I had good intentions to give NaNoWriMo a try this year but didn’t get very far. Instead I gave OpenAI’s Creative Writing Coach GPT a try for a (very) short story I had in mind, inspired by my frustration trying to access closed-access research articles for a review article I’m preparing.

UPDATE: Thanks to additional support from GBIF the deadline has been extended to 6th June 2025. TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases hosted at the World Health Organization (WHO), GBIF and GigaScience Press have announced a third call for authors to submit Data Release papers on vectors of human disease for inclusion in a thematic series published in GigaByte Journal.

This is a Draft Introduction The Immunological Challenge Let’s face it, the immune system is a bit of a drama queen (or king, depending on the situation). It’s constantly patrolling our bodies, acting as a vigilant security force , looking for trouble (like invading pathogens, damaged cells, or rogue cancer cells). When it finds something suspicious, it initiates a

Introduction The Immunological Challenge Let’s face it, the immune system is a bit of a drama queen (or king, depending on the situation). It’s constantly patrolling our bodies, acting as a vigilant security force , looking for trouble (like invading pathogens, damaged cells, or rogue cancer cells). When it finds something suspicious, it initiates a complex and tightly regulated

Universities worldwide currently face a pivotal choice: should they contribute to building a global infrastructure for exchange, science, and discourse, free from the control of oligarchs, to promote democracy, human rights, and digital participation? Or should they continue advertising on private networks, hoping for clicks and marginally increased student enrollment?

Recent analyses of Meta and Alibaba’s production microservices architectures identified patterns of heavy-tail and power law distributions. These patterns manifest in service scale, and request patterns, providing a glimpse into the inherent characteristics of large-scale distributed systems. For details review of Meta and Alibaba’s microservices ecosystem please see here and here.

Newly out in VAMP: Danison, Andy D., Wedel, Mathew J., Barta, Daniel E., Woodward, Holly N., Flora, Holley M., Lee, Andrew H., and Snively, Eric. 2024. Chimerism of specimens referred to Saurophaganax maximus reveals a new species of Allosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda). Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 12:81-114.

Alibaba has built a complex system of microservices to support its large user base and manage its diverse business operations. This article explores key learning from Alibaba’s microservices architecture, presenting critical observations from its design, scalability, performance optimisation, and resource allocation model.

En enero iniciaremos el curso intersemestral de Filosofía e Historia de la Biología semestre 2025-3 de la carrera de Biología en la Facultad de Ciencias de la UNAM, es un curso intensivo que durará tres semanas del 6 de enero al 24 del siguiente año (2025). Al parecer será un grupo pequeño, lo que nos permitirá interactuar más y hacer un curso mas personalizado, Generalmente este curso es más abierto y versátil porque la mayoría de los

I'm back to my all-too-slow reading of Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks , and am finding myself a bit haunted this morning by this passage: Haunted, because I at least in theory started a vacation yesterday -- or, rather, two days of vacation followed by my university's relatively new December 24 to January 1 closure. But I'm having a super hard time actually turning work off.