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Published in Math ∩ Programming
Author Jeremy Kun

On Monday, July 14th 2025, I hosted a mini-workshop on homomorphic encryption at Google’s Portland, Oregon office. Though Portland is a small city, it’s becoming a hub for homomorphic encryption. Intel and Google both have a presence here, as well as the hardware startup Niobium, and a few individuals from other companies who happen to be based here.

Research-integrityAcademiaEntrepreneurshipResearchPeer-reviewComputer and Information Sciences
Published in Stories by Adam Day on Medium
Author Adam Day

Clear Skies created the first index of research integrity: Oversight. We offer metrics describing research standards covering the entire research ecosystem. If you want to know more about metrics for your portfolio, get in touch. I sometimes get asked why I picked the name ‘Clear Skies’. I used to fly gliders. Gliders don’t have engines, so technically, they don’t actually “fly”, they just kind of fall out of the sky.

Science FictionOther Engineering and Technologies
Published in The Connected Ideas Project
Author Alexander Titus

When I set out to write On the Wings of a Pig , I didn’t expect to end up writing it with anyone else. The core idea was mine, born from years spent straddling the line between bioengineering and policy, steeped in existential frustration at how little attention we give to the collapse of the living world around us, and how much a lot of my conversations felt like science fiction. I had the science. I had the stakes. I had the vision.

AllgemeinAktuellesBUA Open Science DashboardsOpen ResearchLandesinitiative Open Research BerlinOther Social SciencesGerman
Published in Open Research Office Berlin

Vom 24. bis 27. Juni 2025 fand die 113. BiblioCon im Bremer Messe und Congress Centrum statt. Unter den rund 4.000 Teilnehmenden waren auch wir vertreten: Das Open Research Office Berlin war bei mehreren Vorträgen und Workshops aktiv beteiligt. Wir blicken zurück auf die Konferenz und stellen unsere Materialien und einige Impressionen im Open Access zur Verfügung.

PapersBiological Sciences
Published in Paired Ends
Author Stephen Turner

This week’s recap highlights Autocycler for long-read consensus assembly for bacterial genomes (future post on this one alone coming soon), Progen3 for broader generation and deeper functional understanding of proteins, the CarpeDeam de novo metagenome assembler for ancient datasets, and hifiasm ONT for efficient T2T assembly of Nanopore Simplex reads.

FediverseMastodonPanoramaxOpenstreetmapBotOther Social Sciences
Published in Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

tl;dr: I made a Mastodon Bot that posts updated statistics for the Panoramax federation alongside randomly selected images once a day. Since posting about Panoramax about a year ago, I’ve been an active contributor, uploading around 530,969 360° images taken during trips in Europe and here in Argentina.

Politik + RechtUrheberrechtWissenschaftAufbau VerlagBerner ÜbereinkunftLawGerman
Published in iRights.info

Das Urheberrecht der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik war sozialistisch-modern, übermäßig lange Schutzfristen etwa waren tabu. Diana Liebenau erforscht die Geschichte des DDR-Urheberrechts. Im Interview erläutert die Juristin das utopische Potential und die inneren Widersprüchen des Geistigen Eigentums im Sozialismus. iRights.info: Frau Liebenau, Sie forschen zum Urheberrecht in der DDR.

CommunityCrossrefMeetingsComputer and Information Sciences
Published in Crossref Blog
Authors Johanssen Obanda, Robbykha Rosalien, Xiaofeng Guo, Gantulga Lkhagva, Ran Dang, Alicia Wang

This June, we presented at the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) and connected directly with our growing community in China. With a surge of interest from Chinese publishers and partners, it was clear: there’s a strong and rising curiosity around how metadata plays a vital role in maintaining the integrity of the scholarly record.