(This post is copied from some notes I gave to our summer interns at Rowan almost without modification.

por Tatiana Pérez Ramírez Sobre: León Garduño, Angela. Para contener los males de la pobreza: la conformación del sistema de beneficencia durante el Segundo Imperio Mexicano. México: Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana/ Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, 2024.

Though my blog focuses on academic discovery and retrieval, these days you can’t really understand those topics without grappling with concepts like Transformer models, agents, and reasoning.

Kate Lapage introduces a self-study module on responsible research metrics created by the bibliometrics team at the University of Southampton.

Das Open Research Office Berlin (OROB), angesiedelt an der Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität, hat für insgesamt fünf Monate eine Vollzeitstelle im BMFTR-geförderten Projekt open-access.network zu besetzen. Teilzeit ist prinzipiell möglich. Das Projekt ist u.a. am OROB angesiedelt. Die Ausschreibung ist seit heute auf den Seiten der FU Berlin online. Wir veröffentlichen die Stellenausschreibung auf unserem Blog in voller Länge.

On July the 17th 2025, Julien ran a MINToring workshop in the Making Lab. Young FLINTA students (15-17 years old) were invited in the Making Lab (which is situated inside the TU/UdK library) as part of the MINToring Program of the FU Berlin. We met Dr. Mouawad while being on the FU campus with the Mobile lab. Since we are a BUA project, we could easily collaborate with this initiative from the FU Berlin.

As a good habit, I write a blog before starting my summer holidays. Last year was all about working as Director General of the KB | National Library of The Netherlands, so it would make sense for me to reflect on that. And I do so in part. Partly, because a short piece on the concept of identity does not sum up everything I have experienced this year, let me be clear about that.

By the end of July 2025, we are expecting delivery of a compute server/workstation capable of running large language models (LLMs) efficiently. This machine will allow for local LLM deployment to support development and use of artificial intelligence workflows in-house. This is part of Oxford IHTM’s efforts to support its current students and its alumni in learning and applying modern tools for global health projects.

There’s a curious terminological schism that nobody talks about at what passes for dinner parties for the AI crowd.

Ten years ago, almost to the day, Matt and I were having a conversation vie Google chat. We got onto the evergreen topic of scholarly publishing. Let’s ignore the somewhat dated references to Twitter and Skype, and listen in on those two starry-eyed youngsters … Matt : People will continue to publish papers (as currently understood) beyond the natural lifespan of the medium, because papers are easy to count.

I started my academic career in biomedical research as faculty in the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine. After eight years I jumped to industry &