One-and-a-half years ago I started migration my blog from blogger.com to a Markdown and Git-based blog. It has been a fascinating journey that I do not regret.

Here’s the books I read in 2024. If I were Dudley Dursley, I’d be very upset that I read one fewer new book than in 2023. But then, I’d remember that I re-read a lot of Cosmere in 2024 to prepare for Wind and Truth , which was great.

We invited our community to nominate potential keynote speakers for BOSC, and we were delighted with the many excellent suggestions received. In the next stage of this process, we’re providing you with an opportunity to express any concerns regarding the suitability of any nominated individuals as BOSC Keynote Speakers. Our invited speaker selection process and criteria include examples of potential reasons for exclusion.

I was working on making data about scholarly conferences more FAIR and a big question crossed my mind: what are all the conference venues? This post is about some queries I wrote for Wikidata, data issues I found, and a few drive-by curations that I did while looking for an answer, and my ideas for the future.

They say the system is perfect, but perfection always comes at a cost. I should know—I helped build it. In the 22nd century, health isn’t just a right, a privilege, or even a commodity. It’s currency. Every breath, every heartbeat, every productive hour has a price tag.

Continuing the work on streamlining the DOI assignment for new blog posts in the Rogue Scholar science blog archive, I discovered and fixed a major bug. Rogue Scholar DOIs strings are generated from a random number and include a checksum. It turns out that this checksum was wrong, affecting all Rogue Scholar posts generated with the commonmeta Go library between May 2024 and today.

Please see below our new call for a special dossier on Television, to be published in the second half of 2025 in Significação: Journal of Audiovisual Culture. https://revistas.usp.br/significacao/announcement/view/1841 Significação: Revista de Cultura Audiovisual invites submissions for a special dossier dedicated to the multifaceted and ever-evolving medium of television, which will celebrate its

Rafael Sosa, DR © Acrílico, pastel sobre papel Uruapan Michoacán. México, 2023 Redes sociales del artista Instagram Esta es una reproducción digital, con fines de divulgación, de una obra original proporcionada por su autor o propietario. Todos los derechos están reservados por la artista.

4. Veranstaltung in der Reihe „Quo vadis offene Wissenschaft in Berlin und Brandenburg“ am 11. FEBRUAR 2025 Termin: 11. Februar 2025, 14:00–15:30 Uhr Ort: Online via Zoom Veranstaltende: KOBV und digiS Es handelt sich bei dieser Veranstaltung um die vierte in der Reihe Quo vadis offene Wissenschaft in Berlin und Brandenburg 2024/25. Daten eröffnen neue Zugänge und

You won’t believe the surprising behaviors of sloth bears, from their unique foraging techniques to their impressive climbing abilities and more.

DOI 10.60804/1nhk-qd72 We have many great activities planned for the coming year, collaborating with individuals and organizations that share our drive to advance responsible data metrics and data evaluation. Here is a preview of what we’ll be doing in 2025: 1. Work even more closely with institutions Universities play a key role in advancing open research practices, and many institutions