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?

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...

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

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

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...

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."

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...

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

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/...

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

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

We're launching Compass Points: The Future of Medical Affairs - a new blog series exploring the strategic challenges facing #MedicalAffairs teams & the tools that will help them get it right. 🔗 Read the first post, by @herrison2000.bsky.social & Julia Mutygullina: https://ow.ly/EQA850YYRg3

Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by Renaissance Philanthropy, seeded by @biohub.org and @wellcometrust.bsky.social, with support from @kavlifoundation.org and @researchsoftware.bsky.social 🧵 os4science.org/news/open-so...

The Open Source for Science Fund invites letters of intent from developers and maintainers of open source software projects that underpin AI and data-intensive research in the life sciences. os4science.org/funding_oppo...

Announcing the 2024 DataWorks! Prize Winners In early 2024, ODSS partnered with the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) to launch the second annual DataWorks! Prize to highlight examples of innovative data sharing and reuse. datascience.nih.gov/dataworks/da...

Making software citation as easy as 1, 2, 3. Citey is a browser extension and toolkit that turns software citation into a single-button action for researchers. citey.scios.tech

🚨 #Dimensions Research Security has been rebuilt from a dynamic dashboard into a full end-to-end workflow. Review queues, saved configurations, audit-ready exports. Work in government compliance or a university research office? This one's for you. 👇 🔗 https://ow.ly/lux750YQtaV#Dimensions #ResearchSecurity

🚀 Launching Compass by Dimensions – your dedicated publication impact tracking solution, built for #MedicalAffairs teams. 🧭 Compass combines Dimensions citation data & Altmetric attention metrics. Search, analyze, benchmark & report – all in one place. 🔗 See more: https://ow.ly/KXCV50YMo2z

Research Integrity IS Research Security fosci.substack.com/p/research-i...

Our session today at the #PistoiaAlliance Conference in London! @hahnel.org (VP Open Research, Digital Science) & Sven Wichert (CEO, Systasy) presented: "From Proof of Concept to Single-Patient Care: A Digital Science & Systasy Partnership Case Study." #biotech

AI for Science Datasets: Results "Our goal was to identify high-value, strategically important dataset concepts that could underpin the next generation of AI-enabled scientific discovery." www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/ai-for-scien...

The academia preprints "problem" continues to accelerate www.openresearch.wtf/academia-has...

It's really nice to see that academics continue to share more and more data at a time when we can really re-use it *This is just the subset of free users (not institutional, governmental, publisher or pharma clients that use Figshare infrastructure)

Webinar - The Foundation for Trustworthy AI: The FAIR Data Playbook for Pharma May 6th www.fiercepharma.com/premium/webi...

Anthropic tests Claude Operon for scientific research in biology Operon is a new Claude desktop app mode designed for biology and health research, featuring dedicated project tools and session management. www.testingcatalog.com/anthropic-te...

As AI adoption grows, how should research record it? www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi...

The new Altmetric Attention Digest automatically generates concise, narrative summaries that interpret the attention and influence surrounding a piece of research. The aim is to move beyond raw metrics www.altmetric.com/solutions/al...

Research attention data is powerful. It can also feel dauntingly complex. The Altmetric Attention Digest uses AI to turn all those signals into one clear, human-readable summary you can actually make sense of. Find out more today 👉 www.altmetric.com/so...

What parts of the academic knowledge creation & dissemination pipeline can we automate with AI? www.openresearch.wtf/what-parts-o...

"We will help partners create and expand open, high-quality datasets – and, where appropriate, help responsibly open previously closed ones – so researchers everywhere can leverage AI and use data to drive progress across diseases" openaifoundation.org/news/update-...

📣 We are at #MAPSDenver2026 and we're exhibiting say hi to us at Booth 123! Join @hahnel.org, Founder of @figshare.com and VP, Open Research in a panel titled: 👉 “Faster, Smarter, Riskier? Rethinking Literature Workflows in the Age of AI”. 🗓️ Tues, 24 March 🕜 1:30pm MDT 🔗 ow.ly/JWZW50YuJyB

What parts of the academic knowledge creation & dissemination pipeline can we automate with AI? www.openresearch.wtf/what-parts-o...

PLOS open science monitoring framework shows circa 30% of papers have data in a repository and >20% have a preprint Think this will be circa 100% for both in less than a decade explore.plos.org/open-science...

Who Defends Science at Scale? And How? Scientific Intelligence Needs Infrastructure fosci.substack.com/p/who-defend...

Unlocking Author-Affiliation Metadata for All of arXiv: www.cometadata.org/blog/unlocki...

What does responsible use of research content in #AI look like to you? Your voice is needed! STM has published a new discussion document: "Toward Responsible Use of Research Content in Generative AI." Our own Mark Hahnel is among the authors. 🔗 Read & respond here: https://ow.ly/1Is450YvLbE