Mike Taylor wrote up a post about the various things a journal article is doing, the first being a scientific report. We put a lot of money in establishing a scientific track record. In the past 30 years how we publish our research and how we archive it has changed significantly. If you read my blog more often, you know I have been critical of the performance of many publishers.

I recently saw a video recording of the Irish President Michael Higgins calling for intervention under the United Nations Charter: This sounds incredibly convincing as it invokes both emotion and procedural expertise. I want to jump on social media and say there is a viable, legal way to aid the people in Gaza using the UN Charter. Anything to circumvent the Israeli State's siege and starvation of Gaza.

I liked Steve Krouse’s essay, “Vibe code is legacy code.” It helped crystalize some half-baked thoughts I have on vibe coding. Here’s an excerpt.Subscribe now Maintainability and vibe are inversely correlated I’ve been using GitHub copilot and chatbots for code for years, and I’ve written about them a lot here.

There’s something quietly radical about the idea that a junior scientist—someone who’s never designed a CRISPR experiment before—can now walk into a wet lab and, on their very first attempt, edit the genome of a human cancer cell with precision and purpose.

The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) recently convened for the GSC25 meeting in Cambridge, UK. Bringing together leading researchers, data scientists, and genomics professionals from around the world. Held from July 28-August 1, GSC25 marked a significant milestone – celebrating two decades of advancing genomic data standards while charting the course for the next 20 years.

Today, our article “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly” was published in PNAS . The article will only be fully open-access in six months (damn you, publishing fees), but I’ve made the PDF available here (you can download the supplementary materials on the PNAS page). I’ll use this blog post to summarize and opine (what I write here reflects my own thinking about this study

por Fernando Aguayo El señor Matthew Fontaine Maury llegó a México el día 28 de mayo de 1865. Apenas unas semanas después, era parte de la Academia de Ciencias y Literatura, en tanto que la Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística lo aceptaba como socio honorario.

Inspired by related writings from Scott Alexander, who is funnier than me.

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive uses DOIs to uniquely identify blog posts with meaningful metadata. This enables tracking citations of scholar blog posts in the scholarly literature using traditional citation tracking methods rather than altmetrics. Initially launched as a Rogue Scholar service six months ago, citation tracking has launched to production this week.

The Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) is now indexing dense embeddings for ontology terms constructed from term labels, synonyms, and descriptions using LLMs. I maintain a Python client library for the OLS (ols-client) and was recently asked to implement a wrapper to the OLS’s API endpoint that exposes these embeddings.

I have finally opened a Posts section on my website! Every post should now automatically get a DOI.