Mentoring is at the heart of what makes rOpenSci a community.Our members mentoring each other at different moments:when someone new joins and needs help navigating the community;when a member steps into a new role, like a reviewer for our software peer review,or project, like become the maintainer of a package, and could use some guidance;during everyday interactions, where people share tips and advise with each other;when someone shares an idea

At the end of last year, we were excited to announce our renewed commitment to community and the launch of three cross-functional programs to guide and accelerate our work. We introduced this new approach to work towards better cross-team alignment, shared responsibility, improved communication and learning, and make more progress on the things members need.

Überblick Die Landesinitiative Hessische Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen (HeFDI) stellt ihre gemeinsam erarbeiteten „Kurationsempfehlungen für HeFDI-Repositorien” allen Interessierten zur Information und Nachnutzung zur Verfügung. Darin erläutern die Autorinnen und Autoren, welche Prüfschritte sie bei neu eingereichten Datensätzen für sinnvoll halten und wie die Kuration konkret durchgeführt wird.

The InvenioRDM project partners met in Hamburg two weeks ago, and we discussed a wide range of topics over five days. InvenioRDM is the open source repository platform that also powers the Rogue Scholar science blog archive, and one priority for me is to keep the repository platform's maintenance simple while adding the features I need.

La extranjerización durante la revolución rioplatense (1810-1820) por Marcela Viviana Tejerina Hacia fines del siglo pasado, el filósofo Jacques Derrida reflexionaba sobre la propuesta de su colega, Emmanuel Lévinas, en torno del pensamiento del otro . Observaba que, ya por esos tiempos, la palabra otro ; tanto, así, como las frases respeto del otro , apertura al otro , entre tantas, empezaban

During the Hannover Messe 2025, we presented the BUA Mobile Lab, and both the Open.Make and the LAUDS Factories projects. We got the chance to talk with experienced experts from industry including engineers, managers, consultants and business leaders about hardware development practices.

Mit einem rechtskräftigen Entscheid im März 2025 schafft die die Rekurskommission der Zürcher Hochschulen nun nach vier Jahren Klarheit, wie das Öffentlichkeitsprinzip bei der föderalen Zusammenarbeit anzuwenden ist.

After three exciting years, scidecode as a formal company will be discontinued. What began as a label for my freelance work in science consulting in 2012 turned into a collaborative GbR (civil-law partnership) in 2022 with Laura Rothfritz and Pablo de Castro. Our mission was to provide independent, collaborative consulting on open science, research information, and strategic questions around scholarly infrastructures.

Does the educational purpose of video change with AI? The purpose of video in education is undergoing a fundamental transformation in the age of artificial intelligence. This medium, long established in digital learning environments, is changing not just in how we consume it, but in its very role within the learning process.

With apologies to Andrew Marvell. If you haven’t read “To His Coy Mistress”, I fear this won’t make much sense. Had we but funding enough and time, This coyness, founder, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To build, and pass our slow run-rate’s day. Thou by the Potomac’s side Shouldst SBIRs find; I by the tide Of El Segundo would complain.

In a previous post I demonstrated how to set up a local LLM that you can run through either a command line interface (Ollama) or a graphical user interface (Open WebUI and others), and quickly demonstrated how to “chat with your documents” with a local model using LMStudio. In that previous post I simply attached a few documents to a one-off chat.