I suspect that most people in the Western world (at least) are realizing that we are living in interesting times. News of floodings, droughts, and wildfires are ever more frequent. We hear that this is due to climate change, which most governments promise to fight, but don't. Our economies keep growing, but our quality of life is not improving. Digital tools are ever more prominent in our lives, but don't make us happy either.

Over the past few weeks, we have been working behind the scenes to migrate our website, resulting in the page that you currently have in front of you! Our pages are now generated by the Go -based, open source static site generator Hugo , and are stored on GitHub.

Neste fim de semana, assistimos novamente ao filme 2001: Uma Odisseia no Espaço , dirigido por Stanley Kubrick e baseado na obra de Arthur Clarke. Ambos colaboraram na criação do roteiro adaptado.

Publishing Open Access (OA) has always been something important to me. It stems from my utopian belief that science should be for everyone and that the funders (taxpayers) should have access to it. Most of my publications are Open Access, something I was somewhat proud of as a novice researcher.

The first time I saw AlphaFold, it felt like stepping into the future, a moment where something previously thought impossible had suddenly become inevitable. AI had cracked the protein-folding problem. Well, not cracked exactly, but solved it well enough that it rewrote the playbook for structural biology. Overnight, the way we thought about proteins, drug discovery, and molecular engineering shifted. That was 2018.

Für die im September in Konstanz stattfindenden Open-Access-Tage werden ab sofort Beitragsvorschläge gesucht.

Birkenstock-Sandalen gelten nicht als Werke der angewandten Kunst und genießen somit keinen Urheberrechtsschutz. Das hat der Bundesgerichtshof nun festgestellt. Der Unterschied zwischen technisch-handwerklicher Gestaltung und künstlerischem Schaffen ist dabei wesentlich. Betim Neziraj zu Inhalt und Bedeutung des Urteils.

The Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) has released a Community Call to Action, inviting organizations and individuals to contribute resources (funding, expertise, metadata, and infrastructure) to support the first phase of a community-driven infrastructure for making persistent identifier (PID) metadata better and more complete. Informational Webinar :  March 5, 2025 at 3pm UTC. Register Now!

Matthew J. Brown reviews The Pragmatist Challenge, by H. K. Andersen and Sandra D. Mitchell

Interested in studying wild animals? Learn the education, skills, and certifications needed to launch an exciting career as a wildlife biologist.

The call for applications for round 1 of the OBF Event Fellowship for 2025 is now open. The deadline for this round is 1 April 2025. You can submit your application through this Google Form. We have provided a Word template to help you draft the application locally before filling out the form – make a copy of this template.