One thing I was still missing in BioHackrXiv was a place with an overview of: 1. all biohackathons, 2. all preprints linked to a biohackathon, 3. an RSS feed for new papers of a biohackathon.
The WATOC congresses occur every three years. WATOC25, the 13th in a series which started in 1987 takes places tomorrow in Oslo, Norway, The day before the main event there is something new – a session just for early career researchers or “Young WATOC”. As an “old” WATOCer, I dropped into the opening session and was delighted to find a packed auditorium, with literally standing room only comprising mostly young researchers in their 20s.
Disclaimer: This blog post is derived from the research presented at the 9th International Visual Methods Conference, at Istanbul, Turkey. Fig.
Anlässlich des Weltflüchtlingstags am 20. Juni veröffentlicht das UN-Flüchtlingshilfswerk (UNHCR) den sogenannten Global Trends-Bericht , um Einblicke in die globalen Fluchtbewegungen des Vorjahres zu geben.
Anmerkung zu dieser Rubrik: Das Open Research Office Berlin erstellt monatlich eine Übersicht über Termine und Veranstaltungen zu Open Access und Open Research in Berlin bzw. an Berliner Einrichtungen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf unseren Partnereinrichtungen und auf Veranstaltungen, die sich an die Öffentlichkeit richten bzw. die offen sind für Angehörige der Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbeeinrichtungen in Berlin.
Today’s piece is a guest post by Alex Obadia. Alex is a new program director at the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). As Alex puts it, his focus is “currently on designing new enabling trust primitives for a world where many more substrates (e.g. DNA, materials, thoughts) are programmable.” I met Alex last month at the ARIA Summit.
Thirty years after my first contact with computational (ir)reproducibility, I am happy to note that many things have improved. Reproducibility, computational and otherwise, is increasingly recognized as an important aspect of scientific quality control, and mostly considered worth striving for.
The highly prestigious journal Nature this week announced that it is going to be publishing all peer reviews alongside the articles it publishes. This means that the reviews attached to each publication will be available for all to read, although reviewer identities will remain anonymous unless they opt to sign their review.
Fragt man, welche Hürden der Transformation zu Open Access, Open Research und Open Science besonders im Weg stehen, dann lautet eine der häufigsten Antworten: Es sind die rechtlichen Unsicherheiten. Oft möchte man gern, weiß aber nicht, ob man darf. Oder man fragt sich, zum Beispiel, wie der § 38 UrhG Abs. 4 eigentlich auszulegen ist? Oder welche Implikationen sich aus den Creative-Commons-Lizenzen ergeben?
Four months after my open letter calling on the Royal Society to take action over Elon Musk FRS’s breaches of their code of conduct had attracted thousands of signatures from the scientific community, but only a very muted response from that most learned organisation, I was beginning to think I should let the matter go. After all, Musk is no longer part of the Trump administration, his relationship with the president
Presentations After a welcome by Heinz Pampel, Catharina Ochsner first introduced the topic of scholarly blogs. She introduced the basic concept of scholarly blogging, presented challenges of archiving blogs, and emphasized the importance of the long-term accessibility of scholarly blogs.