The secret of being a great coder is to write terrible code. Wait, wait. Hear me out: I’m going somewhere with this.

Powerful protocols for preserving our planet’s precious biodiversity – discover the tools and techniques that help us safeguard life’s incredible variety.

Dartmoor Wild Boar Sightings: A New Chapter in Guerrilla Rewilding? Wild Boars Spotted in Dartmoor Dartmoor, a scenic and rugged area in the southwest of England, has unexpectedly become the center of attention due to sightings of wild boars. The appearance of these enigmatic creatures has ignited discussions and speculation about the possibility of guerrilla rewilding efforts in the region. What is Guerrilla Rewilding?

We began our Global Equitable Membership (GEM) Program to provide greater membership equitability and accessibility to organizations in the world’s least economically advantaged countries. Eligibility for the program is based on a member’s country; our list of countries is predominantly based on the International Development Association (IDA). Eligible members pay no membership or content registration fees.

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 🔗Open Science and Open Source only with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Including all of humanity is and always will be at the heart of open science.Read more about our mission in our blog post.

This is an AI podcast featuring two hosts discussing an article by Reda Sadki titled “New Ways to Learn and Lead HPV Vaccination: Bridging Planning and Implementation Gaps.” The conversational format involves the AI hosts taking turns explaining key points and sharing insights about Sadki’s work on HPV vaccination strategies.

Aquilops turned 10 years old in December. For all of that time, I’ve been waiting for Aquilops toys. I mean COME ON people, it’s an adorable little cat-ceratops, the only one of its kind so far in North America, how do we have multiple toys of Kaprosuchus and no Aquilops yet?

For a while now I’ve been exploring ways to navigate through DNA barcodes. Over the years I’ve built various “toys” to explore barcodes, such as Displaying a million DNA barcodes on Google Maps using CouchDB, built a small scale browser using Elastic search that had some succes, and discovered that Postgres can search for DNA sequences and it’s really fast.

En la última entrada sobre ChrysoCollate explicaba cómo reducir la cantidad de notas en el aparato crítico utilizando la configuración de las entradas del aparato crítico. Antes de realizar la selectio de las lecciones, proceso que cubriré en las próximas entradas, en esta entrada describiré una estrategia adicional para reducir el aparato crítico. Los errores son un elemento inescapable en el proceso de copia de textos.

Es gibt Neuigkeiten zum Open Library Badge, einem Qualitätssiegel für Offenheit in Bibliotheken. Seit Februar 2025 ist die Initiative, die im vergangenen Jahr den ENTER-Award in der Kategorie „Kooperation“ erhielt, als Arbeitsgruppe beim Deutschen Bibliotheksverband (dbv) angesiedelt. Die bisher Aktiven sind Teil der Arbeitsgruppe. Weitere Interessierte sind ausdrücklich zur Mitwirkung eingeladen.

In Asylverfahren vor Gericht dienen Rückkehrhilfen zunehmend als Argument gegen das Risiko einer lebensbedrohlichen Verelendung im Herkunftsland – und damit als Argument gegen Schutz. Häufig genügt Gerichten dabei der Verweis auf die bloße Existenz der Programme, während ihre Wirksamkeit nebensächlich ist.