If doing your job requires constant applications to keep doing it, is that really a “job”?  Why do we need to keep “auditioning” for work we’re already performing? Let’s first agree that there isn’t a typical career trajectory in academia. But there are some recurring steps one usually has to go through. Getting the job There are definitely some unwritten laws about getting jobs in academia.

I have been involved in the open science movement for nearly 20 years now. By now, it seems to me the problems have been clearly recognized and formulated, the experts agree on the necessary technical solutions (replacing the journals) and the funding is available.

Let’s start with the information you need most: Dougal Dixon’s speculative evolution classic The New Dinosaurs , which imagines the biota of today if the K-Pg extinction event had never happened, is being reprinted in a handsomely-produced new edition from Breakdown Press. Here’s the website, open for pre-orders (link); the book ships on August 11. Do yourself a favor and grab a copy of this absolute banger.

I covered Autocycler (paper, code, docs) in last week’s recap: From the abstract: Here’s a schematic of the workflow: And some benchmarks:Subscribe now Demo I wanted to try this tool out myself. I followed the demo dataset described in the Autocycler docs, which contains ONT reads from a few E. coli plasmids, and mostly used the same code provided in the docs to run Autocycler on this data.

DOI: 10.60804/drrx-4m69 The fourth release of the Data Citation Corpus incorporates data citations from Europe PMC and additions to affiliation metadata. Our latest release for the Data Citation Corpus is just out, including 5.2 million new data citations from Europe PMC, and additions to the affiliation metadata for some of the citation records.

I first read this paper in graduate school. It wasn’t assigned. I found it on my own—probably during one of those late-night deep dives into the internet, half reading for a lab presentation, half procrastinating from a dataset that just wouldn’t behave. The paper is called “Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency in Climate Change Science,” and it’s exactly what it sounds like.

The communication of knowledge requires different forms for different formats – so far, so good. For the Research Data Day, for example, we developed the Data Clues. This was a format where we caught the interest of passing students and lecturers with a chance glance. The Long Night of Science had a different setting and audience. A summer evening in darkened museum atmosphere amidst dinosaur skeletons.

Die Vermittlung von Wissen benötigt unterschiedliche Formen für unterschiedliche Formate – soweit, so klar. Für den Tag der Forschungsdaten z.B. haben wir die Daten im Fadenkreuz entwickelt. Das war ein Format, wo wir von vorbeieilenden Studierenden und Dozierenden durch einen zufälligen Blick Interesse erhaschten. Die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften am 28.06 2025 in Berlin hatte ein anderes Setting und Publikum.

Enhancing Local Government Operations with Roboflow-Powered Object Detection.

It’s time for our first monthly news round-up! Latest batch of Oxford iHealth Champions We’re very happy to have our latest cohort of Oxford iHealth Champions inducted into the programme. Congratulations to our newest batch and we hope to hear from those of you plant to further their Champion’s journey. Read more about our newest Champions cohort in this blog post.

We’ve organised four onboarding sessions to the Champions programme in August 2025 where we will discuss the Oxford iHealth Champions programme, what the programme is about , the Champion’s journey and its requirements, and the accreditation/badging process for milestones and achievements. This event is open to all Oxford IHTM alumni. Registration is required to be able to attend.