I intended for the next post to be a follow-up on the new paper describing the Dry Mesa Haplocanthosaurus, as I hinted/promised in the last post.

In my studies of the Remez algorithm, I learned about the barycentric Lagrange interpolation formula.

Plant phenotyping – the science of gathering precise information and measurements on plants – has seen massive improvements recently, and the combination of sensor technology and AI methods will continue to change the way crops are assessed and improved. A new article in GigaScience demonstrates where this is going: Jonas Bömer and colleagues at the Institute of Sugar Beet Research (Göttingen) used

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup!

A few personal notes on the clamour around OA for books (written from the perspective of an author of 10 books that are all openly accessible): The REF mandate for books has been argued and trialed over an eight-year period, starting with the 2016 ‘Consultation on the second Research Excellence Framework’, published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

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Daniel S. Katz, Maria Cruz, Michelle Barker, and Florian Mannseicher at the Global Research Council annual meeting in Interlaken, Switzerland - May 2024 (Image credit: Daniel S. Katz) Authors: Kim Hartley, Michelle Barker, Daniel S. Katz Given that software is an integral component of research processes and a widely used instrument for scientific research in all fields, funders have increasingly recognised and valued research

Universities with the most complete FAIR DataCite metadata are identified using a community convention for FAIR DataCite metadata that support findability with text and identifiers, connections and contacts.

Hoy continúo hablando del último botón de configuración general de ChrysoCollate, «Options». Este botón permite personalizar las opciones de visualización y comportamiento del aplicativo: Las primeras configuraciones disponibles son «Font», «Mouse wheel», «Colours of the readings» y «Directions». La primera permite personalizar la fuente que se empleará para presentar las lecturas ( Collation Table Font ), el tamaño general de la fuente

This blog post has some notes in support of a talk given to the Systematics Association meeting in Reading June 20th, 2024. I will post a link to the slides here once I have given the talk.