In 2018, when the world found out a Chinese scientist had edited the genes of twin baby girls, the reaction was instant and loud: absolutely not. Scientists called it reckless. Ethicists called it unethical. Governments rushed to reinforce bans. And He Jiankui, the scientist behind the experiment, was sentenced to prison in China for violating medical regulations.

Humanitarian, global health, and development organizations confront an unprecedented crisis. Donor funding is in a downward spiral, while needs intensify across every sector. Organizations face stark choices: reduce programs, cut staff, or fundamentally transform how they deliver results. Traditional capacity building models have become economically unsustainable.

Before starting - what is Omics Data? Omics data represent massive volumes of information on genomes, epigenomes, transcriptomes — you name it. They’ve become a favorite among researchers, reviewers, and publishers. But at what cost? I’m not even talking about the huge financial investments it takes to generate good quality data with proper replicates.

This post is based on an interview with Sciety team at eLife. What is Sciety? Sciety is a community-led initiative developed by a team within eLife, that brings together expert evaluations of papers in one place. It is focused on preprints, preprint review and curation. Can you tell us more about how Sciety works? Sciety aggregates preprints from different sources to facilitate the processes of discovery and evaluation.

Yesterday I posted about the normalization functions in the tidynorm R package. In order to implement formant track normalization, I had to also put together code for working with the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), which in and of itself can be handy to work with.

PKP releases OJS, OMP, and OPS 3.5 with major feature enhancements, setting the stage for the upcoming Long-Term Support (LTS) version. PKP is pleased to announce the release of OJS, OMP, and OPS 3.5.0, the latest step in our ongoing mission to make scholarly publishing more equitable, efficient, and accessible.

Mauricio Suárez reviews No Shadow of a Doubt, by Daniel Kennefick

PKP is proud to share the Annual Report for 2024, covering the period from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025. Compiling the annual report never fails to serve as a meaningful moment to pause, reflect, and take stock of what we’ve achieved and where we’re headed. This past year was no exception.

por Luis Fidel Acosta Machado Uno de los episodios más interesantes ocurridos entre México y Cuba, en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, fue la proposición y defensa, por parte de diversos medios de prensa mexicanos, de la anexión de Cuba a México.

One of my previous employers was a Google Cloud partner, which gave me full and free access to all of Google Cloud’s certification programs, where I took the Professional Cloud Architect and Professional Data Engineer programs. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that with Google leaning hard into GenAI that they have new certification programs and learning paths, like this Generative AI Leader certification.

Im Jahr 2024 unterstützte der Publikationsfonds des Landes Brandenburg Open-Access-Publikationen von Wissenschaftler*innen aus verschiedenen Fachbereichen. Diese Titel repräsentieren eine breite Palette von Disziplinen und sind Zeugnis der vielfältigen Forschungslandschaft des Landes. Zurzeit bringen wir Ihnen einige dieser Veröffentlichungen in unserem Blog näher.