Background New Zealand public sector agencies must prepare a ‘long-term insights briefing’ every three years. This is an opportunity to look beyond short-term political cycles and use foresight to see what really matters to New Zealand over the longer course.

Software that is developed for research or by researchers can be difficult to maintain given the incentive and funding structures in academia.

One often hears it said that “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”. For example, if you excavate some fossil sauropods and they don’t have preserved feathers, that not evidence that sauropods didn’t have feathers. Oh yes it is. This is an example of a mantra that’s short, catchy, and wrong.

Appalachian History Series On December 30, 1970, a powerful coal dust explosion ripped through the Finley Coal Company’s interconnected Nos. 15 and 16 mines on Hurricane Creek near Hyden in Leslie County. Thirty-eight miners were killed. One man, A. T. Collins, survived after the blast hurled him out of the portal. Another miner, Harrison Henson, was outside the mine when the explosion occurred.

This is a bit of an administrative post and historic, but keep coming back to the question, where are all the deliverable of the (past) project. Now, since many eNanoMapper project deliverables were public, we were able to release most of them on Zenodo. This post makes an overview.

A really good measure of how wrecked you are is your body’s “heart rate variability” (HRV). This is the difference between the gap between your heart beats. So if you imagine: BEAT (GAP) BEAT (GAP) BEAT (GAP), HRV is the difference of length of those gaps. Strangely, and counter-intuitively, a low (and therefore more regular) HRV is worse.

Discover the Open Publishing Series — three online courses from SFU’s MPub program, launching Sept 2025. Get a sneak peek at what you’ll learn. Last month we announced the launch of the Open Publishing Series, a collection of three online courses developed in collaboration with the Master of Publishing (MPub) program at Simon Fraser University […] The post Sneak peek at PKP’s new open publishing courses appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.

The Bioregistry is a database and toolchain for standardization of prefixes, CURIEs, and URIs that appear in linked (open) data. While I created it in 2019 as a component of PyOBO in order to support parsing database cross-references appearing in biomedical ontologies, it has since become an independent project with a community-driven governance model and much broader applications. This post is a first attempt to quantify its usage and impact.

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The Bioregistry is a community-driven registry of semantic spaces and their metadata. When I learned about BiomarkerKB at the International Society for Biocuration’s 18th Annual International Biocuration Conference, I was excited to curate new records (and prefixes) in the Bioregistry to cover BiomarkerKB’s semantic spaces on biomarkers.

Kürzlich ist eine von Jens Eder (Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Potsdam) verfasste Publikation im Open Access erschienen, die durch den Publikationsfonds des Landes Brandenburg gefördert wurde.