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Ahh, the metadata of censorship. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

GIGA, the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance @invertebrates.bsky.social, had their 6th meeting in Boracay last week and I have a write-up on the latest goings on in the wonderful world of squishy spineless creature genomics open.substack.com/pub/scedmund... #GIGAVI

Great to see a #GIGAVI keynote by Marcela Uliano-Silva @marcelauliano.bsky.social on an atlas of molluscan genomics. Marcela has a long history working on these species, you can see her 2018 TEDtalk on crowdfunding the golden mussel genome that we loved at #BauhiniaGenome youtu.be/IOPEPnQYoOE?...

Blast from the past here in Boracay watching Agostinho Antunes give a keynote at #GIGAVI setting the scene presenting many genomes I helped publish at @gigascience.bsky.social including the avian phylogenomics project (academic.oup.com/gigascience/...) and the giant squid doi.org/10.1093/giga...

Just touched down in Boracay for this conference. Will be doing a very meta-GIGA talk here on Thursday. Watch this space and #GIGAVI hashtag this week for invertebrate genome news...

Just touched down in Boracay for this conference. Will be doing a very meta-GIGA talk here on Thursday. Watch this space and #GIGAVI hashtag this week for invertebrate genome news...

Spurred on by a recent article about authorship policy in China I've written a piece on how you can help change research policy for the better, even in China scedmunds.substack.com/p/how-you-ca...

The future of interactive preprints and papers were on display at the #FORCE2026 conference and here I discuss what was presented and what the future of "living figures" might hold. As well as raving about the @openrxiv.bsky.social labs and @curvenote.com demos scedmunds.substack.com/p/preprints-...

I've written up my thoughts on last weeks brilliant #FORCE2026 @force11.bsky.social conference in Singapore. FORCE at 15: The Jagged Frontier of Scholarly Communication Reaches Asia open.substack.com/pub/scedmund...

#FORCE2026 may be over, but the collocated #DataCiteConnect2026 workshop is now kicking off to discuss all things @datacite.org

That went fast. Closing #FORCE2026 remarks now from conference host and co-Chair Bella Ratmelia from SMU. Seeing myself from the organising committee, Bella and the local team did an incredible job. It really felt a like lot of the original "Beyond the PDF" spirit and energy finally made it to Asia

Contrasting FAIR data, Ginny Barbour introducing us to the concept of BADDR data - relating to negative discourse for First Nations people. Blaming data Aggregating data Decontextualising data Deficit, government priority data Restricted Access data #FORCE2026

Closing keynote @ginnybarbour.bsky.social on the state of scholarly publishing and how to affect change. #FORCE2026

Cool to hear Ginny Barbour’s origin story with a “tale of 3 journals” in her #FORCE2026 keynote. Hearing about her time (and the journal history) at Lancet, PLOS Medicine, and the Medical Journal of Australia

Sean Mooney now talking at #FORCE2026 about Reusable, Interoperable, Scalable digital ecosystems for AI-driven biomedicine. Speaking with his experience as the first scientist to Direct the NIH Centre for IT

Day 2 of #FORCE2026 ending with a panel on recognising research data in tenure and promotion. @kristiholmes.bsky.social starting off talking about @makedatacount.bsky.social and IDEA (Institutional Data Evaluation and Assessment)

Up now at #FORCE2026 Susanna Sansone is presenting the TIER2 interventional study looking at journal policy checklists and developing a handbook. It was great to participate in this for @gigascience.bsky.social

Just finished an interactive #FORCE2026 BoF with @danielskatz.org discussing the challenges of AI+software+ethics with a great audience. This covered the issues outlined in our (and @mhmdhsini.bsky.social) Scholarly Kitchen guest post scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/28/g...

Aster Zhao from HKUST now presenting a comparison between human, AI-assisted and AI-dominant systematic review production. Funny she used an Elsevier paper to benchmark as it was useful using work in the most closed access publisher as it likely wouldn’t have been crawled #FORCE2026

Ian Mulvaney keynote on AI at #FORCE2026 very nicely setting up a lot of good background for the AI software ethics BoF @danielskatz.org and I are hosting this afternoon

Excited #FORCE2026 kicking off in Singapore, @chodacki.bsky.social welcoming us and giving some background on the story so far with @force11.bsky.social for the newbs among the >130 attendees

At #FORCE2026 @force11.bsky.social meeting in Singapore, the pre-conference workshops are now kicking off and I’m helping Evgeny Bobrov run the Data Usage Typology WG workshop. We want this to be hands on with attendees data

The write-up of the #MedHackathon Asia 2025 gathering in Burapha Uni I attended is out now. Great OUP managed to get collaborative authorship to work for this as they've messed this up in the past doi.org/10.1093/giga...

Mission Accomplished for Vectors of Human Disease Data Mobilization. With the final papers out in the @gigabytejournal.bsky.social[email protected] Vectors of Human Disease series I look back at the lessons learned from this targeted data mobilization approach scedmunds.substack.com/p/mission-ac...

