"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."

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...