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This is likely to become more common.

Major Chinese funder to stop paying fees for 30 pricey open-access journals Move comes amid effort to grow the country’s own journals

Do I know anyone on here who can endorse me for arXiv Computers and Society (cs.CY)? Trying to upload this preprint before making the submission rounds. Thank you!

SFI!

SFI External Professor Santiago Elena has been elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.

Elena, who leads the Evolutionary Systems Virology group at the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio) in Valencia, Spain, joins 62 other fellows in the class of 2026. His work explores how RNA viruses adapt to their hosts and how this adaptation enables them to manipulate the hosts’ cellular resources for their own benefit.

He draws on fields from experimental evolution and advanced molecular biology to molecular epidemiology and mathematical modeling. Since joining SFI’s External Faculty in 2008, Elena has organized several working groups to explore various aspects of virus evolution.

https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/sfi-external-professor-santiago-elena-elected-to-the-american-academy-of-microbiology

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There is a lot to unpack here.

Researchers to use retail loyalty card data to identify early signs of cancer Researchers at Imperial College London are launching a major study to investigate whether shopping behaviours shown in loyalty card data from volunte...

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Thousands of research papers come out each day, and scientists are drowning in the ever-growing body of literature.

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I authored a high-quality piece several years ago, and it recently resurfaced, warranting a revisit.

SFI's Manfred Laubichler contributes to two articles on Computational History & The Philosophy of Science in the latest edition of History of Science Society's Isis Journal: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/2019/110/3 #history #science #research #philosophy #philosophyofscience #historyofscience #computationalhistory #computation #peerreviewed #sciencejournal #ilovescience #ilovehistory

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The new math of network optimization, courtesy of string theory Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.

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This Week In Science (February 1–7) 🧪

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