In 2023, we launched the DataCite Global Access Fund (GAF), supported by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, to help organizations worldwide make their research outputs discoverable and connect to global open infrastructure. Today, we are excited to announce the second cohort of organizations and projects receiving GAF funding!

Quick backstory: this post at Adam Mastroianni’s Experimental History led me to this post at Nothing Human, and poking around there led me to another good’un: “Shallow feedback hollows you out”. That post really hit for me, and it made me think about SV-POW!

In a groundbreaking study, researchers have successfully tracked a massive animal species in the Peruvian Andes, providing critical insights that are set to transform our understanding of the region’s ecosystem. This remarkable achievement highlights the enormous potential of using advanced tracking technologies to monitor and conserve biodiversity in remote areas.

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has just dropped its long-awaited AI Opportunities Action Plan, a 50-page vision of how the UK government plans to guide us into an AI-powered future.

More and more funders are recognizing the vital role of software in research. How can you leverage your software skills to aquire funding?

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Something a little different for this week’s recap. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the practice of data science education in this era of widely available (and really good!) LLMs for code. Commentary at the top based on my own data science teaching experience, with a deep dive into a few recent papers below.

+++ Love Data Week +++ Quo Vadis: Lebendige Datenkultur +++ Open Science als Handlungsfeld für wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen +++ AI Act +++ Ausgewählte Veranstaltungen im Berliner Raum und online zu Open Research in Wissenschaft und Kulturerbe-Einrichtungen

Bibliographic databases should support innovation and experimentation. Here, we offer four criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases. We urge the global research community to use databases that support and do not hinder innovation in scholarly communication and research assessment.

Continuing our discussion of galaxy formation and evolution in the age of JWST, we saw previously that there appears to be a population of galaxies that grew rapidly in the early universe, attaining stellar masses like those expected in a traditional monolithic model for a giant elliptical galaxy rather than a conventional hierarchical model that builds up gradually through many mergers.

Powerful predators, giant centipedes inhabit diverse environments worldwide, from deserts to rainforests, thriving in damp, dark places near their prey.