Are meta-scientists ignoring philosophy of science (PoS)? Are they re-inventing the wheel? A recent panel at the Metascience conference engaged with this question, and the first sentence of the abstract states “Critics argue that metascience merely reinvents the wheel of other academic fields.” It’s a topic I have been thinking about for a while, so I will share my thoughts on this question.

KI-Agenten erweitern die Möglichkeiten von KI-Systemen erheblich, doch die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen dafür sind noch im Aufbau. Dadurch ergeben sich neue Fragen zu Verantwortung und Kontrolle. „2025 ist das Jahr der KI-Agenten“, prognostizierte Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer von OpenAI, Anfang Januar beim Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos.

Edward G Robinson’s gangster Johnny Rocco in Key Largo (John Huston, 1948) seems uncertain when asked by Humphrey Bogart and Lionel Barrymore’s sequestered characters what he wants. But after some prompting, he comes up with ‘That’s it. I want more.’ Mindless acquisitiveness matches his mendacity and violence. And that’s the story with the discreditable alliance between pro sports and the screen.

Billet rédigé par ✏️ Frédérique Flamerie , ✏️ Raphaël Grolimund, ✏️ Alain Marois, ✏️ Laure Mellifluo et ✏️ Alexandre Racine Nous vous proposons en cette fin d’année universitaire une nouvelle édition de notre bulletin de veille, particulièrement riche en trucs et astuces.

Um pouco marcado pelas falas de Geoffrey Hinton, fiz o gesto de esboçar um bate-papo com o ChatGPT. Ele foi sobre valor, humanidade e a “visão” da IA sobre os homens. Segue: Pergunta: O...

This week’s recap highlights the Rust-based wgatools for manipulating alignments and visualizing in the terminal, the nf-core scnanoseq Nextflow pipeline for ONT scRNA-seq, sawfish for better SV discovery and genotyping with long reads, the BINSEQ high-performance binary formats for nucleotide sequence data, and a unified analysis of atlas single-cell data.

The National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) is an inter-university research institute based in Japan. NIFS promotes academic collaborative research and also strives to meet the expectations of the industrial sector, which is beginning to engage with fusion energy development, as well as students, including those pursuing recurrent education.

I say “semi-spoileriffic” because I’m not going to go out of my way to give away any plot points or creature details you couldn’t get from watching the trailers and TV spots, but if you want to keep yourself pure as the driven snow, you might want to save this post for later.

Positron’s Quarto support is really quite robust and it’s full of nice little features like previewing a citation using whatever bibliography style your document is using (Chicago, APA, etc.) when you hover over a citation key: …or knowing about the different headings inside your document for tab-completed cross references: …or even knowing about those headings in other documents in a project: That’s all neat, but for long-form writing, like

We’re very excited to introduce the new rOpenSci Champions! This cohort will participate in the program and carry out their work in Spanish, allowing us to continue strengthening the open science and research software development community in this language. We’re excited about the projects they’ll be developing, which tackle real-world challenges across diverse disciplines and regions of Latin America.

Introduction This blog post was written during CoFest (CollaborationFest) that took place after the 2025 Galaxy Bioconductor Community Conference, held this year at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.