Levons le tapis de l’évolution Ce mot me hante depuis longtemps. Ce mot a suscité des éons de tourment et de fascination. Ce redoutable mot est l’évolution. Comment pourrait-il autant me casser la tête ainsi qu’à de nombreuses personnes curieuses? Discutant de ce sujet, Stephen J. Gould (2000) explique que l’étymologie du mot « évolution » se réconcilie difficilement avec la signification moderne de ce terme.

This post is based on an interview with Sciety team at eLife. What is Sciety? Sciety is a community-led initiative developed by a team within eLife, that brings together expert evaluations of papers in one place. It is focused on preprints, preprint review and curation.

Yesterday I posted about the normalization functions in the tidynorm R package. In order to implement formant track normalization, I had to also put together code for working with the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), which in and of itself can be handy to work with.

PKP releases OJS, OMP, and OPS 3.5 with major feature enhancements, setting the stage for the upcoming Long-Term Support (LTS) version. PKP is pleased to announce the release of OJS, OMP, and OPS 3.5.0, the latest step in our ongoing mission to make scholarly publishing more equitable, efficient, and accessible.

Mauricio Suárez reviews No Shadow of a Doubt, by Daniel Kennefick

PKP is proud to share the Annual Report for 2024, covering the period from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025. Compiling the annual report never fails to serve as a meaningful moment to pause, reflect, and take stock of what we’ve achieved and where we’re headed. This past year was no exception.

por Luis Fidel Acosta Machado Uno de los episodios más interesantes ocurridos entre México y Cuba, en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, fue la proposición y defensa, por parte de diversos medios de prensa mexicanos, de la anexión de Cuba a México.

One of my previous employers was a Google Cloud partner, which gave me full and free access to all of Google Cloud’s certification programs, where I took the Professional Cloud Architect and Professional Data Engineer programs. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that with Google leaning hard into GenAI that they have new certification programs and learning paths, like this Generative AI Leader certification.

Im Jahr 2024 unterstützte der Publikationsfonds des Landes Brandenburg Open-Access-Publikationen von Wissenschaftler*innen aus verschiedenen Fachbereichen. Diese Titel repräsentieren eine breite Palette von Disziplinen und sind Zeugnis der vielfältigen Forschungslandschaft des Landes. Zurzeit bringen wir Ihnen einige dieser Veröffentlichungen in unserem Blog näher.

On November 18, 2025, we’re shutting down the Open Access Button and InstantILL. These products helped to create a world where Open Access (OA) is easy to discover wherever you are, and where interlibrary loan (ILL) systems have been strengthened to support big deal cancellations. Shutting down products is always a difficult decision, but robust alternatives now exist to help ensure their legacy continues.

Der Bibliothekskongress steht vor der Tür! Zwischen dem 24. und 27. Juni wird das Messe- und Congress Centrum Bremen von der 113. BiblioCon gekapert. Wir als Redaktionsteam des DINI-Blogs sind bereits im BiblioCon-Fieber und warten auf den Startschuss. Wie alle Besucher:innen standen auch wir vor der Herausforderung, aus dem umfangreichen Angebot unser persönliches Programm zusammen zu stellen.