A shorter version of this blog post in Dutch has been published earlier on the website of Nederlandse UNESCO Commissie.

Die Perspektiven von Geflüchteten sind in Öffentlichkeit und Politik stark unterrepräsentiert – auch und vor allem beim Thema Asyl- und Flüchtlingspolitik. Das hat auch die Debatte um den Rückblick auf 10 Jahre „langer Sommer der Migration“ nicht geändert.

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L’appel de propositions du Forum des revues étudiantes est ouvert ! Cet appel s’adresse aux étudiants canadiens qui participent à la publication de revues étudiantes ou qui s’y intéressent. The English version is available here.

Our REST API makes all of the metadata we hold publicly available. It receives the majority of our API traffic, with around 1 billion hits per month. It’s one of the key ways that we fulfil our mission to make research objects easy to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse.

The Student Journal Forum Call for Proposals is open! The call is open to students in Canada who are involved with or interested in student journal publishing. Version française disponible ici.

It is with great excitement that we release DeepForest 2.0! This is the first major release since the project took shape in its current form. The codebase has been updated to match modern machine learning workflows, including better command line tools, configurations and package management.

I’ve dabbled a bit with napari – the python-based image viewer – but never needed to use it seriously. I had a real use case so I thought I’d write up the process of how I got going with napari, in case it helps others.

↪ Mentioned recently in a Nature News article . As you may know, a starting grant is a multi-year grant that allows a researcher to set up their own lab. It often includes their own salaries and those of 1-3 PhD students/Postdocs, as well as funds for running costs.

Gemeinsam offen finanzieren - unter diesem Leitgedanken trafen sich Vertreter*innen aus Bibliotheken, Konsortialstellen und Open-Access-Projekten beim Worldcafé auf der Bibliocon 2025 in Bremen. Im Mittelpunkt standen praktische Erfahrungen, Bedarfe und Ideen für die Zukunft konsortialer Open-Access-Modelle. Einleitung Auf dem 9. Bibliothekskongress 2025, der 113.

I got to shake Jensen Huang's hand as he received the 2025 Hawking Fellowship this evening at the Cambridge Union! He's a fitting winner for this award; he's not only tech's longest running CEO (33 years!), but also a founding engineer who deeply understands the technology stack. He also bucks the trend among bigtech and famously doesn't believe in firing people, preferring to "torture them into greatness" ^[1] instead.