As we step into the new year, we reflect on the achievements of the Europe PMC team in 2025. Celebrating key developments shaped by user feedback, implementation of cutting-edge AI solutions, and continued commitment to supporting open science.
How audit rules and public infrastructure could break science’s publishing monopolies. An English version of my post for the Verfassungsblog from December 19, 2025. Scientific journals that feel straight out of 1665, prices that could come from a MrBeast meet-and-greet, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Google Antigravity is Google’s new agentic development platform, designed to shift the focus from writing lines of code to orchestrating complex tasks. Built as a fork of Visual Studio Code (VS Code), it re-imagines the developer experience around managing autonomous agents.
A TCIP Primer and Roadmap for 2026
LinkML enables defining data models and data schemas in YAML informed by semantic web best practices. As such, each definition includes a prefix map. Similarly to my previous posts on validating the prefix maps appearing in Turtle files and in unfamiliar SPARQL endpoints, this post showcases describes a new extension to the Bioregistry that validates prefix maps in LinkML definitions.
For most of human history, science has been communicated through the spoken word. Knowledge moved from person to person through oral storytelling and apprenticeship style training. Writing helped to fix ideas in time and allowed for greater reach. Science spread through personal correspondence and in-person gatherings. The invention of the printing press was the beginning of truly widespread knowledge distribution.
A few months back I was invited by Issues in Science and Technology to write a response to The Real Returns on NIH’s Intramural Research | Real Numbers by Jeffrey Alexander and Rossana Zetina-Beale. The reply was published on December 16th, and - no surprises here given my previous article for the Good Science Project - the basic premise is that NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP) data represents an additional return on taxpayer investment.
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We are very pleased to kick off the New Year with another important schema update and the news that a Grant DOI field is now supported for all record types.