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OntologyEmbeddingsBertSbertSimilarityDoğa Bilimleriİngilizce
Yayınlandı in Biopragmatics
Yazar Charles Tapley Hoyt

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.

CommunityCrossrefMetadata AwardsBilgisayar ve Bilişim Bilimleriİngilizce
Yayınlandı in Crossref Blog
Yazarlar David Haber, Rosa Morais Clark

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has earned recognition in Crossref’s Participation Reports for its exceptional metadata coverage among large publishing members––an achievement built on intentional change, technical investment, and collaborative work.

BooksScholarly PublishingScience CommunicationStinkin' Every Thing That's Not A SauropodStinkin' TurtlesYeryüzü ve ilgili Çevre Bilimleriİngilizce
Yayınlandı in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

In Archie Carr’s encyclopedic “Handbook of Turtles: The Turtles of the United States, Canada, and Baja California”, first published in 1952, he quotes favorably and at length the observations of “Mrs. Knowlton” on the behavior of wood turtles (Clemmys insculpta) and box turtles (Terrapene carolina). The source given in the references is: Knowlton, Josphine Gibson.

Science CommunicationStinkin' EditorsStinkin' PublishersStinkin' ReviewersYeryüzü ve ilgili Çevre Bilimleriİngilizce
Yayınlandı in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

Adam Mastroianni’s blog Experimental History is consistently fascinating. In a recent article on whether conversations end when people want them to, he makes this point, very much in passing: This is a brilliant insight, and it explains so much about what’s wrong with journal articles. When you’re balancing all six requirements, how are you ever going to write something that people are going to actually enjoy reading?

Artes VisualesSin CategoríaBeşeri Bilimlerİspanyolca
Yayınlandı in BLOG ATARRAYA
Yazar Atarraya

Natalia Calderón, DR © Grabado Xalapa, Veracruz. 2023 Parte de la colección “Gráfica” Sitio de la autora Esta es una reproducción digital, con fines de divulgación, de una obra original proporcionada por su autor o propietario. Todos los derechos están reservados por la artista.

PapersBiyolojik Bilimlerİngilizce
Yayınlandı in Paired Ends

This week’s recap highlights Variant-EFFECTS for rewriting regulatory DNA to dissect and reprogram gene expression, zero-shot evaluation revealing the limitations of single-cell foundation models, EcoWeaver for large-scale prediction of gene functional associations from coevolutionary signals, and how assemblies of long-read metagenomes suffer from diverse errors.

Science FictionDiğer Mühendislik ve Teknolojilerİngilizce
Yayınlandı in The Connected Ideas Project
Yazar Alexander Titus

There’s a moment—somewhere in the quiet space between hypothesis and imagination—when science fiction stops feeling like fiction at all. I remember it clearly. We were outlining the premise of On the Wings of a Pig , building the scaffolding of a story that spanned lightyears and lifetimes.

Event ReportBiasCARE PrinciplesConferenceData EthicsTarih ve Arkeolojiİngilizce
Yayınlandı in DH Lab
Yazar Sofia Baroncini

by Sofia Baroncini, Constanze Buyken, Judit Garzón Rodríguez, Ian Kisil Marino, Sarah Oberbichler, Cindarella Petz The 2025 Digital Humanities Conference, held this year in Lisbon under the theme “Building Access and Accessibility: Open Science to All Citizens”, brought together a global community of researchers, developers, and practitioners to reflect on the role of openness, inclusivity, … „From Access to Ethics: Data Discussions at the