Interested in using computer vision to help understand, manage, and conserve nature? We hiring for a new position to join our team working on models, software, and community outreach in our existing projects using airborne imagery to monitor and understand natural systems at large scales. The Weecology lab at the University of Florida has an opening for a computer vision developer to join our team.

Do you think the FAIR principles for Research Software are working? The FAIR Principles for Research Software were published in March 2022 and described in a paper in October 2022.

Back in 2013, John Conway was doing some paintings and Darren Naish was drawing lots of animals for a book. I chipped in to help with their artwork and some back and forth ensued. All this happened on Twitter, and I wrote it up in an SV-POW! post with lots of embedded tweets. But with the progressing enshittification of Twitter (I refuse to call it X), that post is rendering less and less well, and at some point will probably fail completely.

Tragic Disappearance of K Pod Orca: What We Know A beloved member of the Southern Resident killer whale population, known as K Pod, has been missing since July and is now feared dead. This unfortunate event marks a significant loss for the critically endangered population of orcas residing in the Pacific Northwest.

Grenoble: a different way of life ? In France and particularly in Grenoble, one can find a lot of active associations that usually do not have a strong online presence, but are very active locally. These are sport, culture or teaching-directed associations. A good example is the “ptit velo dans la tête” organisation.

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Dejé pendiente en la última entrada sobre ChrysoCollate —hace algunos meses— hablar del modo de edición ( Edition Mode ). Se trata del segundo modo de trabajo en el aplicativo (después de modo de colación, Collation Mode ). Si el modo de colación permite introducir los textos de los testimonios manuscritos o impresos de una obra, anotando las particularidades del texto mediante las herramientas de comentarios y notas, y resaltando

We live in stupid times. As I write this, Google Scholar’s front page is advertising “New! AI outlines in Scholar PDF Reader: skim per-section bullets, deep read what you need”. Yes: it’s using AI to provide a short summary of what’s in a paper. Wouldn’t it be great if instead of a profoundly fallible AI summary, we could read a summary written by the actual authors, who know the material inside out? We can, of course.

On November 12, 2024, I had the pleasure of delivering a workshop titled “ Scientific Publishing: Publication Strategies, Open Science, and Open Access” at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. This event aimed to provide researchers with essential insights and practical strategies for navigating the complex world of academic publishing.

This is a call for chapters on the following FX Channel documentary and reality TV series: Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days (2005) , New York Times Presents (2020-2023) , AKA Jane Roe (2020) , Welcome to Wrexham (2022-present) , and The Secrets of Hillsong (2023) for an edited book collection (The FX Reader), which is under a two-volume book contract with Syracuse University Press.

*Metadata is at the heart of DataCite’s services. This blog post is about why and how an organization is harvesting DataCite metadata. Learn about the critical role of metadata sharing and harvesting in increasing the visibility and impact of research. * Tommi Suominen is a senior information architect at CSC – IT Center for Science , specializing in semantic interoperability of IT services for research and education.