A coyote was recently discovered in an unexpected place – the cold food section of an Aldi store. The wild animal was found in a surprisingly good condition given its unusual choice of location. The Unusual Discovery at Aldi Rescuing a coyote from an environment like a grocery store might sound surprising, but that’s precisely what happened. Imagine heading to your local Aldi, only to come across a wild coyote amidst the frozen food aisles.

This week we had a wonderful community call, From Novice to Contributor: Making and Supporting First-Time Contributions to FOSS, where Sunny Tseng, Pascal Burkhard, and Yaoxiang Li shared with us their experiences with, and advice for, first time contributors, with the excellent moderation of Hugo Gruson.This was a perfect start to our special series of activities to support first time contributors to Open Source Software.

por Daniel Guzmán Vázquez En 2017 apareció una nueva edición en español de Combates por la historia (Akal). Tengo la impresión de que incluso antes, en su formato de bolsillo era ya un libro común en bibliotecas personales y librerías de viejo.

There is an air of defeatism in progressive circles today, the day Donald Trump will be sworn in for a second term as President of the United States of America.

Biblioblog je sedaj indeksiran v Rogue Scholar: https://rogue-scholar.org/communities/biblioblog Rouge Scholar je brezplačna storitev za indeksiranje blogov, ki pomaga vključiti znanstvene bloge v infrastrukturo znanstvenih podatkovnih zbirk.

How can we teach “R for cell biologists” rather than teaching R to cell biologists? I’ve noticed that many R training courses will teach R – regardless of who is taking the course – and leave it to the participants to figure out how they can use R in their own discipline.

Dieser Blogpost dokumentiert zentrale Aussagen zu Open-Science-Themen in den Parteiprogrammen zur Bundestagswahl 2025 am 23. Februar 2025 von AFD, BSW, CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP, Grünen und Linke. AFD Im Wahlprogramm der AFD (PDF) wird Open Science nicht spezifisch adressiert.

Note This is a follow-up blog post to the Dual licensing R packages with code and data post published in September 2024. It contains learnings from submitting epiparameter to CRAN with a dual license. Overview of previous blog post on R package licensing We previously published a post on the Epiverse-TRACE blog discussing the importance of licensing code and data for open source.

Maintaining Community Trust and Safety The rOpenSci community is supported by our Code of Conductwith a clear description of unacceptable behaviors,instructions on how to make a report,and information on how reports are handled.We, the Code of Conduct Committee,are responsible for receiving, investigating, deciding,enforcing and reporting on all reports of potential violations of our Code.We are committed to transparency with our community

One-and-a-half years ago I started migration my blog from blogger.com to a Markdown and Git-based blog. It has been a fascinating journey that I do not regret.

Here’s the books I read in 2024. If I were Dudley Dursley, I’d be very upset that I read one fewer new book than in 2023. But then, I’d remember that I re-read a lot of Cosmere in 2024 to prepare for Wind and Truth , which was great.