Today is World Pangolin Day!  To celebrate the occasion GigaScience presents a new article, adding two chromosome-scale genome sequences and in-depth genomic analyses. Pangolins are cute, but the reason why it’s important to draw regular attention to these scaly mammals is more sober: Pangolins are the most trafficked wild mammals in the world, with more than 900,000 poached in the past two decades.

** Taller** ** Informática para historia de las ciencias** En unos días voy a impartir el taller de  Informática para historia de las ciencias en el que haremos una revisión exhaustiva, minuciosa, detallada y profunda de la información y la informática en la investigación sobre historia de las ciencias.

I have something of an ambivalent relationship with travel documentaries.  While I often enjoy them, as someone who partially specialises in media representation and has lived, worked and travelled outside my country of origin for the majority of my adult life, I frequently find myself critiquing the various portrayals.

DOI: 10.60804/6msz-1759 Views from Peter Cerda, Data Curation Specialist Peter Cerda is a Data Curation Specialist for Workflows and Big Data with the library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He helps students and faculty deposit large, complex datasets into Deep Blue Data Repository;

I was born with brittle bones. Not metaphorically— literally. Osteogenesis imperfecta, Type III. My bones fractured under the weight of my own body. By the time I turned twelve, I’d broken every bone you could name and a few you probably couldn’t. It defined my childhood, shaping every moment of my life into a careful negotiation between risk and inevitability.

When navigating our social media platforms in the past three days, you may have noticed a blurred and colourful spot in the place of our usual logo.

Cultura científica de la A a la Z Entender, de manera general y actualizada, la información científica es una habilidad indispensable para cualquier ciudadano. De hecho, aunque parezca obvio, para cualquier ámbito de la práctica científica es fundamental reconocer, entender y manejar ágilmente los conceptos, métodos, iniciativas, movimientos y herramientas propias de las ciencias.

Virtual Reality und Augmented Reality ermöglichen es, fremde urheberrechtlich geschützte Werke in virtuelle Umgebungen einzubinden. Dafür ist es ratsam, die verschiedenen Nutzungsrechte des Urheberrechts zu kennen. Was man dazu wissen sollte, erklärt Betim Neziraj. Im ersten Teil ging es um die Frage, wie VR- und AR-Anwendungen urheberrechtlich einzuordnen sind.

The Natural Earth Project The Natural Earth Project provides high quality public domain geographic data with all sorts of incredible detail, at three resolutions: high (1:10m), medium (1:50m), and low (1:110m). I use their data all the time in my own work and research, and the {rnaturalearth} package makes it really easy to get their data into R for immediate mapping. I mean, look at this!

Discovering the Captivating Deep-Sea Creature The ocean is a mysterious realm, teeming with enigmatic and rare creatures that continue to fascinate scientists and nature enthusiasts alike. Among these captivating entities is a rare deep-sea animal renowned for its enormous jaws and striking pink glow. Recently, researchers have gained more insight into this remarkable species, prompting a surge of interest and curiosity.

Two weeks ago, the Beilstein Institute announced Bioschemas support in their journals: The idea is far from new and has been around for two decades. But the two Beilstein journals (both diamond Open Access), actually integrated into their active publishing model. That has been trialed and put in action before.