I am pleased to share a new preprint that has just been posted on arXiv: “Who Owns the Knowledge? Copyright, GenAI, and the Future of Academic Publishing.” The text grew from my contribution to the 20th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics and is now substantially expanded, both in terms of legal analysis and policy implications.
International law has an incredible potential to be the vehicle through which global transgender liberation is realized. In this reflective blog, Paxton McCausland argues that international law is already being used to improve the quality of life for transgender peoples across the world.
Ha ha, I lied. Book Week will continue until morale improves. Mike has made the point to me more than once that there are papers I could and probably should write, but haven’t, because they’re things that I just assume everyone else knows.
BOSC 2026 is planned for July 14-15, 2026, as part of ISMB 2026 in Washington, DC. We invite our community to nominate potential keynote speakers who would be of interest to our community. You may submit as many nominations as you wish. The form may be filled out multiple times. Please submit nominations by December 15, 2025 . Why this matters Keynote talks are always a highlight at BOSC.
The Rogue Scholar science blog archive started work on improving the subject classification of blog posts, using an open approach to subject classification developed by CWTS and OpenAlex.
I have been a fanboy of prominent animal physiologist Knut Schmidt-Nielsen for a long time. I first encountered his papers back in the late 90s, working on my MS thesis at OU. I realized that vertebral pneumaticity in sauropods implied, among other things, that I had better get to reading about birds.
This contribution centers refugees as political actors and knowledge producers. Refugees and asylum seekers challenge dominant perceptions of them as mere, apolitical beings, as dangerous individuals, or as exploitable labor. They accomplish this by creating their own counter-knowledge, in which they narrate a different story about themselves.
Drawing is how I understand things best, and it’s one of the ways I teach myself new subjects. My top advice for anyone wanting to be a paleontologist is “learn how to write” and “learn how to draw”, which really boil down to, “practice writing and drawing”. You only get better by doing.
Another annoying error that you can get, during a docker build, that basically does not explain what’s going on is something like:
Background Scholarly metadata, deposited by thousands of our members and made openly available can act as “trust signals” for the publications. It provides information that helps others in the community to verify and assess the integrity of the work.
As part of the ARIA Engineering Ecosystem Resilience program, we've been convening a series of workshops here at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative to explore the potential of combining two very radically different approaches to modeling. Joe Millard wrote this to frame the discussion: We held two separate workshops to explore this;