I'm still catching up on papers from my late 2024 backlog. This week’s recap highlights autonomous microbial sensors for detecting TNT in soil, genome size estimation from long reads, STABIX for indexing and compressing GWAS summary statistics, and Clair3-RNA for deep learning-based small variant calling on long-read RNA-seq data.

Hi my friends, I’m going to be exploring sci-fi short stories more regularly on Fridays. This may be less consistent than my regular Tuesday editions, but we’ll see how it evolves. This is an experiment, motivated by positive feedback I received about The Printing Press.

Am 6. Dezember 2024 haben wir den ersten Workshop unseres von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderten Projekts Infra Wiss Blogs (Ochsner and Pampel 2024) veranstaltet.

On December 6th, 2024, we hosted the first workshop of our project Infra Wiss Blogs (Ochsner and Pampel 2024), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The aim of the workshop was to bring together scholarly bloggers and experts from information infrastructure institutions, so they could exchange experiences, wishes and challenges concerning scholarly blogs.

He reunido una colección bibliográfica denominada BIOhistoria, contiene literatura académica como libros, capítulos, artículos  e incluso preprints útiles para los cursos de Filosofía e Historia de la Biología del plan de estudios de la carrera de Biología de la Facultad de Ciencias de la UNAM 1997. También resulta útil para enseñar o investigar sobre los contenidos de las materias Introducción a las teorías evolutivas e

This week we published a new, high-quality genome sequence of one of Australia’s most iconic animals, the short beaked echidna. The almost gapless genome sequence of this egg-laying mammal helps researchers to track genomic reshuffling events that gave rise to a perplexing  sex determination system. At first glance they may be mistaken for a weird-looking hedgehog.

A tarantula’s molting process is a fascinating transformation that allows for growth and regeneration, but it requires careful monitoring and ideal conditions.

Since early 2022, the Accelerated Devices lab has been involved in the OpenGPT-X project. ¹ OpenGPT-X trains large language models to enable new data-driven business solutions and specifically address European needs. As of January 2025, the project has published its main results and is set to wrap up in early 2025.

Top 10 Tallest Wild Animals When we think about the wild and its inhabitants, size often comes to mind as one of the most wondrous aspects. The sheer height of some of these incredible creatures can be mind-boggling. Let’s delve into the fascinating world of the tallest wild animals. Giraffe – Giraffes are the tallest land animals, with males reaching heights of up to 18 feet.

At last year’s Open-Access-Tage, OA Datenpraxis held a workshop together with the Open Access Monitor at Forschungszentrum Jülich as well as the state-wide Open Access initiatives of Berlin (Open Access Büro Berlin) and Brandenburg (Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg). The workshop ‘The state and prospects of open access reporting’ outlined different approaches - qualitative and quantitative - to Open Access reporting and

This week, I have started work at Michigan State University, as interim technical lead on the Knowledge Commons project. I'll probably say more about this at some point soon. However, a huge part of onboarding at new digital/software places is getting your head around the stack and trying to get a development environment setup and ready to use.