What causes inflation in prices over time? Increases in the money supply, of course. Although there are many reasons for increasing prices over time, money supply is one of the few things that can do so and grow without bound. Case closed, right? Not quite. In practice we can’t perfectly observe how prices change over time and instead we must measure inflation with an index number.
{width=“70%; class=”zoomable”; height:200px;“} The European Bioconductor conference 2025 (EuroBioC2025) took place between September 17 and 19, 2025, and was hosted at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) in Barcelona by the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (MELIS-UPF)and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). The Catalan capital boasts a rich culture, a lively atmosphere, and a blend
Last week I had the privilege of attending the 2025 Progress Conference, which brought together a diverse cadre of people working on progress, metascience, artificial intelligence, and related fields. I was surprised by how optimistic the median attendee was about AI for science.
Two parts of the Library of Identification Resources have gotten major updates in the last year. First, the taxon coverage field (also labeled “For identifying …” in some places) is now linked to external databases, namely Wikidata and GBIF. Second, the scoring and sorting of search results in the Find resources tool was made more transparent and visible.
Open Science (OS) holds a powerful promise: to serve society by providing universal public access to knowledge.
Part one of this topic was posted more than ten years ago. I clearly forgot about it, so belatedly, here is part 2 – dealing with the stereochemistry of the reduction of tert-butyl-cyclohexanone by borohydride in water.
Disclaimer I will speak from my own experience and from what I know the most — the case of being a (European) cisgender woman in academia . I don’t claim to represent or fully understand the struggles of transgender women or other genders in this article. Everything: The Weight on Your Shoulders of Multiple Expectations An Invisible Pressure Women in academia constantly feel an
The coming age of scientific superintelligence and the technologies that will make it possible
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I recently had a use case at work (a LiteStar app) where I needed to write to two linked tables (see below) in a transaction in our PostgreSQL database.