In scientific computation, where I principally reside these days, there’s a cultural and philosophical divide between physics-based and machine-learning-based approaches.

Editor’s note: This essay was originally published on Medium on 2016-03-05. I have made minor edits in this republishing and added a few small retrospective notes. 2010–2011 (Year 0) I had just switched my major at Cal Poly State University from computer science to math.

This is a guest post from Stephen Turner, who publishes the Paired Ends Substack about genomics, computational biology, and data science. He also happens to be one of the best bioinformatics engineering leaders I’ve ever worked with. Just sayin’. So I wanted him to share his thoughts on how he went from an academic to a leader in industry.

Das DINI-Zertifikat ist der zentrale Standard für Open-Access-Publikationsdienste im deutschsprachigen Raum. Es definiert Kriterien, die beim Aufbau und Betrieb von Publikationsdiensten erfüllt werden sollten, um die Qualität, Interoperabilität und Nachhaltigkeit von Open-Access-Publikationsdiensten zu sichern.

INTOXICOM is an ELIXIR Toxicoloy Community (doi:10.12688/f1000research.74502.2) implementation study, organizing five workshops, each one with a different topic. The first three workshops were in Utrecht (doi:10.37044/osf.io/un2rw), Basel, and Uppsala.

As an academic librarian, I’m often asked: “Which AI search tool should I use?” With a flood of new tools powered by large language models (LLMs) entering the academic search space, answering that question is increasingly complex. Both startups and established vendors are rushing to offer “Deep Search” or “Deep Research” solutions, leading to a surge in requests to test these products.

In its March 2025 meeting, the Crossref board unanimously voted to update both the Crossref bylaws and the Crossref membership terms to: Provide more clarity and alignment between our bylaws and membership terms, where they had become out of sync over the years. Reflect previous board motions and bring both documents up-to-date with current processes for suspending and revoking membership, and reviewing those decisions.

GigaScience Press’ has been awarded one of the first CrossRef MetaData Awards, highlighting the Press as a leader in providing essential information to facilitate discovery, identification, and details of online research articles. This week GigaScience Press has been announced as a winner at the inaugural Crossref Metadata Awards, recognising efforts in scholarly publishing metadata completeness and enrichment in their journal,

‘Do you come from the land Down Under? Where women glow and men plunder?’ ‘Down Under,’ Men at Work I feel like I have talked about this before (Beattie 2022;

In one form or another, this website has had the little widget to display some information about myself at the bottom of the page since 2018.

I lost the frogs before I noticed the silence. That sounds backward, but the mind is built for pattern, not absence, and it took days before the void between cricket chirps registered as dread. The rainforest research station where I worked, three stilted cabins and a satellite dish that hiccuped more than it spoke, had always been an orchestra pit. Now the concert was on intermission, and no one had told the audience.