Meet Larry, the Scientific Cat Larry — a fluffy, slightly overweight cat — has achieved what many postdocs or even professors only dream of: becoming the most cited “author” in his field. Obviously, Larry has never written a word or attended a conference. His main activities? Napping, demanding food, and scratching furnitures. Yet, there he is — the most cited author without lifting a paw.How Did We Get Here?

Two years ago, I posted on the topic “Internet Archeology: reviving a 2001 article published in the Internet Journal of Chemistry (IJC)”. The IJC had been founded in 1998,  in part at least to “re-invent” the scholarly journal by elevating research data to being a more integrated part of the overall article, rather than as […]

Two almost complete and gapless genomes of the sex-changing central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) are published today in GigaScience to help tackle the mystery of reptile sex determination. Read more here.

Matt and I are just back from the first DinoCon, a British dinosaur convention hosted at Exeter University by Darren Naish (the silent partner at SV-POW!) and colleagues.

por Valentina Tovar Mota En México, a finalizar el siglo XIX, el divertimiento conocido como género chico – sainetes, cuplés, zarzuelas en un acto- se popularizó de manera sorprendente en las distintas ciudades del país. Las compañías teatrales españolas habían atravesado el Atlántico para instalarse en los ambientes citadinos de México.

Previously, I pondered about the strange N=N double bond in nitrosobenzene dimer as a follow up to commenting on the curly arrow mechanism of the dimerisation.

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive has supported ORCID and DOI identifiers for linking to authors and blog posts since its launch. Starting this week, these two identifiers can also be used to navigate within the Rogue Scholar archive.

Clear Skies is making genAI detection with Pangram available to subscribers in Oversight. We’re excited to see how this helps users to investigate research papers.

I have had the Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia from June 27 open for some time now.

Click it. Save it. Sorted. #DinoConUK

Since I wrote about the new ATProto-powered Tangled Git forge a few months ago, it's come along by leaps and bounds! First, and most excitingly, they've added continuous integration via Spindles which are built in a nice ATProto style: The pipelines are Nix-only right now, so I braved using it ^[1] for a new GPS Exchange Format library in OCaml that I wrote.