Each year C&E News publishes a list of candidates for the Molecule of the Year.

As we enter into 2025, Europe PMC celebrates a previous year of innovation, growth, and user-driven improvements. This end-of-year reflection highlights our key achievements in developing cutting-edge AI solutions for scientific research, advances in open research software, and support for transparency in scholarly communication. Using AI to revolutionise research discovery

I’ll be at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in Seattle (starting tomorrow). If you see me there, say hi! I will have a very light schedule, plenty of time for coffee chats. I’ll be attending many of the crypto sessions for the homomorphic encryption talks. And on Thursday at 3PM, I’ll be at the Code4Math booth in the exhibition hall.

This week, I have started work at Michigan State University, as interim technical lead on the Knowledge Commons project. I’ll probably say more about this at some point soon. However, a huge part of onboarding at new digital/software places is getting your head around the stack and trying to get a development environment setup and ready to use.

Wonder why horseshoe crab blood is so valuable? Discover the ancient creature’s role in modern medicine and the challenges of protecting it.

From November 17th to 22nd, 2024, HPC professionals and researchers gathered in Atlanta, Georgia, for the Supercomputing Conference 2024. We presented a paper at the 2024 International Workshop on Performance, Portability, and Productivity in HPC where we introduced CARAML, a reproducible AI benchmarking framework, and jpwr, a custom energy assessment module. The presentation slides are embedded at the bottom.

We are looking for two PhD students interested in the regulation of habit formation. Habits are useful to decrease cognitive load, but carry the risk of becoming stereotyped and hard to control – it’s hard to shake a bad habit.

The path to strengthening immunization systems requires innovative technical assistance approaches to learning and capacity building.

TL;DR: Anticipating Biological Risk and the Impact of AI Biological risks, whether from intentional misuse or accidental release, are a growing concern in an age where AI and biotechnology intersect.

In a recent heart-wrenching event, a mother orca whale has been spotted carrying her deceased calf once again. This poignant display highlights the emotional depth and bonds that exist among these magnificent creatures. The behavior of the grieving orca provides insight into the impact of loss within the animal kingdom, especially among marine mammals.

Since most of my education has taken place above the organism level, and since my current job concerns sub-organism processes, I want to get more familiar with those sub-organism things. So I’m reading and taking notes on my blog about the stuff I’m reading.