After previous "wobbles" I don't know if its permanently gone (especially as the entire @gigascience.bsky.social gigasciencejournal.com domain is also down) but GigaBlog no longer loads. To access back content I made sure everything was archived in Rogue Scholar rogue-scholar.org/communities/...

🟣 We have published a new guide on the Responsible use of artificial intelligence in research software, written by Scott C. Edmunds. Find out more about the guide and how to access it at www.software.ac.uk/news/new-gui...

Great post by @kuanhuang.bsky.social in the @force11.bsky.social Upstream blog that is timely with the NIH Data Sharing S-index Challenge winners being announced today: Beyond mandates: making data sharing count doi.org/10.54900/pg6... #SIndex #OpenData

Beyond mandates: making data sharing count

Twenty years ago, data-sharing policies mostly asked researchers to promise that files would be available. Today, sharing is built into the machinery of research funding. The US National Institutes of...

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Please try out theSindex and give us feedback on our tool that measures the network impact of datasets thesindex.org

Ahh, the metadata of censorship. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Science Magazine@science.org · last mo.

Questions are swirling about why five researchers, including Harvard University geneticist George Church, made an eleventh-hour decision to withdraw from the author list on a commentary paper. https://scim.ag/4aWGv5Q

GIGA, the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance @invertebrates.bsky.social, had their 6th meeting in Boracay last week and I have a write-up on the latest goings on in the wonderful world of squishy spineless creature genomics open.substack.com/pub/scedmund... #GIGAVI

When GIGA met Giga. Celebrating the Spineless with the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance

GIGA, the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance, had their 6th meeting in Boracay last week and I have a write-up on the latest goings on in the wonderful world of squishy spineless creature genomics

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Great to see a #GIGAVI keynote by Marcela Uliano-Silva @marcelauliano.bsky.social on an atlas of molluscan genomics. Marcela has a long history working on these species, you can see her 2018 TEDtalk on crowdfunding the golden mussel genome that we loved at #BauhiniaGenome youtu.be/IOPEPnQYoOE?...

Blast from the past here in Boracay watching Agostinho Antunes give a keynote at #GIGAVI setting the scene presenting many genomes I helped publish at @gigascience.bsky.social including the avian phylogenomics project (academic.oup.com/gigascience/...) and the giant squid doi.org/10.1093/giga...

Just touched down in Boracay for this conference. Will be doing a very meta-GIGA talk here on Thursday. Watch this space and #GIGAVI hashtag this week for invertebrate genome news...

Earth BioGenome Project 🌍@ebpgenome.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🦀 The countdown is on! One week until GIGA VI brings the global invertebrate genomics community together in Boracay, Philippines. Will you be there? Get in touch with GIGA! 🔗 gigavi.org #GIGAVI #Genomics #Biodiversity #GIGAVI #Genomics @invertebrates.bsky.social | Biodiversity Genomics 🦀

Just touched down in Boracay for this conference. Will be doing a very meta-GIGA talk here on Thursday. Watch this space and #GIGAVI hashtag this week for invertebrate genome news...

Earth BioGenome Project 🌍@ebpgenome.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🦀 The countdown is on! One week until GIGA VI brings the global invertebrate genomics community together in Boracay, Philippines. Will you be there? Get in touch with GIGA! 🔗 gigavi.org #GIGAVI #Genomics #Biodiversity #GIGAVI #Genomics @invertebrates.bsky.social | Biodiversity Genomics 🦀

Spurred on by a recent article about authorship policy in China I've written a piece on how you can help change research policy for the better, even in China scedmunds.substack.com/p/how-you-ca...

How you can help change research policy for the better, even in China

Policy research and outreach is a high-risk/high-reward effort, and coming across a recent article on improvements to authorship policies in China has made me think about some lessons here.

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The future of interactive preprints and papers were on display at the #FORCE2026 conference and here I discuss what was presented and what the future of "living figures" might hold. As well as raving about the @openrxiv.bsky.social labs and @curvenote.com demos scedmunds.substack.com/p/preprints-...

Preprints and Papers Come to Life at FORCE2026

The future of interactive preprints and papers were on display at the FORCE2026 conference in Singapore, and here I discuss what was presented and what the future of "living figures" might hold

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I've written up my thoughts on last weeks brilliant #FORCE2026 @force11.bsky.social conference in Singapore. FORCE at 15: The Jagged Frontier of Scholarly Communication Reaches Asia open.substack.com/pub/scedmund...

