I was born with brittle bones. Not metaphorically— literally. Osteogenesis imperfecta, Type III. My bones fractured under the weight of my own body. By the time I turned twelve, I’d broken every bone you could name and a few you probably couldn’t. It defined my childhood, shaping every moment of my life into a careful negotiation between risk and inevitability.

When navigating our social media platforms in the past three days, you may have noticed a blurred and colourful spot in the place of our usual logo.

Cultura científica de la A a la Z Entender, de manera general y actualizada, la información científica es una habilidad indispensable para cualquier ciudadano. De hecho, aunque parezca obvio, para cualquier ámbito de la práctica científica es fundamental reconocer, entender y manejar ágilmente los conceptos, métodos, iniciativas, movimientos y herramientas propias de las ciencias.

Virtual Reality und Augmented Reality ermöglichen es, fremde urheberrechtlich geschützte Werke in virtuelle Umgebungen einzubinden. Dafür ist es ratsam, die verschiedenen Nutzungsrechte des Urheberrechts zu kennen. Was man dazu wissen sollte, erklärt Betim Neziraj. Im ersten Teil ging es um die Frage, wie VR- und AR-Anwendungen urheberrechtlich einzuordnen sind.

The Natural Earth Project The Natural Earth Project provides high quality public domain geographic data with all sorts of incredible detail, at three resolutions: high (1:10m), medium (1:50m), and low (1:110m). I use their data all the time in my own work and research, and the {rnaturalearth} package makes it really easy to get their data into R for immediate mapping. I mean, look at this!

Discovering the Captivating Deep-Sea Creature The ocean is a mysterious realm, teeming with enigmatic and rare creatures that continue to fascinate scientists and nature enthusiasts alike. Among these captivating entities is a rare deep-sea animal renowned for its enormous jaws and striking pink glow. Recently, researchers have gained more insight into this remarkable species, prompting a surge of interest and curiosity.

Two weeks ago, the Beilstein Institute announced Bioschemas support in their journals: The idea is far from new and has been around for two decades. But the two Beilstein journals (both diamond Open Access), actually integrated into their active publishing model. That has been trialed and put in action before.

webmockr v2 is here. You can find the source at https://github.com/ropensci/webmockr, and the docs at https://docs.ropensci.org/webmockr. There’s some big changes in this version; most importantly a breaking change, thus the major version change this time. Here’s a run down of the important items in this release.

I had a problem with my Tor relay last night. For some reason, the application (daemon) started but then after about 5 seconds it stopped listening. The Tor Metrics site was displaying a red button saying my node was unreachable and when I did “sudo ss -ltp” I got nothing. The application literally wasn’t “listening” (in network socket terms). The answer was actually embarrassingly simple.

En la última entrada sobre ChrysoCollate repasé algunas alternativas para reducir la cantidad y la longitud de las entradas del aparato crítico. Cubrí entonces las opciones de configuración de variantes de lengua y de configuración de las entradas del aparato crítico. Dejé pendiente la última opción de esta ventana de configuración, que realmente no sirve para reducir el tamaño del aparato, sino para alterar su comportamiento.

Worldwide, science is under attack by anti-scientific movements. The new US administration has thrown the entire academy into chaos, threatening global health. This article is a call for the open science community to practice what it preaches and lead by example in defending science.