I just saw a really interesting paper by Scott Nelson and Jeffrey Heinz (Nelson and Heinz 2025) that proposes a model of phonology and phonetics as complex function application that maintains a discrete phonology while also alowing for things like incomplete neutralization. I myself am always sort of able to follow formal notation, but get a better understanding if I try rewriting it in a programming language of some sort.

TLDR: We’ve successfully moved the main Crossref systems to the cloud! We’ve more to do, with several bugs identified and fixed, and a few still ongoing. However, it’s a step in the right direction and a significant milestone, as, whilst it is a much larger financial investment, it addresses several risks and limitations and shores up the Crossref infrastructure for the future.

After three years of collaboration across four countries and multiple disciplines, the VOICES project has come to a close.

por Juan Carlos Serrano García En los últimos años, los estudios sobre las derechas en México han cobrado especial relevancia.

Members are the heart of the DataCite community. Comprising 1600+ research organizations from 60+ countries, members join DataCite to use our infrastructure and services, participate in our governance, and contribute to shared communities of practice. In this post, we wanted to welcome the new organizations that have joined DataCite in the first half of 2025, and highlight a few of their stories.

Introduction In my last post, I argued that Deep Search—iterative retrieval that blends keyword, semantic, and citation chasing with LLM-based relevance judgments—is the real breakthrough behind today’s “Deep Research” tools. It consistently beats one-shot embedding search in recall/precision, and in hindsight, it’s what I loved all along (the “generation” step just came bundled). The price?

Distance, therefore, preserves a European austerity in recorded musical practices, and electroacoustic practice is no exception; it is perhaps even responsible for reinvigorating a colonial posterity in contemporary music as so many examples in this book follow this pattern–Danielle Shlomit Sofer, Sex Sounds, 14.

Last weekend was the 21st birthday of OpenStreetMap (OSM), and with some friends we celebrated the occasion with a little mapping party. Our plan was to combine flying drones to collect aerial imagery and collecting street-level imagery with more traditional field mapping. Due to high winds, we mostly ended up with street-level imagery and doing field mapping though, using a variety of tools.

In an earlier blog, I discussed the curly arrows associated with the known dimerisation of nitrosobenzene, and how the N=N double bond (shown in red below) forms in a single concerted process.

The Internet Journal of Chemistry (IJC, issn:1099-8292) was one of the first scientific journals to get published on the world wide web (part of the Internet), see doi:10.1080/00987913.2000.10764578. Issues were published from 1998 to 2004. But because it predates systematic archiving of webpages by libraries, a lot is lost.

I’ve spent the better part of this weekend putting OpenAI’s latest offerings through their paces - both the newly released open-weight models and GPT-5 itself. Armed with a selection of coding challenges, mathematical problems, and the sort of esoteric research queries that usually separate the wheat from the chaff, I’ve been conducting what amounts to a weekend-long torture test of these systems.