FORCE at 15: The Jagged Frontier of Scholarly Communication Reaches Asia

When the FORCE11 manifesto predicted the Future of Research Communication in 2011, the 15th Anniversary FORCE meeting in Singapore has been great to look back at how many predictions came true.

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#FORCE2026 may be over, but the collocated #DataCiteConnect2026 workshop is now kicking off to discuss all things @datacite.org

That went fast. Closing #FORCE2026 remarks now from conference host and co-Chair Bella Ratmelia from SMU. Seeing myself from the organising committee, Bella and the local team did an incredible job. It really felt a like lot of the original "Beyond the PDF" spirit and energy finally made it to Asia

Contrasting FAIR data, Ginny Barbour introducing us to the concept of BADDR data - relating to negative discourse for First Nations people. Blaming data Aggregating data Decontextualising data Deficit, government priority data Restricted Access data #FORCE2026

Closing keynote @ginnybarbour.bsky.social on the state of scholarly publishing and how to affect change. #FORCE2026

Cool to hear Ginny Barbour’s origin story with a “tale of 3 journals” in her #FORCE2026 keynote. Hearing about her time (and the journal history) at Lancet, PLOS Medicine, and the Medical Journal of Australia

Sean Mooney now talking at #FORCE2026 about Reusable, Interoperable, Scalable digital ecosystems for AI-driven biomedicine. Speaking with his experience as the first scientist to Direct the NIH Centre for IT

Day 2 of #FORCE2026 ending with a panel on recognising research data in tenure and promotion. @kristiholmes.bsky.social starting off talking about @makedatacount.bsky.social and IDEA (Institutional Data Evaluation and Assessment)

Up now at #FORCE2026 Susanna Sansone is presenting the TIER2 interventional study looking at journal policy checklists and developing a handbook. It was great to participate in this for @gigascience.bsky.social

Just finished an interactive #FORCE2026 BoF with @danielskatz.org discussing the challenges of AI+software+ethics with a great audience. This covered the issues outlined in our (and @mhmdhsini.bsky.social) Scholarly Kitchen guest post scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/28/g...

Aster Zhao from HKUST now presenting a comparison between human, AI-assisted and AI-dominant systematic review production. Funny she used an Elsevier paper to benchmark as it was useful using work in the most closed access publisher as it likely wouldn’t have been crawled #FORCE2026

Ian Mulvaney keynote on AI at #FORCE2026 very nicely setting up a lot of good background for the AI software ethics BoF @danielskatz.org and I are hosting this afternoon

Excited #FORCE2026 kicking off in Singapore, @chodacki.bsky.social welcoming us and giving some background on the story so far with @force11.bsky.social for the newbs among the >130 attendees

At #FORCE2026 @force11.bsky.social meeting in Singapore, the pre-conference workshops are now kicking off and I’m helping Evgeny Bobrov run the Data Usage Typology WG workshop. We want this to be hands on with attendees data

The write-up of the #MedHackathon Asia 2025 gathering in Burapha Uni I attended is out now. Great OUP managed to get collaborative authorship to work for this as they've messed this up in the past doi.org/10.1093/giga...

Mission Accomplished for Vectors of Human Disease Data Mobilization. With the final papers out in the @gigabytejournal.bsky.social-@gbif.org-TDR Vectors of Human Disease series I look back at the lessons learned from this targeted data mobilization approach scedmunds.substack.com/p/mission-ac...

Mission Accomplished for Vectors of Human Disease Data Mobilization

The final papers coming out in the GigaByte-GBIF-TDR Vectors of Human Disease series provides a nice opportunity to look back at the lessons learned from this targeted data mobilization approach

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"support for DORA in East Asia more widely is rare" Proud we went against this trend and signed it for HK based @gigascience.bsky.social in 2016 doi.org/10.59350/8wa...

Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Opinion: Metrics obsession is supplanting academic vision in China, but the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ decision to stop updating its journal ranking list is a hopeful sign, says Bruce Macfarlane #metrics #highered #academicsky https://ow.ly/bQRp50YOm6E

My first time publishing in EON (Editorial Office News) on "Scaling Equitable Data Publishing: Insights for Editorial Teams From a WHO-Sponsored Program". doi.org/10.18243/eon...