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ScienceNatural Sciences
Published in Reciprocal Space
Author Stephen Curry

Update (17:26): all members of the UK or international scientific community are invited to indicate their support by signing the letter here. Earlier today, I sent the letter below to Professor Adrian Smith, President of the Royal Society. The letter expresses my deep concerns at the ongoing failure of the Royal Society to recognise that Elon Musk FRS has acted in contravention of its own code of conduct.

Global Access FundGlobal Access ProgramMembersComputer and Information Sciences
Published in DataCite Blog - DataCite
Author Nada ChayaandMohamad Mostafa

Since 2018, and as part of the global movement towards open science and knowledge as a public good, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) has been working to promote norms and practices of social science research data management (RDM) and sharing among social scientists, information specialists, and research institutions in the Arab region.

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

Ten years ago, the idea of editing human genomes to prevent disease or enhance traits might have seemed like the stuff of science fiction. Today, not only is it possible—it’s a rapidly advancing field. A recent paper in Nature , “Heritable Polygenic Editing: The Next Frontier in Genomic Medicine,” explores this possibility in detail.

WILDLIFE NEWSNatural Sciences
Published in Simply Ecologist
Author Erzsebet Frey

## Rare Sunfish Rescued by Florida Police Near Beach In a surprising turn of events, the Florida police were called in to assist with a unique rescue operation. A rare sunfish, usually found in the deep sea, found itself too close to the beach, prompting a rescue effort from the local authorities. ### The Encounter with the Sunfish A sunfish, known scientifically as Mola mola, is a rare sight near the shores.

Languages and Literature
Published in Martin Paul Eve

Among the works of fiction in the feminist canon, few are as celebrated as Charlotte Perkins-Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”. This short story, or novella, depending on how you want to define those categories, details the abuse suffered by a woman in the supposed name of mental health, at the whim of her male “carers”. The story is now, as Catherine J. Golden notes, “among the most studied texts in the English-speaking world”. In this piece I

Rogue ScholarComputer and Information Sciences
Published in Front Matter

In a few weeks, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive will reach the milestone of 25,000 archived science blog posts, each with a DOI and metadata and searchable via full-text search. With this number of blog posts, it is now time to start using a dedicated content type, and last week Rogue Scholar started the migration to the B logPost content type.

CosmologyDark MatterGalaxy EvolutionGalaxy FormationJWSTPhysical Sciences
Published in Triton Station

This is what I hope will be the final installment in a series of posts describing the results published in McGaugh et al. (2024). I started by discussing the timescale for galaxy formation in LCDM and MOND which leads to different and distinct predictions. I then discussed the observations that constrain the growth of stellar mass over cosmic time and the related observation of stellar populations that are mature for the age of the universe.

R TILBiological Sciences
Published in Paired Ends
Author Stephen Turner

Last year I wrote a post describing an R package I put together that fetches recent bioRxiv preprints from a given subject and summarizes them in a couple of sentences using a local LLM running through Ollama: That tool has a limitation in that it’s using the bioRxiv RSS feed to pull recent paper titles and abstracts, and the RSS feeds currently only provide the 30 most recent preprints in each subject area.

Social Science
Published in Leiden Madtrics

Open science initiatives have increased the amount of (openly) available research data. Such data are often shared with the idea that they will be reused, although reuse is far from being guaranteed. Working to bridge the distance between data producers and data consumers has been suggested as one possible way to facilitate the reuse of existing data supplies.

Mathematics
Published in Math ∩ Programming
Author Jeremy Kun

A colleague of mine recently lent a hand implementing a polynomial approximation routine I could port to our compiler, though it wasn’t the method I was expecting. As I had written about previously, I was studying the Remez algorithm and implementing a prototype in Python. Remez approximation involves an iterated loop that alternates between root-finding and linear-system solving, and as such it can be rather brittle and difficult.