AIR: AI in Research - A framework for transparent and responsible AI use mapped to the research process doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Excellent post, many important points made, including “… credit is the engine of the system. Without it, data sharing becomes either altruism or compliance. And compliance has a predictable failure mode: it optimises for the minimum required output.”

Unlocking the AI for Science Revolution: A Call to Action for Autonomous Science Instruments www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/news-and-ins...

Join us for a #LoveDataWeek webinar with @hahnel.org. Graham Smith + guest panelists as we dive into The State of Open Data Report 2025: 🗓️ 11 Feb 2026 🕒 3pm GMT / 10am EST Register: spklr.io/63327DB8Rd#LoveDataWeek#StateOfOpenData

Cabells’ Predatory Reports database passes 20,000-journal milestone www.researchinformation.info/news/cabells... Activity from predatory publishers to con academic researchers and defraud funders shows no sign of stopping

The institutions that embrace machine-first FAIR will find themselves having more impact for their research and researchers. More reuse. More trust. More interoperability. Value, not volume. www.digital-science.com/blog/2026/02...

🌟 NEW blog post: "Value over Volume: The Next Ten Years of Open Data," by our VP of Open Research, Mark Hahnel. Mark celebrates a decade of #OpenData, sharing key findings & insights from the #StateOfOpenData 2025 - and looking to 2035. 🔗 https://ow.ly/t9Qo50Y7z2k Springer Nature & Figshare.

metaphactory 5.10 delivers advanced AI search capabilities and enhanced modular ontology management metaphacts.com/metaphactory...

📣 Great news: Digital Science & Silverchair have partnered to support #ResearchIntegrity for publishers - by integrating the Dimensions Author Check API into ScholarOne Manuscripts. Together, we're offering maximum benefit to #ScholarlyPublishing. 🔗 See more: https://ow.ly/3QFQ50Y5i1n

Fudging or Fraud? Where Research Misconduct becomes a Crime fosci.substack.com/p/fudging-or...

A paper in Nature presents AlphaGenome, a deep learning model that can predict the function of long DNA sequences, up to one million base pairs. The tool can predict how DNA sequence variations affect different biological processes. go.nature.com/4t5JQa7 🧬 🧪

Our VP of Open Research, @hahnel.org, presenting on 10 years of #OpenData, following this week's release of "The State of Open Data 2025: A Decade of Progress and Challenges." #StateOfOpenData Mark was in Bangkok, Thailand at the inaugural #CharlestonAsia conference. @chashub.bsky.social

10th edition of State of Open Data report released www.researchinformation.info/news/10th-ed... Study into open research practices shows strong adoption, yet recognition gaps and regional variations remain @digital-science.com @springernature.com

📢 Our partner report, The State of Open Data in China 2025, is available now! #StateOfOpenData 🔗 Download the report here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... From the Computer Network Information Center (CNIC), CAS, Science Data Bank, @digital-science.com, @springernature.com & @figshare.com. #OpenData

COS Exec Director @briannosek.bsky.social is featured as an expert voice in the #StateofOpenData 10th anniv. report. “Fundamental research is on a very long timescale. How did we get to GPS today? We couldn't have anticipated it 60 years ago. I put open science into that same frame." ⬇️ Read more

📢 Great news: The 10th Anniversary edition of the State of Open Data Report is here! 🎉 #StateOfOpenData 🌐 The report combines survey data from more than 4,700 responses across 151 countries. 🔗 Download now: https://ow.ly/i5gN50Y3ECi A collaboration of Digital Science, Springer Nature & Figshare#StateOfOpenData

From Recommendation to Action: A New Tool for Measuring Metadata Completeness medium.com/@blog-grei/f...

We're excited to be speaking & exhibiting at the inaugural Charleston Conference Asia! 🌏 #CharlestonAsia 🗓️ 26-28 January 2026 📍 Bangkok, Thailand Mark Hahnel will present on "A Decade of Open Data". #StateOfOpenData 🔗 More details: https://ow.ly/p5hb50XZVBp Charleston Hub #CharlestonAsia#StateOfOpenData#CharlestonConference

Its a new world "NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books" torrentfreak.com/nvidia-conta...

Figshare was 15 over the weekend Academic data has never been more important

📣 NEW on Substack: "The Battle for Knowledge" by our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Dr Leslie McIntosh. "We are now fully engaged in a power struggle over knowledge itself," Leslie writes in her first FoSci post for 2026. 🔗 Join us at the front line - see more here: https://ow.ly/QnIy50XXbCm

The Battle for Knowledge Knowledge is precious and vulnerable fosci.substack.com/p/the-battle...

Join us in thanking the latest to sponsor #NISOPlus26, @dclaboratory.bsky.social & @ebsco.bsky.social! We're grateful to them & all our generous sponsors for helping us host the conversations that lead to standards. It's not to late to join them! niso.plus/niso-plus-20... More info: niso.plus

🤩 Congratulations! Dr Anita Bandrowski (SciCrunch) is the winner of the 2026 APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication. 🏆 Dr Bandrowski has won for her long-term impact on scientific rigor and reproducibility. 🔗 See more: https://ow.ly/n8eY50XWLPf Proudly supported by Digital Science.

