Giving effective feedback is a skill that, like any other, needs to be honed. I wouldn’t claim to be an expert but there are methods in how to give feedback that means that your guidance is more likely to help the person improve. Giving feedback to colleagues on grant applications is particularly tricky. It’s partly the high stakes involved: people’s livelihoods can be at stake and applicants’ best ideas are laid bare, so care is needed.

Daré la conferencia inaugural del 1er Congreso Internacional de Estudios de Cómic: Memoria, Archivo y Cuerpo (6-9 Mayo 2025).

Thomas Dreier begleitete die Einführung der Creative Commons-Lizenzen in Deutschland. Rückblickend erläutert der Jurist, welche Erfolge und Herausforderungen das flexible Lizenzmodell hierzulande brachte und wie es sich auf Urheberrecht und digitale Kommunikation auswirkte.

So, how do you actually write a living literature review? In the more than two years that I have been writing this (time really flies), sometimes I get asked how I go about writing the posts here. With this post, I want to answer this question. While this is focused on a living literature review, I think these notes are probably helpful for everybody who has to do at least some scientific writing or wants to do more of that in the future.

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing.

Hands-On with Gemini 2.5 Pro: Exploring Google’s New Frontier in AI

April 2025 ReSA has released its 2024 Community Report, highlighting another impactful year of global collaboration to advance research software and support the people behind it. This year’s highlights include the Research Software Funders Forum’s involvement in the Global Research Council’s annual meeting and the successful hosting of its third international workshop in Sweden.

Introduction Open source provides an accessible platform for individuals to develop and refine their skills while collaborating on real-world projects. For tech enthusiasts with little to no experience, contributing to open-source projects is a great way to gain hands-on experience, learn from experts, and become part of a global community. One program that actively supports newcomers in open source is Outreachy.

Like many others, my website is under a constant barrage of crawling from bots. I need to figure out which one is hosing me, but I am also resisting having third-party trackers of any form. I took a look at hosting a Plausible instance as OCaml does, but it's yet another service to run and maintain.

Im Jahr 2024 hat der Publikationsfonds des Landes Brandenburg die Veröffentlichung von Open-Access-Publikationen von Wissenschaftler*innen aus verschiedenen Fachbereichen. Diese Titel repräsentieren eine breite Palette von Disziplinen und sind ein Zeugnis der vielfältigen Forschungslandschaft des Landes. In den kommenden Wochen werden wir Ihnen einige dieser Veröffentlichungen in unserem Blog näherbringen.

The first time I heard the expression "low hanging fruit" in science, I got excited. Simple projects that seem to be straightforward – seemingly untouched by other scientists. Projects you could pluck right off the tree and bite into, reaping the succulent fruity juice of success. In three months it would be wrapped up. An easy publication.