This week we are thrilled to welcome Clare Dean as Communications Consultant for Make Data Count. In this role, Clare will be supporting Make Data Count’s outreach and community engagement activities. Clare brings a wealth of experience working with organizations in scholarly communications and open science initiatives, but best to let her tell you about it. Here’s a brief introduction to Clare, in her own words. Welcome Clare!

We are continuing our post series on S3 object orientation and interoperability in R. We have previously discussed what makes a good S3 class and how to choose a good parent for it, as well as when to write or not write a custom method. We have highlighted in particular how classes inheriting from data.frames can simplify user experience because of familiarity, and reduce developer workload due to the pre-existing S3 methods.

The sprint notes roundup from six working groups at the PKP Minnesota Sprint, hosted by the University of Minnesota Libraries in May 2024, is now available! It takes a variety of stakeholders to develop open infrastructure for scholarly publishing and the global public good.

Or: Why 2024 is my personal year of Linux on the desktop According to Doctorow, enshittification might be coming for absolutely everything . I’ve more and more felt this was for my own digital devices and means of digital production: Be that Apple’s just increasing love for walled gardens - especially since having the opaque app review processes (c.f. cpython’s --with-app-store-compliance), Microsoft’s (successful?)

There are ongoing outbreaks of mpox globally. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is so far the worst hit with a total of 7,851 cases and 384 deaths reported between January 1 and May 26, 2024 ¹ . Before 2022, there were few reports of sustained mpox transmission globally.

En esta breve entrada continuaré explicando las configuraciones disponibles en el botón de configuración «Options» en ChrysoCollate: La sección Expressions permite adaptar los mensajes y símbolos empleados para crear el aparato crítico (del que comienzo a hablar aquí). En el modo edición, ChrysoCollate puede trabajar con un aparato crítico positivo o negativo, y las configuraciones de Expressions permiten adaptar estos

not so quickly! Recently, I become intrigued by game theory algorithms, not because I absolutely love playing games, but because it offers a quantifiable, systematic way to understand human relationships. I find the certainty of science and systematization reassuring to some degree so when I learned about this game called “the prisoner’ dilemma”, I thought it would fun to experiment and figure out the answer to this classic scenario.

The sixth and final sprint summary from the PKP Minnesota Sprint, hosted by the University of Minnesota Libraries in May 2024, is now available. Sprints involve PKP community members joining diverse groups to work on PKP software and support. The University of Minnesota Libraries hosted six working groups at the PKP Minnesota Sprint in May. This is a summary of one such group’s work.

We are excited to welcome Beatriz Milz and Margaret Siple to our team of Associate Editors for rOpenSci Software Peer Review.They join Laura DeCicco, Julia Gustavsen, Anna Krystalli, Mauro Lepore, Noam Ross, Maëlle Salmon, Emily Riederer, Adam Sparks, and Jeff Hollister.rOpenSci has been running a rigorous and collegial software peer review system since 2015.Editors manage the review process, performing initial package checks, identifying

I have been thinking about this for some time now. At the moment I am Captain of Transformation at the Dutch programma Npuls, for the topic Digital Educational Resources.

Sharing three new book reviews published in The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship today.