Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

Congratulations to Sociology.

Off to my great aunt's funeral today - she was 104, it's not a sad day, nice opportumity to celbrate a life instead. Spent the morning on a pilgrimage to find the road they named after my great uncle for being a brilliant GP ❤️

"Writing papers is rarely (probably never) the rate-limiting step in scientific research" Important to remember this. However painful writing is, however much more efficient we can make it, for experimental work it's the research that takes the time. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Currently running through all the Crick known article DOIs through Open Alex using it's API. Interestingly it looks like while it has almost all our papers, lots aren't labeled as Crick. Getting serious flashbacks to my PhD with it's 1000s of API calls though.

Excited about this. We're busy putting together and in person day at the Crick on the 21st April so block out the day in your diary now! #LNDOpenFest26

And we're back to this. #pubmed #NIHFundingLapse

Bob Trivers was in my department at Rutgers. Of all the academics I have know, I am least surprised to find out he is in the files.

I feel this way about the use of X as the main communications route for lots of companies. Transport are particularly bad for this - train going to be cancelled? Find out on X. Lost your bag? Contact us on X. You shouldn't have to sign up to a digital platform to engage with the physical world.

Sometimes a few words you've already heard a hundred times make you cry for the very first time, and I don't presume to know what greatness is but that's gotta be pretty close

I am really disappointed that the new version of EThOS at the British Library (the service for getting PhD theses) will be metadata-only. I really think we should use such resources, even if they are not books. They are still contributions to knowledge. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/give-ph...

9 months into trying to get a project agreed I suddenly remember why I just used to ignore all the forms and processes and just do it anyway 😭 Aren't project management processes meant to help you get the project done?

All this talk of the supposed benefits of AI for drug research, writing, art, music, and more. But with reports suggesting $1.5 trillion or more of investment in AI in the coming years, imagine directly investing a trillion dollars in medical research, writers, artists and musicians.

Brilliant opportunities to make serious change are appearing the week. Which is great, but is the amount of work actually feasible? I am who I am though, so I won't be saying no even if it isn't 😂 We'll make it happen.

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

however, sadly, the paper pitches this as a "trust issue" but people are right now to trust this stuff! Also complete failure to recognise that tools need to be worthy of trust, not that people should give their trust more freely

Not surprised at all - I've found it's really good at giving you strategic sounding paragraphs, quick over views, promotional language, but as soon as you need accuracy it falls over.

In the app this is in ☰ > Settings > Content and media I’d recommend turning all toggles off

I've not really posted about it, but what I have done is started the ball rolling to update our GenAI guidelines, because it just hadn't occurred to me that someone might have been using it as a storage solution...😂😭

Last term I ran a few seminars for research about/by Librarians and Schol Comms folks. You can access the videos here: cassyni.com/series/KVXBf... Now it's time to find some more speakers - do you have a research project you'd like to talk about? Tell me! forms.office.com/e/RM82jweEjT #Librarians

Last term I ran a few seminars for research about/by Librarians and Schol Comms folks. You can access the videos here: cassyni.com/series/KVXBf... Now it's time to find some more speakers - do you have a research project you'd like to talk about? Tell me! forms.office.com/e/RM82jweEjT #Librarians

Is Clarivate Nexus just a new name for the Torment Nexus? We shall see I guess... www.uksg.org/newsletter/c...

Have these tech guys never seen a SciFi film about robots? I thought they were meant to be nerds. They always go rogue. ALWAYS. Given GenAI already seems perfectly capable of unethical and dangerous behaviour, giving it arms seems like a really bad idea.

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the @ox.ac.uk boat race crew of 1907 The crew were 3 from Magdalen, 3 from Christ Church, and 1 each from Balliol, Merton and Trinity Cambridge won by 4 1/2 lengths If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

The thing about the bloke who lost stuff bc ChatGPT shows the extent to which people still haven't understood that TECHNOLOGY IS NOT BUILT FOR YOU ANY MORE. It is purely, entirely self-serving, with zero obligation to, or care for, its users. Everything is on you; you cannot rely on software.

