Simple Pangram testing exercise for academic content to explore how well it works. Takes around 15 min & follows the same passage as it is generated by AI, processed by a humaniser, and then copy-edited by another AI tool. innovationideas.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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-...

The Future Newsrooms Study 2026 is worth a quick skim to see how news organisations are responding to AI disruption. It has an interesting chart about ‘Community as the differentiator in an age of content abundance’. www.ftstrategies.com/en-gb/insigh...

Future Newsrooms Study 2026: A global benchmark of how newsrooms are changing, what they are prioritising and where they are going next

Explore the Future Newsrooms Study 2026, revealing key gaps in editorial strategy and insights for newsrooms to thrive amid technological change and audience shifts.

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🚨 New issue of PubTech Radar is out: substack.com/@pubtechrada...

PubTech Radar Scan: Issue 43

Usual mix of academic publishing tech news, launches, interesting stats, AI developments, and longer reads that caught my attention.

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For example, reviewer invitations sent by journals via ScholarOne rose from 9M in 2018 to nearly 21.5M in 2025 (some caveats around that stat in the report). Despite working in academic publishing for years and understanding the scale, I still find the size of numbers like this staggering.

The ScholarOne Future of Peer Review 2026 report is out. I'm one of the interviewees, which gives me a vested interest in flagging it, but it does contain some interesting data. www.silverchair.com/news/future-...

REPORT: 2026 Future of Peer Review - Silverchair

The second annual report on trends and transformation brings a comprehensive analysis to what's working and what isn't in peer review.

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New issue of PubTech Radar: pubtechradar.substack.com/p/pubtech-ra.... Fabricated citations, the AI detection delusion, 35 novels about research integrity, and more...

PubTech Radar Scan: Issue 42

Usual mix of academic publishing tech news, launches, AI developments, and longer reads.

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Small rant. What on earth has happened to #ChatGPT? Conversation with 9 straightforward questions, 8 incorrect & 1 partially correct answer. 7 links to supposedly verified sources (after problems in the previous round of conversation) - all hallucinated. Every conversation I have seems problematic ☹️

Worth spending time with this article from Scott Cunningham: Summary and my thoughts here: substack.com/@pubtechrada... Original article here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Worth spending time with this article from @scott cunningham: https://causalinf.substack.com/p/claude-code-27-research-and-publishing According to Scott's thinking: Economists currently submit a...

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I’m working on a small, experimental tool that creates narrative, multi-signal overviews for scholarly books (citations, usage, attention). Looking for a few (university) presses (and others) to test an MVP and give candid feedback. Open data. No black boxes. DM me. #scholarlypublishing #books

Please fill out my AI usage survey if you work in publishing. Which models are you using? How often? What's delivering value? Takes under 5 minutes. Contributors get early access to results before I share them more widely towards the end of the month: ai-and-me.innovationideas.co.uk

Love this demo of Crixet (now Prism). For all the talk of robotic labs and AI accelerating science, the reality is Victor Powell, the developer, in his kitchen, minding the baby (the high-value work), while talking to an AI tool to handle the writing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce-S...

Crixet Voice Mode

YouTube video by Victor Powell

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🚨 New issue of PubTech Radar is out: lnkd.in/eaCsVfja

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line

On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...

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From Pietro Schirano (@skirano) on X writing about Nano Banana Pro: "Here’s my favorite use case so far: take papers or really long articles and turn them into a detailed whiteboard photo." How to video: x.com/skirano/stat...

Google Scholar gets into "AI powered" space Assuming this can use all the full-text they have indexed this might be a game changer. The timing of this release maybe suggests Gemini 3 is being used? scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/scho... . Apparently some hit a waitlist, I have access though (1)

Scholar Labs: An AI Powered Scholar Search

Research questions are often detailed. Answering them can require looking at a topic from multiple angles. Today, we are introducing Scholar...

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A new report from Scholastica and Maverick Publishing surveyed 83 small and medium journal publishers from 21 countries about their tech challenges: lp.scholasticahq.com/technology-n... Some stats: * Current AI adoption is limited. Only 8% of publishers are using AI tools extensively.

