This year, the 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2025) took place in Tampere, Finland, from September 23–26. I attended the conference together with Sarah Oberbichler from the DH Lab to present our joint paper, “Studying Model Design Biases in LLMs for Multilingual Historical Newspaper Extraction;

AI in science, Quarto, biodiversity, changed grant titles, new papers &

Bill Gates’ latest public memo marks a significant shift in how the world’s most influential philanthropist frames the challenge of climate change.

Die Rückschau auf zehn Jahre „Langer Sommer der Migration“ zeigt die starke Rolle der Kommunen als Orte des Ankommens. Städte und Gemeinden sind die Orte, wo Geflüchtetenaufnahme stattfindet, wo Integrationsprozesse vorangetrieben werden und wo Modi des miteinander Lebens und der Teilhabe ausgehandelt werden.

Here we go again! I ran the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon 2025 and wanted to look at the race results. How can we do this using R? I couldn’t see an easy way to download the data, so I used R to scrape them.

Wer mittels CC-Lizenz lizenziertes Material nachnutzen, muss den Lizenzhinweis korrekt angeben. Wie das bei Formaten außerhalb von Textpublikationen funktioniert, wird hier erklärt. Wer CC lizenzierte Materialien in OER nachnutzt, muss die Hinweispflichten der Lizenzen (“Attribution”) korrekt umsetzen.

Mekelle University (MU), founded in 2000 and located in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, is a research-intensive institution dedicated to advancing knowledge, economic growth, and social welfare both nationally and internationally. As a founding member of the Ethiopian Research Universities Forum in 2025, MU is committed to elevating the visibility and impact of Ethiopian research on the global stage.

Today CWTS released the Leiden Ranking 2025. We in fact released two editions of the ranking, the Traditional Edition and the Open Edition. The Leiden Ranking Traditional Edition is the name we use for the Leiden Ranking based on data from the Web of Science database. The Leiden Ranking Open Edition is the name of a new edition of the Leiden Ranking launched last year based on open data from the OpenAlex database.

When: 2 December 2025, 12:00 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. (online) Register here! Discover the diversity of participatory research in Berlin! We warmly invite you to the online launch of the Participatory Research (PR) Map – an interactive tool that showcases projects in which science and society collaborate.

Über das allmähliche Verfassen der Gedanken beim Schreiben ist schon viel gesagt und – ja -auch geschrieben worden.

Much has been said and written about the gradual formation of thoughts while writing.