I’ve been wanting to expand on the previous post ever since I wrote it, which is over a month ago now. It has been a busy end to the semester. Plus, there’s a lot to say – nothing that hasn’t been said before, somewhere, somehow, yet still a lot to cobble together into a coherent story – if that’s even possible. This will be a long post, and there will be more after to narrate the story of our big paper in the ApJ.

I'm finally getting a chance to do some sustained reading, now that my winter break has begun, and so managed at last to dive into Maxwell Neely-Cohen's "Century-Scale Storage". It's good to see foregrounded the idea that preservation is not a matter of technological development (quite the contrary) but of human care buttressed by financial investment.

The International Advisory Board for OpenCitations is one of the four organizational bodies which define OpenCitations’s governance structure (Director; Council; Advisory Board;

We have wrapped up The Comics Grid’s 14th volume, corresponding to 2024.

This week’s recap highlights the Evo model for sequence modeling and design, biomedical discovery with AI agents, improving bioinformatics software quality through teamwork, a new tool from Brent Pedersen and Aaron Quinlan (vcfexpress) for filtering and formatting VCFs with Lua expressions, a new paper about the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog, and a review paper on designing and engineering synthetic genomes.

This experimental podcast, created in collaboration with generative AI, demonstrates a novel approach to exploring complex learning concepts through a conversational framework that is intended to support dialogic learning. Based on TGLF’s 2024 end-of-year message and supplementary materials, the conversation examines their peer learning model through a combination of concrete examples and theoretical reflection.

December has seen good growth in the number of blogs participating in the Rogue Scholar science blog archive, with 10 blogs joining in the last three weeks. Here you can find all Rogue Scholar blogs, sorted by join date, and the December 2024 additions are listed below.

Ein Rückblick auf drei Jahre „Digitale Kartenwerkstatt Altes Reich“ (DigiKAR) zeigt, dass die Zusammenarbeit verschiedener Disziplinen neue Zugänge zu historischen Fragestellungen ermöglicht und innovative Forschung schafft.

The wild burro population in Southern California has been a cherished part of the region’s landscape for years. Known for their resilience and charm, these iconic animals are now facing an uncertain future, raising concerns among conservationists and local communities alike. The Issue at Hand Recently, there have been significant challenges emerging that threaten the existence of these beloved wild burros.

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 🔗R-Universe Named an R Consortium Top-Level Project We are excited to announce that R-Universehas been named the R Consortium’s newest Top-Level Project!

En la última entrada expliqué cómo crear un aparato crítico en ChrysoCollate y ofrecí un ejemplo del capítulo 1 del Lucidario . Recordé entonces que ChyrsoCollate, como toda herramienta de comparación textual, es implacable. Creará un aparato crítico total, que refleje todas y cada una de las variaciones textuales, como se ve en este vídeo.