In August 2022, I secured a slot at the BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) in Caversham to look at the archives for Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan (BBC1, 1968-1982). This was a groundbreaking programme produced for the British Asian diaspora.

R updates (from rOpenSci, Blaze, R Works, RWeekly, Posit), Slidecrafting, AI highs &

Billet rédigé par ✏️ Pascal Martinolli, avec la collaboration de Raphaël Grolimund Ce billet présente l’extension Cita pour Zotero qui permet d’enrichir ses propres notices de Zotero avec des identifiants pérennes (autres que le DOI) et des données de citations que l’extension va chercher dans CrossRef, OpenAlex et Wikidata.

Billet rédigé par ✏️ Pascal Martinolli, avec la collaboration de Raphaël Grolimund Ce billet est la suite du billet « Enrichir sa collection de références Zotero grâce à l’extension Cita ». Nous allons explorer comment Zotero et Cita peuvent vous aider à contribuer à Wikidata. Les généralités à connaître pour contribuer à Wikidata sont dans les annexes à la fin de ce billet.

I recently returned from a research stay at the University of Ottawa: A grant by the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) - through the BUA Fellowship Program of the Objective 3 - Advancing Research Quality and Value - allowed me to visit Stefanie Haustein, associate professor at the School of Information Studies at the University of Ottawa and co-director of the Scholarly Communications Lab.

We are thrilled to introduce the newest member of the ROR pride: Joseph Rhoads joined the ROR team in September as our new Technical Lead.

2025 was declared by UNESCO as the International Year of Quantum Sciences, bringing a lot of celebrations, however much of the discourse is dominated by physicists and quantum technologists, some of which proclaim the dawn of the new “quantum revolution”. Yet, amid the excitement, I can’t help but notice that quantum chemistry remains underrepresented, despite […]

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/construct-objects-with-idiomatic-r-code --- Today I discovered the constructive package and the construct() function for creating R objects with idiomatic R code to make human-readable reproducible examples. CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/package=constructive Source: https://github.com/cynkra/constructive/ Docs &

This is the September issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users. Blogs added to Rogue Scholar One blog was added in September. Welcome!

Use the constructive package instead of dput() to construct R objects with idiomatic R code for human-readable reproducible examples

Registration is now open for the Open Publishing Series — three online courses from SFU’s MPub program, with start dates in January and May, 2026. Join us for a webinar on October 30 to meet the instructors and learn more. In an era of disinformation, polarization, and growing mistrust of academic institutions, scholarly publishing is […] The post Register Now for PKP + SFU Open Publishing Courses! appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.