Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! 🔗rOpenSci HQ 🔗rOpenSci Champions Program 2025 In Spanish: Apply before April 30th! We have great news: The call for applications to be part of the new cohort of our 2025 Program is now open! And for the first time it will be in Spanish!

Over the past few months at work we’ve been looking into web framework options for a project that currently uses R Shiny. Our needs have grown beyond what Shiny can provide. We decided to try Rails, SvelteKit, and HTMX/FastAPI to see which one would best suit our needs.

This is a follow-up to my earlier post entitled "Going for robustness", focusing on scientific research.

En la entrada anterior comenzamos a explorar las opciones de colación semi-automatizada en ChrysoCollate, en la ventana «Pre-edit», explicando el funcionamiento de la primera forma de edición: «Auto-edit variant locations common to all witnesses»: En esta entrada explicaré cómo funciona la siguiente opción.

Wie kann Diamond Open Access weltweit gestärkt werden? Drei Expert*innen aus Argentinien, Großbritannien und Frankreich beleuchteten Herausforderungen, Strategien und Infrastrukturen für eine nachhaltigere Publikationslandschaft ohne Publikations- oder Subskriptionskosten. Wie kann Diamond Open Access weltweit gestärkt werden?

Various reform movements are working hard to improve the research system, focusing on issues ranging from research assessment, diversity and inclusion, and research culture to scientific publishing, open science, reproducibility, research integrity, and several others. The agendas of the different reform movements are interconnected and partly overlapping, but sometimes they are also in tension.

Für Musiknoten gilt im Urheberrecht ein Kopierverbot. So die häufige Annahme. Doch stimmt das so pauschal überhaupt? Welche Ausnahmen gibt es von dieser Annahme? Das erklärt Paul Klimpel in diesem Text. Das Urheberrecht erlaubt zwar in bestimmten Konstellationen, Kopien zu machen – etwa zu für den Privatgebrauch oder zu Bildungszwecken – nimmt Noten aber von dieser gesetzlichen Erlaubnis aus.

The question of safe and regulated entry for protection seekers into a state of refuge is still one of the most pressing issues of the asylum system in Europe. While the debate on externalizing asylum is at a new high point, it fails to address a crucial question: how can protection remain accessible in a world of shifting borders?

We begin by loading the necessary R packages:

Chris Mungall (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Open Knowledge Bases in the Age of Generative AI (Keynote talk for joint BOSC/BOKR session) ABSTRACT: The scientific and clinical community relies on the active development of a wide range of interlinked knowledge bases in order to plan experiments, interpret omics data, and to help with the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

As part of my project recording the plant-pathogenic fungi and oomycetes of Ireland, I received an Irish Naturalists’ Journal grant to buy a new microscope. I finally have it and I am excited to use it in my micromycological research this year! The microscope I got is a Motic Panthera C2 Trinocular.