Anlässlich des Weltflüchtlingstags am 20. Juni veröffentlicht das UN-Flüchtlingshilfswerk (UNHCR) den sogenannten Global Trends-Bericht , um Einblicke in die globalen Fluchtbewegungen des Vorjahres zu geben.

Anmerkung zu dieser Rubrik: Das Open Research Office Berlin erstellt monatlich eine Übersicht über Termine und Veranstaltungen zu Open Access und Open Research in Berlin bzw. an Berliner Einrichtungen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf unseren Partnereinrichtungen und auf Veranstaltungen, die sich an die Öffentlichkeit richten bzw. die offen sind für Angehörige der Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbeeinrichtungen in Berlin.

Today’s piece is a guest post by Alex Obadia. Alex is a new program director at the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). As Alex puts it, his focus is “currently on designing new enabling trust primitives for a world where many more substrates (e.g. DNA, materials, thoughts) are programmable.” I met Alex last month at the ARIA Summit.

Thirty years after my first contact with computational (ir)reproducibility, I am happy to note that many things have improved. Reproducibility, computational and otherwise, is increasingly recognized as an important aspect of scientific quality control, and mostly considered worth striving for.

We’re pleased to announce a new collaboration between the Bioconductor Training Committee and Physalia Courses, aimed at expanding access to high-quality training in bioinformatics and computational biology. This partnership builds on shared goals around education, community engagement, and inclusivity.

The highly prestigious journal Nature this week announced that it is going to be publishing all peer reviews alongside the articles it publishes. This means that the reviews attached to each publication will be available for all to read, although reviewer identities will remain anonymous unless they opt to sign their review.

Fragt man, welche Hürden der Transformation zu Open Access, Open Research und Open Science besonders im Weg stehen, dann lautet eine der häufigsten Antworten: Es sind die rechtlichen Unsicherheiten. Oft möchte man gern, weiß aber nicht, ob man darf. Oder man fragt sich, zum Beispiel, wie der § 38 UrhG Abs. 4 eigentlich auszulegen ist?

Four months after my open letter calling on the Royal Society to take action over Elon Musk FRS’s breaches of their code of conduct had attracted thousands of signatures from the scientific community, but only a very muted response from that most learned organisation, I was beginning to think I should let the matter go. After all, Musk is no longer part of the Trump administration, his relationship with the president

Presentations On June 11, 2025, the webinar of the project Infra Wiss Blogs funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) took place on the topic of “Blog archiving with Rogue Scholar using the example of WordPress hosted blogs”. The webinar highlighted the possibilities and challenges of archiving scholarly blogs. At its core was the presentation of Rogue Scholar, a platform for archiving scholarly blogs. Around 50 people took part.

Am 11.06.2025 fand das Webinar des von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderten Projektes Infra Wiss Blogs zum Thema “Blogarchivierung mit Rogue Scholar am Beispiel von WordPress gehosteten Blogs” statt. Das Webinar beleuchtete die Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen der Archivierung wissenschaftlicher Blogs. Im Kern stand die Vorstellung von Rogue Scholar, einer Plattform zur Archivierung von Wissenschaftsblogs.

A Tale of Two Conferences Part I: UNDRR Global Platform 2025 (In-depth read, 18 min) TLDR/Summary The 2025 UN Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction The costs of disasters continue to spiral upward. In 2020 alone, direct disaster losses reached $200 billion annually, but when cascading and ecosystem impacts are included, the true cost balloons … Continue reading "The Hard Landing Ahead – Why Current Disaster Strategies Are Doomed to Fail"