I have finally opened a Posts section on my website! Every post should now automatically get a DOI.

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has earned recognition in Crossref’s Participation Reports for its exceptional metadata coverage among large publishing members––an achievement built on intentional change, technical investment, and collaborative work.

I recently gave a 30-minute talk at the Librarian Futures Virtual Summit, and for the topic of "AI-powered search," I decided to play devil's advocate.

Easty, resident Terrapene carolina triunguis at Casa Adams Wedel, sometime gnawer of rat skulls, whose recent exploits will be detailed in future posts. In Archie Carr’s encyclopedic “Handbook of Turtles: The Turtles of the United States, Canada, and Baja California”, first published in 1952, he quotes favorably and at length the observations of “Mrs.

Or how I’m slowly coming to my senses.

Adam Mastroianni’s blog Experimental History is consistently fascinating.

Natalia Calderón, DR © Grabado Xalapa, Veracruz. 2023 Parte de la colección “Gráfica” Sitio de la autora Esta es una reproducción digital, con fines de divulgación, de una obra original proporcionada por su autor o propietario. Todos los derechos están reservados por la artista.

This week’s recap highlights Variant-EFFECTS for rewriting regulatory DNA to dissect and reprogram gene expression, zero-shot evaluation revealing the limitations of single-cell foundation models, EcoWeaver for large-scale prediction of gene functional associations from coevolutionary signals, and how assemblies of long-read metagenomes suffer from diverse errors.

Finding the real science behind the sleep that carried us to the stars

by Sofia Baroncini, Constanze Buyken, Judit Garzón Rodríguez, Ian Kisil Marino, Sarah Oberbichler, Cindarella Petz The 2025 Digital Humanities Conference, held this year in Lisbon under the theme “Building Access and Accessibility: Open Science to All Citizens”, brought together a global community of researchers, developers, and practitioners to reflect on the role of openness, inclusivity, … „From Access to Ethics: Data Discussions at the

“What keeps me going now is the excitement of the clients who receive the service and the sad faces of those clients who need the services and cannot get them.” Joseph Mbari Ngugi shared these words on May 30, 2023, capturing the profound empathy and dedication that defined his life’s work.