In the first two parts of this series, I discussed two well-established and widely used sets of principles for contemporary scientific work: FAIR and CARE.
In den ersten beiden Teilen dieser Serie habe ich über zwei gut etablierte und weit verbreitete Sammlungen von Prinzipien zum zeitgemäßen wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten gesprochen: FAIR und CARE.
In my blog post from April 2025, I referred to Reijer Passchier’s book (‘The Curse of Big Tech’), which was recommended during the SURF Course on Digital Sovereignty (for Executives in the field of education & research) organised earlier this year.
Are you the mother goat or the wolf?Consumers of your online content might care!Be it on social media or other platforms, your profile can sometimes be “verified”.What does it mean? How does one get a green checkmark where it matters?Here’s a primer on domain verification.
Introduction GPU acceleration enables faster and more scalable analysis workflows, especially for tasks like deep learning, image processing, and large-scale genomics, making Bioconductor more powerful for researchers working with complex data.
I had an amazingly fun week at ICFP/SPLASH in Singapore; it was the first time that these two major programming languages conferences were held simultaneously. My submissions turned into a bit of a success disaster; I ended up chairing a workshop, giving several talks and a keynote, and organising a tutorial, and helping out a bunch of colleague and students.
En la última entrada explicaba que, aunque en teoría la collatio debe identificar y resolver todos los problemas textuales de una tradición manuscrita, lo cierto es que no todos los editores realizan una collatio completa debido a las complejidades de esta tarea. En la filología tradicional (analógica), la identificación de las omisiones (especialmente...
Las circunstancias de la guerra entre México y Estados Unidos en 1847 hicieron aflorar las perennes tensiones entre las necesidades del gobierno general y los intereses de los grupos regionales en los momentos más críticos de la vida nacional mexicana.
We seem to be at the end of globalization. With seismic political shifts, a certain era of contemporary art has also come to a close.
Die Reihe Quo vadis offene Wissenschaft Berlin/Brandenburg wird auch in der Saison 2025/26 fortgesetzt. Wie gewohnt beginnt die Reihe im Oktober im Rahmen der International Open Access Week und läuft bis ins Frühjahr 2026 hinein. Die Planungen laufen. Nachfolgend gibt es einen ersten vorläufigen Überblick zum Programm. Die Übersicht wird fortlaufend aktualisiert (Stand: 9.10.2025).
Quick catch-up to what I have been writing and thinking about