A world in crisis: wildfires as examples of the climate crisis in the BBC News documentary looking at Heatwaves: The New Normal? In this second podcast, David and Elke are looking at Governance in Crisis – as governance that is troubled but also governance in a period of crisis.
Some stories stick with me. This one’s been in my bones for a long time. I hope it lands with you the way it did with me.
“I did not realize how much I could do with what we already have.” A Nigerian health worker’s revelation captures what may be the most significant breakthrough in global health implementation during the current funding crisis.
by Jaap Geraerts, Henry Keazor, Demival Vasques Filho, Rebecca Welkens and Thorsten Wübbena This clear call for secrecy and discretion can be found as a kind of prologue in issues of the so-called ‘Mittheilungen des Museen-Verbandes’, which were published from 1899 to 1939. 2 They were distributed by the “International Association of Museum Officials in Defence Against Counterfeiting and Improper Trade Practices” (“Internationaler
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This post demonstrates the NFDI4BIOIMAGE Knowledge Graph (N4BIKG). Many aspects of this project are still very much in the flow including a consensus on which ontologies and terms to employ, how to define various namespaces and much more.
There’s a pervasive problem with semantics in artificial intelligence. It’s present at the creation – the term itself characterises the subject as a man-made simulacrum of something ‘natural’ the way we speak of artificial flavourings and artificial rubber.
A Tale of Two Conferences Part II: ASRA ‘Currents of Change’ Symposium 2025 (In-depth read, 15 min) TLDR/Summary Part II of a two-part blog series reporting on a pair of crisis/disaster risk conferences – this one covers the ASRA ‘Currents of Change’ Symposium, which offered a refreshing contrast to the UN’s symptom-focused approach detailed in Part I. ASRA brought systems
Zum 1. Juli 2025 startet der Lizenzierungsservice Vergriffene Werke (VW-LiS) neu. Dafür arbeitet die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB) eng mit der VG Wort und der VG Bild-Kunst zusammen. Simon Herrmann stellt im Interview die technischen Verbesserungen und rechtlichen Hintergründe des Projekts ausführlich vor.
Preparing publication quality images from your calculations is essential. To pre-visualize images to get the best orientations of your molecule, DTK2.0 includes two options: a new GUI called DensToolKitViewer and DTKQDMol.
Gotta say, watching Scarlett Johansson making eyes at Aquilops is not getting old. Screengrab from this clip, the good stuff starts about 6:19. This short clip from the Tonight Show is also pretty great. Aaaand Halloween costume: sorted. I already have everything I need! (…except the lifelike Aquilops puppet.