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."

It’s #OpenAccessWeek! 🌍 Karolinska Institutet is reimagining how research is shared by integrating Symplectic Elements + Figshare - streamlining workflows, boosting visibility, and advancing open science. 🔗 www.symplectic.co.uk/case-studies... #OAWeek #OpenAccess #OpenData #OA

"Women’s participation in research authorship continues to grow, but the balance between inclusion and autonomy varies sharply across fields." substack.com/inbox/post/1...

How FAIR is shared data in psychology? We analyzed 11,384 datasets (2013–2024): They're findable, but less reusable! What relates most to differences in FAIRness? #Repository choice. 👉 Preprint: doi.org/10.23668/psy... @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social @kaisassenberg.bsky.social #metascience #SciSci

The coming life expectancy tug of war: AI-enhanced health for those who make it into their silver years, and AI-elevated vulnerability for the young and middle-aged www.ft.com/content/eac9...

Claude enters the lab: Anthropic bets big on life sciences AI group tailoring its chatbot to integrate with biomedical databases and coding tools www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

Redefining publishing: why we’re moving beyond the article: www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi...

Could LLMs be model organisms? substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Figshare 101: Been a while? Fresh tools, looks and flows Webinar Date October 8 2025 2:00pm The newest features in Figshare and how they streamline research publishing Practical tips for navigating Figshare’s redesigned interface and enhanced workflows info.figshare.com/webinar/figs...

Had a great time talking open data, AI and a perpetual research cycle with Jessica Miles on her new "Informed Frontier" podcast Go and have a listen, all her other guests are great too open.spotify.com/episode/0Z6k...

Using Artificial Intelligence for Text Screening in a Systematic Review of Cardiotoxicity This study highlights best practices and benchmarks to assess the efficiency and possibly quality of literature screening supporting the integration of AI into future SRs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Metadata Recommendations for Repository Adoption from the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative: medium.com/@blog-grei/m...

The alarm bells are ringing for EU basic research funding www.leru.org/news/eu-basi...

Science study claiming brain activity could be directly observed with MRI withdrawn after bioRxiv paper suggests signal is "illusionary" biz.chosun.com/en/en-scienc...

how much content is there in the publisher ecosystem An increasing number publishers are licensing content for AI training. What’s the potential size of the market? world.hey.com/ian.mulvany/...

Big congrats to Kew scientist Dr Oscar A. Pérez Escobar. He’s profiled by New Phytologist, covering his journey and research on orchid evolution and comparative genomics.🧪 Read more: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70484 #KewScience #Orchids

NEW Researcher Profiles in Altmetric Altmetric tracks research items and where they are mentioned or cited online. Searching by researcher name wasn't a feature unless you imported your own from a repository or CRIS Today we are launching a global researcher search feature. 1/5

EMBL AI model predicts susceptibility to over 1,000 diseases www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎉 Exciting news! Our CEO, Dr. @dwh.bsky.social, is a finalist in the NIH S-index Challenge a $1M initiative promoting excellence in data sharing in science. 👏 Learn more: ow.ly/9Xks50WXGxS

📣 NEWS: Digital Science supports research integrity start-up VeriMe Cooperative. The new VeriMe Cooperative, which is aimed at securing #ResearchIntegrity by providing digital verification for researchers, has received start-up funding. 🔗 Read more: verime.coop/blog/step-3-...

“VUT launches Polokelo ya Data, a research data repository powered by Figshare, boosting innovation, collaboration, and global visibility for researchers.” vut.ac.za/en_gb/vut-la...

#Dagstuhl Seminar "Open Scholarly Information Systems": Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social talking about @digital-science.com and the Research Data Ecosystem.

Did you know you can integrate all these systems with your Figshare account? figshare.com/account/integrations

📢 @digital-science.com will deliver New Zealand’s National Research Information System using Symplectic Elements, in close collaboration with MBIE. 🔗 www.symplectic.co.uk/digital-scie...

