Illustration showing the CodeRefinery logo and the text: "Teaching good-enough practices for computational research. Git, Github, testing, Jupyter, documentation, modular code, social coding, and reproducible research".

KTH will be hosting an in-person exercise group as part of the upcoming CodeRefinery workshop March 17-19 and 24-26 on tools and techniques for more reproducible research. Register (links below) to secure your spot if you're in Stockholm those days! Everything […]

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We are also looking forward to the Code Refinery workshop and will host a local exercise room for anyone who wants to join us at the KTH library.

Please sign up if you are interested 👇!

We’re collaborating with analysis tool providers and instrument vendors to standardize file formats for every @pride-ebi.bsky.social submission: github.com/PRIDE-Archiv...

Want your voice heard? Share your feedback by opening an issue on the guidelines. github.com/PRIDE-Archiv... or PR.

Åtta månader gamla Emanuel ska utvisas till Iran - Ekot Emanuel föddes i Sverige i maj förra året och har fått ett utvisningsbeslut, fast hans familj har uppehållstillstånd här.Mamman fick arbetstillstånd efter ...

Föräldrarna har jobb och rätt att vistas i Sverige. Men åttamånadersbebisen Emanuel, som föddes här förra året, ska enligt Migrationsverket utvisas. Till Iran.

www.sverigesradio.se/play/artikel...

Today for International Day of Women and Girls in Science we celebrate the awesome research done by women at KTH and all other places, and also want to highlight the WOP@KTH network to support female PhD students.
#WomenInScience2026

www.dr.kth.se/wop/

Agenda for the nordic love data week. Full agenda at: www.nordiclovedataweek.org Monday 9th of February 10.00 FAIR data and how to check fairness of your data 11.00 An introduction to Data Management Plans 12.00 Supporting good research management practices with Electronic Lab Notebooks 14.00 Where will my data end up? - Selecting a high quality repository for the data underlying your published results Tuesday 10th of February 10.00 Automated large-scale text analysis 11.00 Visualize your research data 13.00 BRIGHT Data Catalog - Developing A Research Data Management Infrastructure 13.30 Introduction to Data Publishing and Zenodo 14.00 Where's the data to your article? Learn how to prepare a Data Availability Statement Wednesday 11th of February 10.00 Searching for research data 11.00 FAIR by Default: Building Reproducible Digital Research Projects 12.00 Introduction to OpenRefine 12.30 Licensing research data for reuse 13.00 Responsible Preservation of Research Data & Data Available on Unreasonable Request

This week we are celebrating #LoveDataWeek together with friends across the Nordics!

Learn about how to manage your data by joining the online events.
Full agenda (and links!) at: www.nordiclovedataweek.org/agenda/

Just because good news is worth celebrating:

There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.

HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

AI-uppdrag äventyrar kvaliteten i akademin - Universitetsläraren När staten gör biblioteken till AI-nav måste lärosätena få resurser – annars betalar undervisningen priset. Det skriver Niklas Ferdinand Carlsson, bibliotekarie på Campus Norrköping vid Linköpings uni...

Debatt. När staten gör biblioteken till AI-nav måste lärosätena få resurser – annars betalar undervisningen priset. universitetslararen.se/2026/02/05/a...

From Stockholm to Baltimore: multimorbidity biomarkers confirmed in the NIH-led Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging A single chronic diagnosis is rarely the end of the story for older adults. Hypertension may be followed by diabetes, then kidney strain, then cardiovascular complications — or a very […]

A single chronic diagnosis is rarely the end of the story for older adults. Hypertension may be followed by diabetes, kidney strain, cardiovascular complications – or a very different mix. 🧪

A new study published in Nature Medicine takes a step toward changing that
www.scilifelab.se/news/from-st...

📢 Call for Hidden Papers & Data on Ingroup Favoritism in Dictator Games

We look for unpublished and hard-to-access experimental studies for our meta-analysis!

Inclusion criteria: no deception, adults, manipulation of group membership of dictator game recipients.

All tips and data very welcome!

Swehockey – Svenska Ishockeyförbundets officiella app

Stats.swehockey.se lists the schedule for most of the season for the major divisions.

For booking you need to go through the club pages usually though...

Nä, nu jävlar!

Nevermind jobs you had, tell me five (or rather: five of the) classes you took at university.

