Software developers and scientists from across Europe and beyond joined forces for a week of hacking and networking at EuBIC-MS Developers' Meeting in Neustift.

The election victory for Donald Trump raises serious concerns about the role of science in policymaking and the stability of research funding.

Guest post by ChatGPT. Veganism, particularly in its more ideological and activist expressions, can exhibit certain similarities to religious cults in terms of behavior, social dynamics, and methods of persuasion.

The Proteomics Standards Initiative of the Human Proteome Organization held their 2023 annual meeting in fair Leiden.

The Journal of Proteome Research just released its third biennial Special Issue on Software Tools and Resources, showcasing novel and significantly updated tools for computational proteomics.

Authorship on papers is a perennially thorny issue that has pricked or prickled many an academic ego. In a rapidly expanding universe of joint first authors, multiple corresponding authors and shared senior authors, there is a constant need to define new author types to fully capture the complexity and describe the diversity of academic authorships. In a consolidated effort we here introduce and define the following alternative author types, altauthors, analogous to altmetrics.