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Within the expansive global economy, the hospitality industry stands out prominently, with luxury hotels serving as the focal point of outstanding service and operational excellence. The crux of the issue in this domain is accurately…

Restoring tree cover is now firmly established as a strategy for removing carbon from the atmosphere to help tackle climate change. But there is an elephant in the room when it comes to estimating just how promising…

CINDY MARINANGEL is DIETRICH for three nights at A Guest Production in The Other Space at Santa Monica Playhouse April 2, 9, 16 Acclaimed One Woman play This Production is a dream for me to be able to bring to life one of the…

Editor’s Note: Today’s Mental Health Awareness Mondays guest post is by Marjorie Hlava, Chief Scientist at Access Innovations, Inc. It is intended to supplement February’s post, Categorizing Mental Health Research by Hélène…

From flooding in New Zealand and wildfires in Canada through to drought in the Middle East and extreme heat across the northern hemisphere, last year provided a powerful demonstration of the impacts of climate change.…

New Orleans Celebrates St. Patrick's Day Slainte! Cheers! Irish Music Fills the Air Everyone is Irish for the Day Whether it's St. Patrick's Day or not, everyone has a little luck o' the Irish in them.”— -Laura SommersNEW ORLEANS,…

Editor’s Note: Recently’s post is by Christopher Hill, Philipp Koellinger, and Erik van Winkle. Christopher is a neuro-economist, technologist, and entrepreneur. He co-founded DeSci Labs, developing next-generation technologies to…

Editor’s Note: Recently’s post is by Christopher Hill, Philipp Koellinger, and Erik van Winkle. Christopher is a neuro-economist, technologist, and entrepreneur. He co-founded DeSci Labs, developing next-generation technologies to…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Christopher Hill, Philipp Koellinger, and Erik van Winkle. Christopher is a neuro-economist, technologist, and entrepreneur. He co-founded DeSci Labs, developing next-generation technologies to…

Python for GIS: Cloud-Based Ops (Google Earth Engine) In my opinion, Google Earth Engine (GEE) currently stands unparalleled in the cloud-hosted GIS space. The sheer amount of compute hours and data-hosting services Google provides for…

Python for GIS: Cloud-Based Ops (Google Earth Engine) In my opinion, Google Earth Engine (GEE) currently stands unparalleled in the cloud-hosted GIS space. The sheer amount of compute hours and data-hosting services Google provides for…

Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post is by Heather Weltin, HathiTrust; Alison Wohlers, California Digital Library (CDL); and Amy Wood, Center for Research Libraries (CRL), who are coordinators for the CDL, CRL, & HathiTrust…

March 06, 2024 A former Boston Public School teacher whose student debt was…

Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post is by Heather Weltin, HathiTrust; Alison Wohlers, California Digital Library (CDL); and Amy Wood, Center for Research Libraries (CRL), who are coordinators for the CDL, CRL, & HathiTrust…

At the final plenary meeting of the Dubai climate conference, COP28 president Dr Sultan Al Jaber declared that the package of key decisions taken in Dubai would be known as the “UAE consensus”.  This threw a…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Panagiotis Kavouras, Eleni Spyrakou, Maura Hiney, and Daniel Barr. Panagiotis is a senior researcher at the School of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. During…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Teresa Kubacka. Teresa is a senior data scientist in the Knowledge Management Group at the ETH Library (ETH Zurich) and leads a project “Towards Open Bibliometric Indicators”. The article…

Former Pussycat Dolls' Carmit Bachar Broadway Theatre Project flyer The students love her. She's got so much to offer them and she is an amazing addition to our Summer Intensive. Carmit gives them real hands-on training in so many…

This blog was adapted from a longer article.  Amidst a backdrop of cultural shifts and persistent mental health crises, a new form of therapy emerges, combining the raw power of Hip Hop with traditional healing practices. This innovative…

Editor’s Note: Recently’s post is by Akira Abduh. Akira is a freelance researcher who is interested in perceptions of publications and their metrics. Stanford University’s recently updated list identifies the world’s top 2% of the…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Akira Abduh. Akira is a freelance researcher who is interested in perceptions of publications and their metrics. Stanford University’s recently updated list identifies the world’s top 2% of the…