"support for DORA in East Asia more widely is rare" Proud we went against this trend and signed it for HK based @gigascience.bsky.social in 2016 doi.org/10.59350/8wa...

My first time publishing in EON (Editorial Office News) on "Scaling Equitable Data Publishing: Insights for Editorial Teams From a WHO-Sponsored Program". doi.org/10.18243/eon...

Why have I never come across BOSS before? My new #1 target journal. The Biannual Online-Journal of Springsteen Studies (ISSN:2368-4712). boss.mcgill.ca

Cool to see GigaScience Press (AKA @gigabytejournal.bsky.social) is still the GOAT in metadata quality. #1 ranking out of 28,379 publishers in this Nexus Score ranking nexus-score.vercel.app/member/23445

Crossposting my recent @makedatacount.bsky.social guest blog where I vented on the topic of scholarly metadata, and covered a number of new reports and schemes demonstrating the importance of quantitative data in demonstrating the benefits of #OpenScience. scedmunds.substack.com/p/mdc-blog-c...

Nice to have a piece featured on the @scistarter.bsky.social blog for #CitizenScienceMonth #ActsofScience CitizenScience.Asia: Ten Asian Citizen Science Projects To Keep You Busy in Citizen Science Month pages.scistarter.org/citizenscien...

In this new post, Make Data Count Advisory Group Member Scott Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social shares his thoughts on the need for more quantitative and better evidence on the use and reach of open data to make the case for the outcomes and benefits of Open Science. makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

Happy #CitizenScienceMonth. Wearing my @citsciasia.bsky.social hat I've put together a list of 10 Asian #CitizenScience projects you can participate and contribute small acts of science this month substack.com/home/post/p-...

Final two @gbif.org / TDR vectors of human disease series papers published this week. I told the sponsors at WHO we'd publish 12 papers in this final call, so it's nice to see papers 11 and 12 finally out in @gigabytejournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.46471/gig... doi.org/10.46471/gig...

Enjoyed yesterdays @okfn.bsky.social Future of #OpenData webinar last night celebrating 20 years of CKAN, but my highlight has to be discovering the CKAN rap. Great video with Rufus channeling Richard Ashcroft on Euston Road youtu.be/MsuXqf9wog0?... #OpenDataDay

Nice to see Prof Jun Iio at #FOSSASIA stressing the importance of #opensource and transparency in research. Particularly timely as AI-coding is creating new challenges in this (see my piece on the topic scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/28/g...)

The #fossasia Community Day kicking off here in Bangkok. Convenient that an #opensource conference coincides with and celebrates #IWD2026 and women coders

Been uploading some of my Thai travel photos to Flickr, including Sukhothai flic.kr/s/aHBqjCLG6e

Part 2 of my write-up on our new #MachineLearning standards paper, where I muse on the big-picture implications of using ML standards in journal review, discuss costs v benefits, and how they may relate to the sustainability and wider economics of AI. scedmunds.substack.com/p/throwing-l...

"For open infrastructure, the burden of AI harvesting is existential...a swarm of AI scrapers mirror entire collections, the cost of being open rises sharply...degraded performance for legitimate users, polluted metrics, staff time diverted to firefighting" www.digital-science.com/blog/2026/02...

Just published a “making of the paper” post on our recent Data Science Journal article on transparency in Machine Learning, a hands-on case study in how journals can try to address the meteoric rise in the use of AI-methods (and resulting black boxes) scedmunds.substack.com/p/throwing-l...

You just know Planet Partners Productions Ltd. unsuccessfully tried to pitch "It's Another Royal Knockout" and other Monkey Tennis like TV ideas www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

There must have been low participation from the British public in this, as it didn't end up being called Chitony McChitonface

Thanks BridgeCrossBio for asking me to contribute to this piece on the rise of Chinese research outputs (papers + data), and where to find them. Read more (and subscribe to them) to find out. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Last week I was privileged to attend (and present at) the first #CharlestonAsia Conference in Bangkok, so I thought I would share some of thoughts and experiences from this noisy and fun scholarly publishing gathering. scedmunds.substack.com/p/the-first-...

This is truly incredible (and not in a good way).

Dr Namtip Wipawin saying at #CrossrefBangkok that her ThaiJO (Thai Journals Online) project has tracked 1,198 journals from Thailand but only 20% of these use DOIs www.tci-thaijo.org

Another day, another workshop. At the #CrossrefBangkok meeting today. Good turnout as @crossref.bsky.social currently have 94 members in Thailand

Interesting insight into the Thai metadata space at #CharlestonAsia. Many use journals use DOIs but theses, while using Darwin core are generally not using DOIs yet. Now a push to rectify this

Second day of #CharlestonAsia and Bin Zhang is doing the morning keynote in Chinese on strategies and practices of library alliances in building an equitable knowledge ecosystem. This will be an interesting test of AI translation