We cannot teleport physical proximity, but we can replicate its psychological effects in remote teams. This has everything to do with propinquity. If the physical world provided connection by accident, the digital world requires connection by design. The most critical loss in the shift to remote work is “propinquity,” a fancy word for physical nearness.
John Willinsky was named a Member of the Order of Canada on December 31st, 2025, for almost three decades of dedication to making knowledge public through his PKP work. In this post, we reflect on how the generous support of PKP’s contributors, reflecting the deeply collective nature of the project, made this work possible. In […] The post PKP Founder John Willinsky Appointed to the Order of Canada appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.
After passing through rOpenSci peer review, the distionary package is now newly available on CRAN.It allows you to make probability distributions quickly – either from a few inputs or from its built-in library – and then probe them in detail.
Five years ago, LOTUS (Rutz et al. 2022) started as a small attempt to cultivate the flow of chemical knowledge, in the same way we study how metabolites flow through living systems, rather than to build yet another database.
Why does a video call feel empty compared to a handshake? How does physical absence break the social contract? What happens to trust in remote work? For generations, professional trust relied on a simple, physical toolkit. We shook hands. We looked each other in the eye across a table. We shared coffee during breaks. These were not just social niceties.
Der Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS), der praktikable Kriterien für die Veröffentlichung wissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften festlegt, steht der Community jetzt auch auf Deutsch zur Verfügung. Die im DOAS formulierten Qualitätskriterien berücksichtigen über 70 aktuelle nationale und internationale Publikationsrichtlinien und wurden im intensiven Austausch mit der europäischen Diamond Open Access Community entwickelt.
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A new study in Nature finds that AI adoption correlates with faster career ascent and higher citation impact, while the semantic spread of entire fields subtly contracts around fewer topical regions.
Das Open Research Office Berlin sucht ab sofort eine Juristin (m/w/d) für den Aufbau einer juristischen Anlaufstelle für Forschende aus Berlins Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbe-Einrichtungen (Legal Helpdesk Berlin). Wir freuen uns bis zum 09.02.2026 über Bewerbungen von Menschen mit erfolgreich abgeschlossenem erstem Staatsexamen, die Interesse daran haben, Open Research in Berliner Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbe-Einrichtungen voranzutreiben und …
A laboratory safety benchmark finds retrieval augmented generation (RAG) can make strong models worse.