AI slop is everywhere in scientific publishing, we’re only catching the easy-to-detect stuff (like when you happen to peer review a manuscript with a AI-hallucinated reference of a paper you apparently wrote) www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Interesting, but the conflation of inclusion and diversity rather confuses the point. While they have overlap, they are not the same thing.

This on the side of a new Sheffield Hallam cafe gave me a good giggle on the way to the station this morning. Drop bears aren't Indigenous to this country though- I wonder if they're an international student?

oh my god. Davos is a German speaking part of Switzerland.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "The objects found inside an excavation - as in an archival collection - were created by an individual or group of individuals"

As a manager/team lead I spend so much time trying to big up the achievements of my team and make sure they get the credit that they deserve. So I'm always completely blindsided by team leads that just...don't. Like, what do you think your job is?

This is possibly the most British thing I've ever heard, using bureaucracy for the greater good!

Not sure you can quite understand how excited I am about this! A step towards my goal of making a comprehensively linked open ecosystem, moving from dataset to journal article (see how it was used) to preprint (the directors cut version 😉) and back to data to see what other articles used it.

New display in the children's library. If you don't get it, ask a young person. (you probably still won't get it but don't worry - we don't get it either) #67meme

What an amazing woman, what a life, what a gift to the world she was.

Spent the last hour trying to see what Microsoft Copilot can do - we're putting it in at work so I want to be able to support people to use it responsibly. Trying to get it to do something bigger than just emails, but after 2 hours I'm mostly just incredibly frustrated! So that was a fun afternoon.

We Are hiring!! 👨‍💻👩‍💻 CALM's new Data and Systems Steward Role is live 🎉https://crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/London/Data-and-Systems-Steward_R2551 closing date 8th Feb!

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

Happy International Love Methods week! The Crick partners with @protocolsio.bsky.social to share open methods, and if you happen to be a Crick researcher, you can use their protocol writing up service for free (while codes last!) www.protocols.io/we-enter-pro...

Can AI accelerate exciting science, or is it just giving us more incremental papers to wade through? timrequarth.substack.com/p/before-ai-...

Do you work in a UK HE library? Are you early-career? Would you like a sponsored place to attend the Copim Conference at the end of February? Find out how to apply for these sponsored places, which are offered in memory of our beloved friend and colleague, Elaine Sykes: buff.ly/sbU2eRP #OAbooks

When you look at the placement of the towns & cities carefully there's a lot of nonsense, but I'm particularly enjoying the fact that Manchester Piccadilly seems to be just south of Sheffield - would be much easier to get to 😆

Post Christmas I'm still finding days in the hotdesking, open plan office completely overwhelming. Two days of trains & open plan and I'm burnt out. Struggling to get going today! (Luckily I'm in my nice quiet home office)

This article made me slightly reassess AI created papers. Maybe it's just the way technology moves on. Postdoc in my Phd lab got his for sequencing a gene, move on a few years & that's easy, you've got to do more. Maybe this is just tech making certain analyses easy, forcing us to do more.

Overheard on EMR train from London to Sheffield "Reservations have become futile". Very Borg 😂

Ten years after his first article on the subject @rickanderson.bsky.social looks back on "Ten years of a ‘quiet culture war’: where does it stand now?" for #UKSGInsights dub.sh/kih9XK7

This matches what I've seen for GenAI for general search - folks feel like its great for things they don't know about, but can easily see how wrong it is when they ask it about a subject they're familiar with. I suppose it makes you kind of okay at things you're really, really awful at...

The British Library’s modernised catalogue is now live on Alma, with Primo VE enhancing discovery - strengthening a UK national institution that serves millions. More here: clarivate.com/academia-gov...

Explorer & naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was born #OTD in 1823. He independently conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection & was the father of biogeography. His portrait hangs at the Society alongside Charles Darwin, commemorating the 1858 reading of their joint paper on evolution.

Finally Sheffield has seen some decent snow this winter 😀