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Informatique et sciences de l'informationAnglais
Publié in Make Data Count
Auteur Make Data Count

Post by Make Data Count advisors Daniella Lowenberg and Jennifer Lin DOI: 10.60804/asfb-f691 We are thrilled to announce the launch of our Kaggle competition “Make Data Count – Finding Data References”. Make Data Count (MDC) maintains an open corpus of data citations and this competition seeks state of the art AI advancements (including large language models (LLMs)) to identify mentions of data in papers AND contextualize the

PapersBiologieAnglais
Publié in Paired Ends
Auteur Stephen Turner

This week’s recap highlights PhyloSketch for interactively drawing and manipulating phylogenies, Uncalled4 for nanopore DNA and RNA modification detection, Severus for SV calling from long reads, CREsted for modeling synthetic cell type-specific enhancers, and a review on transformers and genome language models.

Datenschutz + SicherheitKünstliche IntelligenzPolitik + RechtPromptDroitAllemand
Publié in iRights.info
Auteur Redaktion iRights.info

Die Regelungen zum Datenschutz gelten auch für die Nutzung von KI-Systemen – und betreffen weit mehr Bereiche und Akteur*innen als die Vorgaben der KI-Verordnung. Auszug aus dem aktuellen prompt/ Newsletter vom iRights.Lab.

EnglischForschungBlog Series: 10 Years After The "Long Summer Of Migration"Blogreihe: 10 Jahre Nach Dem „langen Sommer Der Migration“DiasporaSciences socialesAnglais
Publié in Netzwerk Fluchtforschung
Auteur Khaled Sheykholeslami

This essay discusses recent developments within the Kurdish diaspora over the past decade. It looks at the new opportunities and challenges this stateless diaspora faces following its rapid expansion. Referring to an old Kurdish proverb that describes the situation of the Kurds as having „no friends but mountains“, the diaspora is described as a new friend.

Lab LifeResearchInformatique et sciences de l'informationAllemand

Am 04.04.2025 veranstaltete das von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderte Projekt OA Datenpraxis ein Webinar zum Thema “Offene Metadaten für Hochschulrankings am Beispiel des Leiden Ranking”. Für das Webinar konnten Nees Jan von Eck (CWTS Leiden) und Anja Oberländer (Universität Konstanz) als Vortragende gewonnen werden.

SocietyArtificial IntelligenceAutres sciences techniquesAnglais
Publié in The Connected Ideas Project
Auteur Alexander Titus

When people talk about the future of artificial intelligence, the loudest voices often come from opposite ends of a spectrum: unshakable optimists and doomsday prophets. But in a forecast like AI 2027 , what we’re given isn’t hype or horror, it’s foresight grounded in a deep understanding of how systems evolve, how capabilities scale, and most importantly, how institutions react under pressure. The report doesn’t make a prediction.

Sciences des médias et de la communicationAnglais
Publié in the modern peer
Auteur Leal Oburoglu

The “publish or perish” culture pushes researchers to publish papers (regardless of the state of their research) for career survival. Academic jobs are tied to people’s publication records; and although change is happening, it is at a glacial pace. Since the system is gamified in this way, people are tempted to play. And they play to “win”.  This leads to many side effects that distort the way science is done.

PersonalAutres sciences socialesAnglais
Auteur Aaron Tay

Musing sabout librarianship - Substack A Home Full of Memories—And a New Door Opening When I first hit “Publish” on Musings About Librarianship on Blogger back in 2009, I was a wet behind the ears librarian nervously sharing half-baked thoughts. I never imagined that my tiny blogger corner would grow into a gathering place for thousands of curious colleagues around the world.

Sciences de la terre et de l'environnementAnglais
Publié in Blog - Metadata Game Changers

The DataCite metadata schema continues to improve, increasing the number of resource types that can be described, the number of relations between resources, and the number of identifiers. Together these improvements continue the long-term trend towards more FAIR research resources connected to form a growing global research infrastructure.