🌟 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
#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...
Flyer for a webinar by Springer Nature, Digital Science, and Figshare. It reads, "The State of Open Data 2025: A Decade of Progress and Challenges," Wednesday, February 11, 2026, with a button to register today. A winding road is shown.
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
#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...
This is figure 1, which shows AlphaGenome model architecture, training regimes and comprehensive evaluation performance.
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.
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 #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
