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.

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

This is a rather niche post, but the method can likely be adapted for other use cases. In the lab we have many different cell lines stored in liquid nitrogen. The arrangement is: the vials are in specific positions in a box (10 x 10) there are 13 boxes to a cane we have 5 canes Ideally, to retrieve the correct vial from the cell store requires a map.

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive is launching a new pricing plan this week: Project . Blogs that participate in the Project plan get all the benefits of the existing Team plan – unlimited blog posts with DOI registration, full-text search, and long-term archiving with the Internet Archive – for a one-time fee of $150.

Exploring the OpenAlex Data Structure and Visualization Author: Qingqin Fang ( ORCID: 0009–0003–5348–4264) Introduction to OpenAlex In today’s world, the realm of research papers is brimming with countless hot topics, and the sheer volume of publications can be overwhelming.

Exploring AI’s Ethical Terrain: Addressing Bias, Security, and Beyond Author: Vaibhav Khobragade ( ORCID: 0009–0009–8807–5982) Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s LLaMA, and Google Gemini (previously called Bard) have showcased their vast capabilities, from passing bar exams and crafting articles to generating images and website code.

Unlocking the power of language models: A deep dive into BERT Author: Dhruv Gupta (ORCID: 0009–0004–7109–5403 ) Clive Humby, in 2006 rightly said, “Data is the new oil”. With data being present everywhere, it has never been more valuable.

Exploring the potentials and limitations of Vision Language Models Author: Amanda Kau (ORCID: 0009–0004–4949–9284 ) The human brain is more extraordinary than any machine we could build. From an early age, many of us gain the ability to comprehend what our eyes tell us and articulate it. Furthermore, we combine evidence from all our senses to reason.

Addressing Misinformation, Bias, and Privacy Concerns Author: Wenyi Pi (ORCID: 0009–0002–2884–2771 ) Recently, the spread of false or misinformation has become an important concern for people all over the world, especially in the era of big data and multimedia, where people are faced with a flood of information that makes it difficult to determine its authenticity.

An introduction to tools supporting PubMed Author: Xuzeng He ( ORCID: 0009–0005–7317–7426) PubMed is a free Web literature search service developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information ( NCBI ), and it is also a part of NCBI’s Entrez retrieval system that provides access to a diverse set of 38 databases.