My name’s Cameron Wells, and if you’d told me five years ago I’d be running a fermentation line in a biomanufacturing facility outside Bloomington, Indiana, I would’ve laughed you out of the barracks. Back then, I was an Airman First Class in the 3rd Medical Support Squadron, stationed at Travis. Logistics. Paperwork. Syringe kits.
A new Open Access book shows how political science makes the end of Roman democracy even more frighteningly relevant.
Introduction Code generation powered by large language models is reshaping how developers write software. OpenAI’s GPT series and Meta’s open-source Llama 4 are two leading options in this space.
Im Rahmen des von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderten Projekts Infra Wiss Blogs laden wir Sie herzlich zu einem Webinar zum Thema Archivierung wissenschaftlicher Blogs ein. In diesem Webinar steht der Dienst Rogue Scholar von Front Matter im Fokus. Nach einer Einführung in das Projekt Infra Wiss Blogs, wird Rogue Scholar vorgestellt.
As part of the Infra Wiss Blogs project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), we invite you to a webinar on the topic of archiving scholarly blogs. This webinar will focus on the Rogue Scholar service by Front Matter. After an introduction to the Infra Wiss Blogs project, we will present and discuss how WordPress-hosted scholarly blogs can be archived with Rogue Scholar.
Rogue Scholar archives the content of currently more than 150 science blogs with more than 40,000 blog posts. In this blog post, I want to clarify the guidelines that Rogue Scholar tries to follow regarding authorship.
Everybody[1] knows that in the early years of the 20th Century, the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh sent casts of its iconic Diplodocus around the world. Ten casts, in fact: to London, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Bologna, St. Petersburg, La Plata, Madrid, Mexico City and Munich. The first nine were all mounted, and most still stand in their original museums. (The London cast has moved around a lot and currently resides in Coventry;
This week’s recap highlights compendium of human gene functions derived from evolutionary modelling from the Gene Ontology Consortium, an AI reasoning model applied to rare disease diagnosis, an agentic AI for scRNA-seq data exploration, and applying FAIR principles to scientific workflows.
Aiming to spot some Open Access trends in scholarly publishing 2015–2024, on May 13, I retrieved publication volume data—specifically article-level outputs, excluding other document types—from OpenAlex, focusing on Open Access (OA) publishing trends and their respective modalities. Here, I share a brief overview of the results.
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1 Overview OLMo 2 1B is a new generation of open-source language models launched by the Allen Institute for AI, with a parameter scale of about 1 billion. It provides excellent natural language understanding and generation capabilities while maintaining a small size, and is suitable for a variety of downstream tasks.