This month’s news includes: Research software community news, including Understanding Critical Software for UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure Funding opportunities, including the 2026 BSSw Fellowship Program Nominations open for Research Software Community Leadership Forum (CLF) Opportunities to get involved with community initiatives, including Software Heritage’s OSPO-RADAR survey Resources Community events, including EOSC Symposium 2025

I’ve recently submitted an article to the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) describing chembl-downloader, a Python package for automating downloading and using ChEMBL data in a reproducible way. In this post, I use chembl-downloader to show how the number of compounds, assays, activities, and other entities in ChEMBL have changed over time.

In my last blog post for Upstream, I noted that there were some potential issues with, and good alternatives to, the NIH plan to cap grant spending on article processing charges. One of my suggestions was that the NIH put its plan out for public comment so they could draw from community input in their final policy. Thankfully, the NIH did just that and the public can submit comments on the plan until 15 September 2025.

De 25/08 a 29/08 de 2025 acontece a IX Semana das Psicologias da UFF – IHS – RPS. O realce em “das Psicologias” atesta não apenas a diversidade e riqueza das psicologias, mas sobretudo...

DOI: 10.60804/hcfm-jx07 The majority of research activities involve creating, collecting, or using data. While datasets constitute the backbone of research activities, they are currently sidelined as part of research evaluation frameworks which predominantly focus on article publications.

Using R and the GitHub API to get licensing information for GitHub repos for sequencing-related companies, one-shot with GPT-5.

How specialized AI models are rewriting the code of cell identity and accelerating regenerative biology

By the end of my PhD, I was somewhat disillusioned by the way scientific research worked and decided to pick a field that could open up a (small) door to industry, if I ever decided to take that route one day. (I was very naive about that, but that is a story for another time.) After some digging, I could find two labs focusing on the relatively narrow question I wanted to pursue for my postdoc.

Bibliometrie – das klingt erst einmal nach etwas, das nur Spezialist:innen interessiert. Dabei begegnet uns das Thema in der Wissenschaft fast überall, denn Bibliometrie setzt sich mit der quantitativen Analyse wissenschaftlichen Outputs und dessen Einfluss auseinander: Wie oft wird ein Artikel zitiert? Welche Journals sind besonders einflussreich? Wer forscht weltweit zu einem bestimmten Thema?

Ob als Video, Foto oder Sprachnachricht: Deepfakes dringen immer weiter in die Gesellschaft vor. Wie man Deepfakes erkennt und rechtlich einordnet, welche Gefahren und Handlungsmöglichkeiten bei Deepfakes bestehen, vor allem wenn von der eigenen Person ein Deepfake hergestellt wurde, beschreibt dieser Text. Betrugsmaschen über Textnachrichten sind mittlerweile weit verbreitet.

The “Climate Sensitive Infectious Disease” (CSID) Network looks to connect a global community of actors contributing towards impactful CSID software tools and establish localized CSID communities that can link existing on-the-ground issues and initiatives to the development and maintenance of CSID tools.