This week’s recap highlights Variant-EFFECTS for rewriting regulatory DNA to dissect and reprogram gene expression, zero-shot evaluation revealing the limitations of single-cell foundation models, EcoWeaver for large-scale prediction of gene functional associations from coevolutionary signals, and how assemblies of long-read metagenomes suffer from diverse errors.

There’s a moment—somewhere in the quiet space between hypothesis and imagination—when science fiction stops feeling like fiction at all. I remember it clearly. We were outlining the premise of On the Wings of a Pig , building the scaffolding of a story that spanned lightyears and lifetimes.

by Sofia Baroncini, Constanze Buyken, Judit Garzón Rodríguez, Ian Kisil Marino, Sarah Oberbichler, Cindarella Petz The 2025 Digital Humanities Conference, held this year in Lisbon under the theme “Building Access and Accessibility: Open Science to All Citizens”, brought together a global community of researchers, developers, and practitioners to reflect on the role of openness, inclusivity, and ethics in digital scholarship.

Continuing the practice, this note represents, revises, and reflects on that which reappears every year, events and memories that should be recalled and reconsidered. I had planned another piece on contemporary Japan, but that can wait.

A Revista Argumentos acabou de lançar um dossiê sobre Michel Foucault, cujo tema é “Vidas Infames e Insubmissas“, com diversos artigos incríveis.

We’re once more looking to grow our editorial team at JOSS! Since our launch in May 2016, our existing editorial team has handled over 5000 submissions (over 3000 published at the time of writing, almost 500 under review) and the demand from the community continues to be strong. JOSS now consistently publishes 40-45 papers per month, and this is gradually increasing.

Introduction In scientific blogging, references and citations are essential. Unfortunately, Hugo’s support for citations is limited, see e.g. this discourse . So here’s a workflow for spacemacs that works for me. Editing Export to org with org-ref-export Export to hugo compatible markdown Workflow Editing I write my posts in spacemacs org-mode.

This is the July 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 Thirteen blogs have been added in July, making it one of the busiest months yet for Rogue Scholar. Welcome everybody!

TLDR/Summary Two critical government consultations The New Zealand government has called for submissions on drafts of two major plans pertaining to national infrastructure and fuel security. The NZ Infrastructure Commission and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) have asked how we can future-proof the systems that keep our country running. Our non-partisan independent … Continue reading "Building Real Resilience: Our Submissions on NZ’s Fuel and Infrastructure Plans"

The last note shared a manuscript I made available through SocArXiv.org, an open archive for the social sciences: Christopher Hobson, ‘Memes and monsters of the interregnum: Gramsci between the times’, Manuscript, 2025.

I’m not sure when I first came across his stuff, but I’ve really admired Andrew Heiss’ public scholarship, including his blog, which is full of handy stuff. At some point I noticed he had post-level DOIs minted. I knew you could mint repository-level DOIs with GitHub and Zenodo, but maintaining each post as a repository and adding them as submodules to a blog is… a lot.