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.

This thing arrived in the mail yesterday. Just in time… 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. I don’t know that I’ve ever done a movie review on this blog. It’s not really our thing here.

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

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.

Nos alegra muchísimo presentar a las nuevas personas que se suman como Campeones y Campeonas de rOpenSci. Este grupo experimentará el programa y trabajará en español, lo que nos permite seguir fortaleciendo la comunidad de ciencia abierta y desarrollo de software de investigación en este idioma. Nos llenan de entusiasmo los proyectos que van a desarrollar, que abordan desafíos reales desde distintas disciplinas y territorios de América Latina.

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.

Here are some of the most interesting R packages I’ve discovered among the 2025 releases. These are especially useful for demographic statistics, teaching, and time series correlation analysis.

All your dreams are made, when you’re chained to the lecture and the teaching trade. Was that lecture, lab or lesson a dream or a nightmare? Exactly what did you learn from the experience? When you reflect on it, how will you tell yourself and others the stories of your study?

Expanded from a post on X, which I felt didn’t do a good job expressing all of what I meant.

This is the June issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users. Blogs added to Rogue Scholar Two blogs were added in June. Welcome everybody!

Valter Rodrigues. O presente texto foi publicado no site oestrangeiro.net em 26 de abril de 2005, sob submissão do próprio Valter Rodrigues, e recuperado via Wayback Machine. O texto foi primeiramente publicado em Comunicação...