Achieving the goals of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), requires robust monitoring and reporting to track progress and guide action. However, our ability to understand trends is challenged because biodiversity data are fragmented and biased. This stems from the many different approaches used to record data, aggregate records, and analyze them to detect trends and attribute causes.

Biodiversity is declining in many parts of the world. Biological diversity measurement and monitoring are fundamental to the assessment of the causes and consequences of environmental changes, identification of key areas for the protection of biodiversity or ecosystem services, determining the effectiveness of actions, and the creation of decision-support tools critical to maintaining a sustainable planet.

What if you could really revoke your actual biometric identity, and install a new one, by live rewriting your biological self? We propose some novel mechanisms for hot swapping identity based in novel biotechnology. We discuss the potential positive use cases, and negative consequences if such technology was to become available and affordable.

We've been having great fun at the EEG recently releasing embeddings of our new TESSERA geospatial foundation model. A foundation model is designed to be used for downstream tasks without having to retrain a full model for every individual task.

Zertifikatskurs Wissenschaftliches Publizieren und Open Science : Kompetenzen für wissenschaftliches Publizieren und Open Science in der digitalen Forschungswelt Die Universität des Saarlandes bietet eine spezialisierte Online-Weiterbildung mit Zertifikatsabschluss (Universitätszertifikat „Wissenschaftliches Publizieren“ mit 10 CP) zum Thema „Wissenschaftliches Publizieren und Open

RAND corp AIxBio report, AI accelerating: GPT-4b for stem cell reprogramming; AI is slowing down; UVA SDS on Bluesky; LLMs and education; Python needs R's CRAN;

This blog post is part of a series. Part 1 can be found here: https://winoda.de/en/2025/08/13/the-magic-of-acronyms-part-1-fair/ Another acronym that is often mentioned in the same breath as FAIR data is CARE.

Dieser Post ist Teil einer Serie. Teil 1 findet sich hier: https://winoda.de/2025/08/13/die-magie-der-akronyme-teil-1-fair/ Ein weiteres Kürzel, das oft in einem Atemzug mit FAIR data genannt wird, ist CARE.

by Sarah Oberbichler There are critics who sometimes ask the “so what?” question when it comes to Digital History: what impact can these new methods and approaches make on historical arguments and how can they advance scholarship? Do they advance scholarship at all? To be fair, sometimes this critique is justified.

In 1962, Richard Frank Kingham — a student at Woodward School Washington, D.C. — wrote a four-page paper, with three further pages of line drawings, about the Early Cretaceous sauropod Astrodon (Kingham 1962). It was published in the Proceedings of the Washington Junior Academy of Sciences (which to no-one’s great surprise does not seem to […]

Das wissenschaftliche Publizieren und damit auch das Open-Access-Publizieren ist für die Hochschulen nicht zuletzt eine finanzhaushälterische Angelegenheit. Lange Zeit war das Thema auf die Erwerbungsmittel der Bibliotheken für Subskriptionen von Zeitschriften, später auch Datenbanken, und Bücher gut eingrenzbar.