Access to reliable and timely scientific evidence is utterly vital for the practise of responsible policymaking, especially with all the turmoil in the world these days. At the same time, the evidence base on which use to make these decisions is rapidly morphing under our feet; the first entirely AI-generated paper passed peer review at an ICLR workshop today.
For the past few years I’ve been a statistics tutor in the psychology department at Maynooth University. We cover everything from the basics of descriptive statistics and graphs to the nitty-gritty of t-tests, correlations, and ANOVAs. However, there’s one topic where I always slow down and dive deep: regression analysis. Why?
Last Friday, thousands of scientists protested against US government cuts on research funding with the Stand up for Science movement. There were more than 30 demonstrations all over the US, and a handful in other countries (several of them taking place in France). So, what does it mean to “Stand up for Science”?
Die Fachzeitschrift Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis veröffentlichte soeben einen Call for Papers, auf den wir auch gern an dieser Stelle kurz hinweisen. Thema sind offene Bildungsmethoden bzw. Open Educational Practices (OEP). Diese „beziehen sich auf Lehr- und Lernmethoden, die den freien Zugang zu Bildungsmaterialien, pädagogischen Ressourcen und Forschungsergebnissen fördern.
I have no doubt that mirror life will continue to be a topic of interest in synthetic biology and biosecurity circles. But I am not ready to buy into the panic just yet.
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Ronald J Planer and Claudio Tennie review The Human Evolutionary Transition, by Magnus Enquist, Stefano Ghirlanda and Johan Lind
Knowing how to conduct ecological surveys reveals hidden secrets of nature’s delicate balance – but where should you begin?
Man Amazed to See Rare Eagle in Marlow A marvel of nature recently graced the skies over Marlow, leaving one man awestruck. The sighting of a rare eagle, a bird not typically seen in this region, has caught the attention of bird enthusiasts and onlookers alike. Spotting the Rare Eagle During what seemed to be an ordinary day, a man found himself witnessing an extraordinary spectacle.
As part of our Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Science grant, we organized a Chemistry Development Kit User Group Meeting (#CDK25UGM), of which yesterday was the “conference” day, and today a hackathon.
By default in a quarto document, the code and output look something like this: set.seed(2025) rnorm(10) [1] 0.62075674 0.03564140 0.77315448 1.27248909 0.37097543 -0.16285434 [7] 0.39711189 -0.07998932 -0.34496518 0.70215136 Maybe this is just me not wanting my peas to touch my mashed potatos, but I don’t like how close the output is to the text of the document.