Impact of Imperiled Turtle Listing on Salem’s Homeless Camps In an unexpected turn of events, the recent decision to list a certain turtle species as imperiled has sparked significant controversy and unforeseen consequences in the city of Salem.
The Unsettling Event in Southwest Florida This past week, in the dense wilderness of Southwest Florida, a shocking incident occurred that has left wildlife experts and residents astounded. A large Burmese python was found to have devoured an entire adult deer, underscoring the severe impact invasive species can have on local ecosystems.
by Ian Kisil Marino There is a dimension of historians’ work that is often overlooked when considering the nature of our profession: the archive. This reference is not to the traditional concept of the archive as merely the location where historians search for historical sources, but rather to the creation of archives. Today’s digital transformation is shaping the archives that future historians will explore.
The Disturbing Reality Behind the Deaths of 89 Birds of Prey in Northern Ireland In recent news, the Decades in the making have highlighted the harrowing fact that no legal prosecutions have been made for the deaths of 89 birds of prey across Northern Ireland.
On 8 October 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, the Court) condemned Cyprus for having pushed back two Syrians, M.A. and Z.R., to Lebanon in September 2021. In this blog post, we place the M.A. and Z.R. v Cyprus judgment in the context of our research into why so little of what has been documented about border violence is visible in the Court’s judgments.
Three years ago, Tom Redd made a very generous commitment to the SV-POW! Patreon, and he remains our most generous donor in total. When I wrote to thank him his reply included “I have thousands of questions about apatosaurus that I would like to ask you some day.” It seemed only fair to invite him to ask some of those questions, so we asked him to give us five and said we’d try to answer them.
On October 22, 2024, I delivered a keynote lecture at the LundOnline Conference 2024 (not surprisingly held in Lund, Sweden) titled Balancing Aspirations and Outcomes – A Critical Look at Open Access Policies and Their Evolution . In my talk, I explored the development of Open Access policies since their inception, focusing on key aspects such as who sets these policies, their intended targets, and the types of materials made openly
How do you rescue a legacy codebase that has no tests? Let's look at some techniques for clawing your way back to maintainability, one test at a time.
Stability AI’s latest release offering New Models and Features
La redacción científica es un pilar fundamental en el avance y difusión del conocimiento en todas las disciplinas académicas. Su importancia radica en la capacidad de comunicar de manera clara, precisa y objetiva los resultados de investigaciones, experimentos y descubrimientos a la comunidad científica y al público en general.
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community.