The first time I heard the expression "low hanging fruit" in science, I got excited. Simple projects that seem to be straightforward – seemingly untouched by other scientists. Projects you could pluck right off the tree and bite into, reaping the succulent fruity juice of success. In three months it would be wrapped up. An easy publication.

The United States has no shortage of good ideas. Biotech breakthroughs are still born here. They still spin out of our national labs, our university incubators, our startup accelerators, and the brains of some truly ridiculous graduate students with wild hair and whiteboards covered in dreams. But too often, those good ideas don’t go anywhere. They stall in a regulatory maze. They fail to raise capital. They never scale.

Vor zehn Jahren galt die ungarische Asylpolitik als Ausnahme von den europäischen Standards. Ungarn nutzte Ausnahmeregelungen und Notfallmaßnahmen, um Migrant:innen von seinem Territorium fernzuhalten und auf Nachbarstaaten umzuleiten. Heute hat sich der europäische Mainstream der ungarischen Politik angenähert.

I’ve been working on applying strict static typing to my Python package class-resolver and ran into an interesting way of using generics in combination with parameter specification variables (i.e., ParamSpecs). Normally, if you want to type annotate a function, you use the Callable, which works like the following: from collections.abc import Callable #: the [int] represents a function that takes in a single integer, #: and returns a single

This notebook is the result of a collaboration between myself, Dr. Jeremy E. Monat, and Dr. Phyo Phyo Zin. This is a hands-on tutorial that guides readers through implementing skeletal editing transformations using Python and RDKit, and Phyo Phyo focuses on the high-level principles and applications in the blog post How to Use Skeletal Editing in Drug Discovery: Key Benefits & Applications.

Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), our research project Pro OAR DE investigates current challenges in operating institutional repositories (IR) in Germany. Since completing our initial research phase—which included a systematic review and an interview study with IR managers at academic institutions—we have organized four networking forums since November 2024.

In April, two members of our research group were featured in interviews: Dorothea Strecker, who has been studying shadow libraries for many years, was interviewed by the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen (Stormyren Larsen and Ugelstad Aas 2025). The interview was prompted by the investigation “The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem” published in The Atlantic (Reisner 2025). Heinz Pampel was interviewed for the @mediasres program

The commonmeta Go library has seen a major update this week that dramatically simplifies working with the Research Organization Registry (ROR) data dump, including conversion to other serialization formats (e.g. JSON Lines) and metadata formats (InvenioRDM), and integrated affiliation matching.File Download ROR metadata are updated regularly (typically about once a month) and made available as a file download via the Zenodo repository under a

por Cristina Sacristán Andrés Ríos Molina, Breve historia de la locura y la psiquiatría en México, México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 2024.

Puzzles to solve, but how? It keeps occupying my mind. This has to do with finding the right mix of the public values that are connected to justice, humanity and autonomy, and the “neutral” position of the library (or not?). I have now attended three of the six afternoons that form part of the SURF Course on Digital Sovereignty (for Executives in the field of education & research). And would like to make up my mind as a mid-term activity.

This site is running in 11ty and is built locally, after which the live site (which gets built into the _site folder) is pushed to my Reclaim Hosting account, where it's served up as kfitz.info. As an intermediate step, I have been pushing the code and content that builds the site to a GitHub repository, and then the _site folder to another GitHub repository, kfitz-site, mostly for preservation/backup purposes;