So far we have dived into the historical origins of the peer review concept and the earliest attempts at an external referee system used by the Royal Society. Even in this early exploration, we have encountered issues with peer review that persist today. The first part of this series concluded with the beginnings of peer review, but we still hadn’t arrived at peer review as we know it in the 21st century.
por Jeremías Silva El 17 de octubre de 1946 el General Juan Perón, electo presidente en febrero de ese año, visitó el principal establecimiento carcelario de Argentina: la Penitenciaria Nacional ubicada en la Capital Federal. Ese día se conmemoraba el primer aniversario de la masiva movilización de trabajadores que lo catapultó al poder.
Noel Swanson reviews The Non-fundamentality of Spacetime, by Kian Salimkhani
Ten days ago, I reported on a new deployment strategy for the InvenioRDM repository software. Using the Kamal deployment tool, I deployed both a staging instance of the Rogue Scholar service and a demo instance of the InvenioRDM Starter package. Over the last few days I have updated both instances to the latest release candidate (v13.0.0rc3) of the next major InvenioRDM software version. The upgrade was fairly painless.
karyoploteR is an R package that’s been in Bioconductor for nearly a decade. It lets you create linear chromosomal representations of any genome with genomic annotations and experimental data plotted along them. Bioconductor : https://bioconductor.org/packages/karyoploteR/ Tutorial : https://bernatgel.github.io/karyoploter_tutorial/ Paper : Bernat Gel & Eduard Serra. (2017).
Wir haben eine wichtige Änderung zu verkünden: Aus dem Open-Access-Büro Berlin wird das Open Research Office Berlin – Landeskoordinierungsstelle für offene Wissenschaft in Berlin . Die Umbenennung ist Teil eines größeren Prozesses, den wir in diesem Blogpost näher darstellen. Zur Landesinitiative Open Research in Berlin Bereits seit dem Jahr 2020 läuft die Landesinitiative für Open Research in Berlin.
To address the growing scale and complexity of scholarly data, we’ve launched a new data science function at Crossref. In April, we were excited to welcome our first data scientists, Jason Portenoy and Alex Bédard-Vallée, to the team. With their arrival, the Data Science team is now fully up and running. In this blog post, we’re sharing our vision and what’s ahead for data science at Crossref.
A recent report by the Dutch RIVM, PFAS in the blood of the Dutch population (doi:10.21945/RIVM-2025-0094), writes that seven PFAS compounds are found in blood samples of all tested people. Another nine compounds are found in at least 1-in-10 people. Because there is relevant data in the report on the 28 studied PFAS compound, I wanted to have the report more FAIR than it is on the website. Why this report?
When I read Andrej Karpathy’s endorsement of “context engineering” in a Twitter exchange with Shopify’s Tobi Lutke, I felt he tapped into something we all felt to some degree: tweet={"url":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karpathy\/status\/1937902205765607626","author_name":"Andrej Karpathy","author_url":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karpathy","html":"\u003Cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003E+1 for
I missed this paper (Yuan et al. 2024) when it came out last year, but my friend and colleague Jeremiah Scott brought it to my attention. The bit on nuchal sesamoids in shrews is so good and so weird that I’m just going to copy and paste it in its entirety.
I’ve long been a proponent of making quantitative research reproducible. It’s the main reason I do all my scientific writing in Quarto—I can mix code and text in the same document so I don’t need to copy/paste numbers, tables, and figures from some statistical program into a word processor. Everything automatically ends up one compiled document based on the most current data.