Like most years, a mixed bag for me here. Kidney failure continues to be a truly challenging medical fiasco, with AV fistulas, overnight dialysis, hormone therapies, and much much more. I also continue to feel the severe difficulties of my rheumatoid arthritis, which required a hip replacement in April.

OpenCitations and the Barcelona Declaration are happy to announce that the call for participation and contributions to the Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2025 is now open.  After the success of the 2023 edition, this edition of the Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata (WOOC) will take place in Bologna , on 28-29 May 2025 . – https://workshop-oc.github.io.

Since the inception of ChatGPT in late 2022, the question of how AI will change academia is a concern in almost every discipline. Social media and mailing lists alike are flooded with suggestions for new AI-based tools, workflows, or seminars. At the same time, many journal publications now come with some form of AI involvement – from analyzing and interpreting data to the drafting of whole sections.

In the digital era, making research easily discoverable and accessible cannot be overstated. In this context, the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system has emerged as a global persistent identifiers (PIDs) standard for identifying and linking digital content. However, many institutions in Tunisia, as well as institutions in other developing countries, have been slow to adopt this system due to various challenges.

In contemporary technology environments, organisations are increasingly challenged with the complexities of privacy engineering. The evolving data governance and regulatory ecosystems demand not only technical ingenuity but also a deep understanding of legal frameworks and organizational dynamics.

At the heart of privacy lies the principle of purpose limitation, dictating that data should only be processed for explicitly stated purposes. This principle presents a considerable challenge, especially for organisations operating at the scale of Meta, which handles vast amounts of data from billions of users.

It’s getting towards the end of the year so it is time to assemble a list of my favourite albums released in 2024. I have sporadically posted lists like this in the past. These twenty albums were the ones I liked the most (and the ones that I thought other people might like to hear). The Lemon Twigs – A Dream Is All We Know Genre: Power pop | [link] My favourite record of this year.

The idea of so-called FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data is that each object has an associated metadata record which serves to enable the four aspects of FAIR. Each such record is itself identified by a persistent identifier known as a DOI.

Have you ever been asked WHAT SCHOOL DID YOU GO TO? I was once asked this in a high-stakes job interview and my answer was that of a startled rabbit caught in the headlights before becoming squashed roadkill on the highway to hell. Nobody has asked me that question before or since. How can such a simple question be so difficult to answer?

Das wissenschaftliche Verlagswesen ist im Umbruch. Auch die dominanten Großverlage stellen mittlerweile auf Open Access um – und fischen dabei Nutzungsdaten von Forschenden ab. Das geschieht so umfassend, dass sich Auswirkungen für die Wissenschaftsfreiheit ergeben können. Maximilian Heimstädt skizziert dafür in seinem Gastbeitrag drei mögliche Szenarien.

How to Use FLUX 1.1 Online for Free: A Tutorial on Generating Ultra Realistic Images and Editing Tools A Step-by-Step Guide to Using FLUX 1.1, FLUX Fill, Canny, Redux Tools, and Camera Filename Prompt Techniques for Creating or Editing Images in Any Style and Realism Author Zijian Yang ( ORCID: 0009–0006–8301–7634) Introduction to FLUX 1.1 On