“State Fourteen is down. Switching contingency feedstock to Vermont and Utah.” I blinked twice to clear the haptic overlay from my vision, watching as a pale blue arc lit up across the Appalachian corridor. Fermentation input lines were rerouting in real-time, wheat husk to algal base to sugarcane waste, just another day in the life of a national biotech grid under siege. It wasn’t a cyberattack. It wasn’t sabotage. It was something worse.

Forgotten Appalachia Series Tucked away in downtown Harlan, Kentucky, an unassuming patch of grassy ground at 206 East Clover Street conceals one of the county’s oldest and most intriguing burial grounds. Once hidden behind the walls of a crumbling Ford dealership building, this “secret cemetery” has only recently come back into public view—and with it, the faded chapter of Harlan’s early settlers and their storied feuds.

Sponsors make Crossref membership accessible to organisations that would otherwise face barriers to joining us. They also provide support to facilitate participation, which increases the amount and diversity of metadata in the global Research Nexus. This in turn improves discoverability and transparency of scholarship behind the works.

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/r-450-bioconductor-321. Faster package installation, import only the functions you want with use(), built-in Palmer penguins data, grep values shortcut, and lots of new bioinformatics packages in Bioconductor ... R 4.5.0 was released last week, and Bioconductor 3.21 came a few days later.

R 4.5.0 was released last week, and Bioconductor 3.21 came a few days later. You can read the R release notes here and the Bioconductor 3.21 announcement here.

ChEMBL periodically curates clinical trial information into its DRUG_INDICATION table. However, there’s some weird inconsistencies in the way it references disease concepts in external vocabularies. This blog post is an exploration of that table.

Crossposted from the Knowledge Commons team blog. Over the last several weeks, we've seen colleagues of ours across the country posting about the direct impacts they're experiencing of the current attacks on the National Endowment for the Humanities, including sudden and extensive terminations of previously awarded grants.

I took the occasion of the NEIU debate to refresh my knowledge of the status of some of the persistent tensions in cosmology. There wasn’t enough time to discuss those, so I thought I’d go through a few of them here. These issues tend to get downplayed or outright ignored when we hype LCDM’s successes.

We are looking for an organisation to perform an audit of, and propose changes to, the structure and information architecture underlying our website, with the aim of making it easier for everyone in our community to navigate the website and find the information they need. UPDATE, 26 May 2025: We are no longer accepting proposals for this call. Stay tuned for updates on the progress of this project throughout 2025.

Today, I have been battling a frustrating bug. In the latest versions of Chrome and Edge, users cannot highlight text in Full Site Editor or Post/Page Editor in WordPress (at Knowledge Commons. This turned out to be a complete nightmare to fix. What was actually happening was that highlights were transparent, due to this block of CSS in load-styles.php: .block-editor-block-list__layout::selection { background: transparent;

Background As part of the project module Open Science as a Field of Action for Scientific Institutions , students from the Institute for Library and Information Science at Humboldt University zu Berlin (HU), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Heinz Pampel, organized an event. During the winter semester of 2024/25, the students examined strategies on how scientific institutions shape and promote the topic of Open Science.