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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 Dr. Diego Chavarro , a Research Associate at the ScholCommLab. In this interview, Diego tells us what excites him most about his work.

In 2022, I started my Master’s in Biology, at Radboud University in the Netherlands where I had just finished my Bachelor’s degree. The Master’s programme includes two research internships of 36 EC (approx. 6 months), both of which include writing a thesis. As I had been working on a database of identification keys, I was interested in a project focused on taxonomy for my first research internship.

This is part 2 of a series on uv. Other posts in this series: uv, part 1: running scripts and tools This post Coming soon… Last year I wrote a post on creating a Python command line application with Click using a cookiecutter template, building with setuptools and publishing with twine.

Introduction Let’s talk about your heart. Not the metaphorical one that’s still recovering from that season finale of Stranger Things , but the actual meat-and-potatoes organ pumping in your chest.

The NumFOCUS Diversity & Inclusion in Scientific Computing (“DISC”) Unconf took place as a hybrid event in São Paulo, Brazil, from March 14 to 16, 2025.Our community manager, Yanina Bellini Saibene, and rOpenSci Champions, Andrea Gomez Vargas and Liz Hare, participated.In this short post we report on our experience at and around the unconference.

Introduction Our Distance Learning GIScience course is pretty established at Leeds. Students enrol part-time and complete it over a 3-year period; the final year is 100% focussed on research (dissertation). The programme draws students from a range of backgrounds and they often combine study with work in industry or government, usually GIScience or adjacent roles.

While this was not the primary hack project during the ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe last autumn, but I really like BioHackrXiv and I got the question if I could have a look at getting the ORCID logo in generated PDF. The ORCID was already in the YAML metadata of report markdown, so it sounded easy.

This week, I took some time out to read Elly Griffith’s most recent book, The Frozen People . I thought this sounded quite an interesting genre-fusing novel, welding together detective fiction and SF/time travel. Sure, it’s hardly the first to do so, but it sounded worth a read. I’d met the author a few years’ back through a mutual connection: Lesley Thompson, another British crime writer.

Background Sparked by highly publicised cases of scientific misconduct as well as the identification of issues surrounding questionable research practices and irreproducibility of research findings, a scandalization process ensued (Penders, 2024). This scandalization initially started around narratives of a crisis concerning the research (processes) in some psychological and biomedical (sub)disciplines.

Poster in institute repository: https://doi.org/10.34734/FZJ-2024-06811