Der erste Internationale Frauentag wurde 1911 in Dänemark, Deutschland, Österreich, Bulgarien, der Schweiz und den USA begangen, nachdem er im Jahr zuvor auf der II. Internationalen Sozialistischen Frauenkonferenz in Kopenhagen ins Leben gerufen wurde. Die Idee zu einem Frauen(streik)-Tag kam durch die US-amerikanische Sozialistin May Wood-Simons nach Europa.

Names of chemicals are part of the human user experience when browsing a chemical database. And literature too, of course. Chemical names are also not easy to use, and what a chemical name means is not always clear. This is why the IUPAC started a standardizing nomenclature in chemistry, the IUPAC names. Each IUPAC name uniquely defines the chemical structure it defines. For example, methane is the IUPAC name for the chemical CH4.

I've been an avid user of GitHub since its launch, and it really has revolutionised how communities come together to work on open source. In recent years though, I find myself utterly overwhelmed by its notifications and want to experiment with alternative workflows.

Since I started seriously recording plant pathogens, I have been really encouraged by the reception and interest other biological recorders have shown. I think there is a huge potential for recorders on platforms like iNaturalist to generate a lot more data on the distribution of these overlooked taxa. When people have told me my interest is “niche” however, I have had to pause. What does “niche” mean?

I’ve just published a preprint on F1000 Research of a new article on community-led publishing projects at the University of Cambridge. It’s co-authored with Dr. Mandy Wigdorowitz at the University of Alabama. Title: “I just very much love the journal”:

In a world of perfect control, an unlikely bond reveals the fragile humanity within the synthetic

Auf der Tagung des Netzwerks Fluchtforschung im vergangenen Jahr hat sich eine Gruppe von Netzwerkmitgliedern zusammengefunden, die aus Bestürzung über die aktuellen migrations- und asylpolitischen Debatten ein Statement für eine evidenz- und menschenrechtsbasierte Migrations- und Asylpolitik verfasst hat.

Installing and Using LM Studio on MacOS

CollaborationFest 2025 will be a two-day collaborative work event at which participants work together to contribute code, documentation, training materials, and challenging analysis problems and use cases. Bring your own project ideas or come ready to collaborate with others on their projects! BOSC has held CollaborationFests (aka CoFests) every year before or after ISMB since 2010.

Srinivasan Keshav organised this week's EEG group discussion on what AI tools we use for our daily work. I was immediately struck by how few tools there are that are actually making us more productive, so I jotted down notes as the discussion was going on. Personally, the only tool I've found that's (only just recently) making me more productive is agentic coding, which I wrote about a few days ago.

Wir laden Sie herzlich zur Veranstaltung “OA Datenpraxis Webinar: Erfassung von Publikationskosten an wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen in Deutschland” ein, die am 28.03.2025 von 10:00 bis 11:00 CET über Zoom stattfindet.