The Persistent Identifiers for Projects Community Dialogue, hosted by DataCite and Metadata Game Changers, brought together a diverse group of experts to explore how PIDs can transform the identification and documentation of projects and related resources of many kinds.

Hungry Pelican’s Bold Move Stuns Volunteer and Tourists The Unexpected Encounter A routine day turned into an unforgettable experience for volunteers and tourists when a hungry pelican made a bold move recently. The unexpected encounter left everyone stunned, illustrating the unpredictability of nature.

For me, teaching stats this semester has turned into a journey of discovering what the distributional and ggdist packages can do for me. The way I make illustrative figures will never be the same. So I thought I’d revisit my post about hierarchical variance priors, this time implementing the figures using these two packages.

I was chewing on the concept of ludemes lately and needed to map it out, conceptionally. Especially from the perspective of code and programming, there are terms that overlap and differ.

Una breve introducción a Git Git es un software de control de versiones que se utiliza comúnmente en el desarrollo de software. Al usar Git, no necesitamos guardar los documentos como distintas versiones completas de ellos mismos sino sólo los cambios que hicimos y un comentario sobre qué cambios se hicieron, quién los hizo y cuándo.

I have a controversial and perhaps somewhat surprising (to some) view.

¿qué nos pueden decir sobre el control de los comportamientos sociales?

So I read Jeffrey Brainard’s piece in Science magazine on Clarivate’s decision to punish eLife for innovating – by stripping eLife of a proprietary Journal Impact Factor™ number, that Clarivate itself awards (sidenote: to be clear, I see no value in Journal Impact Factors as they are statistically illiterate, irreproducible, and easily gameable, amongst many other issues that have long been documented). With the

Wenn mensch einmal anfängt, darauf zu achten, erweist sich Wissenschaft an vielen Stellen als ein erstaunlich schmutziges Geschäft. Das ist allen irgendwie an der Wissenschaft Beteiligten klar.

Health workers are already being transformed by climate change. COP29 stakeholders can either support this transformation to strengthen health systems, or risk watching the health workforce collapse under mounting pressures. The World Health Organization’s “COP29 Special Report on Climate Change and Health: Health is the Argument for Climate Action“ highlights the health sector’s role in climate action.

Global Health Otherwise (GHO), an informal network spearheaded by Dr Luchuo Engelbert Bain, aims to “critically dissect the meanings of decolonization of global health practice, research, and funding”.  GHO spoke to The Geneva Learning Foundation’s Reda Sadki.