Altmetric's new AI-powered Sentiment Analysis provides deeper insights into #ResearchImpact for: ⭐️ Medical affairs professionals ⭐️ Academic researchers ⭐️ Scholarly publishers ⭐️ R&D specialists - and more! See how @altmetric.com's Sentiment Analysis can help you: www.altmetric.com/solutions/al...

One of the main goals of Altmetric, @policycommons.bsky.social and @overton.io include policy sources in our various services is to increase consumption, awareness and readership of policy documents themselves. www.splinter.com/un-report-no...

Effective dissemination of critical research lies at the heart of Medical Affairs www.digital-science.com/empowering-e...

Free ice cream at @osfestivalde.bsky.social with @culturebullet.com and @hahnel.org #OSF2025. What a conference!

The future of knowledge and who should control it council.science/blog/open-sc...

The #osfestival2025 keynote speaker on Tuesday, Mark Hahnel @hahnel.org (Digital Science and @figshare.com), will shed light on the cultural and infrastructural shift toward data-intensive, AI-powered science — and the role of #opendata in driving it. #openscience #univie

THREAD Sentiment Analysis Sentiment Analysis for social media is now fully live on Altmetric. From today you can see sentiment of all posts on Bluesky and X formerly Twitter. We categorised nearly 210m items. Here's why you should care. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNip... #AcademicSky #Altmetrics

Beim ersten Open Science Festival in Österreich stehen am 8.+9.9.2025 an der @univie.ac.at Themen rund um offene Wissenschaft im Fokus. Der #FWF bringt wichtige Impulse in die Debatte ein und ist an beiden Festivaltagen vertreten. #OSfestival2025 #OpenScience ⚗️ www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/de...

Last order, everyone - registration for the #osfestival2025 is open until August 31st! osfestival2025.univie.ac.at/en/registrat...

UN to launch an Independent International Scientific Panel on AI + Global Dialogue on AI Governance—ensuring evidence‑based, inclusive, human‑rights‑focused oversight of AI technologies for all. docs.un.org/en/A/79/l.118

Center for Open Science (COS) will suspend submissions to its generalist preprint server www.cos.io/blog/suspens...

Seems like everyone's discussing logo changes today...so here's our before-and-after? 😅 Thoughts??

Related The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system Journals and funders are trying to boost the speed and effectiveness of review processes that are under strain. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Related What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks Researchers argue over whether ‘novel’ AI-generated works use others’ ideas without credit. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Genomics pioneer George Church earns first retraction for anti-aging gene therapy paper retractionwatch.com/2025/08/13/g...

Has anyone launched a Diamond Open Access Journal that is open for humans, but charges fees for AI re-use rights?

We’re kicking off public feedback on CC signals, a new framework meant to help sustain the commons in the age of AI! Designed to build reciprocity, CC signals let data stewards express how content may be used and how AI systems should give back. Learn more: buff.ly/r4KBnRx #CCsignals

✍️ Register now to be notified about our Catalyst Grant round for 2025! #CatalystGrant 💡🌱 You could win up to £25,000 to help grow your innovative idea. 📣 We’re announcing our 2025 round & theme next week! 👉 Find out more & register here: www.digital-science.com/investment/c...

With IFI CLAIMS’ annual Global 250, family matters. The #patent family, that is. Our long-anticipated annual ranking measures the number of active patent families that a single company has at a given point in time. Explore IFI’s Global 250 ranking here: www.ificlaims.com/rankings/glo...

Academia has a new preprints problem. Thousands of researchers are essentially playing slot machines with large language models, pulling the lever over and over hoping to hit the jackpot of novel theoretical physics insights www.openresearch.wtf/academia-has...

Time to consolidate the NIH repositories? "A Landscape Analysis of the 150 NIH Repositories and the Path Beyond the Mountains" 46 repositories house human genomic data 33 repositories contain imaging data 38 repositories hold clinical data papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Are LLMs removing Retracted papers from their training data Some say yes. I dont believe them p4sc4l.substack.com/p/asking-ai-...