Scott C Edmunds

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

Phitsanulok Explore this photo album by Scott Edmunds on Flickr!

...as well as Phitsanulok flic.kr/s/aHBqjCLDAb

Nan Explore this photo album by Scott Edmunds on Flickr!

...including these pictures from a recent trip to Nan flic.kr/s/aHBqjCLNLS

Sukhothai Explore this photo album by Scott Edmunds on Flickr!

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

Throwing Light on Machine Learning, Pt 2. The Costs and Benefits of ML Standards Musings on the big-picture implications of using Machine Learning standards in journal review and benchmarking, their costs v benefits, and how they may relate to sustainability and economics.

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...

No shortcuts to research information citizenship - Digital Science Being open isn't enough - true "research information citizenship" requires a robust, genuinely open research infrastructure.

"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...

Throwing Light on Throwing Light on Machine Learning Here is a “making of the paper” post on my recent Data Science Journal article on transparency in Machine Learning, a case study in how journals can handle the meteoric rise in the use of AI-methods.

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...

(and the Bauhinia has a weird extra petal)

Also all of Mainland China is Hong Kong. Bet that goes down well with the Office for Safeguarding National Security of the CPG in the HKSAR

Six Sarah Ferguson-linked companies to close after Epstein revelations Messages from ex-wife of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to sex offender, sent after his conviction, came to light last month

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

Where to Find the Best Chinese Research - and Where Not to Look Where is the best Chinese science research actually published, and how do you find it?

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-...

The First Charleston Asia Goes off with a Bang Last week I was privileged to attend the first Charleston Asia Conference in Bangkok, and here are some thoughts and experiences taken from this noisy and fun scholarly publishing gathering.

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).

Namtip presenting

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

Oops, wrong metadata standard. I’ve been juggling both of these too much recently and all these standards are melting into each other in my brain

Interesting use cases from Asia for uses cases of open cross reef metadata. A few companies in Hong Kong (OS2SCI) and Mainland China (Alibaba) using this to train LLMs and produce research integrity tools #CharlestonAsia

Now insight into the local DOI registry ecosystem. Lots of use of Crossref and DataCite, but Asia has the most other local providers in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan #CharlestonAsia

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

And super interesting Bin Zhang is talking about academic imbalances and global inequality. Including the control of publishing infrastructure and governance by the global North. #CharlestonAsia

Great to see someone at Renmin University (and therefore very close to central government) promoting the UNESCO #OpenScience Recommendation. This is a good sign they will be utilizing this tool in Chinese science policy going forward #CharlestonAsia

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

Jesse presenting a very data driven perspective and how high quality data provision and analysis has really helped a small and new university jump up the international and local rankings #CharlestonAsia

Next case study is from Jesse Xiao giving the EduHK institutional perspective. Great to see Jesse here after we worked together for many years at GigaScience #CharlestonAsia

Interesting @orcid.org infrastructure gap in Asia. Asia has 40% of users, but a disproportionately small number of platforms and integrations #CharlestonAsia

Estelle starting by giving everyone an overview of @orcid.org and how PIDs can work to break down silos #CharlestonAsia

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