Last Friday, thousands of scientists protested against US government cuts on research funding with the Stand up for Science movement. There were more than 30 demonstrations all over the US, and a handful in other countries (several of them taking place in France). So, what does it mean to “Stand up for Science”?
read this article in English Seit 2023 hat sich die Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) mit neun Partneruniversitäten in der europäischen Hochschulallianz „EULiST – European Universities Linking Society and Technology“ zusammengeschlossen.
Die Fachzeitschrift Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis veröffentlichte soeben einen Call for Papers, auf den wir auch gern an dieser Stelle kurz hinweisen. Thema sind offene Bildungsmethoden bzw. Open Educational Practices (OEP). Diese „beziehen sich auf Lehr- und Lernmethoden, die den freien Zugang zu Bildungsmaterialien, pädagogischen Ressourcen und Forschungsergebnissen fördern.
I have no doubt that mirror life will continue to be a topic of interest in synthetic biology and biosecurity circles. But I am not ready to buy into the panic just yet.
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Ronald J Planer and Claudio Tennie review The Human Evolutionary Transition, by Magnus Enquist, Stefano Ghirlanda and Johan Lind
Knowing how to conduct ecological surveys reveals hidden secrets of nature’s delicate balance – but where should you begin?
Man Amazed to See Rare Eagle in Marlow A marvel of nature recently graced the skies over Marlow, leaving one man awestruck. The sighting of a rare eagle, a bird not typically seen in this region, has caught the attention of bird enthusiasts and onlookers alike. Spotting the Rare Eagle During what seemed to be an ordinary day, a man found himself witnessing an extraordinary spectacle.
As part of our Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Science grant, we organized a Chemistry Development Kit User Group Meeting (#CDK25UGM), of which yesterday was the “conference” day, and today a hackathon.
KTH Data Repository - we added user guides and updated the KTH web-pages on research data management when the new repository was launched. On the 29th of January 2025, the KTH Data Repository was launched through a team effort supported by management and policies at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and by partnering up with the InvenioRDM community.
By default in a quarto document, the code and output look something like this: set.seed(2025) rnorm(10) [1] 0.62075674 0.03564140 0.77315448 1.27248909 0.37097543 -0.16285434 [7] 0.39711189 -0.07998932 -0.34496518 0.70215136 Maybe this is just me not wanting my peas to touch my mashed potatos, but I don’t like how close the output is to the text of the document.