I have had the Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia from June 27 open for some time now.

Click it. Save it. Sorted. #DinoConUK

Since I wrote about the new ATProto-powered Tangled Git forge a few months ago, it's come along by leaps and bounds! First, and most excitingly, they've added continuous integration via Spindles which are built in a nice ATProto style: The pipelines are Nix-only right now, so I braved using it ^[1] for a new GPS Exchange Format library in OCaml that I wrote.

I’ve been sitting on this post for well over a year.

The Merge Users summary from the PKP OSLO Sprint, hosted by the University of Oslo in June 2025, is now available. Sprints involve PKP community members joining diverse groups to work on PKP software and support. The University of Oslo (UiO) hosted eight working groups at the PKP Oslo Sprint in June. This is a summary of one such group’s work.

I’m trying something new this week. I’ve been publishing weekly recaps on this newsletter for over a year now where I take a small deep dive into a few papers I’ve read recently. This takes time, and there’s often so much more interesting and relevant research and news in the data science + biotech space than I could possibly write about here. So I’ll be trying something different here for the next few weeks.

While reviewing a paper, I suddenly remembered the first replication of an experimental study I ever conducted. It’s 25 years old. In March 2000, I taught a workshop for a sociology class of 25 undergraduate students at Utrecht University.

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Anmerkung zu dieser Rubrik: Das Open Research Office Berlin erstellt monatlich eine Übersicht über Termine und Veranstaltungen zu Open Access und Open Research in Berlin bzw. an Berliner Einrichtungen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf unseren Partnereinrichtungen und auf Veranstaltungen, die sich an die Öffentlichkeit richten bzw.

Der Titel DeutschGPT – Deutschunterricht im Dialog mit Künstlicher Intelligenz ist kürzlich erschienen. Herausgegeben wird er von Hans-Georg Müller (Universität Potsdam) und Maurice Fürstenberg. Die Publikation wurde durch den Publikationsfonds des Landes Brandenburg gefördert und steht im Open Access zur Verfügung.

Academia today finds itself in a paradox. The ‘publish or perish’ mantra has spiralled into an uncalled race, where the finish line is quantity , and not quality . In this obsession to stack CVs with publication credits, research quality and integrity often suffer. Between 2018 and 2022, research articles witnessed a 22.78 per cent growth to 5.14 million. Yet concerns over research integrity persist.