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An AI-native workspace that already knows your project? The new Papers AI from Digital Science keeps your drafts, data & references together, so the AI assistant has full context of your work - instead of starting fresh each time. 👉 Available now: https://ow.ly/whX150Zw2t9 #PapersAI #AcademicSky

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Do we actually need to write research papers at all? If we are going to lean on the creativity and the cross-domain thinking of human researchers, then surely that should be where the human time goes. hahnel.substack.com/p/do-we-actu...

Great paper from Natasha Noy et al of Google Dataset Search Do Data Agents Need Semantic Metadata? A Comparative Study in Agentic Data Retrieval arxiv.org/html/2605.28... Similar to my thinking here www.openresearch.wtf/machine-firs... and here: www.openresearch.wtf/fairdata-ai-...

What does responsible research assessment ask of the people who build the research infrastructure, rather than those who write the policy? In a new blog post, Steven Hill (Senior Policy Advisor to the CEO, Digital Science), sets out what the principles mean in practice. 🔗 https://ow.ly/UcnT50ZqIwm

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

BioSingularity. The substrate determines the ceiling Why the infrastructure underneath the models decides how far they can go. "Agentic biology is shaped like software" hahnel.substack.com/p/biosingula...

Ground the model, or it invents the evidence Trusted, curated, subject-specific models are needed for academia hahnel.substack.com/p/ground-the...

"The tools have changed beyond recognition; the intent has not changed at all." — Dr Daniel Hook, CEO, Digital Science. In a new blog post on the Symplectic website, Daniel discusses a 20-year-old problem that #AI is now helping to solve. 🔗 Read his post: https://ow.ly/7iee50Z9QcH

The #arXiv ban on unchecked #AI in preprints is, in Mark Hahnel's words, needed & appropriate. But the underlying problem is bigger than arXiv. General-purpose models are the wrong tool for research. The contamination, he warns, doesn't go away when the AI gets better. 🔗 https://ow.ly/FcFF50Z9R7y

Violence on the streets of the U.K. incited and enabled by Elon Musk, a fellow of the @royalsociety.org. When will our national academy stand up for the values it claims to espouse?

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2mo ago

This is a pogrom, incited and instigated by Elon Musk. This is now the second set of pogroms incited by Elon in the UK in 2 years.

Love this - great to see lots of green - could really do with more The state of biological AI at a glance bio.rodeo/leaderboard

On Training Data for Bio AI Models As we advance biological foundation models, which lessons from LLM data curation transfer, and which need rethinking? research.dimensioncap.com/p/on-trainin...

On Training Data for Bio AI Models

We write about frontier advances in the life sciences, machine learning, and technology, and how their fusion is reshaping the trajectory of life on Earth.

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NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) Year 4: Reflections, Progress, and What Comes Next medium.com/@blog-grei/g...

GREI Year 4: Reflections, Progress, and What Comes Next

As the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) concludes its fourth year and moves into its fifth, this update examines the…

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Biology Open paid peer reviewers £220 and cut peer review times to five working days www.researchinformation.info/news/biology...

Biology Open paid peer review model cuts times to five working days - Research Information

Reviewers were paid £220 per manuscript, conditional on timely completion and editorial assessment of review quality

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The new era of going “Fast and Far” in research Small teams have always innovated. But AI means: a) We can split research into big and small teams b) The small can do absolutely massive things now hahnel.substack.com/p/the-new-er...

Now we can all code Who wants to email the corresponding author on 100,000 papers to ask them for their "data available upon request"? app.dimensions.ai/analytics/pu...

Our new working paper, "Fast and flexible research funding: a review," analyzes the unsustainable time and paperwork required for grant applications, offering key recommendations to help global funders reduce this bureaucratic burden: rori.figshare.com/articles/pre...

From institutional mud to green pasture: university mergers in bibliometric data researchmusings.substack.com/p/from-insti...

From institutional mud to green pasture: university mergers in bibliometric data

research data bite: 29.

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The grants system was already struggling. Then came AI theresearchquestion.substack.com/p/the-grants... "Time is short for managed reform of the research funding system. Funders need to act quickly, potentially in the face of incomplete evidence, while incremental adjustments are still possible."

The grants system was already struggling. Then came AI

The research grants system, the bedrock of the funding ecosystem, is in trouble.

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Enjoyed "The future of science with AI" at the @royalsociety.org last night with Alison Noble, Paul Nurse & Demis Hassabis Interesting comment from Hassabis that we may need new Philosophies of Science, post AI Who is the next Kuhn or Popper that is coming up with new ideas?

AI agents can hallucinate & behave unpredictably - but Gartner research has identified an antidote: a context layer. #AgenticAI Our new blog post explains why your agents are only as good as the knowledge behind them, and what you can do to strengthen context. 🔗 Read now: https://ow.ly/o9Vb50Z45O4

🚀 Today we’re launching Curvenote Reader Curvenote Reader transforms existing research into connected, web-native reading experiences layered onto the systems repositories and publishers already use. No rebuilds. No workflow disruption. → curvenote.com/products/rea...

Nature moving to a publish, review, curate model?

When you sign up to show interest for Googles new Science experimental tools - they ask for your ORCID - thats great progress!

AI and the practical scientist We are entering a window of opportunity in which collaboration between human researchers and AI systems will bear the most fruit. But it will not last very long, with far-reaching consequences. scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/ai-and-the...

AI and the practical scientist

We are entering a window of opportunity in which collaboration between human researchers and AI systems will bear the most fruit. But it will not last very long, with far-reaching consequences.

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From The Lancet to TikTok: Benchmarking success for publication strategy in medical affairs www.digital-science.com/blog/benchma...

From The Lancet to TikTok: Benchmarking success for publication strategy in medical affairs - Digital Science

Medical affairs teams need an omnichannel approach to planning and monitoring publication strategy. Enter: Compass by Dimensions.

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Can recent work on measuring metadata FAIRness and identifying bright spots help communities plan and facilitate the metadata improvement process? metadatagamechangers.com/blog/2026/5/...

Community Can Help Improve Metadata — Metadata Game Changers

Can recent work on measuring metadata FAIRness and identifying bright spots help communities plan and facilitate the metadata improvement process?

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It’s time to get rid of the peer-reviewed paper: pardoguerra.org/2026/05/09/i...

It’s time to get rid of the peer-reviewed paper

The peer-reviewed journal article, perhaps the single most important device behind the expansion of scientific knowledge in the last century, is an extraordinarily expensive way to share novelty: e…

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I'll be speaking ay the quality of AI Peer Review reports in June @easeeditors.bsky.social