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Welcome the New Panda Twins at Zoo Berlin! Zoo Berlin has some exciting news for all panda lovers out there! The charming twin panda cubs have been officially named, much to the delight of everyone who has been following their adorable journey. Let’s dive into the details of these captivating creatures and learn more about their names and their significance.

Dr Brinkley Bellotti was recently interviewed by the MIT Technology Review on the topic of H5N1 and its continued spread in dairy cows and poultry. In her interview, Dr Bellotti mentions that unmitigated spread of H5N1 in animals could lead to recombination events of the influenza virus which could allow for strains that could more easily infect humans.

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Nas últimas décadas, a pesquisa social em todas as áreas de conhecimento tem enfrentado um desafio fundamental: como lidar com o crescente volume de dados disponíveis para análise de fenômenos sociais sem perder de vista a qualidade teórica e a profundidade reflexiva? A facilidade de acesso a recursos computacionais nos permite explorar novas possibilidades, mas também exige métodos que conectem teoria e empiria de forma consistente.

por Alejandro Quitze Barranco Muñoz En mi corta experiencia histórica he revisado varios archivos, pero uno de los más apasionantes y diversos es el Archivo Municipal de Saltillo. Ubicado en la capital de Coahuila, contiene uno de los acervos más amplios y mejor catalogados de la región. Abarca desde finales del siglo XVI hasta mediados del siglo XX. En su mayor parte se encuentra digitalizado, solo el siglo XX está en proceso.

Last Friday I attended a workshop by the Infra Wiss Blogs project in Berlin. Infra Wiss Blogs is a project funded by the German Research Foundation and started in July 2024 with the following goal: Infra Wiss Blogs aims to support blogging researchers and information infrastructure institutions in identifying potential solutions for ensuring the long-term accessibility of scientific blogs in Germany.

Wie gelingt es der Wissenschaft, die Souveränität über ihr Publikationswesen (zurück) zu erhalten? Zu diesem Thema wurde Maike Neufend, Co-Leiterin des Open-Access-Büros Berlin, kürzlich für die Reihe „Campus und Karriere“ im Deutschlandfunk interviewt. Die komplette Sendung steht zum Nachhören bereit. Die Sendung beleuchtete das Open-Access-Publizieren in der Wissenschaft.

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/github-repo-to-text-for-llm-input. ---  If you use ChatGPT, Claude, or even some local model through Ollama or HuggingFace Assistants, you’ll know that the chat interface makes it challenging to feed in an entire repo like a Python or R package, because functions, tests, etc. can be scattered across many files throughout a repo.

If you use ChatGPT, Claude, or even some local model through Ollama or HuggingFace Assistants, you’ll know that the chat interface makes it challenging to feed in an entire repo like a Python or R package, because functions, tests, etc. can be scattered across many files throughout a repo.

As DataCite continually works to support our growing community, updating the DataCite Metadata Schema to better represent community use cases supports our goals of driving metadata quality and completeness.  Today, we’re excited to share the release of DataCite Metadata Schema 4.6, which expands the resourceTypeGeneral, relatedIdentifierType, relationType, contributorType, and dateType controlled lists in response to community feedback.