Last July, the NIH issued a Request for Information (RFI) on maximizing research funds by limiting direct spending on Article Processing Charges (APCs) in allowable publishing costs. More than 900 members of the public responded to the RFI, providing valuable insights into the diverse perspectives the NIH should consider in deciding on a path forward with APCs.

We have entered the post-alphabetic era announced by Vilém Flusser. Apparatuses now program us as much as we program them. In this techno-imaginal universe where all our faculties are traversed by technologies, the question of fascism arises differently. Vectofascism designates this contemporary political form that adapts the fundamental mechanisms of… The post Vectofascism – Part I: Vectoaesthetics appeared first on carrier-bag.net.

Vibe-updating my old qqman R package to ggplot2 with plan+execute.

Why crisis governance depends on democratic capacity

TLDR: Meta-crisis: the mechanisms that should solve problems are themselves deteriorating. My Society for Risk Analysis Conference Presentation At the Australia New Zealand Society for Risk Analysis Conference in Christchurch on 29-30 Jan 2026 it was clear that systemic risk and polycrisis concepts are moving from the margins to the centre of risk analysis. In … Continue reading "Is there a ‘meta’-crisis?

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. I was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend BioHackathon Europe 2025, held 3–7 November at the Esplanade Resort & Spa in Bad Saarow, near Berlin, Germany.

Para el semestre 2026-2 impartiré tres clases en formato virtual, dos de ellas serán para nivel licenciatura, para la carrera de Matemáticas Aplicadas he preparado un curso centrado en Bioinformacion dirigido a los estudiantes interesados en aprender los principios básicos del manejo de la información especializada en biociencias, en especial trataré los aspectos esenciales de la gestión de la literatura digital y los datos asociados que todo

The central principle is simple: governance intensity should scale with risk, not with rhetoric

Notes from the 2026 International AI Safety Report

The success of the Open Science movement relies on research products and infrastructures being open, accessible and sustainably curated. Recent global events, ranging from the defunding of research infrastructure in the United States to wartime threats in Ukraine, demonstrate the vulnerability of open science to geopolitical forces and demand the development of responsive and resilient open systems.

There are many academia-specific keywords: “grant”, “stipend”, “precarity”. But what is the correct designation for the leader of a research group who writes projects, manages people, supervises students, etc? Manager? Supervisor? Mentor? Because these are very different concepts. It could be easier to stick with the concept of “principal investigator” (aka PI), I know. But, let’s face it, that word ends up being a little bland right?