
We’ve seen a lot of raptors with their heads turned 180 degrees recently. Jerry Harris dropped me a line to remind me that flamingos are also perverts when it comes to neck posture.

We’ve seen a lot of raptors with their heads turned 180 degrees recently. Jerry Harris dropped me a line to remind me that flamingos are also perverts when it comes to neck posture.
Anmerkung zu dieser Rubrik: Das Open Research Office Berlin erstellt monatlich eine Übersicht über Termine und Veranstaltungen zu Open Access und Open Research in Berlin bzw. an Berliner Einrichtungen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf unseren Partnereinrichtungen und auf Veranstaltungen, die sich an die Öffentlichkeit richten bzw.
Elizabeth Gadd, Reingis Hauck, and Giovanna Lima This post by Elizabeth Gadd, Reingis Hauck, and Giovanna Lima examines whether societal impact can be assessed responsibly amid growing global efforts to reform research evaluation beyond publication-based metrics.

Obtaining hydrogen from water is one of those topics that attracts lots of attention from many fronts in chemistry; on paper, it can be clean, elegant, and deceptively simple. In practice, however, water is stubborn and breaking it apart requires catalysts, large energy inputs, or clever chemistry that juggles thermodynamics and kinetics.

Das Verbundprojekt DiNaMo – Digitalisierung für nachhaltige Mobilität – startete im Januar 2023 und damit vor zwei Jahren.

Proportionality is how complex societies remain functional in the presence of uncertainty

Have you ever had that person in your team that made sure to explicitly share that they have been working during crazy hours, every single time they had to do that? (I have, and what a pleasant person to listen to.) These types of glorifications are sometimes thrown around as if they were achievements. Even though it’s not strange to work overtime or do experiments on weekends, if you are a researcher.
This blog is part of a series contributed by presenters at the International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA) Conference, held in Istanbul and Bergen in October 2025.

We are ecstatic to announce the release of measr 2.0.0. measr is an R package for estimating and evaluating diagnostic classification models (DCMs). You can specify a variety of DCMs, choose a Stan backend and estimation method, and then evaluate the model using a wide range of model fit analyses.

On January 13, 2026, I was on Posit’s Data Science Lab to talk about my Positron settings and other neat workflow-y things I use to make my life easier. I’ll post the video here once it’s up. This isn’t a standard blog post—it’s mostly just a list of the stuff we talked about, with lots of different links to other resources.