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

I said last time that Jisc’s feeble transition-to-open-access report was the first of two disapointing scholarly-communication announcements that week. The second was of course the announcement that PeerJ has been acquired by Taylor and Francis. Matt and I have both been big fans of PeerJ since before it launched, and we were delighted to have our 2013 neck-anatomy paper in the first batch of articles published there.

My collaborator Daniel shared an update on his blog about our the progress of our open-source flow battery kit, so I thought I’d do the same. This was motivated by my previous post (Smith 2024). We’ve been working together with Prof Sanli Faez and Josh Hausener at Utrecht University on their FAIR Battery Project, though the repository for my cell design and jig is currently here.

TL; DR: Don’t be an absolutist– use relative paths. Use the here package instead of setwd() or getwd() to increase reproducibility and avoid wasting your and other people’s time.

My research is about the interaction of (machine) representation and the impact on the success of data analysis (matchine learning, chemometrics, AI, etc). See the posts about molecular chemometrics. This got me into FAIR: making data interoperable and being able to (really) reuse data is the starting point of doing research.

Auf dem Youtube-Kanal {ungeskripted} gibt es ein spannendes Interview mit Elias Gudwis, der unter ghostwriting-gudwis.de eine Ghostwriting-Agentur mit Fokus Haus-, Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten betreibt. “Lustigerweise” hat die Plagiatsaffäre um Guttenberg dazu geführt, dass die Nachfrage gestiegen ist, weil Ghostwriter bezüglich Plagiate ihr Handwerk verstehen.

The topic of science communication has gained a lot of attention in the last years and no higher educaton institution has not been involved in concepts related to “transfer” activities or the so called “third mission” of higher education institutions.

Youko Marian Horiuchi Beltrán, DR © Ilustración digital Ciudad de México, 2018 Sitio de la autora: http://www.youkonejo.com Instagram Esta es una reproducción digital, con fines de divulgación, de una obra original, todos los derechos de autor y reproducción están reservados por el artista.

The Centre for Open Science’s symposium on “Critical Perspectives on the Metascience Reform Movement” took place on 7 ^th March 2024. It was organised by Sven Ulpts, and it includes presentations by Bart Penders, Tom Hostler, Stephan Guttinger, Sarahanne Field, Nicole Nelson, and Berna Devezer.

(El lenguaje historiográfico, II) por Fausta Gantús Las historiadoras y los historiadores investigamos y a partir de ello, escribimos.