In this interview Theresa Züger gives exciting insights about the risks and opportunities AI bears for research work and talked about tools her team is developing.

Download: PDF | EPUB When it comes to Bitcoin, there’s one thing that almost everyone agrees on: the network sucks up a tremendous amount of energy. But from there, disagreement is the rule. For critics, Bitcoin’s thirst for energy is self-evidently bad — the equivalent of pouring gasoline in a hole and setting it on fire. But for Bitcoin advocates, the network’s energy gluttony is the necessary price of having a secure digital currency.

In the mid to late 1990s as the Web developed, it was becoming more obvious that one area it would revolutionise was of scholarly journal publishing. Since the days of the very first scientific journals in the 1650s, the medium had been firmly rooted in paper. Even printed colour only became common (and affordable) from the 1980s. An opportunity to move away from these restrictions was provided by the Web.

Scholarly book evaluation often prioritises ‘prestige’, which leads to inconsistent and unfair outcomes. My previous research shows that such systems consider neither the intrinsic quality of the research nor the accessibility of the work itself.

In my causal inference class, I spend just one week talking about the Rubin causal model and potential outcomes.

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I worked on a refactor of an R package at work the other day. Here’s some notes about that after doing the work. This IS NOT a best practices post - it’s just a collection of thoughts. For context, the package is an API client.

This blog is now using Hugo. Important - if you subscribe to the RSS for this blog you likely have to delete/remove the old one and add the new RSS link.

Open Educational Resources lassen sich ohne Einschränkung teilen und bearbeiten. Das führt zu der Frage, was im Kontext von OER als „Bearbeitung“ gilt und welche rechtlichen Folgen sie auslöst. Der Beitrag erklärt die wichtigsten Punkte rund um Bearbeitungen in Bezug auf das Urheberrecht und OER.

Our first cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program has now completed the second phase of the program by developing their project and carrying out outreach activities.