January is a strange month. After the festive whirl of December’s gatherings, it quickly shifts into the hustle and bustle of the new year’s commitments and the work that follows the holidays. For us at OpenCitations, however, it has become a tradition to take a moment at the end of this month to pause after the first hectic weeks of the year.

Thou shalt not suffer a flaky test to live, because it’s annoying, counterproductive, and dangerous: one day it might fail for real, and you won’t notice. Here’s what to do.

(please cite this post as https://doi.org/10.59350/nxkfm-ghk92) Today many researchers are not only capturing new knowledge in papers; they are also creating elements of infrastructure, such as datasets, software, and services. However, traditional methods of support and evaluation haven’t made a concomitant change.

This week we are pleased to announce and highlight new updated additions to our long-running collaboration with protocols.io, linked to our first paper with a peer-reviewed protocol featuring a “Peer-reviewed method” badge on protocols.io. Alongside the addition of new functionality in protocols.io to submit protocols as method papers to GigaByte . The new GigaByte paper presents a new method expanding the alphabet and

( Klik hier om de Nederlandse versie te lezen ) In any evaluation of scientific research, the obvious question is: how does a research unit compare with others, nationally and internationally? This question is easier to ask than to answer, because the answer is not easy to substantiate.

( To read the English version, click here ) Bij iedere evaluatie van wetenschappelijk onderzoek ligt de vraag voor de hand: hoe presteert een onderzoekseenheid in vergelijking met anderen, nationaal en internationaal? Die vraag is makkelijker gesteld dan beantwoord, want een antwoord laat zich niet gemakkelijk onderbouwen.

Surprising insights into wildlife populations revealed by the pellet count method – a cost-effective approach for estimating species abundance and habitat use.

In a heartbreaking incident, the North Fort Myers eaglet duo recently succumbed to seizures, leaving wildlife enthusiasts and the community in mourning. This devastating news has captured the attention of many who followed the journey of these eaglets in Florida. At the forefront of conservation efforts, these young eagles were symbolic of the larger efforts to sustain and grow the bald eagle population in the region.

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Neuigkeiten aus der FU Berlin: Dort gibt es seit kurzem mit Frank Fischer, Professor für Digital Humanities am Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften, einen Beauftragten für Open Science. Fischer wurde anlässlich seiner Antrittsvorlesung Ende Januar 2025 offiziell dazu ernannt.

New paper out today, in Geology of the Intermountain West (free at this link): Boisvert, Colin, Bivens, Gunnar, Curtice, Brian, Wilhite, Ray, and Wedel, Mathew. 2025. Census of currently known specimens of the Late Jurassic sauropod Haplocanthosaurus from the Morrison Formation, USA.