The Crossref Nominating Committee invites expressions of interest to join the Board of Directors of Crossref for the term starting in January 2026. The committee will gather responses from those interested and create the slate of candidates that our membership will vote on in an election in September.

I chart the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, as measured by its share of world energy consumption.

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I was inspired to browse some of Edsger Dijkstra’s essays today, and came across his speech, “Under the spell of Leibniz’s Dream”. It’s the sort of personal history I love to read, which gives one person’s sense of the world over a period of change.

Ausgehend von den empirischen Befunden der kritischen Border Studies, dass auf den „langen Sommer der Migration“ 2015 ein „tiefer migrationspolitischer Winter“ gefolgt ist, womit Rechtsverstöße und Grenzgewalt zur neuen Normalität gehören, zeigt der Beitrag, dass verschärfte Grenzpolitiken die autoritär-rechte Wende in Europa vorantreiben.

Reese Richardson (Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University), Iratxe Puebla (Make Data Count), Jason Portenoy (DataCite), Karen Gutzman (Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) and Kristi Holmes (Galter Health Sciences Library and Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) DOI:

If there’s one chapter in the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology’s final report that lays bare the disconnect between potential and preparedness, it’s Chapter 5. The message is as critical as it is uncomfortable: we are not ready. Not ready to govern the biotechnology age, not ready to build it at scale, and not ready to defend our position in it. That’s not a reflection of a lack of interest or ambition.

Von Simone Franz und Maxi Kindling Zitiervorschlag: Franz, S., Kindling, M. (2025). Offene Wissenschaft kartieren. Status quo von Open-Access-Strategien und Infrastrukturangeboten an Universitäten und Hochschulen im oa.atlas. DOI: 10.59350/6bhhc-f8j85 Was ist der oa.atlas? Der oa.atlas ist eine laufend aktualisierte Datensammlung, die im Rahmen des BMBF-geförderten Projekts open-access.network bereitgestellt wird.

The increasingly hostile attitude of the new U.S. government towards science and academia leaves many of us deeply concerned— if not outright alarmed. In an effort to better understand the unfolding situation and navigate its potential impacts, we provide an overview of five types of threats, each supported by links to documented sources.

Act I: Enchantment It usually starts early on.  You are looking at something. A couple of bugs on the ground. A star in the sky. The veins on a leaf. The stream of bubbles in your soda. You are just observing. But then you start wondering. What exactly is this? You are curious, you want to know more. How does it work? Is it known? You ask questions.. that lead to more questions.

Ein weiter Weg liegt hinter uns: Seit 20 Jahren ist iRights.info online. Internet, Recht und digitale Praxis haben sich verändert … aber wir sind immer noch da! Darüber sind wir glücklich und dankbar und auch ein bisschen baff. Nun ist Zeit, zurückzublicken, ein herzliches Dankeschön auszusprechen und den Sekt kalt zu stellen.

In scientific computation, where I principally reside these days, there’s a cultural and philosophical divide between physics-based and machine-learning-based approaches.