1. Biochemical analysis and separation
2. Basic mechanics
3. Enzymology
4. Mass-spectrometry based proteomics. When and how?
5. Mathematics (I, II and IV for some reason)

Big red heart on a pink background. Text inside the heart reads Data Love. Below it a banner that reads Love Data Week and #LoveData26

In February we celebrate Love Data Week at the KTH Library as a part of the Nordic Love Data Week celebrations.

This year’s Love Data Week theme is “Where’s the Data?”, Join us for exiting webinars and discussions about data!

Full agenda on: www.nordiclovedataweek.org

#LoveData26

Next year, KTH turns 200! 🎉
KTH researchers are invited to submit proposals for the exhibition "The World of Tomorrow – KTH’s Research for a Sustainable Future", held in the library entrance hall. Share your solutions for a better, more sustainable world!

intra.kth.se/styrning/kth...

📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere.
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

På grund av elektriska strömmar i kärnan (som består av flytande nickel och järn). Rörelsen beror på konvektion (värme typ) och strömmarna snurrar och då uppstår ett magnetfält.

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

Att galningarna i sin jakt på woke nu cancellat PLATON har ändå något…. dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit.

“one area of science is strangely devoid of independent checks — academic publishing” Great opinion piece from @jabyrnesci.bsky.social on the need for #publishers to themselves follow best practice & become better regulated 👏👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A campus-wide coordinated makerspace environment coming to KTH in 2026, with a central hub located at the KTH Library
#makerspace

intra.kth.se/en/aktuellt/...

Holy fuck, am I reading this correctly? Are they going to do a single-blind RCT (i.e., some babies will get placebo instead of HepB vax and their parents won't know)??? This seems insanely unethical, like Tuskegee levels of unethical public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23245.pdf

How can research information systems become more open, transparent, and trustworthy?

The following blog post reflects on the @barcelonadori.bsky.social event in Greece!

Read more:
www.openaire.eu/community/bl...

#OpenScience #ResearchInformation #BarcelonaDeclaration

Equitable Open Access - EMBO Reports EMBO Reports - The predominant financial model for OA is based on Article Processing Charges (APCs), which often forces authors to assemble support from diverse sources, including research grants....

Typically thought-provoking article from @berndpulverer.bsky.social on #OpenAccess & #APCs that ends with a tantalising proposition: what if journals had to competitively acquire some of their funding in a similar way to grants? 👇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

1. Ice
2. Wood
4. Milk
5. Sugar (glucose, crystals)

Bringing Science into the Classroom: Taking Science to Middle Schools in Lund Lund University. This year marked the program’s third year, with visits to four international middle schools, Internationella Engelska Skolan (IES) Lund, IES Staffanstorp, Lund International School (L...

What happens when 12–13-year-olds meet real scientists? 🤔
They ask incredible questions.

This autumn, 25 researchers from @lunduniversity.bsky.social visited 4 local middle schools to share what science looks like behind the scenes. #SciComm

Read more 👇
www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/brin...

Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’ AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’

Does AI research have a slop problem? At least some experts claim so. What do you think? #research #AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

SciLifeLab Voices: Erik Fransén What are you most excited about for the next five years?The new kind of data which is becoming available, time-resolved multi-channel molecular data. Getting into dynamics opens up for addressing caus...

In this SciLifeLab Voices series article, we feature Erik Fransén, SciLifeLab Group Leader and KTH Royal Institute of Technology Professor! 🧪

In the article below you can hear all about Erik, his past achievements and what new kind of data he's looking forward to ↓
www.scilifelab.se/news/scilife...

Nästa år väntar tidernas sämsta fotbolls-VM CAS MUDDE Det blir dyrt, politiserat – och dåliga matcher

"Nästa år väntar tidernas sämsta fotbolls-VM"

“Two new Cochrane reviews show strong and consistent evidence that HPV vaccines are effective in preventing cervical cancer and pre-cancerous changes, especially when given to young people before they are exposed to the virus.” cc @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

AI slop image

Had to see for myself. Shared by @smutclyde.bsky.social, published in Nature Scientific Reports (like PLOS One, peer-reviewed [!] for soundness, not importance). The article is about AI-based autism diagnosis. Article processing charge: $2690. AI slop science: priceless