Last week, we hit “publish” on a major milestone for the U.S. biotechnology industry: the final report of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB). Two years of work. Over 1,800 experts. 180+ pages. And now the real work begins.

It is a basic good of modern societies to have access to knowledge, information and culture. A new practical guide by Till Kreutzer provides support in choosing the right Creative Commons licence and sharing content in a legally secure manner. It was created in a cooperation with Wikimedia Germany and the German UNESCO Commission.

As promised, the folks at NEIU have posted the video of my discussion with Scott Dodelson last week, so here you go: I am in the midst of writing a related post on cosmic tensions, so hopefully I can post that soon as well.

This is the Fourth in a series exploring once-thriving Appalachian towns left behind by shifting energy markets and changing times.

por Óscar Zárate A menudo la divulgación de la historia se confunde con simplificación sin más: una visión reducida y reduccionista, completamente masticada para consumo del público. El verdadero reto de esa noble labor es hacer digerible el conocimiento histórico sin sacrificar la complejidad propia de los asuntos humanos, en los que no existen las causas únicas ni los finales preestablecidos;

Today, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive launched an important new feature: showing the full-text content (in addition to metadata) of all participating blogs on blog post pages. Rogue Scholar has always stored the full-text internally and made it available via the REST API, as the full-text is needed for archiving and full-text search.

This is the First in a series exploring once-thriving Appalachian towns left behind by shifting energy markets and changing times.

This is the Second in a series exploring once-thriving Appalachian towns left behind by shifting energy markets and changing times.

This is the Third in a series exploring once-thriving Appalachian towns left behind by shifting energy markets and changing times.

I recently compared three academic AI search tools: Primo Research Assistant, Web of Science Research Assistant, and Scopus AI for a review article.

DOI 10.60804/ZGJX-0K93 Over the last couple of months we have talked with meta-researchers about their work on data, and their perspectives on steps needed to better understand how datasets are used and inform responsible metrics for data.