tl;dr: It’s been around 6 weeks using an ergonomic split keyboard. Inspired by Peter’s blog post about his experiences in changing to a split keyboard (and alternative keyboard layouts), I wanted to share bit of my own journey of using an ergonomic split keyboard: As part of the “elder millennials” , I grew up around early DOS computers and their command-line, followed by an early internet that for lack of real

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Interested to learn how institutions around the world are connecting research through open infrastructure? On 24 April 2025, we hosted a webinar featuring three Global Access Fund (GAF) Awardees and their journeys in making research outputs more visible and impactful. Whether you missed the event or want to revisit the highlights, this blog summarizes the insights shared by our speakers.

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Can creativity and science go together?

Uno de los errores más comunes en la transmisión de textos son las omisiones causadas por un salto visual del copista ( parablepsia ). Sobre ellas escribí una entrada hace algunos años.

In this series of posts about the electronic effects in small sulfur rings[cite]10.59350/rzepa.28615[/cite] I have explored increasingly large induced geometric effects. Here is the largest so far, for the compound S ₇ I ¹⁺ [cite]10.1021/ic50225a048[/cite] The calculated geometry[cite]10.14469/hpc/15236[/cite] is shown below, with the crystallographic values in parentheses – the two matching very well.

Der 14. Workshop der DINI Arbeitsgruppe Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable Metadaten (KIM) fand dieses Jahr wieder an der Uni Mannheim statt. Der jährliche Wechsel zwischen einer Veranstaltung vor Ort und eines Onlineformats hat sich mittlerweile etabliert und wurde auch von den diesjährigen Teilnehmenden als sehr passend empfunden.

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