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Dear Colleagues, At the IUCr Calgary Congress we have a variety of events on Open Science including a Workshop and Microsymposia as well as in the poster sessions. These are described in the current IUCr Newsletter by Simon Coles, Chair of CommDat and Loes Kroon Batenburg, Main Editor of IUCrData Ra...

Dear Colleagues, IUCrData has announced the Collection of articles arising from the CommDat Workshop, Microsymposia and posters at the IUCr Melbourne Congress. Dr Looes Kroon Batenburg has written a Foreword to the Collection which is available here:- https://iucrdata.iucr.org/x/issues/2025/09/00/me...

Dear Colleagues, At the recent International Symposium on Open Science Clouds hosted in Beijing in early September 2025 I presented details of the progress on our CODATA IUCr Case Study on the development and use of raw diffraction data. This was coauthored by Genji Kurisu Director of PDBJ and their...

Dear Colleagues, My progress report of the open science consultation of the global crystallography community that I initiated a year ago is available in the IUCr Newsletter 2025 number 4:- https://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/etc/articles?issue=161076&result_138339_result_page=2 This evolving "open ...

Dear Colleagues, A very important topic is data uncertainty: minimising it and characterising the uncertainty that remains. Yet it is often ignored even in publications or public release of their underpinning data. I have written two books recently on both these aspects: i.Firstly on minimising data...

Dear Colleagues, The USA National Academies’ Workshop, held November 2024, Report on AI and Data Centers’ provision has been published:- https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/43750_11-2024_implications-of-artificial-intelligence-related-data-center-electricity-use-and-emissions-a-workshop Best wis...

Dear Colleagues, The German project DAPHNE4NFDI (https://www.daphne4nfdi.de/english/index.php ), together with the European Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser User Organization (ESUO), the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA), and European synchrotron and neutron facilities, have been con...

Dear Colleagues, I have placed my lecture slides and abstract presented at Liverpool University on the 11th September at Zenodo:- https://zenodo.org/records/13777914 This includes a weblink to the event itself and which includes a weblink to a video of my lecture (45 minutes). The Contents list of m...

Dear Colleagues, I share my report in the current IUCr Newsletter, weblink below, as a consultation on the wide ranging open science initiatives of UNESCO and the International Science Council:- https://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/etc/articles?issue=158542&result_138339_result_page=11 Please reply ...

Dear Colleagues I draw your attention to this group of articles which are a Tribute to Olga Kennard:- https://pubs.aip.org/aca/sdy/article/11/4/040401/3305500/Introduction-to-the-Special-Issue-Tribute-to-Olga Introduction to the Special Issue Tribute to Olga Kennard (1924–2023) urldefense.com Greet...