Palaeoverse, a grassroots organization that develops R packages for paleontology, has been awarded a Large Grant from the Software Sustainability Institute, via the Research Software Maintenance Fund, for the project ‘Converting Users to Contributors: Enabling Sustainable Maintenance and Development of Palaeoverse’.This funding will support efforts to improve the sustainability and maintainability of several key R packages used in

Since founding the Digital Research Academy, I’ve been thinking a lot about how we can build organizations that are rooted in the values Open Science. An important aspect of this is ensuring their financial sustainability. We live in a capitalist world and as much as it annoys me sometimes, we all need an income.

El día de mañana 4 de febrero empezamos un nuevo curso en la Facultad de Ciencias de la UNAM, está vez es una nueva versión del curso Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad centrado en la información científica para la carrera de Física Biomédica.

In September I started a PhD in fungal ecology at Aberystwyth University. This aligning with the end of support for Windows 10 and my old laptop coming up on five years old felt like a good time to invest in a new computer and switch to Linux.

Last July, the NIH issued a Request for Information (RFI) on maximizing research funds by limiting direct spending on Article Processing Charges (APCs) in allowable publishing costs. More than 900 members of the public responded to the RFI, providing valuable insights into the diverse perspectives the NIH should consider in deciding on a path forward with APCs.

We have entered the post-alphabetic era announced by Vilém Flusser. Apparatuses now program us as much as we program them. In this techno-imaginal universe where all our faculties are traversed by technologies, the question of fascism arises differently. Vectofascism designates this contemporary political form that adapts the fundamental mechanisms of… The post Vectofascism – Part I: Vectoaesthetics appeared first on carrier-bag.net.

Vibe-updating my old qqman R package to ggplot2 with plan+execute.

Why crisis governance depends on democratic capacity

TLDR: Meta-crisis: the mechanisms that should solve problems are themselves deteriorating. My Society for Risk Analysis Conference Presentation At the Australia New Zealand Society for Risk Analysis Conference in Christchurch on 29-30 Jan 2026 it was clear that systemic risk and polycrisis concepts are moving from the margins to the centre of risk analysis. In … Continue reading "Is there a ‘meta’-crisis?

Para el semestre 2026-2 impartiré tres clases en formato virtual, dos de ellas serán para nivel licenciatura, para la carrera de Matemáticas Aplicadas he preparado un curso centrado en Bioinformacion dirigido a los estudiantes interesados en aprender los principios básicos del manejo de la información especializada en biociencias, en especial trataré los aspectos esenciales de la gestión de la literatura digital y los datos asociados que todo

The central principle is simple: governance intensity should scale with risk, not with rhetoric