Marcus Povey

I write this sitting in an airport on the way to Germany, where I will be meeting with leaders several European research agencies to discuss how we can ensure the resilience of infrastructure in an increasingly tumultuous world This article is © Copyright…

As scientific data become increasingly distributed across specialised repositories, the challenge is no longer finding information but connecting it.

A little bit of what I have been working on for the last couple of years as part of the Fragment Screen project coordinated by Instruct This article is © Copyright Marcus Povey 2008-2026

There is a reasonable argument that the best way to design an interoperability standard for EOSC service catalogues is to look at what nodes are actually publishing before deciding what to mandate.

The first EOSC catalogue hackathon proved federation could work.

Following on from the #EOSC hackathon I ran a few weeks ago, I thought I would write a brief implementation guide for any other nodes that want to try playing with what we did This article is © Copyright Marcus Povey 2008-2026

Scratching an itch for my team, I built a Doodle clone over a couple of hours while enjoying some lovely wine in a sunny pub garden.

Not wanting to bury the lede; I built a todo list application to replace my Remember The Milk subscription, entirely using free AI tools, on a Saturday morning.

Last week we had a hackathon during which time we successfully demonstrated discovery and federation of catalogues between EOSC nodes This article is © Copyright Marcus Povey 2008-2026

Autistic note keeping, FTW!

As we rush towards the AI future, it is important to take a beat to consider that AI security is... terrible.