Last week I attended the Open Science Retreat (#osr24nl) in a quite and relaxing region in North-Holland. The meeting was how I like all meetings to be (and I count myself lucky many of my meetings are like this): open, welcoming, constructive, diverse, and intellectually challenging. Not all scientific meetings are like this and it is easy to end up going to obligatory meetings where the discussions are of a different level.

Hi everyone, as promised, today you will hear more about the research data infrastructure conference where I and around 680 other people attended last week in Karlsruhe, Germany. Grab a cup of coffee of tea and enjoy today’s edition!

Hi everyone, greetings from Karlsruhe in Germany where I am attending a conference about research data infrastructure at the moment.

I spent last week in Ottawa at a "Ecobiomics" hackathon organised by Joel Sachs. Essentially we spent a week exploring the application of linked data to various topics in biodiversity, with an emphasis on looking at working examples.