An LLM Chat Plants the Seed To come up with small projects to do in preparation for job interviews (contact me if you need a cheminformatics scientific software developer!), I interactively asked ChatGPT for suggestions. It suggested The Murcko Scaffolds Blog Post I wrote code to find the Murcko scaffold for a set of molecules, then determine the count of unique scaffolds. That answered the ChapGPT challenge.
Reposted from the original at: https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/tidy-rag-in-r-with-ragnar Retrieval augmented generation in R using the ragnar package. Demonstration: scraping text from relevant links on a website and using RAG to ask about a university's grant funding.
How can scholarly publications be made more visible, discoverable, and interconnected? This question is the focus of a student practical project conducted as part of the seminar within the module Information Production and Management (BP3) in the summer semester 2025.
The call for applications for round 2 of the OBF Event Fellowship for 2025 is now open. The deadline for this round is 1 August 2025. You can submit your application through this Google Form. We have provided a Word template to help you draft the application locally before filling out the form – make a copy of this template.
How might we illustrate, explore, and begin to define the ‘state of the nation’ film and television text? This edited collection, in collaboration with Intellect, invites consideration of these questions.
After Invincible ’s fifteen-year run as a comics series (Image Comics/Skybound, 2003-18), creator Robert Kirkman and TV writer Simon Racioppa pitched an adaptation to Amazon Prime Video. Their ongoing animated superhero drama series, which has run for three seasons so far (2021, 2023-25), is an undeniable success. Rotten Tomatoes rates the seasons at or near 100% approval.
The European audiovisual landscape is complex, with a huge variety of content providers and a traditionally strong public service.
Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This post introduces Maxime Descartes Mbogning Fonkou , a postdoctoral fellow at the ScholCommLab. In this interview, Maxime reflects on his trajectory and commitment to advancing an open science that is also more equitable and accountable.
Das Open Research Office Berlin (angesiedelt an der Universitätsbibliothek der FU Berlin) und die Universitätsbibliothek der TU Berlin laden herzlich ein zum zweiten Workshop des Projekts „Recht offen. Juristische Kompetenzen in und für die Offene Wissenschaft stärken“! Der Workshop dient der Vorbereitung des Legal Helpdesk für Berlins Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbe-Einrichtungen.
Note: After I wrote this post last week, the Tidyverse team released ragnar 0.2.0 on July 12. Everything here should still work, but take a look at the release notes to learn about some nice new features that aren’t covered here. I’ve written a little about retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) here before.
June 26, the WiNoDa and DALIA teams hosted a dynamic three‑hour online workshop on “Mapping learning resources and identifying gaps in data competence portfolios.” We brought together participants from data competence centers (DKZs), NFDI consortia (such as DALIA and RDMT), regional RDM projects, and domain experts to share, map, and strategize on how we deliver data competence training across initiatives.