What are the ways in which we can resist the current “delivery” and “assessment” infrastructures?
What are the ways in which we can resist the current “delivery” and “assessment” infrastructures?
A couple of days ago, iNaturalist – a citizen science project/platform for observations of living beings in the natural world – announced that they were going to be part of a grant/program of Google to implement generative ‘AI’ (or “GenAI” 1 ) into their tooling.
Open Access Dashboard Collection Launched As Open Access becomes increasingly central to scholarship and science policy, understanding the proportion of open publications within the overall publication output, whether at the level of research-performing organizations, individual countries, or globally, is gaining importance.
Post by Make Data Count advisors Daniella Lowenberg and Jennifer Lin DOI: 10.60804/asfb-f691 We are thrilled to announce the launch of our Kaggle competition “Make Data Count – Finding Data References”. Make Data Count (MDC) maintains an open corpus of data citations and this competition seeks state of the art AI advancements (including large language models (LLMs)) to identify mentions of data in papers AND contextualize the
Introduction In my previous post I tested eight academic RAG or RAG‑like tools—Elicit, scite assistant, SciSpace, Primo Research Assistant, Undermind, AI2 Scholar QA, and several "Deep Research" modes from OpenAI, Gemini, and Perplexity—to see how they handled a well‑publicised 2020 paper that has since been retracted : “The association between early‑career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and
This week’s recap highlights PhyloSketch for interactively drawing and manipulating phylogenies, Uncalled4 for nanopore DNA and RNA modification detection, Severus for SV calling from long reads, CREsted for modeling synthetic cell type-specific enhancers, and a review on transformers and genome language models.
Die Regelungen zum Datenschutz gelten auch für die Nutzung von KI-Systemen – und betreffen weit mehr Bereiche und Akteur*innen als die Vorgaben der KI-Verordnung. Auszug aus dem aktuellen prompt/ Newsletter vom iRights.Lab.
This essay discusses recent developments within the Kurdish diaspora over the past decade. It looks at the new opportunities and challenges this stateless diaspora faces following its rapid expansion. Referring to an old Kurdish proverb that describes the situation of the Kurds as having „no friends but mountains“, the diaspora is described as a new friend.
Version 2 of the ROR API will become the query default in July 2025, and version 1 of the ROR API and dataset will be deprecated entirely in December 2025.
Am 04.04.2025 veranstaltete das von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderte Projekt OA Datenpraxis ein Webinar zum Thema “Offene Metadaten für Hochschulrankings am Beispiel des Leiden Ranking”. Für das Webinar konnten Nees Jan von Eck (CWTS Leiden) und Anja Oberländer (Universität Konstanz) als Vortragende gewonnen werden.