Abandoned Appalachia Series Nestled in the hills of Wise County, Virginia, stands an abandoned orphanage, its concrete façade half-swallowed by trees and briars. Built early in the 20th century, in an era before modern foster care, county orphanages typically provided shelter, education, and basic necessities to local children in need.

Today is International DNA Day, commemorating the day in 1953 when Crick, Watson, Wilkins and Franklin published their papers on the structure of DNA. Fifty years later, with the declaration that the human genome project was close to completion the US Senate and the House of Representatives declared that 25 ^th April 2003 would be the first DNA Day, and ever since many (including ourselves through many blogs) have commemorated the date.

Anmerkung zu dieser Rubrik: Das Open Research Office Berlin erstellt monatlich eine Übersicht über Termine und Veranstaltungen zu Open Access und Open Research in Berlin bzw. an Berliner Einrichtungen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf unseren Partnereinrichtungen und auf Veranstaltungen, die sich an die Öffentlichkeit richten bzw. die offen sind für Angehörige der Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbeeinrichtungen in Berlin.

As another DNA Day treat GigaByte today publishes new benchmark data and analysis of the new CycloneSEQ platform, a novel sequencing technology using nanopores that demonstrates here the ability to sequence complete bacterial genomes. Getting our hands on a CycloneSeq sequencer Following on from the recent official launch of BGI’s new CycloneSEQ single-molecule sequencer the new Data Release published today in GigaByte presents

I write biographies.  So far, I’ve written two, one on Hedy Lamarr, and another on the silent era Irish director, Rex Ingram. I have other entries on my CV  too, more usually conventional academic publications on Irish cinema. The biographies, which are slipped in between the monographs and articles are, and are not, similar. They are designed for a wider, general audience and written with that readership in mind.

It has been 20 years since the conference that inaugurated Critical Studies in Television. The twentieth anniversary gives us an opportunity to pause and consider where our subject is and might go. We will host a range of international scholars who will discuss television studies as a discipline.

Re gular readers may have followed our community genome project Bauhinia Genome, and today marks the end of this journey with the publication in GigaScience of

Twelve years ago, a 2 a.m. email kickstarted the Open Access Button, OA.Work’s first scrappy attempt at making Open Access easier and more equitable. To mark this milestone, I wanted to share some of what we’re celebrating on this birthday, including some of the team’s recent achievements, where we are today, and the fact that our days now end at more humane hours… though my newborn hasn’t quite received the memo yet.

I get asked a lot how I have the time to read all these papers and articles I post about here. I don’t. Not all of them at least. I listen to many of them. Lately I’ve been using an app called ElevenReader , made by the popular text-to-speech service ElevenLabs. It’s free for iOS and Android.

A speculative dispatch from 2037

I made a zine as a souvenir of my Design Justice student group presentations.