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Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...
Pokémon turns 30
(…and how it has anything to do with biodiverdity, natural history, and research integrity)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
wonder if commercial publishers would announce more creative oa business models
"Deposit of [Author's Accepted Manuscript] into [Public Access Repository] [without $] fulfills...requirements for publications and doesn't require payment of special fees to publishers..."
www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
Thought goes out to professional colleagues - the world’s top TB/HIV researchers, doctors, epidemiologists and global health officers I met in CDC Atlanta back in 2017
“Of the grants that were terminated or frozen, more than 800 were related to infectious diseases”
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Got copy printed afresh <1 mo ago - birders' classic “A Field Guide to the Birds of Japan" expanded & revised new ed. (=4th ed issued June 2015), 4th printing (Jan 2026). My old copy is 30+ years old, 1st ed, 6th printing (1994), but the price difference is only ¥300. Looking forward to the 5th ed.
Thanks for including an example - but even in everyday usage without combining the term with University to form a proper noun, who would actually follow this guidance (and show me how to type these special characters...)
www.bunka.go.jp/kokugo_nihon...
a thrilling read - worth rendering as a special exhibition
"Heritage science has long treated biology...a contaminant to be scrubbed away...but the Leonardo DNA project...reveals that biology is a feature. It is a new evidentiary layer that can bolster attribution."
www.science.org/content/arti...
A way to juxtapose botanists vs. zoologists (I belong to the latter) -- "botanists have successfully dealt with the [offensive racial epithet] 'caffra' problem, but zoologists have thus far chosen not to: Cape buffalo continues to be S. caffer and Cape robin-chat C. caffra”
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Resilience, an 'imported' term where there had been no exact corresponding local term to conceptualize 'レジリエンス', seems too ambiguous to make it difficult to do a meaningful country-to-country comparison of people's perception / understanding of that very concept in question
doi.org/10.1016/j.pd...
just submitted public comments to the proposed amended standards of museums re: Article 8 on research to request adding museum studies/museology to the draft provision: 博物館は...博物館の運営、倫理及び評価等の博物館学に関する専門的な調査研究、博物館資料に関する専門的、技術的な調査研究...その他の調査研究の充実を図るよう努めるものとする
public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/servlet/Publ...
Thank goodness... A wakeup call for higher vigilance - it could've been a much worse incident if the community hadn't made such a rapid coordinated response to the initial signs of a malicious attempt for unauthorized access to the institution’s cyber infrastructure
www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/202...
draft revised desirable standards for managing museums (‘ms') in Japan adds art. 3(5):
ms are to endeavor to take measures to improve their management with an international perspective, following international circumstances and trends seen in ms overseas
public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/pcm/download...
upon an encounter with a roadkill, my thought process: it would make a nice complete specimen (skin/skeleton); sensing a rotten smell, skin and tissue cannot be saved; I don’t have a salvage permit to begin with; it’s an invasive species so I may not need one; wait a second! I must go to work...
Consensus among museums worldwide is they are urged to act in a tense mode to grapple with the not so bright future - terms like emergency, disasters and resilience stand out on top of familiar sustainability and communities; but no mention of AI as a new threat (or not)
icom.museum/wp-content/u...
Wondering Japan has or should have in the future a harsh FCA equivalent or a similar enforcement mechanism for the Ministry of Justice to hold academic institutions instead of individuals accountable for failure to disclose in conjunction with treble damages...
www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/do...
It shows what we intuitively know but what would be the ideal forms of shared stewardship?
"call for international initiatives to promote fairer access to biological knowledge, including ... repatriation, improved accessibility protocols ... inclusive research partnerships"
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Doesn’t make sense -- I’ve been an ICOM-US member as a museum professional, whether I worked with a collection institution or not, for 20+ yrs; now the local secretariat in Japan asks for a new membership fee $350 under a supporting membership category, nearly 5x the due for a regular voting member
Developing strategic plans for ‘smarter’ collecting is something we should do with AI to mitigate depreciation of natural history collections
..and this statement is so true - “we can recapture spatial information about species occurrences [but] we cannot recapture time"
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Maybe the difference would be only significant in the prosecution process if an intervening individual’s gender is the opposite of the inventor themselves, particularly herself because of unconscious bias that innovation is not supposed to belong to female figures… www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...
how cool is that: a new venomous animal species to be published based on an “... integrative experimental design combining taxonomy, molecular data, and oceanographic modeling to understand species range shifts and cryptic diversity in a changing ocean”
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
was recently invited (but declined) to apply for a position, where, after submitting a resume, would complete an AI-led interview to assess language ability and professional experience, then take a follow-up AI-led interview to assess professional background- may I speak with “human" resources
Fancy university advertisement but you have to scroll all the way down to find Opportunities; would "UREX-Tohoku Project“ "Japan’s First University for International Research Excellence” be catchy enough to attract top talent?
www.tohoku.ac.jp/research_exc...
Sharp 'science of science' questions and challenges analyzing public fundings impact on drugs R&D ecosystems
“NIH...retains the right to veto publications...should...make data [on peer review scores and unfunded grants] available to metascience researchers"
goodscience.substack.com/p/what-if-ni...
I doubt it was a mere bad word choice ‘hometown’ implying settlements of African labor force that has spurred controversy, devolving into diplomatic PR disasters.
“JICA...has never undertaken initiatives to promote immigration and has no plans to do so in the future"
www.jica.go.jp/english/info...
Career opportunity @ Macroecology Lab, Dept. Ecological Developmental Adaptability Life Sciences, Tohoku University....species distribution modeling, mapping of different dimensions of biodiversity (taxonomic, functional), wildlife monitoring, ecosystem restoration
jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJor...
Though I disliked being labeled as an alien, I'd never abused my H1-B status in the nonprofit sector
Does this proclamation also mean my green card potentially is worth much more than $100,000 - I should safeguard it in a vault..
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Japan is out since it hasn’t been investing as heavily?
“...now advising US-based researchers to look beyond Canada & Europe, to opportunities in Asian countries that have been investing heavily in science & technology in recent years, including China and South Korea"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Definitely more peaceful to be alerted of sighting of bear than a wanted murder suspect near campus
“ATTN: Please be informed that a university staff has reported a bear sighting....On top of the tree on the north side of ...(see map). Number of bears sighted: 1, total length approximately 1 meter"
Prof. Ben Feringa’s amazing special lecture on the joy of discovery, the art of building small, i.e., molecular machines, from switches to motors, display materials, medicine, robots, self-cleaning systems, or you name it; “chemistry is my hobby” “chemistry, the creating science” “bio-nano future”
I’ve come across few other instances of the term UIRE associated correctly with the University for International Research Excellence on public media. What about Research University of International Excellence (RUIE) or University of International Excellence in Research (UIER)
doi.org/10.1038/s443...