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HaplocanthosaurusSciences de la terre et de l'environnementAnglais
Publié in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Auteur Matt Wedel

New paper out today, in Geology of the Intermountain West (free at this link): Boisvert, Colin, Bivens, Gunnar, Curtice, Brian, Wilhite, Ray, and Wedel, Mathew. 2025. Census of currently known specimens of the Late Jurassic sauropod Haplocanthosaurus from the Morrison Formation, USA.

Artificial IntelligenceBiotechnologyAutres sciences techniquesAnglais
Publié in The Connected Ideas Project
Auteur Alexander Titus

When I came across Flagship Pioneering’s 2025 annual letter, authored by Noubar Afeyan, the concept of “polyintelligence” struck me as not just timely, but foundational. In this space—where The Connected Ideas Project (TCIP) lives and grows—we’re continually asking how technology and policy converge to shape the future.

WILDLIFE NEWSBiologieAnglais
Publié in Simply Ecologist
Auteur Erzsebet Frey

The National Zoo’s Panda Cam: What You Need to Know The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., is a beloved spot for animal enthusiasts and families alike. But for those who can’t visit in person, the zoo offers an incredible opportunity to observe these giant wonders right from the comfort of their own home: the National Zoo’s Panda Cam.

Historia CulturalSciences humainesEspagnol
Publié in BLOG ATARRAYA
Auteur Atarraya

por Teresita Garabana La introducción de la moda en la prensa sudamericana del siglo XIX es un fenómeno que, aunque se ha estudiado de forma separada en distintos países, rara vez se aborda desde una perspectiva transnacional. Entonces, ¿qué nos permite conocer el análisis comparativo de la prensa de modas en Buenos Aires y Río de Janeiro?

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

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive continues to grow, with seven new blogs added this month and more than 24,000 archived blog posts. Luckily, onboarding new blogs is mostly automated, with the Rogue Scholar API handling the blog setup and blog post ingestion from RSS feeds. Some questions frequently come up and I try to improve the Rogue Scholar documentation to address them.

Forschungsinformationen & SystemeNeuigkeitenFIS-SystemwahlKFiDSciences socialesAllemand
Publié in Gemeinsamer Blog der DINI AGs
Auteur Gastautorin(nen) und -autor(en)

Die Trends aus den letzten Umfragen und Recherchen (Goeritz 2023; Nagel 2023; Petersohn & Thiedig 2023) zeigen es deutlich: Immer mehr Forschungseinrichtungen und Hochschulen entscheiden sich für die Einführung und Nutzung eines Forschungsinformationssystems (FIS), um ihre strategische Auskunfts- und Berichtsfähigkeit sowie ihre Außendarstellung zu verbessern.

AktuellesAllgemeinCoARAForschungsbewertungAutres sciences socialesAllemand
Publié in Open Access Blog Berlin

Wie gelingt die Reform der Forschungsbewertung hin zu mehr qualitativen und transparenten Verfahren? Mit dem Zusammenschluss in der „Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment“ – kurz: CoARA – versuchen mehr als 700 Wissenschaftsorganisationen, eine Verbesserung der Forschungsbewertung zu erreichen. Zusammen mit der UB an der Freien Universität Berlin hat das OABB kürzlich ein Empfehlungspapier publiziert.

Algorithmic SabotageAiLlmAi PoisoningJekyllAutres sciences socialesAnglais
Publié in Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

tl;dr: Here’s a how-to for adding some “AI”-poison to your static site that’s hosted on Codeberg Pages (or GitHub Pages ). I’d appreciate some feedback on if this is useful/how it could be improved. If you’re running any type of website in 2025, you’ll likely be suffering from the impact of generative “AI”. Be that “AI”-generated spam posted to your site, crawlers bringing your server(s) down or just having

100 Days To OffloadFlow BatteriesResearchIngénierie et technologieAnglais
Publié in Dual Power Supply
Auteurs Kirk Pollard Smith, Andrew A. Wang

What is this, two blogposts in one day? My buddy Andrew Wang and I compiled this list of flow battery and related companies over the last few years, now making it public in the hopes of potentially integrating it with FBRC one day. I will try to keep this updated as other companies emerge and existing ones go out of business, new suppliers show up, etc. It’s just a csv.