Exciting news: Symplectic, a global leader in research information management systems, has integrated ROR into its flagship platform, Symplectic Elements.

In my PhD research, I investigate how metadata for research data are generated and maintained. I have started by analyzing how metadata records of the DOI registration agency DataCite change over time (Strecker 2024a, 2024b). Recently, I was awarded a grant by the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) - through the BUA Fellowship Program of the Objective 3 - Advancing Research Quality and Value.

Imagine a social worker in Ukraine supporting children affected by the humanitarian crisis. Thousands of kilometers away, a radiation specialist in Japan is trying to find effective ways to communicate with local communities. In Nigeria, a health worker is tackling how to increase immunization coverage in their remote village. These professionals face very different challenges in very different places.

In the PFA Accelerator, practitioners supporting children are teaching each other what works. Every Friday, more than 240 education, social work, and health professionals across Ukraine and Europe file reports on the same question: What happened when you tried to help a child this week?

The title of this post comes from an article published in a special virtual issue on the theme “Physical Organic Chemistry: Never Out of Style” There, Paul Rablen presents the case that the amount of o (ortho) product in electrophilic substitution of a phenyl ring bearing an EWG (electron withdrawing group) is often large enough […]

This Saturday, July 19, the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is hosting Aquilops Day.

This post provides an update on some recent new features in Oversight and walks through an investigation. Given the pace of development of Oversight, I might update it in future as things change. The problem is time. It’s time spent on misconduct investigations. Such investigations are often complex and sometimes inconclusive — fraud is intentionally hidden after all.

Explore enhanced features in Open Journal Systems (OJS) version 3.5. From workflow improvement to user navigation ease and design improvements, these enhancements based on community feedback are meant to meet your needs. Get ready — Open Journal Systems (OJS) version 3.5 has landed, and it’s packed with powerful new features, improved workflows, and a refreshed user experience designed with you in mind.

María José Fernández Pascual, DR © Biblioteca Sujeta es una propuesta artística que abordé con prácticas textiles contemporáneas, el proyecto contó con la curaduría de la artista, docente e investigadora Dra. Alejandra Mizrahi.

Today sees the publication of what is, OK, an interesting paper on how the serrated trailing edge of the flippers of the ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus may have enabled it to generate less turbulence, enhancing its abilities as a stealth predator: Lindgren, Johan, Dean R. Lomax, Robert-Zoltán Szász, Miguel Marx, Johan Revstedt, Georg Göltz, Sven Sachs, Randolph G. De La Garza, Miriam Heingård, Martin Jarenmark, Kristina Ydström, Peter

“We are at the beginning of a new epoch,” Eric Schmidt declared at the RAISE Summit in Paris on 9 July 2025. The former Google CEO’s message grounded in what he calls the San Francisco Consensus carries unusual weight—not necessarily because of his past role leading one of tech’s giants, but because of his current one: advising heads of state and industry on artificial intelligence.