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

The AI co-scientist is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

AI-Ready Biodata Is America’s Next Strategic Infrastructure warontherocks.com/2026/03/ai-r...

🏆 Become a Data Champion at the University of Cambridge! Passionate about good research data practices? Learn more and share knowledge to help support researchers with research data management and publishing research outputs. ⏰Apply by 31 March 2026. 🔗 https://loom.ly/JyoKs8Q

DataSeer develops AI system to track dataset reuse www.researchinformation.info/news/datasee...

🌟 NEW blog post: How can #AI help uncover citation data that might otherwise be missed? Our team has used AI to extract citation data from images of conference posters shared on social media. Their work is now published in JMIR AI. JMIR Publications 🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/JURi50YpCVc

I remember we tried to do this at Digital Science using google glass "A new wearable AI system watches your hands through smart glasses, guiding experiments and stopping mistakes before they happen" www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

AlphaFast: Rapid AlphaFold 3 Inference with GPU-Accelerated Homology Search doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

🧬 NEW blog post: #FAIRdata & #KnowledgeGraphs are critical for AI-driven scientific discovery, writes our VP of Open Research, Mark Hahnel. Mark explores the emergence of Natural Law Models (NLMs) for artificial intelligence, and the benefits for #pharma. 🔗 Read his post: https://ow.ly/mnIe50YhB3P

Access Isn’t Trust AI aggregation without accountability corrupts knowledge fosci.substack.com/p/access-isn...

📣 Part 1 of our new blog series about #REF2029 is here! We examine key actions institutions should take to demonstrate #ResearchImpact & engagement. @ref2029.bsky.social 👉 Insights from our Director of Research Impact & Comparative Analytics, Ann Campbell. 🔗 Read now: https://ow.ly/rrUT50Yh32C

Moving from "share data because you should" to "share data because you'll get something back." Looking for Suprisals in your data using AstaLabs Autodiscovery from Allen AI www.openresearch.wtf/moving-from-...

📊 #CatalystGrant winner FigureTwo has launched! To help celebrate, Founder & CEO Jeff Lang shares some reimagined key figures from the new #StateOfOpenData 2025 report, published by Digital Science, Springer Nature & Figshare. 🔗 See more here: https://ow.ly/KjpU50Yej3S#CatalystGrant#StateOfOpenData#LoveDataWeek #LoveData26

Conversational bibliometrics needs a recipe, not just ingredients researchmusings.substack.com/p/conversati...

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