2025 Report: Technology Needs of Small and Medium Journal Publishers

Insights into smaller-sized publishers' technical priorities, from research integrity to AI adoption.

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New interview in the newsletter: Jonathan Woahn on how his startup Cashmere gives publishers control over their content in AI systems. As Jonathan puts it, they provide tools to manage entitlement, security, access, reporting, and turn-key RAG infrastructure. open.substack.com/pub/pubtechr...

Big Ideas in Publishing: Jonathan Woahn on AI Licensing Infrastructure

New interview: Jonathan Woahn on how his startup Cashmere gives publishers control over their content in AI systems. As Jonathan puts it, they provide tools to manage entitlement, security, access, re...

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Amazed by the volume of last minute submissions... Still a little birdie tells me unofficially the form will be open for a few more days...

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📣 Registration OPEN for #FORCE2026 (3–5 Jun, Singapore). A conference on the future of research communication & open science. Early-bird: by 28 Feb 2026. Call for Proposal: Ends 9 Nov 2025. Authors get a special rate. Details & CFP force11.org/force2026/ #FORCE2026 #ScholarlyCommunication

I found Musk's discussion of how they’re building Grokipedia interesting in the latest All In podcast: youtu.be/j6_VfR-CyuM. Grok is teaching itself reasoning, then rewriting ~1M Wikipedia pages. The goal: a self-updating, “maximally truth-seeking” AI that fixes errors and filters bias.

Elon Musk: 3 Years of X, OpenAI Lawsuit, Bill Gates, Grokipedia & The Future of Everything

YouTube video by All-In Podcast

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Yay, let’s swap bad metrics for more bad metrics! 🤩 And with a twist - as shown by a browser extension. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors

Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.

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Join my second run of "AI powered search for libraries: A crash course on understanding fundamentals for library professionals". We have a Fully virtual option: $75 USD or a Hybrid option - first two sessions are online & the third will be face to face in Bangkok for the Charleston Asia Conf (1)

Research output has increased 212% since 2004, but reviewer capacity hasn't kept pace. At the AI Publishing Collective meetup, Chris Leonard, Wiley's Sam Parker and Rebecca Windless, and Digital Science's Leslie McIntosh explored how AI might address this challenge. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-pee...

AI in Peer Review: Highlights from the AI Publishing Collective Meetup

The recent AI Publishing Collective event at BCS London, hosted by BCSWomen, and BCS Publishing, brought together experts from across scholarly publishing to discuss how AI is shaping peer review and ...

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Very interested in this and already have my ticket 🎟️. Looking forward to it 🧠🤖: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Book Launch Event - Psychology of AI - London | BCS Publishing

Join us in London next Tuesday, 28 October for the launch of The Psychology of AI Decision Making by Chris Ambler BSc (Hons) FBCS GMBPsS The event is being hosted by The British Psychological Societ...

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📢 A British start-up, Books By People, is introducing an 'Organic Literature' certification to help readers identify books written by humans rather than machines. The first certified title, Telenovela by Gonzalo C Garcia, is due out next month, published by Galley Beggar Press. 🔗 booksbypeople.org

Books By People | Defending Organic Literature in an AI world

Books by People's mission is to safeguard human creativity in modern literature by helping publishers and authors to certify their books as human-authored, with a process readers can trust.

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Periodic Labs: A new $300 million seed-backed startup aiming to build “AI scientists” — autonomous systems that hypothesise, run physical experiments, gather data, learn, iterate — especially in the physical sciences. They’re starting with materials/superconductors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FoW...

Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture

YouTube video by a16z

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📅 How is AI reshaping peer review? Join the AI Publishing Collective, hosted by BCS Women & BCS Publishing, for insights on efficiency, fairness, and research integrity. Speakers: Chris Leonard, Sam Parker, Leslie McIntosh. Mon, September 22, 6 - 8:30pm London 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1642733864...