Today I had a weird problem. Our BuddyPress activity stream comments were just not working. When you clicked the reply icon, then typed a response and pressed “post”, it simply grayed out and never succeeded. I could see, in the logs, that there was a 403 Forbidden error being thrown.

The Pro OAR DE project, running from September 2023 to August 2026, has dedicated the past two years to collaborating with German Open Access (OA) repository managers and and the global Open Science community to professionalize repository infrastructure. On October 30th, 2025, following a series of six networking forums, we hosted a pivotal session marking the culmination of these efforts.

Vier Zeichnungs-Konvolute aus Architektennachlässen des 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Albrecht Haupt sind nun online: Es ist immer wieder überraschend, welche ungeahnt bedeutsamen historischen Schätze in den Sondersammlungen der Technischen Informationsbibliothek schlummern.

Sexual violence response systems rely on a workforce of caregivers who bear witness to trauma daily. Yet, the vicarious trauma eroding these responders’ wellbeing is dangerously overlooked. Drawing on her personal frontline experience, Emaediong Akpan argues that caring for survivors is impossible without caring for those who serve them.

XploreOpen is a Pakistan-based non-profit initiative dedicated to advancing equitable access to knowledge through open science, open infrastructure, and open cultural heritage.

I recently attended the 4th BioHackathon Germany hosted by the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI). I participated in the project On the Path to Machine-actionable Training Materials in order to improve the interoperability between DALIA, TeSS, mTeSS-X, and Schema.org. This post gives a summary of the activities leading up to the hackathon and the results of our happy hacking.

DOI: 10.60804/zae0-cy06 What if we could measure the reach and impact of open data? This question remains central to Make Data Count and has shaped our 2025 initiatives. Over the past year, we have worked on expanding the data-usage information available to the community and we championed practical ways to...

The transformation of academia into a more open and inclusive ecosystem depends not only on new policies or technologies but also on a fundamental shift in how we nurture early-career researchers through mentorship. This values resilience and integrity as much as productivity.

The first step of alcoholics anonymous is to admit you have an addiction (or so the many TV shows tell me). Well, I’m a scientist and science has an addiction. It’s an addiction that every scientist has, and no it isn’t the immense feeling of being the first to discover something new, or the crippling imposter syndrome. It isn’t even that all-too-real alcohol dependency that we seem to acquire.

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Home ARMIN W SCHULZ IT’S ONLY HUMAN REVIEWED BY Olivier Morin It’s Only Human Armin W Schulz Reviewed by Olivier Morin It’s Only Human: The Evolution of Distinctively Human Cognition ^◳ Armin W. Schulz Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025, £64.00 ISBN 9780197800157 Cite as: Morin, O. [2025]: ‘Armin W. Schulz’s It’s Only Human ’, BJPS Review of Books , 2025 , DOI Join the mailing list