How reliable is our knowledge on mechanisms that make people give? In a webinar organized by the European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP) on December 10, 2024, I’ve given a preliminary answer to this question. The slides are here. With a group of scholars we seek to identify which results have successfully been replicated in research that was conducted since the 2007 Science of Generosity working paper (Bekkers &

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Tanakamol Mahawan, a PhD student at the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology , University of Liverpool, was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend Asia &

Anders als bei Texten und Bildern gibt es kaum ganze Spielfilme, die unter einer freien Lizenz stehen. Da stellt sich die Frage, ob sie gleichwohl ohne weiteres im Bildungskontext gezeigt werden können. Entscheidend dabei ist, wann eine Filmvorführung als öffentlich gilt, erklärt Paul Klimpel. Der bloße Werkgenuss, etwa Musik zu hören oder einen Film zu sehen, ist urheberrechtlich nicht relevant.

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Coyotes Establish Den in Wall, Claim Neighborhood Territory In an unusual and rather unexpected development, a pack of coyotes has decided to make a neighborhood in Las Vegas their home, establishing a den right within the walls of a local residence.

Yellowstone Tourist Faces Consequences for Illegal, Disrespectful Behavior Tourist Actions Spark Controversy at Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park, one of America’s most iconic natural reserves, recently witnessed a tourist engaging in illegal and disrespectful behavior.

The fourth blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk explains how to measure the quality of different matching strategies with an evaluation dataset and metrics. Read all posts in the series on metadata matching. In our previous blog post in this series, we explained why no metadata matching strategy can return perfect results.

For 14 years, the main research funding agency in Germany, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has stated in its guidelines that submitted grant proposals will be assessed primarily on the basis of their content , rather than counting the applicants’ previous publications. However, not all of DFG’s panels seem to be on board.

I’ve written here before about Donald Glut’s The New Dinosaur Dictionary and the looooong shadow it cast over my adolescence.

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