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SocietyScience FictionBiotechnologyAutres sciences techniquesAnglais
Publié in The Connected Ideas Project
Auteur Alexander Titus

Samara June 12, 2108 Outskirts of Kansas City Wedged between a matching set of security guards in the back seat of an armored Reaper, Dr. Samara Makinde watched through bulletproof glass as Missouri farm country scrolled past like a documentary of the apocalypse.

Lab ReportArt HistoryData VisualizationGraph DatabaseNetwork AnalysisHistoire et archéologieAnglais
Publié in DH Lab
Auteur DH Lab

by Jaap Geraerts, Henry Keazor, Demival Vasques Filho, Rebecca Welkens and Thorsten Wübbena This clear call for secrecy and discretion can be found as a kind of prologue in issues of the so-called ‘Mittheilungen des Museen-Verbandes’, which were published from 1899 to 1939. 2 They were distributed by the “International Association of Museum Officials in Defence Against Counterfeiting and Improper Trade Practices” (“Internationaler

AIAgentsNeurosciencePhilosophySciences naturellesAnglais
Publié in Chris von Csefalvay
Auteur Chris von Csefalvay

There’s a pervasive problem with semantics in artificial intelligence. It’s present at the creation – the term itself characterises the subject as a man-made simulacrum of something ‘natural’ the way we speak of artificial flavourings and artificial rubber.

NewsletterInformatique et sciences de l'informationAnglais
Auteur The rOpenSci Team

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! 🔗rOpenSci HQ 🔗Farewell to software review editor Julia Gustavsen This month we say farewell to Software Peer-Review Editor Julia Gustavsen.

Museen + ArchiveUrheberrechtUrheberrechtsreformDeutsche NationalbibliothekInterviewDroitAllemand
Publié in iRights.info

Zum 1. Juli 2025 startet der Lizenzierungsservice Vergriffene Werke (VW-LiS) neu. Dafür arbeitet die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB) eng mit der VG Wort und der VG Bild-Kunst zusammen. Simon Herrmann stellt im Interview die technischen Verbesserungen und rechtlichen Hintergründe des Projekts ausführlich vor.

AquilopsLife RestorationsNavel BloggingStinkin' MammalsStinkin' OrnithischiansSciences de la terre et de l'environnementAnglais

Gotta say, watching Scarlett Johansson making eyes at Aquilops is not getting old. Screengrab from this clip, the good stuff starts about 6:19. This short clip from the Tonight Show is also pretty great. Aaaand Halloween costume: sorted. I already have everything I need! (…except the lifelike Aquilops puppet. Dammit.) I may get back to posting actual science when I’m not drowning in summer anatomy teaching. Three days to go.

Interesting ChemistryChimieAnglais
Publié in Henry Rzepa's Blog

This are just a few insights I have got from some of the talks I attended. As usual, this does not represent a report on the WATOC congress itself, but simply some aspects that caught my personal eye. Frank Neese talked about his Bubblepole approximation for large molecules.[cite]10.1021/acs.jpca.4c07415[/cite] And he was not kidding – large.

DeutschForschungBlog Series: 10 Years After The "Long Summer Of Migration"Blogreihe: 10 Jahre Nach Dem „langen Sommer Der Migration“EuropäisierungSciences socialesAllemand
Publié in Netzwerk Fluchtforschung
Auteur Ko-AutorInnen

Die EU-Migrationspolitik bewegt sich seit jeher zwischen Logiken selektiver Offenheit und Abschottung. Seit dem Sommer der Migration befindet sie sich in einer Konjunktur, in der sich Strategien einer stärkeren Europäisierung mit einer forcierten Renationalisierung konfrontiert sehen. In diesem Kontext entfalten sich aus den politischen Kämpfen und Rechtskämpfen widersprüchliche Dynamiken.

Software Peer ReviewEditorsROpenSci TeamInformatique et sciences de l'informationAnglais

We are excited to welcome Emi Tanaka and Nima Hejazi to our team of Associate Editors for rOpenSci Stats Software Peer Review.They join Laura DeCicco, Julia Gustavsen, Jouni Helske, Toby Hocking, Rebecca Killick, Anna Krystalli, Mauro Lepore, Noam Ross, Maëlle Salmon, Emily Riederer, Adam Sparks, Beatriz Milz, Margaret Siple and Jeff Hollister.Since 2015, rOpenSci has operated a thorough and collaborative software peer review system.Our