found on 2025–07–12 Reflections on OpenAI by Calvin French-Owen This is an insightful read, but what makes it interesting for me is the question around what abstractions do for us. Here are some thoughts from me. This post inspired me to spend a bit of time this morning learning about Pydantic and FastAPI. I know a lot of python, but I...

I started listening to an episode of the rest his history this morning about the Irish War of Independence. In the podcast they mentioned that there were some earlier episodes about Ireland and I was quite interested in trying to find them, but the experience of looking through the past episodes on the Podcast app was terrible. So, wit...

On Monday I hosted a panel about how to create infrastructure that can support a trustworthy literature. I had an amazing set of panelists: • Kaitlin Thaney, Executive Director of Invest in Open Infrastructure • Hylke Koers from STM, and one of the leads of the STM integrity Hub • Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia While I am sure that ...

I’ve been at the Royal Society conference on the future of scientific publishing at the start of this week, and I had the immense pleasure to chair the panel on infrastructure. I want to note my very first impression of the meeting. I have north of 20 pages of notes to work through, and some really interesting recommendations and sugge...

This post is a really important one for those of us working in scholarly publishing - https://gradientflow.substack.com/p/a-new-framework-for-ai-knowledge It talks about distinc patters for how we might interact with agents for knowledge work. The post describes the scholar agent, analysis agent, and facilitator agent patterns - go rea...

I had a couple of followups to my blog post from last night, so here is a quick update to that post. Dave Flanagan has created a plugin to Simon Willisons llm tool that checks references from LLMs against Crossref https://github.com/DWFlanagan/llm-citation-verifier Chris Reid pointed me towards https://www.undermind.ai/ and https://pla...

I don't know if you know the Avengers movie from 2012, our hero are defending the city from an alien onslaught, they are in a desperate situation and need to have the help of Hulk, but Hulk's alter ego Bruce Banner arrives on the scene. Captain America says to Bruce "Now might be a really good time for you to get angry" "That's my secr...

What this means is that you can get Claude to create micro apps or websites, and now share them, and allow people to interact with them. This is a lot of fun, but could also be a productivity hack within organisations. Here are some of the ones liked when looking over them after the announcement. code as art https://claude.ai/artifacts...

Documentation | Kuzu by Kuzu “Kuzu is an embedded graph database built for query speed and scalability. It is optimized for handling complex join-heavy analytical workloads on very large graphs, with the following core feature set: Property Graph data model and Cypher query language Embedded (in-process) integration with applications C...

I have continued to collect interesting links but noticed that I've not posted out any since the start of March, so I'm going to work through these over the next few weeks. This is the first batch. Taming LLMs found on 2025–03–02 Can peer review accolade awards motivate reviewers? A large-scale quasi-natural experiment | Humanities and...

I’ve finally gotten around to reading this excellent piece https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/27/creating-the-publishing-platforms-that-next-gen-professionals-expect/ I really recommend it. I like this a lot and I don’t have a huge amount to add, other than perhaps these thoughts. There are a lot of potential features offered ...

A nice write up of a survey that springer nature conducted asking researchers how they felt about research assessment - https://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/the-link/research-management-blogpost/research-assessment-insights-6600-researchers/27769018 However where does the agency in research assessment lie? Is it not with resear...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04043-w Nature reports that deep seek has discovered some results that exceed the ability of people to have created! Hurrah, so now we can sit back and let the AIs take over the act of science? Not so, not so at all. For these devices have no agency, they are just tools. It would be akin to sa...

https://stitch.withgoogle.com/ is a gen ai design prototyping tool. I’ve just given it a quick test to design an integrity dashboard. I didn’t provide much detail or much context. It was a bit slower than I expected, and I didn’t find the design to be particularly amazing. I’ve found Claude and Claude code to be very good at creating U...

This came up in a conversation with a colleague today, and also at a round table conversation at a conference earlier this week. I am mostly re-sharing links from Simon Willisons blog, but they are all worth reading. MIT Tech Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/ Conclus...

