Religion is just about everywhere, but psychologists of religion have not studied it much beyond the United States and Western Europe. The International Death Survey was a step to address this cultural myopia, focussing on religion's relationship to death.

In 2018, Scientific Data published the first global soils data set (HYSOGs250m) that can be directly used for curve-number (CN)-based runoff modeling. While the CN method was developed in the United States by the Department of Agriculture (USDA), it’s international adaptation has quickly grown.

Bridging scales in neuroscience, from the level of proteins and molecules to large-scale networks, is an important endeavour in broadening our understanding of how the brain works. In our newly published Data Descriptor in Scientific Data, we provide a dataset and tools to help achieve this goal.

This post is based on a short talk I gave at the SpotOn London 2018 conference, and describes six different areas in which scholarly publishers can make practical changes to improve the reliability and reproducibility of published research.

A new award aims to shift culture

We live in a world full of data that is constantly being gathered, processed and so on. Even though it is so, there's still a gap between that and the accessibility to data; sadly even when the data is held by public institutions. I present here a tiny mental experiment that tries not to persuade but to demonstrate from two opposite perspectives the importance of sharing data.

The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) was held in Melbourne Australia from February 6th-8th, 2019. The intended audience of the conference is anyone who is interested in curating digital materials for posterity. Personally, I had never heard of the conference but was found it intriguing as I am a PhD candidate working with historical Hawaiian language text documents.