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.

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.

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.

Version 2 of the ROR API will become the query default in July 2025, and version 1 of the ROR API and dataset will be deprecated entirely in December 2025.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

Ludus—Ludeme Last month, I mapped a working definition of game (ludus) and ludeme (conceptual units of a game and play) in preparation for an upcoming article on ludemes and programming video games. I went through many of the better known attempts for a definition and asked myself where my own perspective differs and what my approach needs to express.