A middle caudal vertebra of a diplodocid, presumably Tornieria africana , on display at the Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin, in left lateral view. Quick backstory: this post at Adam Mastroianni’s Experimental History led me to this post at Nothing Human, and poking around there led me to another good’un: “Shallow feedback hollows you out”. That post really hit for me, and it made me think about SV-POW!

In a groundbreaking study, researchers have successfully tracked a massive animal species in the Peruvian Andes, providing critical insights that are set to transform our understanding of the region’s ecosystem. This remarkable achievement highlights the enormous potential of using advanced tracking technologies to monitor and conserve biodiversity in remote areas.

More and more funders are recognizing the vital role of software in research. How can you leverage your software skills to aquire funding?

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has just dropped its long-awaited AI Opportunities Action Plan, a 50-page vision of how the UK government plans to guide us into an AI-powered future.

acéfalo (adj. m.) [lat. acephălus, del gr. aképhalos, sin cabeza]. 1. Dicho de un manuscrito o impreso que ha perdido los folios iniciales (→ mútilo). | 2. Dicho de un texto que ha perdido la primera parte. (fr. acéphale, ingl. acephalous, it. acefalo, port. acéfalo) adéspota (adj. n.) [gr. adéspota, sin dueño o...

Something a little different for this week’s recap. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the practice of data science education in this era of widely available (and really good!) LLMs for code. Commentary at the top based on my own data science teaching experience, with a deep dive into a few recent papers below.

This post is part of a living literature review on societal collapse. You can find an indexed archive here. While writing this living literature review on societal collapse, one topic that keeps popping up again and again is economic inequality. It seems that this inequality makes societies inherently less stable and less able to internally coordinate and thus more vulnerable to collapse.

Anmerkung zu dieser Rubrik: Das OABB 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.

Das Assad-Regime war kaum gestürzt, da erklangen bereits die ersten politischen Forderungen nach einer Rückführung syrischer Geflüchteter aus Europa. Die Grundlage für ihren Schutzstatus sei mit dem Ende des Bürgerkriegs in Syrien nicht mehr gegeben.

Auf den Open-Access-Tagen 2024 in Köln war das Projekt DeepGreen mit einem Poster vertreten. DeepGreen ist ein automatisierter Lieferservice für Open-Access-Artikel. Basierend auf Affiliationen und Lizenzinformationen verteilt DeepGreen Verlagsinhalte an institutionelle und fachliche Repositorien.

There is much to celebrate when it comes to recent developments in scholarly communication and research assessment. The scholarly communication landscape shows many promising initiatives, including a growing use of preprint services, open access repositories, and open peer review platforms, as well as an increasing interest in more equitable scholarly publishing models such as diamond open access and Subscribe to Open.