"Slop" is @merriam-webster.com's word of the year. To celebrate (?), I decided to collect the generative A.I. slop imagery has been creeping into academic journals. For scholarly use. doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... #AcademicChatter

📢 NEWS: Kharon & Digital Science have formed a new partnership, bringing together Kharon’s risk intelligence and our world-leading Dimensions Research Security platform. Together, we're strengthening institutions' #ResearchSecurity. 🔗 See our announcement: https://ow.ly/QEBe50XKimK

I asked claude about the credibility of a nuclear physics preprint and it gave me this I now think this should be implemented across all arxiv papers

🎄 On the 3rd day of DS AI Christmas, Overleaf gave to me… 3 ways to write efficiently. 🎶 Now available in beta, Overleaf's new chat-based #AI experience helps improve document quality, save time formatting & fixing errors, and accelerates learning LaTeX. 🔗 https://ow.ly/aVV350XGORA#AI #DSChristmas

Digital Science invites Overleaf users to test next-gen AI capabilities www.researchinformation.info/news/digital... New features "designed to allow users to spend more time on research and innovation rather than on time-intensive tasks.” @digital-science.com @dimensions.ai

As of December 10th, 2025, the arXiv Mathematics section will no longer accept institutional email addresses (i.e., an email address associated with an academic or research institution) as the sole qualifier for an automatic endorsement for new authors. blog.arxiv.org/2025/12/10/u...

💻🤖 What does it mean to be "machine-first FAIR"? And how can this benefit research conducted by (and for) humans? Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, shares why we need to embrace the #AI research revolution with open & #FAIRdata. 🔗 Read his post: https://ow.ly/e7oe50XAtht#OpenResearch#AI#FAIRdata#AcademicSky

It was really fun and hopeful, describing the potential for a better future with @nickdimonaco.bsky.social (QUB) and Martin Vickers (JIC). Although bioRxiv doesn't accept review paper preprints, here it is on Figshare figshare.com/articles/pre... 6/6

Does Publishing need a Pulse Check or Resuscitation? scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/does-publi...

ICYMI - my reasoning that FAIR for machines is more important than FAIR for humans - because we're both "clever" - just in different ways hahnel.substack.com/publish/post... "The best way for humankind to benefit from research is to prioritize machines over people when sharing data"

🌟 Blog posts of the week: "To go further, faster... we need to move past human-powered knowledge discovery," writes our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel. Mark says academic research should be prioritized for machines, not humans. 🔗 See why: https://ow.ly/WGTg50Xvf2S#OpenResearch #FAIRdata #AcademicSky

Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What GenAI does well—and where it needs an ecosystem webinar - Dec 4th www.digital-science.com/events/what-...

Now on Substack: "Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution" - by our VP of Open Research, Mark Hahnel. Why should we prioritize machines over people when sharing data? 🔗 Read Mark's post: https://ow.ly/Z24y50Xu7qk #FAIRdata #OpenData #OpenResearch #AcademicSky

📣 NEW: Why should we prioritize machines over humans when it comes to making research FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable & Re-usable)? #FAIRdata Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, says academic data should be realigned for the #AI research revolution. 🔗 https://ow.ly/uq4r50XsNsg

The best way for humankind to benefit from research is to prioritize machines over people when sharing data. Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution: hahnel.substack.com/p/machine-fi...

"While a degree of self-citations is expected as researchers build upon their existing body of work, excessive self-referencing in some cases can obscure the true impact of research, making the work seem more broadly important than reality warrants" fosci.substack.com/p/self-citat...

Beyond the journal: Inside the Altmetric Top 25 NTRO Repositories www.altmetric.com/blog/beyond-...

Digital Science's own Maria Cotera on stage with @joyowango.bsky.social (TCC Africa), speaking to a large and engaged crowd in Nairobi, Kenya for #KLISC2025. This conference for professionals & practitioners in library & information science is proudly sponsored by Figshare#KLISC2025

3. Monash University (Figshare)’s "Young people’s perspectives on missing out on being young" (Education, Youth Studies) - Altmetric Score: 589.00 doi.org/10.26180/261... @monashuniversity.bsky.social @figshare.com 5/7

How is AI changing scholarly publishing? COPE Publication Integrity Week webinar next Monday publicationethics.org/events/publi...

AI Scientists Can they iterate when things fail? Can we solve the reproducibility problem? What about breaking down disciplinary walls? Great to see ARIA picking this up www.aria.org.uk/ai-scientist

🚨 Coming soon: Have you reserved your spot for the Symplectic & Figshare EMEA User Meeting? 🗓️ 13-14 November 2025 📍 London, UK With case studies from institutions, product roadmaps, #REF2029 & more! 🔗 Register now: https://ow.ly/U1WT50XigOS

"In this constellation, bioRxiv & medRxiv serve organizing and empowering functions for bringing the ecosystem together linking with repositories, data stores, open APIs, and supporting platforms for replication, verification, validation, and peer review" curvenote.com/blog/czi-ope...

Only 2.3% of traffic to BMJ coming from "AI tools" world.hey.com/ian.mulvany/...

"Geoffrey Bilder has made immense contributions to scholarly communications infrastructure over many decades, and his career shows no signs of slowing down. This volume is a collection of writings by a wide range of contributors to showcase the range and diversity of his enduring legacy."