My tools for generating data citations and exploring journal citation distributions are running again. Thanks @dreamhost.bsky.social for supporting #Perl! alhufton.com/tools/

"The carbon and water footprints of data centers and what it could mean for artificial intelligence" spkl.io/63320AiLLe Alex de Vries-Gao, @digiconomist.bsky.social @cp-patterns.bsky.social

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

Our December issue is live! www.cell.com/patterns/iss... On the cover this month is an image highlighting the work by David Fernandez Bonet and co-authors, which introduces a set of geometry-based metrics for assessing the quality of DNA barcode networks www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

I've received some questions recently about the kinds of literature reviews we consider at @cp-patterns.bsky.social. Given also changes at the CS section of arXiv (blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...), I thought it would be timely to share some tips on submitting review papers to the journal. 1/n

Is #AI overhyped? We asked five researchers, including three from @cp-patterns.bsky.social's Advisory Board. Here's what they thought: www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

2️⃣ Researchers tested this idea using a large-scale controlled resume correspondence experiment. SCARY Result: LLMs consistently preferred resumes written by themselves over human or rival model outputs — even when quality was the same. 2/n

New call for submissions! To help promote critical reassessment of prior work, we are now inviting submissions that present compelling and creative reanalyses. Learn more: www.cell.com/patterns/spe... Submit before August 1, 2026 #openscience #datascience

Reposting my 2024 #PeerReviewWeek editorial as it is particularly fitting to this year's theme, "Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era": www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

Our September issue is now live! www.cell.com/patterns/iss... This month's awesome cover image highlights a paper from a team of researchers at @uniulm.bsky.social who present a #quantum algorithm for gene regulatory network discovery www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

1/2 Bacteriophages are among Earth’s most diverse biological entities, but many resist genetic manipulation. This leaves much of their diversity unexplored and constrains efforts to discover new proteins and exploit their potential for biotechnology and therapeutic applications.

Are you an educator in a higher ed setting using generative AI in innovative ways in the classroom? We are currently seeking contributors for a short piece being developed at the journal on the topic. Please DM us if you would be interested in sharing your story.

In an editorial this month at @cp-patterns.bsky.social, I make a simple plea to our authors: cite what you read, and, please, please, read what you cite. www.cell.com/patterns/ful... Also, some stuff about #preprints

Our department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

I‘m looking forward to visiting the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (#CASUS) tomorrow in Görlitz! I will be giving a talk to CASUS and other @hzdr.bsky.social researchers at 14:00. Details: www.casus.science?page_id=15608

Also in this month's issue: Did you know women have been shaping data science since BEFORE it had a name? Check out this opinion about the often overlooked history of women in data science and why it matters www.cell.com/patterns/ful... #WomenInSTEM

Our June issue is now live! www.cell.com/patterns/iss... On the cover is an artwork from Dirk Vanmassenhove that the artist feels evokes findings in a study on gender bias also published in this issue. "Gender, like color, is layered, mutable," he writes. Related study www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

Teaching kids about climate change is not what causes climate anxiety. *Not doing anything about climate change* is what causes climate anxiety. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...

“I was in paradise,” she said. “I would very much like to stay in paradise.” The story of Harvard researcher Kseniia Petrova, who has been in ICE detention for nearly two months and fears she will be deported to Russia. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

"eliminate all funding for [NOAA] climate, weather, and ocean laboratories and cooperative institutes" "ending the operations of a huge host of earth science satellites" "closure of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center"

Also this month, van Amsterdam et al show that prediction models, including AI models, can be well-validated for accuracy but still have harmful consequences when applied to the real-world, such as in clinical decision-making. www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

Our April issue is now live! www.cell.com/patterns/iss... On the cover this month, researchers from Beijing Jiaotong & Rensselaer Polytech Universities present a graph learning method for predicting extreme failure events in transport networks. www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

