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Publié in Front Matter

Earlier this month the Rogue Scholar science blog archive reached another important milestone: 100 science blogs registered and archived (with in total 16,179 posts). Rogue Scholar launched twelve months ago and this rate of adoption of the service has greatly surpassed my expectations. To celebrate this milestone, Rogue Scholar will drop all fees for blog authors going forward.

Publié in Martin Paul Eve

It’s always frustrating to find errors in a work that has already gone to press/been through peer review, but unfortunately my friend Pete Christian has unearthed a few minor mistakes that I want to put out here. Thanks to Pete, who also says that none of this detail affects the overall argument of the text. On p. 154, I’ve made a mistake when quoting Hollander – he says (correctly) that “home” is a Germanic word.

Publié in Epiverse-TRACE developer space
Auteurs Joshua W. Lambert, James Mba Azam, Pratik Gupte, Adam Kucharski

GitHub recently previewed ‘Copilot Workspace’, which aims to use generative AI to assist software developers. Rather than just giving in-line suggestions, as GitHub copilot does, workspace allows users to map out and execute entire projects. We got early preview access to the tool, so decided to see how well it performed for our needs in Epiverse-TRACE.

In the beginning of June 2024, Nature reported on the Japanese Ministry of Education’s plan to invest 10 billion yen in expanding institutional Open Access Repositories (Singh Chawla 2024). This initiative provides a good opportunity to discuss the future of Open Access Repositories at the https://2024.bibliocon.de/. In collaboration with the project “Professionalization of the Open Access Repositories Infrastructure in Germany” (Pro OAR DE)

Publié in Aaron Tay's Musings about librarianship
Auteur Aaron Tay

I recently watched a librarian give a talk about their experiments teaching prompt engineering. The librarian drawing from the academic literature on the subject (there are lots!), tried to leverage "prompt engineering principles" from one such paper to craft a prompt and used it in a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system, more specifically, Statista's brand new "research AI" feature.

Publié in Divulga-CI
Auteur Divulga-CI

Editorial: As formas dos textos e o ofício dos bibliotecários, por Roger Chartier Entrevista: Jacquelin Teresa Camperos Reyes, Suelen Camilo Ferreira e Stefanie Cavalcanti Freire Perspectiva: Iaguba Djaló, Januário Albino Nhacuongue, Lucas George Wendt, Doris Couto e Jeniffer Cuty Inovação: “Viajar sem sair do Lugar” - Projeto de remição de pena por leitura, de Ricardo Vieira da Silva e Léia Santos Outras divulgações: As bibliotecas públicas

Publié in rOpenSci - open tools for open science
Auteurs Yanina Bellini Saibene, Sandro Camargo

In June 2022 I (Yani) become the rOpenSci Community Manager. To do a good job in this kind of role it is essential to know your community, so as soon I started I dug in: reading our documentation, learning our processes and their metrics, and conducting interviews with team-mates and community members.

Publié in Triton Station

Flat rotation curves and the Baryonic Tully-Fisher relation (BTFR) both follow from the Radial Acceleration Relation (RAR). In Mistele et al. (2024b) we emphasize the exciting aspects of the former; these follow from the RAR in the Mistele et al. (2024a). It is worth understanding the connection. First, the basic result: The RAR of weak lensing extends the RAR from kinematics to much lower accelerations.