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Published in CST Online
Author Melissa Beattie

NB: This is part of research that will be published in a special issue of Popular Culture Studies Journal focusing upon Star Trek: Enterprise which I am guest-editing (CFP open until 15 June). As a lifelong fan of the Star Trek franchise and a lifelong queer person (even if it took me a few decades to figure it out),[i] it is hard to overstate the joy I felt upon learning that Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount+

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

“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.

RBiological Sciences
Published in Getting Genetics Done
Author Stephen Turner

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.

ChEBIChEMBLUBERONExperimental Factor OntologyEFONatural Sciences
Published in Biopragmatics
Author Charles Tapley Hoyt

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.

CosmologyLCDMPersonal ExperiencePhysical Sciences
Published in Triton Station

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.

CollaborationCommunityCrossrefMetadataUser InterfacesComputer and Information Sciences
Published in Crossref Blog

We are looking to work with an individual or organization 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. Proposals will be evaluated on a rolling basis. We encourage submissions by May 15, 2025.

Languages and Literature
Published in Martin Paul Eve

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;

Lab LifeResearchComputer and Information Sciences
Authors Laura Catalina Bohórquez Díaz, Sharleen Frankenstein, Henriette Humprecht, Christopher Onzie Khamis, Zuhal Nur Kocabiyik, Jannik Kuhs-Ohmann, Max Liebel, Sofie-Lilly Prinada, Patricia Rocha Dias, Hendrik Zimnol

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.

Artes VisualesSin CategoríaHumanities
Published in BLOG ATARRAYA
Author Atarraya

Dibujo de Arturo Souto Litografía, ca. 1950 DR © Esta es una reproducción digital, con fines de divulgación, de una obra original, todos los derechos de autor y reproducción están reservados por el coleccionista.

Replication CrisisPublication BiasP-hackingHARKingQuestionable Research PracticesSocial Science
Published in Critical Metascience
Author Mark Rubin

Abstract Research on questionable research practices (QRPs) includes a growing body of work that questions whether they are as problematic as commonly assumed. This article provides a brief and selective review that considers some of this work. In particular, the review highlights work that questions the prevalence and impact of QRPs, including p -hacking, HARKing, and publication bias.