A thirteen-year-old girl in Nigeria, bitten by a snake, arrived at a hospital with her frantic family. The hospital demanded payment before administering the antivenom. The family could not afford it. The girl died. This was one of the stark stories shared by health professionals on September 10, 2025, during “Exploration Day,” the third day of The Geneva Learning Foundation’s inaugural peer learning exercise on health equity.

Earlier this week at the sixth NFDI4Chem consortium meeting, Torsten Schrade from the NFDI4Culture consortium gave a lovely and whimsical talk entitled A Data Alchemist’s Journey through NFDI which explored ways that we might federate and jointly query both consortia’s knowledge via their respective SPARQL endpoints.

This week, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive started registering DOIs and metadata with Crossref using the InvenioRDM repository platform rather than relying on external tooling. InvenioRDM has of course supported DOI registration with DataCite for a long time, so this adds another option for repositories hosting reports, preprints, dissertations, or other textual documents.

Die Organisation Creative Commons hat kürzlich das Konzept der „CC Signals“ vorgestellt. Damit sollen „data stewards“ neue Regeln für die Nutzung von Inhalten durch KI-Anbieter setzen können. Wir stellen die Signals dar und beleuchten die Hintergründe. Dürfen KI-Anbieter fremde Inhalte im Netz sammeln, um damit ihre Modelle zu trainieren? Das ist wohl die größte Urheberrechtsfrage […] The post CC Signals – Anstandsregeln fürs KI-Training?

Appalachian History Series Cave Run Lake sits in the northern hills of Bath County, Kentucky, a broad ribbon of water bordered by the Daniel Boone National Forest. The lake exists because the federal government spent four decades planning and nearly a decade building an earth-and-rockfill dam on the Licking River to curb floods, secure water, and welcome recreation.

Back in April, Quarto v1.7 introduced the ability to display multiple outputs from a single code chunk depending on whether or not the side is in dark mode. This was really exciting for me, because even though I prefer to keep sites in dark mode for personal use, I’ve found that in some presentation and teaching settings, the projector and lighting conditions make dark mode illegible.

TL;DR To date, there are about 100 Crossref members who have made use of our co-access service for one or more of their books. The service was designed to be a last-resort measure when multiple parties - book publishers, aggregators, and other members - had rights to register book content.

We have developed a prototype dashboard which aims to help organizations maintain complex systems of inter-dependent software components.Our initial prototype organizational dashboard provides insights into code contributors, their repositories, and maintenance status and needs.The prototype dashboard shows data for the three related GitHub organizations, reconhub, epiverse, and epiverse-trace, all of which develop and host open-source software

In Google's new paper, "An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software" an AI supposedly "invents" new methods in bioinformatics and infectious disease modeling & forecasting.

Through the partnership between DataCite and IGSN e.V. , DataCite services can be used to register International Generic Sample Numbers (IGSN IDs) for material samples. The blog series ‘ IGSN ID Implementation Exemplars ’ showcases sample management workflows developed by the community that incorporate IGSN ID registration.

“In this phase of my life, I want to work directly with the communities to see what I can do,” said Dr. Sambo Godwin Ishaku, a public health leader from Nigeria with over two decades of experience. His words opened the second day of The Geneva Learning Foundation’s first-ever peer learning exercise on health equity. They also spoke to the very origin of the event itself.