Mark Hahnel

At SXSW London, I had the pleasure of seeing DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis speak on the future of artificial intelligence. Among many thought-provoking points, two remarks stuck with me. First, he emphasised the importance of understanding the fundamentals. Second, he championed the scientific method as a guiding principle for making

A few years ago, I wrote that Open Access is an inevitability. And in many ways, the data supports that view—at least at a glance. Gold Open Access—the model where authors (or their funders) pay article processing charges to make work freely available—has grown steadily over the

The 'Make Data Count Data Citation Corpus' looks for both DataCite DOIs and Accession numbers in the published literature. It basically tells you that "this publication DOI" mentions "this DataCite DOI or Accession number". By taking this unstructured data and combining it with the

The landscape of grant funding in North America has recently, rapidly, evolved, leading to a sense of nervousness and even pessimism within academia. However, remarkable technological advancements emerging from foundations and companies are counteracting this trend and fostering a renewed sense of optimism.  In the last week, we have seen

AI agents have the potential to revolutionise how researchers approach complex problems and manage information in academic research. These intelligent systems can automate tasks, analyse vast datasets, and even generate hypotheses, significantly accelerating the pace of discovery and innovation. AI agents can be categorised into different types, based on their

A Preprint was published on Preprints.org at the end of November by SciHub founder Alexandra Elbakyan. From Black Open Access to Open Access of Color: Accepting the Diversity of Approaches towards Free Science - [v2][v2] It describes an interesting idea—using more OA colors to replace illegal OA,

ResearchHub is a platform for open science that has been building an impressive tech stack since 2020, where users can review, publish, and collaborate on scientific research. The primary novelty that seems to interest and terrify researchers in equal measure is the fact that it is a crypto based project,