On Wednesday this week (April 9th, 2025) I gave a talk entitled “Future interface(s) for BHL” (the slides are on FigShare) at BHL Day 2025.

This talk explores the articulation of food and television through an analysis of the soap opera genre and their transmedia cookbooks. Whilst debates on food & literature and food & film have been researched extensively, the relationship of food & television remains relatively underexplored (Murray, 2012; Oren, 2003). This limited work has tended to focus on the cookery programme genre (Strange, 1998;

Fabled Sri Lankan national parks battle for wildlife supremacy – discover which reserve offers your ideal safari experience.

This week’s recap highlights Evo2 for variant effect analysis and genome design, a preprint showing that pretraining doesn’t necessarily increase performance on genomic foundation models, a new R package ggalign for making complex biological data visualizations with ggplot2, and an ancestral reconstruction method for ancient DNA. I also highlight a few reviews in biodiversity genomics.

I used to think the future arrived with a bang. A gleaming city skyline, a countdown clock, maybe even a voice-over narration about progress. But the truth is, it came quietly - on a warm spring morning in Iowa, when I was late to my first real job, staring at a cornfield that wasn’t quite… corn. They called it Glycine Max Aegis - Aegis beans for short.

Discover Sri Lanka’s top leopard hotspots where these elusive predators lounge in trees and roam ancient wetlands.

Uncover Sri Lanka’s ultimate jungle adventure with breathtaking trails and a treehouse paradise that will leave you speechless.

Plan your perfect Sri Lankan wildlife adventure by discovering which national park suits your animal-watching dreams.

Key differences between Yala and Udawalawe safaris reveal which park maximizes your wildlife encounters depending on your priorities.

At the recent SciCodes Symposium, I brought up the question of reviewing research software during the panel discussion. One panelist then raised the question of why we should review research software. I found this question surprising at first, but I do agree that it deserves an answer. Here is mine.

This morning, having been re-reading and thinking extensively about Moore, Samuel, ‘A Genealogy of Open Access: Negotiations between Openness and Access to Research’, Revue Française Des Sciences de l’information et de La Communication , no. 11 (2017), https://doi.org/10.4000/rfsic.3220 but also the awful news in Tim Sherratt, ‘Update on Trove Data Access and My Suspended API Keys’, Tim Sherratt – Sharing Recent Updates and