The science blog archive Rogue Scholar relaunched today with a number of exciting new features, including major new software version, new hardware, new look and feed, and new authentication.Major new software version Version v13.0 of the InvenioRDM open source repository platform was released today.

GENEVA, Switzerland, 23 July 2025 (The Geneva Learning Foundation) –Today, The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) announces the launch of “Learning to lead change on the frontline of climate change and health,” the inaugural course in a new certificate programme designed by and for professionals facing climate change impacts on health. Enrollment is now open. The course will launch on 11 August 2025.

Im vergangenen Quartal erschienen zwei weitere Open-Access-Monografien, deren Publikation mit Mitteln des Publikationsfonds des Landes Brandenburg unterstützt wurde. Die Förderung ermöglicht die freie Verfügbarkeit der Titel, die sich mit aktuellen Themen aus Philosophie und Stadtforschung auseinandersetzen.

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! 🔗rOpenSci HQ 🔗Open Science with a Latin American Identity: Meet the New Cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program We’re very excited to introduce the new rOpenSci Champions!

As a new Community Engagement Manager at Crossref, dedicated to working with the funders community, I frequently hear requests for examples and case studies of adopting Crossref’s Grant Linking System (GLS) by ‘funders like us’. This has spurred me to start a series of blog posts presenting funders’ perspectives on joining Crossref and using our system – to demonstrate how it’s done.

In mid-October 2024, Proochista Ariana announced the Oxford iHealth Champions programme - a re-brand of earlier efforts to encourage and support community-building among our Oxford IHTM alumni towards continued learning, collaboration, and impactful action along the lines of open and reproducible science. Nine months on, we are happy to welcome our latest batch of iHealth Champions from Oxford IHTM Class of 2025.

Scholarly blogs have established themselves as important platforms for making research findings and discourse accessible both within scientific communities and to the general public. Considering the changing social media landscape, the role of non-commercial infrastructures such as blogs or the Fediverse is becoming increasingly important.

Migrationsdiskurse in deutschen Medien sind überwiegend problemzentriert und defizitorientiert. Die Berichterstattung über die „Willkommenskultur“ im Zuge des langen Sommers der Migration schien diesen diskursiven Fokus zu verändern. Doch schon mit dem Diskursereignis „Silvesternacht in Köln“ wurden altbekannte Bedrohungsnarrative und kulturalistische Verallgemeinerungen über „die Anderen“ evident und prägten die Folgejahre.

After the World Health Assembly’s adoption of ambitious global plan of action for climate and health, global and country stakeholders are meeting in Brasilia for the Global Conference on Climate and Health, ahead of COP30. Three critical observations emerged that illuminate why conventional global health approaches may be structurally inadequate for the challenges resulting from climate change impacts on health.

Hintergrund Open Access ist und bleibt ein zentrales Thema für die Wissenschaft und das wissenschaftliche Publizieren im Land Brandenburg. In der im Jahr 2019 vorgelegten Open-Access-Strategie des Landes ging es darum, der Gestaltung der Open-Access-Transformation eine passende Form und feste Ziele zu geben sowie konkrete Maßnahmen zu formulieren. (siehe Open-Access-Strategie des Landes Brandenburg (1.0). Zenodo.

Recently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it will cap the amount of direct funding support that researchers can spend on paying for article processing charges, or APCs. These fees are increasingly used by publishers for their revenue streams and makes researcher contributed articles available to read for free via "gold" open access.