Last Friday I attended a workshop by the Infra Wiss Blogs project in Berlin. Infra Wiss Blogs is a project funded by the German Research Foundation and started in July 2024 with the following goal: Infra Wiss Blogs aims to support blogging researchers and information infrastructure institutions in identifying potential solutions for ensuring the long-term accessibility of scientific blogs in Germany.

Wie gelingt es der Wissenschaft, die Souveränität über ihr Publikationswesen (zurück) zu erhalten? Zu diesem Thema wurde Maike Neufend, Co-Leiterin des Open-Access-Büros Berlin, kürzlich für die Reihe „Campus und Karriere“ im Deutschlandfunk interviewt. Die komplette Sendung steht zum Nachhören bereit.

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/github-repo-to-text-for-llm-input. ---  If you use ChatGPT, Claude, or even some local model through Ollama or HuggingFace Assistants, you’ll know that the chat interface makes it challenging to feed in an entire repo like a Python or R package, because functions, tests, etc. can be scattered across many files throughout a repo.

If you use ChatGPT, Claude, or even some local model through Ollama or HuggingFace Assistants, you’ll know that the chat interface makes it challenging to feed in an entire repo like a Python or R package, because functions, tests, etc. can be scattered across many files throughout a repo.

As DataCite continually works to support our growing community, updating the DataCite Metadata Schema to better represent community use cases supports our goals of driving metadata quality and completeness.  Today, we’re excited to share the release of DataCite Metadata Schema 4.6, which expands the resourceTypeGeneral, relatedIdentifierType, relationType, contributorType, and dateType controlled lists in response to community feedback.

The Unique Characteristics of the Flying Squirrel Iron Mountain is home to an intriguing nocturnal creature known as the Flying Squirrel . This captivating animal is distinguishable by its soft and silky fur , as well as its extraordinary ability to glide through the air, making it a remarkable resident of the night.

Matt Boyd & Nick Wilson Summary/TLDR The recently published Covid-19 Royal Commission’s lessons should be applied beyond pandemic preparation to address all potential global catastrophic risks (GCRs). Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) needs comprehensive plans for scenarios worse than Covid-19, including those involving destruction rather than just disruption of critical systems.

cowsay is a command line program written in Perl. The original version had a final release in 2016 (that’s the version of many installed cowsay programs) and there’s a number of forks of that release in Perl. There are also many many versions of cowsay in other programming languages, like the one I maintain written in R, unimaginatively called cowsay. I wrote about cowsay here back in 2014.

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2024 U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (AAW) is observed each year from November 18-24. The purpose of AAW is to raise awareness of the importance of appropriate antibiotic and antifungal use and the threat antimicrobial resistance poses to people, animals, plants and in our environment. See the CDC for more at here.

Every day a child is born with an inherited metabolic disorder, and many do not grow old. MetaKids is a Dutch foundation that collects money and raises awareness and the charity selected this year for the NPO (Dutch national radio/tv) 3FM Serious Request. This has become a Dutch tradition. Serious Request will play music on the radio, when people contributed to the fundraiser, and the more money, the more often the music gets played.

The Crossref2024 annual meeting gathered our community for a packed agenda of updates, demos, and lively discussions on advancing our shared goals. The day was filled with insights and energy, from practical demos of Crossref’s latest API features to community reflections on the Research Nexus initiative and the Board elections.