TL;DR ResearchRabbit shipped its biggest update in years: a cleaner iterative “rabbit hole” flow, a more configurable citation graph, and an optional premium tier. The company now “ partners’ with Litmaps (others are reporting as acquired , which shows up in features and business model Free tier limits each search to <50 input papers / <5 authors and one project;

Raquel Peña Carrillo, DR © Collage Madrid, España, 11 de febrero de 2021 Parte de la colección Frebrullage ´21 Sitio de la autora Esta es una reproducción digital, con fines de divulgación, de una obra original proporcionada por su autora o propietaria. Todos los derechos están reservados por la artista.

The Latin verb agere means “to do, to act, to drive forward”. From it we get not only “agent” but also “action”, “actor”, and curiously enough, “agile”. The Romans understood what we seem to have forgotten: that agency is fundamentally about motion, about transformation, about the capacity to change the world.

The Publication Facts Label Is Now Freely Available for the 34,000 Journals Using OJS (V. 3.3 – 3.5) There’s no better way for journal publishers and editors to address today’s questions of research integrity than to implement PKP’s Publication Facts Label (PFL) in their instance of OJS (versions 3.3 – 3.5). The open source PFL Plugin […] The post This label will put your journal’s research integrity in black and white appeared first on

This is the October issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users. Blogs added to Rogue Scholar Ten blogs were added in September. Welcome! More blogs are on the waitlist and will be added soon.

The Bioconductor 3.22 release is now available. It includes 2,361 software packages, 435 experiment data packages, 926 annotation packages, 29 workflows, and 6 books. This cycle adds 59 new software packages, 6 new experiment data packages, 2 new annotation packages, and 1 new book, along with many updates across the existing ecosystem. A few themes stand out for people working in genomics, single-cell transcriptomics, and spatial omics.

It’s always bloody Doctor Who isn’t it? The show about the police box that’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

Fig. 1. Still from S3E1, ‘Tomorrow’, The Bear (FX on Hulu, 2022–) There is nothing new about filler or bottle episodes; when I hear the latter term, I always think of Abed (Danny Pudi) from the NBC sitcom Community complaining about how, in ‘Cooperative Calligraphy’ (S2E8), they (the characters) are becoming stuck in a bottle episode. It is a trope so common it can be used for comedy – and that was 15 years ago.

This year, the 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2025) took place in Tampere, Finland, from September 23–26. I attended the conference together with Sarah Oberbichler from the DH Lab to present our joint paper, “Studying Model Design Biases in LLMs for Multilingual Historical Newspaper Extraction;

MIT Technology Review : Biodiversity: A missing link in combating climate change Science : At futuristic meeting, AIs took the lead in producing and reviewing all the studies . Nextflow plugin registry: registry.nextflow.io . posit::conf(2025) Quarto workshop materials . At posit::conf(2025), Posit hosted two Quarto workshops: Branded Websites, Presentations,

Bill Gates’ latest public memo marks a significant shift in how the world’s most influential philanthropist frames the challenge of climate change.