@plosbiology.org is formalizing its long‑standing practice of asking authors to share research code, introducing a mandatory #code‑sharing policy and clarifying what is meant by code sharing.
Learn more and find guidance on best practice: plos.io/4reyX3v
In support of #OpenScience, we routinely ask authors to openly share their #research #code before publication.
We are now formalizing this practice with a mandatory #CodeSharing policy and clarifying what we mean by code sharing.
This infographic titled "The Women of the Periodic Table" highlights ten women and their contributions to element discovery. A central periodic table marks specific elements in green and orange, with lines connecting them to names and portraits. Featured scientists include Marie Curie (polonium, radium), Marguerite Perey (francium), and Clarice Phelps (tennessine). It traces history from early pioneers like Harriet Brooks to modern teams including Dawn Shaughnessy and Darleane Hoffman.
Today is the #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience 👩🔬 This graphic highlights women of the periodic table, the elements they discovered, and the two elements named after women.
Plenty more graphics on women in chemistry here: www.compoundchem.com/category/wom...
#ChemSky 🧪
Abstract deadline for @springscix2026.bsky.social coming up on Friday!
Registration now open...
Some great keynote speakers to add to the great plenaries!
Check out the website here: springscix.org
📢Abstract deadline for SPEC 2026 is February 16!!
Registration now open
Visit www.spec2026.org for everything you need to know!
See you in Nashville!
Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart.
medium.com/nightingale/...
I’ve spent the past week refining my free e-book, Applied Geostatistics in Python 📚💻
glossary 📖, illustrations 🎨, & descriptions, 32 chapters, downloadable Python workflows 🐍!
My university content in a more accessible format to reach a broader audience 🌍 🚀
geostatsguy.github.io/GeostatsPyDe...
[via @FrnkNlsn on X]
Book PDF (730 pages) :
"High-Dimensional Data Analysis with Low-Dimensional Models" by Wright & Ma
👉PDF: book-wright-ma.github.io
Preface by E. Candes
[from DiceResearch on X]
"OWLAPY: A Pythonic Framework for OWL Ontology Engineering"
👉Check it out: arxiv.org/abs/2511.08232
🔎 OWLAPY is a comprehensive Python framework for OWL ontology engineering, already over 50k downloads!
Looking for a PhD/postdoc position in Cambridge UK in comp bio? Check out Hana Aliee's new lab at CRUK: www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-gro...
Struggling with Python `re`? regex is a superset of re with additional functionality and more thorough Unicode support. It is very powerful and still kind of an open secret. When I saw
@howard.fm explain this I just had to write about it!
Today I Learned:
carlo.ai/til/regex-se...
Thanks to @nealasher.bsky.social in "The Soldier"
📢 New job positions in Heath Informatics @manchester.ac.uk
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Lots of RO-Crate, #metadata, #FAIR and you get to join the excellent eScience Lab team!
The first automobile theft in the city has been reported. That shows that people are beginning to have confidence in the ability of the machines to travel into the next state without breaking down. --Minneapolis Daily Times, 31 Mar 1903
Minneapolis, 1903
Well, the UN are up for Open Science. Are you?
🔬New Methods and Protocols published!
The authors present a methodology for deep learning-based segmentation by transforming high-quality ex situ laboratory data to train models for segmentation of in situ synchrotron data, demonstrated through a metal oxide dissolution study.
Scientific data underpins progress across all sectors. A national governance framework ensures data is managed and shared responsibly, benefiting Canadians now and for generations.
Read our report: science.gc.ca/site/science...
#DataGovernance #Innovation #Canada #OpenScience #AI
🧬💻 CHARISMA’s latest publication introduces a powerful open-source #Python package designed to harmonize Raman spectroscopy data across instruments and labs.
📖 Read the article here: h2020charisma.eu/publications...
#Ramanspectroscopy #Ramantechniques #calibration
📢✨ CHARISMA’s latest publication explores how #peakfitting of reference material #spectra can enhance reproducibility and precision across labs.
📖 Read it here: h2020charisma.eu/publications...
#Ramanspectroscopy #Ramantechniques #ramaneffect
What’s in a README? Why your README matters, and how to create the best one possible.
blog.datadryad.org/2025/09/09/w...
via @datadryad.bsky.social
HT to Clare Liggins @uomlibrary.bsky.social
New from @appliedspec.bsky.social!
Understanding and Employing (Non-)Linearities in Attenuated Total Reflection #ATR #Spectroscopy
Read the full article here: https://loom.ly/9W4GloQ
#SAS #SpecTacularScience #AppliedSpectroscopy
🚀 Excited to share scPortrait! Led by Sophia Mädler & Niklas Schmacke w/ the Mann lab — a new @scverse tool for standardized single-cell image data. Enables ML-ready extraction, >1B cell processing, cross-omics, & cancer macrophage insights.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
So #AVS71 was a blast! 🚀
But now I'm stranded in Charlotte without passport or laptop, which is somewhat less fun 😣
Time to start writing my memoirs perhaps... 🤔
Congratulations Ian!
Alex Shard discussing the "Bitter Pill of Metrology" at #avs71
Rain at Manchester Airport.
Off to AVS-71 for a fun week of science. Leaving rainy Manchester behind for the 30C of Charlotte, North Carolina. Tough decision!
More than a decade ago, I started making tutorial videos on how to use Adobe illustrator, targeted at scientists that needed to make figures and cartoons for talks or papers.
Now I'm getting started again, but this time with the free and open source vector editor Inkscape 🧪
youtu.be/E7n6SDni28Q
Flyer for the SPEC2026 conference
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SPEC 2026, the 14th International Conference on Clinical Spectroscopy, will be held in Nashville USA, May 16-21 2026.
More details coming soon...
For sponsorship opportunities, contact Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Andrea Locke, or Matt Baker at vbc@vanderbilt.edu
Laptop and name badge showing International Standards Organisation logo withe name Alex Henderson, and title Data Management and Treatment.
Getting ready to chair another ISO meeting at DIN, here in Berlin. Some important things to discuss and updates to hear. Looking forward to it!