A colleague pointed me to this yesterday - https://gemini.google/overview/gemini-in-chrome/. (Of course there is so much happening at the moment that it is very hard to keep up). As well as this we also had yesterday the announcement of Jony Ive joining OpenAI - video here - https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/. We also had Google preview ...

I gave a talk at the publisherspeak event yesterday here in London. I wrote a somewhat tongue in cheek post at the beginning of the year about what might be true about scholarly publishing (https://world.hey.com/ian.mulvany/what-things-might-be-true-about-scholarly-publishing-11d227f3), and I've been wanting to put a more constructive ...

In reading about ORCID trust markers I found the information on the ORCID site to be a little hard to parse, so I sent everything I could find over to Claude and I had Claude create some united documentation for me. This is a lay overview of trust markers: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/809826cf-3941-45cf-86b8-dbd38264b2ad And this...

I'm working on a talk for next week. Claude and ChatGPT helped me make this quite neat timeline of events in the open access movement: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/a3e89cb7-c1d9-42a1-bd72-0ac161b39d17.

I fed in my sketch notes to GPT to ask it for a title for my talk, and it came up with a really interesting set of options, I'm actually genuinely impressed by these potential titles. I'm not normally into posting pure AI generated content, but these titles do a good job of capturing some of the aspects of my notes. Now I just have to ...

Hacker news threw up a story today: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/08/google_gemini_update_prevents_disabling/ Gemini's latest model update has made the model refuse to discuss topics like sexual assault and rape. A developer is working on a platform to help victims, and their current app is not not working. It seems like there wa...

Two really interesting announcments from Wiley this week: Integration with Perplexity - https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/perplexity-partners-with-wiley-to-power-educational-ai-search "Students can access assigned Wiley curriculum materials through their institution's Enterprise Pro subscription, eliminating the need to switch between...

If you are in London next week, you are interested in AI and it's effects in publishing, and in particular in scholarly publishing, then you should try to get along to this event - AI in Publishing https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-mdhxintw/events/307368198, happening on the 14th on Wed from 6pm at fora folgate street (just across th...

This popped up in my feeds - https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-announces-completion-first-ai-assisted-scientific-review-pilot-and-aggressive-agency-wide-ai. They are rolling out AI powered peer review. >> “There have been years of talk about AI capabilities in frameworks, conferences and panels but we cannot affor...

https://www.digital-publishing-award.com/the-digital-publishing-award-goes-international-from-2025 This is a publishing award for innovation. It looks like it has mostly been German based in the past, but now they are expanding to accept international applications, looks really interesting.

We have been experiencing some disruption at BMJ due to actions needed to protect against AI bot traffic. After reading this post by eric Hellman https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2025/03/ai-bots-are-destroying-open-access.html I wanted to share some of our experiences. The issue is a real one. To quote one of my team “Unfortunately, ...

Alt Text - What is to be done? What should be done? A number of accessibility requirements are coming in to law over the next year that are going to pose some unique challenges for scholarly publishers. The European Union: European Accessibility Act (EAA) and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). While there are many accessibly requir...

Should AGI-preppers embrace DOGE? - by Henry Farrell “They are not an exit door through which we can escape the human condition,” If you are a reader of this blog and you are at all fascinated with AI I implore you to read this piece. This is a critical and important piece to read. The connection between investment in AI, the DOGE agen...

- "Denmark's letter volume dropped from 1.4 billion in 2000 to under 200 million by 2022, illustrating over an 85% decrease. This sharp decline underscores the significant impact of digital communication on traditional mail, challenging postal services to adapt." - not surprising, but interesting to see a data point. I wonder how many ...

- Home entertainment spend growing - just shows growth of digital - not surprising - Other points in this newsletter aligned with previous notes, personalised insurgence, slowdown projected for us economy, ai driving investor interest. - One new idea - technology reshaping sports and what sports is, but the linked article is an indicat...