Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution
FAIR treats humans and machines as equal priorities. It should not. Prioritising machines is the faster route to human benefit.
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Academia has a new preprints problem
Researchers are pulling the LLM slot-machine lever for novel physics, then wrapping the output in LaTeX. What that looks like from inside a preprint platform.
Have we already hit the peer review breaking point?
Notes from the Royal Society's Future of Scientific Publishing: what does review look like when every paper is AI-generated or co-authored?
AI Needs New Facts – The Value of Novel Scientific Research
Hearing Demis Hassabis at SXSW London: if models train on what already exists, genuinely novel experimental results become the scarce input.
From Gold to Diamond: Is Equitable Open Access Still a Mirage?
Gold Open Access growth is slowing, and Hybrid is filling the gap rather than Diamond. What the numbers say about equitable publishing.
The Perpetual Research Cycle: AI's Journey Through Data, Papers, and Knowledge
Testing ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude at turning datasets into papers, and what a genuinely self-feeding research cycle would require.
How is every country/funder/ institution doing at data sharing?
An interactive app joining the Data Citation Corpus to Dimensions, ranking countries, funders and institutions on how well they link data.
The Role of Foundations and Technology Companies in Fuelling Optimism in Academic Research
As North American grant funding wobbles, Evo-2 and Google's AI co-scientist show where research optimism is now coming from instead.
DataCite DOI prevalence in the published literature by country
Combining the Make Data Count Citation Corpus with Dimensions to see which countries actually link to datasets from their published papers.
Types of AI Agents and Their Applications in Academic Research
Model-based, goal-based, learning and utility agents: a practical taxonomy of AI agents and where each one fits in academic research.