Editor’s Note: Recently’s post is by Camille Gamboa. Camille is Associate Vice President of Corporate Communications for Sage. Sage has recently launched Sage Policy Profiles, a free tool that let’s researchers discover where they…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Camille Gamboa. Camille is Associate Vice President of Corporate Communications for Sage. Sage has recently launched Sage Policy Profiles, a free tool that let’s researchers discover where they…

Some of us feel ashamed for losing a relationship or not meeting a specific goal we set out for – which is particularly acute in the New Year when there is pressure to start over, as if we were lacking or inferior before. It can be a…

Many pathways to staying below 1.5C delay deep cuts in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and rely instead on huge amounts of CO2 removal (CDR) later this century. Land-based CDR is used extensively in the 1.5C pathways…

While 2023 made headlines for smashing global temperature records, last year also saw some truly remarkable events in the Antarctic. After crashing to a record-low summer extent in February, sea ice around the…

Editor’s Note: In today’s post, three global society publishers, Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing, and the American Physical Society (APS) have come together to offer a…

Large Language Models (LLMs) are the powerhouse behind today’s most prevalent AI applications. However, a deeper dive is necessary to grasp their varied roles in scholarly publishing. There are two primary LLM branches:…

Editor’s Note: Recently’s post is by Itamar Ashkenazi and Oded Olsha. Itamar is a staff member of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology’s Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel, a general surgeon, and a COPE council member. Oded…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Itamar Ashkenazi and Oded Olsha. Itamar is a staff member of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology’s Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel, a general surgeon, and a COPE council member. Oded…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Gwen Weerts. Gwen is the Journals Manager at SPIE, and the Editor-in-Chief of the SPIE Society magazine, Photonics Focus. Gwen joined SPIE in 2008 and has 16 years of experience in scholarly…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Isaac Wink. Isaac is the Research Data Librarian at the University of Kentucky. He recently graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with an MS in Library and Information…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Stuart Leitch. Stuart is the Chief Technology Officer at Silverchair. Artificial intelligence and large language models have the potential to change, even disrupt, every aspect of scholarly…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Mary Miskin. Mary is Operations Director for Charlesworth, an Enago company, as well as a Board Director for the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE). In December…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Chhavi Chauhan and Chirag Jay Patel. Chhavi is is Director of Scientific Outreach at the American Society for Investigative Pathology. Chirag is Head of Sales and Business Development, Americas…

by Eric Hughes, M.D., Ph.D.Societal perceptions of schizophrenia are often sensationalized and shrouded in stigmas that can lead to misconceptions and the spread of inaccurate information both outside and within the community. These…

The U.S. is in a child and adolescent mental health emergency, on top of a national mental health crisis for Americans of all ages. While everyone can be impacted, there is one particular type of family that is particularly vulnerable to…

With UN climate negotiations underway at COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), climate finance has once again been one of the key issues countries have been clashing over. The recently concluded process to…

The impacts of climate change are already being felt by both humans and ecosystems, with extreme weather events and record-high temperatures becoming increasingly frequent and intense.  Established in the Paris…

The Earth’s jet streams play a fundamental role in the speed and direction of weather systems across the world. This means that they are crucial for understanding extreme weather events and how they will change as…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, Anne Stone, Jennifer Regala, Susan Willner, and Jackie Lord. Stephanie is is the Vice President of Marketing at Silverchair. Anne is owner of Stone Strategic…

What it means to harmonize soil data. As the saying goes, the more the merrier! While there are many open questions that could be addressed by larger, more complete datasets – climate draw-down potential of soils lends urgency. We need…

Guest Carl Pope on the current state of climate change, coal fired energy, wind, solar power and renewable clean energy.*****Books by Carl Pope:Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet - Pope (Former…

On Real Time With Bill Maher, former vice-chairman of General Motors Bob Lutz claimed that climate change was a "total crock of shit." The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur sets the record straight with facts on temperature, extreme weather and…

Crissie McMullan and her husband Jeremy Smith wanted more space for their Missoula home. The couple live with their daughter and college-student niece and often have out-of-town guests. Plus, Smith works from home and Mcmullan was planning…

Hadram Bin Shalan a retired science school teacher in the southwest Saudi town of Abha has built a guest house using recycled material from construction sites. Shalan took seven years to complete the project using eco-friendly building…

Susanne Rotter is professor and recycling expert at the technical university here in Berlin. We talk about recycling and extracting valuable minerals from our trash.DW-TV: Extracting minerals from metals is a long and somewhat tedious…