The call for applications for round 3 of the OBF Event Fellowship for 2025 is now open. The deadline for this round is 1 December 2025. You can submit your application through this Google Form. We have provided a Word template to help you draft the application locally before filling out the form – make a copy of this template.
BOSC 2026 , the 27th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, will take place July 13-14 or July 15-16 in Washington, DC, as part of ISMB 2026. We hope you will join us in person or online! Since 2000, BOSC has covered all aspects of open source bioinformatics and open science. BOSC 2025 took place July 21-22, 2025 in Liverpool, UK (as part of ISMB/ECCB 2025). Read our BOSC 2025 report on F1000Research!
Giving students fair, justified and consistent feedback on their work is a cornerstone of good teaching practice. So how consistent are humans when they are grading programming assignments?
This morning I woke up to the notice that my Garmin watch had now collected enough data to provide me with a Health Status insight - a new beta feature I hadn’t heard about before. Curious, I opened it to see how Garmin approaches making health status predictions – and was greeted with a familiar view.
Entre os dias 1 e 3 de outubro de 2025 ocorreu o I Encontro de Filosofia da Psicologia, organizado pela Pós-Graduação em Filosofia da UFPR, o Departamento de Psicologia da UFPR e o Departamento...
Successively clicking the first link in a Wikipedia article almost always leads to Philosophy
Disziplinäre Realitäten. Ein Kommentar zur Diskussion um den Ausschluss des Verfassungsblogs aus dem DOAJ Anfang des Jahres machte der Verfassungsblog seine unfreiwillige Auslistung aus dem DOAJ bekannt.
Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing.
This is part 2 of 5 of a series of posts [1] about ICFP 2025. Several extensions to "oxidize" OCaml (Rust performancew with ML ergonomics!) have been developing rapidly in a fork called OxCaml. I helped an intrepid crew from Jane Street, IIT-M, Tarides, Brown and Cambridge pull together a really fun tutorial in ICFP 2025 that you can try out too!
This is part 1 of 5 of a series of posts [1] about ICFP 2025. The first outing of PROPL was last year in London, and this time around Dominic Orchard and I invited KC Sivaramakrishnan to be the PC chair and held it at ICFP/SPLASH. The uptake was encouraging, and we got enough submissions to have a proper published proceedings in the ACM Digital Library for the first time!
Zum 15. Mal findet vom 22. bis zum 25. Oktober 2025 die Konferenz „Zugang gestalten! – Mehr Verantwortung für das kulturelle Erbe“ statt. In diesem Jahr ist die Konferenz zu Gast bei der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek in Leipzig, der Themenschwerpunkt ist Künstliche Intelligenz. Themenschwerpunkt KI KI bestimmt derzeit die gesellschaftliche, politische und rechtliche Debatte.