Biodiversity research is supported by an ever-increasing volume of citizen science observations, on platforms such as Waarneming.nl/Observation.org and iNaturalist.org. Taxonomic expertise is essential to sustain these platforms, but can be difficult to spread due to the decentralized nature of many citizen science projects.

Introduction We live in a world overflowing with information. Every click, every purchase, every social media post creates data. But data on its own is just noise — the real value is obtained only when we turn that data into insights . That’s where analytics comes in. With Artificial Intelligence (AI), data analytics has become faster, smarter, and more powerful than ever.

My new monograph Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons is published this week by the University of Michigan Press. You can download it or purchase a print copy here https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market.

Das Herzstück des European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) ist ein wachsendes Gemeinschaftsnetzwerk, das von zwei wichtigen Säulen getragen wird – der Registry und dem Forum. Beides sind virtuelle Räume, die die Vernetzung zwischen den Mitgliedern der Diamond Open Access (OA) Community in Europa fördern sollen.

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Zertifikatskurs Wissenschaftliches Publizieren und Open Science : Kompetenzen für wissenschaftliches Publizieren und Open Science in der digitalen Forschungswelt Die Universität des Saarlandes bietet eine spezialisierte Online-Weiterbildung mit Zertifikatsabschluss (Universitätszertifikat „Wissenschaftliches Publizieren“ mit 10 CP) zum Thema „Wissenschaftliches Publizieren und Open

RAND corp AIxBio report, AI accelerating: GPT-4b for stem cell reprogramming; AI is slowing down; UVA SDS on Bluesky; LLMs and education; Python needs R's CRAN;

This blog post is part of a series. Part 1 can be found here: https://winoda.de/en/2025/08/13/the-magic-of-acronyms-part-1-fair/ Another acronym that is often mentioned in the same breath as FAIR data is CARE.

Dieser Post ist Teil einer Serie. Teil 1 findet sich hier: https://winoda.de/2025/08/13/die-magie-der-akronyme-teil-1-fair/ Ein weiteres Kürzel, das oft in einem Atemzug mit FAIR data genannt wird, ist CARE.

by Sarah Oberbichler There are critics who sometimes ask the “so what?” question when it comes to Digital History: what impact can these new methods and approaches make on historical arguments and how can they advance scholarship? Do they advance scholarship at all? To be fair, sometimes this critique is justified.

In 1962, Richard Frank Kingham — a student at Woodward School Washington, D.C. — wrote a four-page paper, with three further pages of line drawings, about the Early Cretaceous sauropod Astrodon (Kingham 1962). It was published in the Proceedings of the Washington Junior Academy of Sciences (which to no-one’s great surprise does not seem to […]