Here is everything that the new Lancet Countdown says about the value and significance of indigenous and other forms of local knowledge, as well as their value for community-led action to respond to the impacts of climate change on health. Why does this matter?
The European Economic Area is one of the best use cases for (semantic) data integration: the many different languages, legislations, rules and systems must be or become interoperable! On October 8 and 9, 2025, I attended the 3rd European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics (ENDORSE) in the European Commission’s building Charlemagne in Brussels, Belgium.
In a recent post on Bluesky, where Richard Morey reflects on a paper he published with Clintin Davis-Stober that points out concerns with the p-curve method (Morey & Davis-Stober, 2025), he writes: Also, I think people should stop using forensic meta-analytic techniques that have not been adequately vetted by experts in statistics.
Biopython 1.86 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. This contains about nine months worth of updates, and is our first release with Python 3.14 support. See change-log in the news file (most of the changes are in Bio.Align and Bio.PDB). There have also been a few deprecations and removals of older code.
This month’s news includes: Research software community news, including the Nature commentary, “Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it” Funding opportunities, including the DisCouRSE Flexible Fund Towards coordinated international policy approaches to support research software: Highlights from the OECD workshop Actionable FAIR4RS Task Force Updates: Bhavesh Patel Presents at USRSE’25 Opportunities to get involved
Ted Habermann, Metadata Game ChangersFinding research objects that are related to a particular funder is one of the principal use cases for persistent identifier repositories in the global research infrastructure. Detecting objects related to funders is an important first step, but perhaps detecting objects related to specific awards is actually the “holy grail” of funder metadata.
Die Berlin University Alliance – der Exzellenzverbund von Freier Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technischer Universität Berlin und Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin – hat im Herbst 2023 ein Leitbild für offene Wissenschaft verabschiedet. Nun folgt ein weiteres Dokument, in dem die Umsetzung des Leitbilds näher spezifiziert wird.
Bereits zum achten Mal hatten die Auszubildenden der TIB am 12. September 2025 Gelegenheit, den Beruf Fachangestellte:r für Medien- und Informationsdienste (FaMI) bei der Langen Nacht der Berufe im Rathaus Hannover vorzustellen. Anlass genug, um einen kurzen Blick zurückzuwerfen und zu zeigen, wie die TIB sich den Besucher:innen in den vergangenen Jahren präsentierte.
✒️ Editor's Note: Today's guest post was written by Altynai Mambetova . Altynai holds a Master's degree in Data Science from the University of Manchester. Her background spans data journalism to data art, and in her work, she transforms textual data into impactful solutions through research publications.
This post was distilled from a talk that I gave at Schloss Dagstuhl's seminar 25831 "Open Scholarly Information Systems: Status Quo, Challenges, Opportunities". As the video recording mentions, the slides for the talk are openly shared at http://soc-n.us/250916-dagstuhl . Many of us may be familiar with the Dagstuhl seminar series;
Slovakia is emerging as a hub for African students seeking affordable, EU-recognized education, thanks to competitive tuition, a safe environment, and growing international support. Yet, life after graduation raises questions: Do students stay or leave, and what barriers shape their decisions?