Five years ago, LOTUS (Rutz et al. 2022) started as a small attempt to cultivate the flow of chemical knowledge, in the same way we study how metabolites flow through living systems, rather than to build yet another database.
Five years ago, LOTUS (Rutz et al. 2022) started as a small attempt to cultivate the flow of chemical knowledge, in the same way we study how metabolites flow through living systems, rather than to build yet another database.

Why does a video call feel empty compared to a handshake? How does physical absence break the social contract? What happens to trust in remote work? For generations, professional trust relied on a simple, physical toolkit. We shook hands. We looked each other in the eye across a table. We shared coffee during breaks. These were not just social niceties.

Der Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS), der praktikable Kriterien für die Veröffentlichung wissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften festlegt, steht der Community jetzt auch auf Deutsch zur Verfügung. Die im DOAS formulierten Qualitätskriterien berücksichtigen über 70 aktuelle nationale und internationale Publikationsrichtlinien und wurden im intensiven Austausch mit der europäischen Diamond Open Access Community entwickelt.

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A new study in Nature finds that AI adoption correlates with faster career ascent and higher citation impact, while the semantic spread of entire fields subtly contracts around fewer topical regions.
Das Open Research Office Berlin sucht ab sofort eine Juristin (m/w/d) für den Aufbau einer juristischen Anlaufstelle für Forschende aus Berlins Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbe-Einrichtungen (Legal Helpdesk Berlin). Wir freuen uns bis zum 09.02.2026 über Bewerbungen von Menschen mit erfolgreich abgeschlossenem erstem Staatsexamen, die Interesse daran haben, Open Research in Berliner Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbe-Einrichtungen voranzutreiben und …

A laboratory safety benchmark finds retrieval augmented generation (RAG) can make strong models worse.
Like many awesome internet phenomena, blogging started in the late nineties. Nature authors and editors recognized the effort early. In 2006 there were already more than 45 million blogs, and at least 50 science blogs made it in the top 50,000 and 5 in the top 3,500.

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I’m still making my way through Brian Curtice’s excellent and detailed post on Greg Paul’s (2025) recent erection of a new titanosaur genus (Curtice 2025), but I just want to comment on this one passing thought of Brian’s: The species tells me where it was found if named by “Old Timers,” the genus almost can […]