Conversations (podcast)
Being a happy person – A conversation with Sara Hefty
In this conversation, Sara shares with Jo how she committed herself to becoming a happy person and the journey that this led her onto.
Multilingualism
In Memoriam of Victor Venema
It is with heavy hearts that we write this post in response to the recent and sudden death of Victor Venema, founder of Translate Science. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends. Victor was the driving force behind Translate Science — an initiative to facilitate and foster the translation of scientific texts.
Career Development
Knowing your audience and making an impact – A conversation with Natira McDermott
Natira McDermott is a public speaking coach who helps her clients create successful businesses by dropping perfectionism and embracing their own compelling visibility. Despite winning her first high school debate, Natira spent most of her life avoiding an audience. (The irony of her being a public speaking coach is not lost on her.)
Conversations (podcast)
Computational notebooks for more openness, reproducibility, and productivity in research – A conversation with Ludmilla Figueiredo
Ludmilla Figueiredo is a research data and code curator coming from a background in ecology and conservational biodiversity. In the first episode (part 1), she talks with Jo about the implementation of the open science principles within the fast-paced and heavy workload researchers must handle.In the second episode (part 2), Read more…
AfricArXiv
The Data Quality Imperative – A conversation at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022
From manuscript preparation to business-related best practices, scholarly publishers increasingly integrate data capture and analysis into their systems. These efforts are considered essential to enable interoperability, ensure transparency, and build trust with authors, funders, and institutions.
Career Development
Gain and maintain mental wellbeing personally and in a professional [research] context in 5 steps – A conversation with Kate Thorpe
Kate and Jo talk about unhealthy stress in working and research environments and what measures each of us can take to gain and maintain a state of wellbeing.
Conversations (podcast)
Publication Strategies and Open Science – A conversation with Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman
Bianca and Jeroen talk with Jo about one of their most recent interactive projects, the Publication Strategy Tool, a tool that helps researchers reconsider their publication strategies by thinking about publishing goals to inform new choices in what, when, how, and where to publish
Career Development
Summary of the Q&A session on Aug 25
Here is a summary from yesterday’s Q&A, in which we discussed Open Access literature discovery, incentives for ECRs to publish Open Access, and making an informed decision about where to publish amongst other topics.
Open Source Hardware
Join the Open Hardware Makers program
The call for applications for the second cohort of the Open Hardware Makers program is now open!
Science Communication
239 articles describing African languages indexed in the Lanfrica database
We are glad to announce that the collaboration between Lanfrica and AfricArxiv has so far led to 239 articles describing African languages. These articles have been successfully included in Lanfrica and can be accessed through lanfrica.com/records?tag=africarxiv