New paper out this week, open access like usual, go get it for free: Atterholt, Jessie; Burton, M. Grace; Wedel, Mathew J.; Benito, Juan; Fricano, Ellen; and Field, Daniel J. 2025. Osteological correlates of the respiratory and vascular systems in the neural canals of Mesozoic ornithurines Ichthyornis and Janavis. The Anatomical Record. http://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70070.

Margery Wace in 1935. With kind permission of Cecilia Johnson. My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hour and had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre, to research and write a history of women at the BBC.

Those of you that have been reading CSTonline for a while will know that I have been in the USA for the past 6 years.  I was employed (as an American TV scholar) to write a Master’s Programme in TV Studies.

Around the world, sports journalism is dominated by men. In 2018, Sky Sports in Britain recognized that: ‘At recent press conferences for the leading football clubs in the Premier League, Championship and Scottish Premiership we counted 310 reporters covering 25 clubs. Nearly 300 were men;

AI x biosecurity, R updates (Blaze, RWeekly, R Consortium), genome engineering & conservation, AI &

On the launch of Book 2 in the Echoes of Tomorrow series — and why storytelling belongs in the rooms where we decide the future of technology.

In the first two parts of this series, I discussed two well-established and widely used sets of principles for contemporary scientific work: FAIR and CARE.

In den ersten beiden Teilen dieser Serie habe ich über zwei gut etablierte und weit verbreitete Sammlungen von Prinzipien zum zeitgemäßen wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten gesprochen: FAIR und CARE.

In my blog post from April 2025, I referred to Reijer Passchier’s book (‘The Curse of Big Tech’), which was recommended during the SURF Course on Digital Sovereignty (for Executives in the field of education & research) organised earlier this year.

Are you the mother goat or the wolf?Consumers of your online content might care!Be it on social media or other platforms, your profile can sometimes be “verified”.What does it mean? How does one get a green checkmark where it matters?Here’s a primer on domain verification.

Introduction GPU acceleration enables faster and more scalable analysis workflows, especially for tasks like deep learning, image processing, and large-scale genomics, making Bioconductor more powerful for researchers working with complex data.