Re gular readers may have followed our community genome project Bauhinia Genome, and today marks the end of this journey with the publication in GigaScience of
Twelve years ago, a 2 a.m. email kickstarted the Open Access Button, OA.Work’s first scrappy attempt at making Open Access easier and more equitable. To mark this milestone, I wanted to share some of what we’re celebrating on this birthday, including some of the team’s recent achievements, where we are today, and the fact that our days now end at more humane hours… though my newborn hasn’t quite received the memo yet.
I get asked a lot how I have the time to read all these papers and articles I post about here. I don’t. Not all of them at least. I listen to many of them. Lately I’ve been using an app called ElevenReader , made by the popular text-to-speech service ElevenLabs. It’s free for iOS and Android.
A speculative dispatch from 2037
I made a zine as a souvenir of my Design Justice student group presentations.
von Elisa Tizzoni Kann eine schlichte Arbeitstabelle Interesse für ein bisher vernachlässigtes Thema in der europäischen Geschichte auslösen? Und kann ein Blick auf die Dokumentation des EU-Parlaments Überlegungen über die Rolle des Tourismus in unserer Gesellschaft und seine Auswirkungen auf die europäische Integration anregen?
“The claws were bad enough in the first place – nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when they began to imitate their creators, it was time for the human race to make peace – if it could! […] Across the ground something small and metallic came, flashing in the dull sunlight…
Collection #26
Diagnosing follicular neoplasms in thyroid fine-needle aspiration specimens can be difficult, and for good reason: it is a diagnostic category intended for a family of lesions for whom it is generally not possible to determine whether they are benign or not. This unfortunately means that most patients end up getting surgery to remove at least the half of their thyroid where the nodule is present despite the absence of a firm diagnosis.
I had a tremendous time participating in last year's horizon scan of AI and Conservation, which laid out the opportunities that technological progress from AI (a catchall phrase here) could bring to hard-working conservation practitioners.
Published 25 Apr. 2025. Last update 2 May. 2025. Tags: Projects, Citable, OCaml. DOI: 10.59350/f5bq8-1fx45. On 22 Apr 2022, three years ago, I opened an issue in the OCaml package manager, opam, ‘depext does not support nixOS’. Last week, my pull request fixing this got merged!