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We've been having great fun at the EEG recently releasing embeddings of our new TESSERA geospatial foundation model. A foundation model is designed to be used for downstream tasks without having to retrain a full model for every individual task.

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

Happy Friday, colleagues. August has flown by at warp speed. I started a new job, and my backlog of (semi-) pleasure reading grows longer. This is my regular attempt to close out my browser tabs I’ve accumulated over the past week with blog posts, podcasts, papers, etc. in AI, data science, genomics, public health, programming, scicomm, and other miscellany.

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 […]

Das wissenschaftliche Publizieren und damit auch das Open-Access-Publizieren ist für die Hochschulen nicht zuletzt eine finanzhaushälterische Angelegenheit. Lange Zeit war das Thema auf die Erwerbungsmittel der Bibliotheken für Subskriptionen von Zeitschriften, später auch Datenbanken, und Bücher gut eingrenzbar.

Last month I wrote about agentic coding in Positron using Positron assistant, which uses the Claude API on the back end. Yesterday OpenAI announced a series of updates to Codex, the biggest being an IDE extension to allow you to use Codex in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, etc. More details at developers.openai.com/codex.

This post was originally published by Marion Paulhac on the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) Community Forum here.