The Research Excellence Framework is the UK system for rewarding unhypothecated research funding from the government to universities. It gives a block of funding that can be used in any way that the institution sees fit to advance research. It’s particularly useful in disciplines with less project funding to give research time to individual academics. The problem is, lots of academics hate REF.

Understanding Knowledge Networks From A Graph Perspective Author: Amanda Kau (ORCID: 0009–0004–4949–9284 ) Since 2020, over ten million scholarly articles have been published annually. To put that into perspective, say all ten million articles were released on the first day of the year.

por Fernando Aguayo La persona representada ocupada en manipular una máquina sobre el suelo de la Ciudad de México se llama Sebastián Pane. El equipo de perforación que se esboza en la caricatura es el “método chino” que patentó el propio Pane en el año de 1853 para taladrar pozos y con el cual, según la imagen, se arrojaría el agua que inundaba la capital hasta el otro lado del mundo, hasta China.

I have written a few times about the so-called “anomeric effect“, which relates to stereoelectronic interactions in molecules such as sugars bearing a tetrahedral carbon atom with at least two oxygen substituents. The effect can be detected when the two C-O bond lengths in such molecules are inspected, most obviously when one of these bonds has a very different length from the other.

I just got back from a visit to the Carnegie Institution of Washington where I gave a talk and saw some old friends. I was a postdoc at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) in the ’90s. DTM is so-named because in their early days they literally traveled the world mapping the magnetic field. When I was there, DTM ⁺ had a small extragalactic astronomy group including Vera Rubin*, Francois Schweizer, and John Graham.

Latest findings in multiple research directions for tackling reasoning and common sense challenges Author: Xuzeng He ( ORCID: 0009–0005–7317–7426) Knowledge Graphs, such as Wikidata, contain rich relational information between entities and have been widely used as a structured format for storing and representing relational information.

Photo: VOICES festival Last week I attended the The European Festival of Journalism and Media Literacy , to join a panel on Artificial intelligence – Which skills do I need? . Moderated by Lee Hibbard, the panel consisted of writer Maria Farrell, computational linguist &

Last week the Rogue Scholar science blog archive reached another milestone with 15,000 (15,332 as of today) science blog posts. These posts come from 86 participating blogs with 69% written in English and 28% in German.

Der Blog wächst um die Themen der DINI Arbeitsgruppe Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable Metadaten (AG KIM). Metadaten bilden die Grundlage für die Datenverarbeitung und für den Datenaustausch. Damit ergeben sich viele Überschneidungen und Anknüpfungspunkte zu den Themen der AG FIS und AG E-Pub. Über den Blog wollen wir unsere Arbeitsergebnisse veröffentlichen und über unsere Arbeit informieren. Die DINI AG KIM gibt es seit 2012.

rOpenSci’s second cohort of Champions has been onboarded!Their training first started with a session on code style, was followed by three sessions on the basics of R package development, and ended with a session on advanced R package development, which consisted of a potpourri of tips with discussion, followed by time for applying these principles to the participants’ packages.Here, I want to share one of the topics covered: Package testing, and