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Underworld CodePython/JupyterSciences de la terre et de l'environnementAnglais
Publié in Underworld Geodynamics Community
Auteurs Louis Moresi, Julian Giordani, John Mansour

A recent paper in the Journal of Open Source Software describes the implementation details of Underworld3 and a brief motivation for the rewritten codebase (Moresi et al, 2025). Underworld3 combines the power of the symbolic algebra package, sympy (Meurer et al, 2017), with the equation templating system in the parallel finite-element framework of PETSc, through petsc4py (Knepley et al, 2013, Dalcin et al, 2011). Underworld3 has the same

Rogue ScholarMetadataInformatique et sciences de l'informationAnglais
Publié in Front Matter

References are an important element of scholarly metadata, and that is also true for science blog posts. Currently 5.06% of all Rogue Scholar posts include at least one reference, which are then registered with Crossref metadata. Citations are the counterpart of references. When other scholarly works are cited in the references of a scholarly work, this citation information can be communicated to the cited work.

Sciences socialesAnglais

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) tools like ChatGPT are increasingly finding their way into research and scholarly publishing. This trend brings a pressing challenge: how do academics clearly disclose the use of AI in their research workflows? Right now, many disclosures are either too vague (e.g. "We used ChatGPT to improve clarity") or missing entirely.

Open Access FinanzierungAutres sciences socialesAllemand
Publié in Open Access Network
Auteurs Michael Geuenich, Jonas Höfting, Bernhard Mittermeier, Heinz Pampel, Beate Rusch, Olaf Siegert, Silke Weisheit

Die Entwicklung und der Erfolg von Open Access beruhen maßgeblich auf digitalen Informationsinfrastrukturen, die weltweit von Forschenden, Bibliotheken und anderen Einrichtungen genutzt werden. Diese Infrastrukturen stehen zunehmend unter Druck, da ihre Finanzierung oftmals projektbasiert erfolgt und der Übergang zu einer nachhaltigen, institutionellen oder konsortialen Finanzierung bisher nur in Teilen gelingt.

Climate-changeEnvironmentNewsPoliticsSustainabilityAutres sciences socialesAnglais
Publié in Adapt Research Ltd
Auteur Adapt Research

Background New Zealand public sector agencies must prepare a ‘long-term insights briefing’ every three years. This is an opportunity to look beyond short-term political cycles and use foresight to see what really matters to New Zealand over the longer course.

HeresySciences de la terre et de l'environnementAnglais
Publié in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

One often hears it said that “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”. For example, if you excavate some fossil sauropods and they don’t have preserved feathers, that not evidence that sauropods didn’t have feathers. Oh yes it is. This is an example of a mantra that’s short, catchy, and wrong.