The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community.

One often hears it said that “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”. For example, if you excavate some fossil sauropods and they don’t have preserved feathers, that not evidence that sauropods didn’t have feathers. Oh yes it is. This is an example of a mantra that’s short, catchy, and wrong.

Appalachian History Series On December 30, 1970, a powerful coal dust explosion ripped through the Finley Coal Company’s interconnected Nos. 15 and 16 mines on Hurricane Creek near Hyden in Leslie County. Thirty-eight miners were killed. One man, A. T. Collins, survived after the blast hurled him out of the portal. Another miner, Harrison Henson, was outside the mine when the explosion occurred.

This is a bit of an administrative post and historic, but keep coming back to the question, where are all the deliverable of the (past) project. Now, since many eNanoMapper project deliverables were public, we were able to release most of them on Zenodo. This post makes an overview.

Discover the Open Publishing Series — three online courses from SFU’s MPub program, launching Sept 2025. Get a sneak peek at what you’ll learn. Last month we announced the launch of the Open Publishing Series, a collection of three online courses developed in collaboration with the Master of Publishing (MPub) program at Simon Fraser University […] The post Sneak peek at PKP’s new open publishing courses appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.

The Bioregistry is a database and toolchain for standardization of prefixes, CURIEs, and URIs that appear in linked (open) data. While I created it in 2019 as a component of PyOBO in order to support parsing database cross-references appearing in biomedical ontologies, it has since become an independent project with a community-driven governance model and much broader applications. This post is a first attempt to quantify its usage and impact.

Happy Friday, friends. 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 data science, genomics, public health, programming, scicomm, and other miscellany. Enjoy! Subscribe now A new study in the European Heart Journal on Accelerated vascular ageing after COVID-19 infection, and Eric Topol’s coverage on Ground Truths, COVID and our arteries.

The Bioregistry is a community-driven registry of semantic spaces and their metadata. When I learned about BiomarkerKB at the International Society for Biocuration’s 18th Annual International Biocuration Conference, I was excited to curate new records (and prefixes) in the Bioregistry to cover BiomarkerKB’s semantic spaces on biomarkers.

Kürzlich ist eine von Jens Eder (Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Potsdam) verfasste Publikation im Open Access erschienen, die durch den Publikationsfonds des Landes Brandenburg gefördert wurde.

That's a wrap for the next decade with Aarhus 2025, where I presented our paper on "Steps towards an Ecology for the Internet". I was a little unsure about how to approach the presentation, largely because the ideas seem a little crazy if they'd been proposed even a year ago! Luckily my co-authors strengthened my spine with encouragement and gin, and the event was tremendous fun packed with useful insights.

I am pleased to share that our research group is a partner of the “Berlin – City of Open Knowledge for Academia, Administration, Civil Society & Culture” conference. The conference will take place on October 23, 2025, from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM, as part of the international Open Access Week 2025. This event will bring together experts, practitioners, and engaged citizens to explore the future of open knowledge-sharing in Berlin.