@booker.senate.gov The record for the longest filibuster is 24 hours and 18 minutes. It is held by Sen. Thurman who was filibustering AGAINST the Civil Rights Act. How poetic would it be for a black man to smash that record for a much more noble cause?! Keep going, Cory!! #corybooker #filibuster

Cory Booker. That’s the post. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

“Compared with the patients’ doctors, the AI model more often failed to detect the presence of disease in Black patients or women, as well in those 40 years or younger.” 😒 Filing this one away for the next time someone offers the truly stupendous retort of “but humans are biased too”

Happy to share that this was recently implemented for papers on Cell.com. Example below from www.cell.com/patterns/ful.... At @cp-patterns.bsky.social, our Bluesky account is now our primary social media account and we are de-emphasizing X.

Also in our March issue, Melania Muñoz-García, Amber Hartman Scholz & other members of the DSI Scientific Network (www.dsiscientificnetwork.org) explain what a recent international agreement on genetic data could mean for researchers www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

Our March issue is now live, including a great cover by Z. Wang and @jsulam.bsky.social highlighting their work on breast cancer biomarker discovery www.cell.com/patterns/iss...

99% of new medicines developed by the pharmaceutical industry depend on NIH research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Great, accessible piece @undark.org by Peter A. Smith on digital sequence information and benefit sharing undark.org/2025/03/05/d... Includes a quote from me :) And, also insightful comments from actual experts.

Yet another reason to question the use of citation metrics as a measure of scientific quality or impact

At @cp-patterns.bsky.social, we released an editorial today affirming our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, signed by all of the journal's editors. www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

In a remarkable show of unity, today 48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 members call on Congress to protect the future of science. Our elected officials must act now so we have a hope of avoiding long-term damage to the US science enterprise. www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...

ICYMI 🤩 Check out our grounded theory study providing a framework to assist clinical decision-making when using #AI in medicine #ethics #bioethics #MedSky #AcademicSky

Join Cell Press on March 5, 2025 for a free webinar Land Health: Preventing zoonoses spillover Tune in for a cross-disciplinary discussion on land-use change and infectious disease. Register to attend or receive the recording: www.bigmarker.com/cellpress-so...

#academicsky this is a useful and fair account of the US Federal research data taken down (and when and the extent of its restoration) www.kff.org/policy-watch...

When the federal government abandons important areas of funding and leaves a gaping hole in the advancement of science, any prudent funder would fill the hole, not follow suit. I don’t know the rationale here but seriously WTF? Disclosure: HHMI paid my way through graduate school.

📆Save the date! The online seminar will focus on three emerging open infrastructure tools and platforms: OpenCitations, OpenAlex, and Thoth Open Metadata. Register now at bit.ly/registration...

This was a bit surprising ... www.the-geyser.com/sparc-gives-... (currently no paywall).

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has apparently taken down web content related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) as they "evaluate the new Executive Orders."

If your research could be affected by such policies, you can use OSF or similar services to post a preprint with a CC-BY license to ensure it is accessible to everyone: osf.io/preprints OSF is open source, free-to-use, and maintained by @cos.io a 501(c)3 charity.

I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.

My sympathies to the editors & reviewers that will have to deal with these requests. Rejecting a paper due to suspected political interference isn't a good outcome. Censorship still wins & the value of the research is lost. But publishing papers that have been manipulated politically also isn't ok.

Wonderful piece by @neurograce.bsky.social on the importance and challenges of being an agentic human

Climate and environmental data are already disappearing from the web under the Trump administration. Read more about what the EDGI is doing to preserve these important data and resources in their Opinion piece in the January issue of Patterns www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

In my January editorial at Patterns, I share some insights into how we think about "impact" at the journal, and some of the reasons why I use citation metrics cautiously and basically ignore impact factors and other similar journal-level metrics. www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

Hey Bluesky! I'm a professional scientific editor, open science advocate, and inconsistent social media user. Follow @cp-patterns.bsky.social if you want to know more about what I do at my day job as the Editor-in-Chief of Patterns. For more about me, check out alhufton.com