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

The brilliant Devika Madalli doing the second keynote at #CharlestonAsia on India’s ONOS (one nation one subscription) and how it is democratizing knowledge access

Our panel discussion on breaking down silos at #CharlestonAsia just starting and is expertly chaired by Estelle Cheng from @orcid.org

These three distinguished leaders are featured as speakers at the inaugural Charleston Conference Asia. Join us to hear their insights. Register today! arevie.ws/4iabUnR #CharlestonAsia

First parallel tracks at #CharlestonAsia, with several parallel AI related sessions I’m in the innovating library services through GenAI track

Opening #CharlestonAsia keynote from Joyashree Roy on Asia in the Climate Change Landscape. Appropriate when the UV and PM2.5 is so high in Bangkok this morning

First ever #CharlestonAsia conference kicking off in Bangkok, impressive turnout of 588 registrants from 38 countries.

If you are at #CharlestonAsia next week come and check out our Tuesday afternoon roundtable, where Estelle, Jesse and I will be talking about @orcid.org across the research cycle, and why PIDs are the best thing since sliced bread and pandan custard (it is Bangkok). info.orcid.org/event/charle...

Fantastic to see our new paper in print. This presents the results of a 3 year trial testing the use of ML standards in the peer review and publication process of machine learning research. Read the #openaccess paper in Data Science Journal to find out how it went…

Got my @inaturalist.bsky.social Year in Review 2025, and if I have to set a new years resolution for 2026 it's that I need to increase my fungi spotting (5.9% of my observations) www.inaturalist.org/stats/2025/s... #citizenscience

Oblivious goats of the Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati

Officially your favourite deep fried insect cart. As seen in Phitsanulok train market.

This is totally ajil (nuts). A Cornish deli, supported by the Duchy of Cornwall, tried to trademark the word used by >1BN speakers of Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Persian, Dari and Pashto word for greens or veggies www.theguardian.com/food/comment...

Most people skip the Sukhothai West temple complex but they were my favourite as you really get to explore the forests and countryside

Have a new post on data mobilization campaigns versus vector borne disease. Proud in helping publish a data paper just out on Oropouche virus vector spread in Cuba that shows the potential for this approach in tackling infectious diseases scedmunds.substack.com/p/datos-abie...

Another write-up on my recent magical mystery tour of the AI sights of Hangzhou. Adventures in AI City, Pt2: The AI-fication of Chinese Healthcare and the Zheijiang Lab substack.com/home/post/p-...

This ain't Shiraz, this is Tomb of Sheikh Ahmad Qomi in Ayutthaya. The Persian merchant who settled in the Ayutthaya Kingdom in the early 17th century, founding the still powerful Bunnag family in Thailand.

Finally completed a write-up of #ICG20 in Hangzhou, as I thought I'd give my thoughts on what happened in AI city scedmunds.substack.com/p/adventures...

Despite health problems James Watson filmed a video 2yrs ago for the BGI ICG meeting (which they just showed again at #ICG20) where he was still looking forward to solving difficult problems. Even then he couldn't help go off script to talk about girls and tease Crick's failure in neuroscience #RIP

Thank you Francis for all you've done for the journal. We put in a lot of effort to build up an excellent and very experienced Ed Board, and seeing so many of them resigning in this manner is sad but shows they've taken their responsibilities seriously.

Got a pretty good view of the Wat Nang Chi “Pulling of the Buddha’s relic” procession on the Khlong Dan canal this morning

Enjoying the DataCite-OpenAlex webinar right now. Interesting seeing the heavy use of the API from places like India

New post wearing my @citsciasia.bsky.social (and Burmaphile) hat: Organising the First Ever @inaturalist.bsky.social Bioblitz in Myanmar: The Jacana Project Art + Science Exhibition scedmunds.substack.com/p/organising... #citizenscience

Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name. The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.

I’m in Bangkok this weekend but remotely helping to organize what I think is the first ever iNat bioblitz in Myanmar

Sam Sen Nai Philatelic Museum really going all in for their Halloween “You’ve Ghost mail” weekend

Robots seeing you off at Hangzhou airport. Including unmanned ice-cream dispensing freezers #ICG20

Harris Lewin giving us a big overview of the Earth Genome Project at #ICG20

#ICG20 moves to the impressive Zhejiang Lab today, an incredible campus that is home to China’s non-profit AI research institute

Interesting already 1/3 of the data access requests for MCPS are coming from researchers in China. After the reception this talk is getting sure it will go higher… #ICG20

Packed auditorium at #ICG20 for Rory Collins giving his CEO level view of the UK Biobank

Packed auditorium at #ICG20 for Rory Collins giving his CEO level view of the UK Biobank