When I came across Flagship Pioneering’s 2025 annual letter, authored by Noubar Afeyan, the concept of “polyintelligence” struck me as not just timely, but foundational. In this space—where The Connected Ideas Project (TCIP) lives and grows—we’re continually asking how technology and policy converge to shape the future.
Robert Hudson reviews The AI Mirror, by Shannon Vallor
The National Zoo’s Panda Cam: What You Need to Know The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., is a beloved spot for animal enthusiasts and families alike. But for those who can’t visit in person, the zoo offers an incredible opportunity to observe these giant wonders right from the comfort of their own home: the National Zoo’s Panda Cam.
As a provider of foundational open scholarly infrastructure, Crossref is an adopter of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). In December 2024 we posted our updated POSI self-assessment. POSI provides an invaluable framework for transparency, accountability, susatinability and community alignment. There are 21 other POSI adopters.
PKP invites communities to register for its next Software Development Update webinar happening on February 18th, 2025, at 8 AM Pacific Standard Time (PST). PKP invites those interested in the developments that underpin its scholarly publishing software to join in on February 18th for a free and open webinar.
Matt Boyd & Islands for the Future of Humanity Summary/TLDR Introduction The reliable supply of electricity underpins virtually every aspect of modern society, from communications and transportation to healthcare and food distribution. While this electrical infrastructure provides immense benefits, our deep dependence on it creates serious vulnerabilities if the system fails. In October 2024 Cuba … Continue reading "When the Lights Go Out: Understanding the Risk of Catastrophic Electrical Failure"
por Teresita Garabana La introducción de la moda en la prensa sudamericana del siglo XIX es un fenómeno que, aunque se ha estudiado de forma separada en distintos países, rara vez se aborda desde una perspectiva transnacional. Entonces, ¿qué nos permite conocer el análisis comparativo de la prensa de modas en Buenos Aires y Río de Janeiro?
OpenAlex has added a new metadata matching strategy co-developed by ROR and Crossref to its affiliation matching processes: ROR is also investigating the prospect of incorporating this new matching strategy into the ROR API in 2025. If you’ve been reading our recent series of blog posts about metadata matching, you know that automatic metadata matching at scale is a topic dear to our hearts.
The Rogue Scholar science blog archive continues to grow, with seven new blogs added this month and more than 24,000 archived blog posts. Luckily, onboarding new blogs is mostly automated, with the Rogue Scholar API handling the blog setup and blog post ingestion from RSS feeds. Some questions frequently come up and I try to improve the Rogue Scholar documentation to address them.
Die Trends aus den letzten Umfragen und Recherchen (Goeritz 2023; Nagel 2023; Petersohn & Thiedig 2023) zeigen es deutlich: Immer mehr Forschungseinrichtungen und Hochschulen entscheiden sich für die Einführung und Nutzung eines Forschungsinformationssystems (FIS), um ihre strategische Auskunfts- und Berichtsfähigkeit sowie ihre Außendarstellung zu verbessern.
Wie gelingt die Reform der Forschungsbewertung hin zu mehr qualitativen und transparenten Verfahren? Mit dem Zusammenschluss in der „Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment“ – kurz: CoARA – versuchen mehr als 700 Wissenschaftsorganisationen, eine Verbesserung der Forschungsbewertung zu erreichen. Zusammen mit der UB an der Freien Universität Berlin hat das OABB kürzlich ein Empfehlungspapier publiziert.