From decoding life to redesigning society, the moonshots that chart our biological future

I recently reviewed a manuscript for a biotechnology journal I won’t name. The paper was clearly written by AI. I don’t mean edits or revisions here and there, I mean the entire manuscript. As if they had copied and pasted the entire contents of a certain research organization’s website into ChatGPT and asked for a paper on the topic.

I started adding citations to my blog posts around 2012 using the Kcite plugin.‡ Rogue Scholar is a service that monitors registered blog sources and adds all sorts of value to the original post, including identifying such citations and creating a list of them.

Meet Larry, the Scientific Cat Larry — a fluffy, slightly overweight cat — has achieved what many postdocs or even professors only dream of: becoming the most cited “author” in his field. Obviously, Larry has never written a word or attended a conference. His main activities? Napping, demanding food, and scratching furnitures. Yet, there he is — the most cited author without lifting a paw.How Did We Get Here?

Ein Beitrag von Carmen Keller Am 1. August 2025 konnten wir Anna Sauer und Noah Seeler als neue FaMI-Auszubildende in der TIB begrüßen. Im Rahmen der Einführungswoche lernten die beiden bereits einige Kolleginnen und Kollegen kennen sowie die Standorte TIB Technik/Naturwissenschaften, TIB Sozialwissenschaften, TIB Philosophie/Geschichte, TIB Conti-Campus und TIB Rethen.

Two years ago, I posted on the topic “Internet Archeology: reviving a 2001 article published in the Internet Journal of Chemistry (IJC)”. The IJC had been founded in 1998,  in part at least to “re-invent” the scholarly journal by elevating research data to being a more integrated part of the overall article, rather than as […]

Two almost complete and gapless genomes of the sex-changing central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) are published today in GigaScience to help tackle the mystery of reptile sex determination. Read more here.

Matt and I are just back from the first DinoCon, a British dinosaur convention hosted at Exeter University by Darren Naish (the silent partner at SV-POW!) and colleagues.

por Valentina Tovar Mota En México, a finalizar el siglo XIX, el divertimiento conocido como género chico – sainetes, cuplés, zarzuelas en un acto- se popularizó de manera sorprendente en las distintas ciudades del país. Las compañías teatrales españolas habían atravesado el Atlántico para instalarse en los ambientes citadinos de México.

Previously, I pondered about the strange N=N double bond in nitrosobenzene dimer as a follow up to commenting on the curly arrow mechanism of the dimerisation.

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive has supported ORCID and DOI identifiers for linking to authors and blog posts since its launch. Starting this week, these two identifiers can also be used to navigate within the Rogue Scholar archive.