@qedscience.bsky.social has come up with a really controversial idea - an AI score for scientific impact. This trained score correlates with the impact factor of published preprints and the binning of papers into discrete quality bins accessed by independent scientists. Backlash in 3, 2, 1... (more)
Thomas Lemberger
@tlemberger.bsky.social
Life scientist. AI, q-bio, systems biology. Head, Open Science, @embo.org Project Lead, @reviewcommons.org @embopress.org Loves 🎶 and plays the 🎻 Views my own
Read this @emboreports.org paper here=> link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It’s finally out! Together with @embopress.org and @reviewcommons.org, we conducted a structured side-by-side comparison of human peer review and our AI scientific review (see thread 👇👇👇🔥).
Our joint study with EMBO is just out! We are proud to be at the forefront of this sea change. AI will reinforce the central role of scientists in this new era. Strong science should be seen! @embo.org @reviewcommons.org @tlemberger.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It was a very cool experiment! The author-centric perspective makes a lot of sense. An important next step is to benchmark multiple AI review platforms. Maybe this can also pave the way for benchmarking human peer review across journals and defining "quality features" of the peer review process.
It’s finally out! Together with @embopress.org and @reviewcommons.org, we conducted a structured side-by-side comparison of human peer review and our AI scientific review (see thread 👇👇👇🔥).
It’s finally out! Together with @embopress.org and @reviewcommons.org, we conducted a structured side-by-side comparison of human peer review and our AI scientific review (see thread 👇👇👇🔥).
The preprint #PeerReview platform Review Commons was launched at the 2019 ASCB | EMBO Meeting to make scientific #publishing more open and effective. Thomas Lemberger, lead of the initiative, tells us more about the platform: https://www.embo.org/features/review-commons-rethinking-peer-review/ 🧪
Cool 😎 Scholar Labs: an AI-powered Google Scholar search. scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/scho...
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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Honored to be included in this reflection on 20 excellent years of MolSystBiol! From our first phosphotyrosine interactome in 2005 to proteome-wide networks - scale has grown exponentially. MS proteomics + AI is transforming systems-level understanding. Exciting times! embopress.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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IT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇
Very cool! I agree AI scientific review can be useful if it is transparent. It is all progressing very fast and will change everything. @qedScience @bioRxiv is a great first step. We are doing some human-based eval, so more soon from @EMBOPress @ReviewCommons with @qedScience. Watch this space ;-)
Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...
Last week on 11–12 Sep, together with our publishing partner @springernature.com, EMBO hosted a workshop "AI to advance open science publishing” in Heidelberg, DE. 🧪 Participants engaged in demonstrations and experiments using tools developed by Springer Nature and EMBO for innovation in publishing.
Two metrics designed for measuring the impact of investments in the specific context of life sciences (in brief: the metrics assess the potential increase in life years attributable to the investment & the improvement in quality of life) ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A new impact framework for investors in life sciences bridges financial returns and patient outcomes - Nature Biotechnology
A new model for quantifying the impact of capital investments in life science interventions could help investors, policymakers and healthcare stakeholders to assess, monitor and optimize the societal ...
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🤖✍️ How is #AI transforming scientific publishing? From trust to truth, @tlemberger.bsky.social @embopress.org explains what’s changing and why it matters for all of us. youtu.be/k-_MuFEwFx0 @salmaamin.bsky.social @mkiwanski.bsky.social
Trust, Truth and AI in Scientific Publishing with Thomas Lemberger
YouTube video by Human Technopole
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A message of hope and optimism in these crazy times: Gewandhaus Orchestra open air concert, in Leipzig, Germany, right now: 20,000 people peacefully listening to the music of Max Bruch. Beautiful event.
An important, moving, and courageous piece from @juliosaezrod.bsky.social Respect! "Becoming a patient has given me a new perspective on biomedical research. Despite my background in data analytics, I have found that I do not necessarily have access to the data or information I need..."
I wrote a short piece on how becoming an IgA Nephropathy patient has changed my perspective on biomedical research, developing an appreciation for the challenges in data interpretability & availability and the importance of patient engagement www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#TCTeAC - the Woodstock of Biology2 & #nightscience - was such an amazing event!! We met great scientists who creatively presented their high quality work. We dreamt and discussed in a very broad, open-minded setting. Talking science outside of our nutshell can be soo valuable - let's do this again!
Let's not be #TCTeAC "The Conference To END All Conferences", but a new format of many more such events. Depating science outside of our typical nutshell (scientifically and mentally) has great potential - we could have come up with 50+ project proposals together. Let's bring fun back to science :)
@paveltomancak.bsky.social and @itaiyanai.bsky.social fighting /debating about the hourglass idea #theconferencetoendallconferences #TCTeAC
#fightforsciemce at #TCTeAC with #nightscience :) cell & gene people gather together. (no scientist got hurt)
Our publishing process needs to be revolutionised @odedrechavi.bsky.social #TCTeAC high-quality AI generated peer review
I'm late to review the "Illusion of Thinking" paper, so let me collect some of the best threads by and critical takes by @scaling01 in one place and sprinkle some of my own thoughts in as well. The paper is rather critical of reasoning LLMs (LRMs): x.com/MFarajtabar...
We quantify the aggregation of >100,000 random protein sequences to train CANYA, a convolution-attention hybrid neural network to predict aggregation from sequence. With @bennibolo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Massive experimental quantification allows interpretable deep learning of protein aggregation
xAI trained on >100,000 random peptides predicts and elucidates primary sequence determinants of aggregation.
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Many of the moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn appear to host subsurface oceans. Mysteries abound as to what fills these deep sea worlds. But the hints that we’ve already gathered make them tantalizing targets in the search for life beyond Earth. 🧵
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
Woohoo it’s arrived!!! If it’s even 25% as good as Civilizations it’ll be amazing…
We then used a physics-based model to predict DNA linkers between the nucleosomes obtained by cryo-ET. This allowed us to visualize kbp-long chromatin fragments from inside human cells.
New preprint on 3D heterochromatin architecture in human cells! Great collab with @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social & @johannesbetz.bsky.social from @hummerlab.bsky.social, @marinalusic.bsky.social & the Turoňová lab. Many thanks to my supervisor @becklab.bsky.social. bioRxiv: tinyurl.com/3a74uanv 🧵👇