Biopython 1.86 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. This contains about nine months worth of updates, and is our first release with Python 3.14 support. See change-log in the news file (most of the changes are in Bio.Align and Bio.PDB). There have also been a few deprecations and removals of older code.

This month’s news includes: Research software community news, including the Nature commentary, “Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it” Funding opportunities, including the DisCouRSE Flexible Fund Towards coordinated international policy approaches to support research software: Highlights from the OECD workshop Actionable FAIR4RS Task Force Updates: Bhavesh Patel Presents at USRSE’25 Opportunities to get involved

Die Berlin University Alliance – der Exzellenzverbund von Freier Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technischer Universität Berlin und Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin – hat im Herbst 2023 ein Leitbild für offene Wissenschaft verabschiedet. Nun folgt ein weiteres Dokument, in dem die Umsetzung des Leitbilds näher spezifiziert wird.

✒️ Editor's Note: Today's guest post was written by Altynai Mambetova . Altynai holds a Master's degree in Data Science from the University of Manchester. Her background spans data journalism to data art, and in her work, she transforms textual data into impactful solutions through research publications.

This post was distilled from a talk that I gave at Schloss Dagstuhl's seminar 25831 "Open Scholarly Information Systems: Status Quo, Challenges, Opportunities". As the video recording mentions, the slides for the talk are openly shared at http://soc-n.us/250916-dagstuhl . Many of us may be familiar with the Dagstuhl seminar series;

This week the Rogue Scholar science blog archive has launched a new feature: contributor roles. Blog posts can now have contributor roles attached to each author, and this information is shown in the Rogue Scholar and Crossref metadata. We have discussed contributor roles for blog posts for several months, in particular with the ropensci team.

Barbara S. Lancho Barrantes, Sheila Craft-Morgan, Madelaine Hare, Naomi Richards, Emily Mazure, &

DOI: 10.60804/5×77-bq53 Many institutions are looking at their evaluation processes with the goal of making assessment more reflective of the variety of researchers’ contributions and also more aligned to open scholarship. A key area of attention as part of assessment reform relates to the recognition of a diversity of open...

In the previous post, I was commenting that the transition state for borohydride reduction of a ketone contained some close contacts between the hydrogen of the borohydride and the hydrogen of water.

Courir est un bon moment pour réfléchir, particulièrement dans un événement sportif se décrivant comme vert. Les organisateurs décrivent des initiatives comme la plantation d’arbres localement et aussi à l’étranger sous le slogan ‘2km parcourus = 1 arbre planté‘. Ils mènent aussi des initiatives de plogging, et décrivent des engagement de RSE louables.

The DataCite team traveled to Brisbane for the International Data Week 2025, the leading international conference on research data. It is jointly organised by the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA). It was a great opportunity to connect with familiar and new faces.