deep learning, and cross-species filtering for reducing alignment bias in comparative genomics studies.

There is still time to register for the United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research UKICER.com conference. If you are interested in attending, please register at epay.ed.ac.uk. Also, please consider distributing this invitation to your colleagues colleagues.

In this blog, Ranon Jahan, a researcher at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD, Dhaka, Bangladesh) brings together his thoughts following the Environmental and Climate Mobility Network conference held in Bonn, Germany, in July of this year.