Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! 🔗rOpenSci HQ 🔗rOpenSci at LatinR We’re excited to continue supporting LatinR as a community partner in 2025. Registration is now open for the free LatinR Conference, bringing together researchers, developers, and open science advocates from across the region.

I would like this book just for being funny. I would like this book just for being well-illustrated. I would like this book just for covering lots of different dinosaurs and other Mesozoic critters, some familiar and many others only recently described, from more dinosaur-bearing formations than I was previously familiar with.

How does documentation and multilingualism intersect with inclusive global publishing? Get an inside perspective in this interview with Emma Uhl, PKP Documentation and Multilingualism Specialist.

What can students learn from Generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT? What roles can chatbots play in collaborative engineering? Tutor? Facilitator? Pair programmer? Task master? Vibe coder? Coursework cheater? Or something else?

Recent accessibility efforts in scholarly publishing are driven in part by acts such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and new Title II regulations requiring digital accessibility, with key compliance deadlines approaching in 2026. PKP shares the work it is doing to ensure accessibility in its publishing platforms.

Strengthening multilingual publishing, metadata integrity, and integrating invitation-based roles and reviewers.

On October 15th, 2025, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB, the German National Library of Science and Technology) announced the PKP Open Journal Systems (OJS) Deutschland Consortium 2026 – 2028 on the TIB Blog. Diesen Beitrag auf Deutsch lesen. At PKP, part of our mission has always been to support sustainable, community-driven open scholarly infrastructure.

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People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature) is a Vietnamese non-profit organization founded in 2006, dedicated to protecting biodiversity and promoting sustainable development. PanNature works to harmonize the relationship between people and nature through policy advocacy, field-based conservation, and community partnerships, aiming to improve environmental governance and ensure responsible use of natural resources.

Since the first recognition of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)  in its jurisprudence Furundžija) to the recognition of gender as a ground for persecution by the International Criminal Court , International Criminal Law (ICL) has increasingly addressed CRSV, but there is ... The post 16 Days Activism Against GBV Series| Pursuing Justice for Survivors of CRSV in

On the 9 ^th of October, ¹ I attended the Snowflake World Tour event in London. I was curious to learn more about Snowflake as more and more of the industry people I talk to seems to be using it. I also wondered if there was a use case for it for myself. Finally, I wanted to figure out if I should talk to my data analytics students about it. I went there and had an enjoyable day, but what did I learn?