Ein Beitrag von den TIB-Auszubildenden Noa Degrassi, Martje Majowski und Damaris Stalle Am 3. April 2025 fand an der TIB der  Girls’– und Boys’Day statt. 25 Schülerinnen und Schüler hatten die Gelegenheit, einen Vormittag lang die TIB kennenzulernen. Der Tag begann mit einer Führung am Standort TIB Technik/Naturwissenschaften.

During the Hannover Messe 2025, we presented the BUA Mobile Lab, and both the Open.Make and the LAUDS Factories projects. We got the chance to talk with experienced experts from industry including engineers, managers, consultants and business leaders about hardware development practices.

Mit einem rechtskräftigen Entscheid im März 2025 schafft die die Rekurskommission der Zürcher Hochschulen nun nach vier Jahren Klarheit, wie das Öffentlichkeitsprinzip bei der föderalen Zusammenarbeit anzuwenden ist.

After three exciting years, scidecode as a formal company will be discontinued. What began as a label for my freelance work in science consulting in 2012 turned into a collaborative GbR (civil-law partnership) in 2022 with Laura Rothfritz and Pablo de Castro. Our mission was to provide independent, collaborative consulting on open science, research information, and strategic questions around scholarly infrastructures.

Does the educational purpose of video change with AI? The purpose of video in education is undergoing a fundamental transformation in the age of artificial intelligence. This medium, long established in digital learning environments, is changing not just in how we consume it, but in its very role within the learning process. Video has always been a problem in education Video has always presented significant challenges in educational contexts.

With apologies to Andrew Marvell. If you haven’t read “To His Coy Mistress”, I fear this won’t make much sense. Had we but funding enough and time, This coyness, founder, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To build, and pass our slow run-rate’s day. Thou by the Potomac’s side Shouldst SBIRs find; I by the tide Of El Segundo would complain.

In a previous post I demonstrated how to set up a local LLM that you can run through either a command line interface (Ollama) or a graphical user interface (Open WebUI and others), and quickly demonstrated how to “chat with your documents” with a local model using LMStudio. In that previous post I simply attached a few documents to a one-off chat.

I could write – and have written – the past twenty years as a string of successes for my linguistics career: I have presented my work at many conferences on linguistics, digital humanities and literature, in several countries. My pioneering work in computational sign linguistics continues to be cited on a regular basis. In 2008 I was hired to teach linguistics at Saint John’s University, where I developed an introductory linguistics curriculum.

Over in my EEG group, we have a lot of primary and secondary datasets lying around: 100s of terabytes of satellite imagery, biodiversity data, academic literature, and the intermediate computations that go along with them. Our trusty central shared storage server running TrueNAS stores data in ZFS and serves it over NFSv4 to a bunch of hosts.

Regular readers will have heard the news that TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, GBIF and GigaScience Press have announced a third call for authors to submit Data Release papers on vectors of human disease for inclusion in a thematic series published in GigaByte Journal.

As my title suggests, the focus of this essay is not drones per se, but rather the wider turn to algorithmic warfare that they enable and of which they remain a key part, from surveillance operations to targeted assassination.