I lost the frogs before I noticed the silence. That sounds backward, but the mind is built for pattern, not absence, and it took days before the void between cricket chirps registered as dread. The rainforest research station where I worked, three stilted cabins and a satellite dish that hiccuped more than it spoke, had always been an orchestra pit. Now the concert was on intermission, and no one had told the audience.

A few years ago, the R community started using ORCID (“Open Researcher and Contributor ID”) to persistently and uniquely identify individual authors of packages in DESCRIPTION.The idea is the following: you enter authors’ ORCID as a specially named comment in their person() object.For instance I can be represented by:person("Maëlle", "Salmon", , "maelle@ropensci.org", role = c("cre", "aut"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2815-0399"))

I’m really delighted today to announce the publication of my, and my co-authors’, new paper on the Carnegie Diplodocus : Taylor, Michael P., Amy C. Henrici, Linsly J. Church, Ilja Nieuwland and Matthew C. Lamanna. 2025. The history and composition of the Carnegie Diplodocus. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 91(1) :55–91. doi: to follow .

The Open Science (OS) movement has evolved in the last decades, with different actors taking different paths across the various dimensions of the OS concept. Contradictory implementation plans for open access and disparate visions of citizen science co-exist, and are often in conflict at the global scale.

Peyton Tvrdy of the US National Transportation Library tells us why and how her team did such exemplary work in producing metadata for Rosa P, a national digital repository for open transportation research.

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This post introduces Margaret Rose , research assistant at the ScholCommLab. In this interview, Margaret offers a glimpse into some of her inspiring projects and reflects on a piece of advice from her brother that has guided her for nearly 30 years. Q#1 What are you working on at the lab?

adición (f.) 1. Introducción, durante el proceso de copia, de contenido que no aparece en el modelo. Si es involuntaria, constituye un → error; si es voluntaria y original, se considera una → interpolación;

The CHANSE ERA-NET project DIGISCREENS: “ Identities and democratic values on European digital screens: Distribution, reception, and representation ” is coming to an end in December 2025, and we would like to invite you to attend our final conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, on the 23rd and 24th of October . Confirmed keynotes: Cathrin Bengesser (Aarhus University) Ramon Lobato (Swinburne University of

When the current centre-right government coalition, supported by the far-right Sweden Democrats party, took office in Stockholm in October 2022, it announced a hardline “paradigm shift” in migration policy.

Marking our 25th anniversary, we launch the Crossref Metadata Awards to emphasise our community’s role in stewarding and enriching the scholarly record. We are pleased to recognise Noyam Publishers, GigaScience Press, eLife, American Society for Microbiology, and Universidad La Salle Arequipa Perú with the Crossref Metadata Excellence Awards, and Instituto Geologico y Minero de España wins the Crossref Metadata Enrichment Award.

Following our previous DNA Day 2025 post covering where we are in the T2T (telomere-to-telomer) genomes era, we have a second expert Q&A covering the topic, this time from Kateryna Makova on the challenges (and opportunities) of