This morning inspired by listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc8FBhQtdsA and reading this thread on linked in - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dartar_opensource-aiforscience-share-7448170944151355392-2bNP?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAEImlkB8SaKRnNedw-vBQuAiicIBoz5PWQ, I was struck by the section in the ...

The following is an important initiative and I wanted to share it in my network. Funding to support communication on science of science with a target on how to influence congress and the public. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/04/new-emergent-ventures-tranche-on-science-policy-and-communication.html

Another AI agentic scientist. https://github.com/getcompanion-ai/feynman Another AI question answer assistant (being flogged in Insta and backed by YCombinator) https://app.answerthis.io/ Find references in seconds (and maybe don't hallucinate that shit while your at it) https://www.sourcely.net/ People love these tools, they are trust...

I have an article that has just come out in InPublishing - https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/ai-can-do-many-things-but-it-cant-create-time-26451, and I’m happy with the result. Things are changing so fast with AI, in the piece I try to articulate how to think about what won’t change. On the back of it George Wakley has come up wi...

Not complete, and not exhaustive, but a nice perspective nonetheless. https://pardalotus.github.io/pardalotus-map

I spun up this small tool over the weekend to help me process photos of post-it notes - https://github.com/IanMulvany/post_it_viewer_analysis, it works pretty well.

This post is great - https://aarontay.substack.com/p/how-agentic-are-academic-deep-research I learnt a lot. My main reflection is that the fixed workflows that the current crop of tools are showing were developed when models were weaker, yet from a product perspective, trying to build something that is simultaneously specific and gener...

I am in a state of confusion and wonder. Most of the time I’m able to suppress this and stumble through my days without thinking too much, but now and again I fail and my attention gets arrested by the riotous confusion and intricacy of the world around me. We are odd creatures, bags of chemicals loosely held together, sinew and bone b...

I want to share an interesting pattern - get calude code on the web (or any other autonomous agent + sandbox) to do R&D on a coding question. Based on these blog posts - https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/6/pydantic-monty/ and https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/6/async-code-research/. I wanted to learn about WASM and Pyodide as I don't...

https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/ > Metrics don’t measure reality. They measure what your product currently makes easy. > What starts as an occasional heads-up becomes a permanent layer of UI exhaust. What starts as support becomes a funnel. What starts as a reminder becomes a habit-forming system. In the context of acade...

I have been blogging for twenty years. Last year I wrote more than one post per week. I was very happy about that. You can see my posts here - https://mulvany.net/all-my-posts.html. AI is accelerating at a rapid pace and I am paddling furiously to keep on top of things. I am going to scale back my writing in 2026 so that I can focus on...

I predicted that people would change their search behaviour with the adoption of AI tools, and this behaviour change would create pressure on us to change how our systems are designed. There are plenty of examples of that happening now - often seen in the search query logs where searchers are moving from keyword based to natural langua...

I like what rouge scholar is doing - https://legacy.rogue-scholar.org/about (I'm not sure if the right domain is https://legacy.rogue-scholar.org/about or https://rogue-scholar.org/about). It indexes scholarly blogs and issues each post with a DOI, and then allows you to download those posts as pdf, ePub, or markdown. In a way it shows...

Last week I chaired a panel on identity at the STM conference on research integrity. I had the amazing Laurel Haak, Tom Demeranville, and Jennifer Wright on the panel. We ran a menti during our session, You can see the results here with csv's of the data https://mulvany.net/stm_integrity_day_2025/, and I've pasted screenshots of the re...

Two examples of “vibe engineering” The following two examples (via Simon Willison) show software projects on the large end of LLM capability. Both projects involve significant amounts of code to be run over, sophisticated instructions, and a lot of autonomy from the agents. They are also successful, and show how these tools make it pos...

Here are some things online I’ve read that I have enjoyed reading in November. Seeing Code https://cognition.ai/blog/codemaps I really like the idea of our software systems providing us higher level context about what we are working on, it looks like Windsurf are trying to do this. I probably won’t look soon at this as I am deluged wit...

Agents I’ve been trying to learn more about agents. I still need to code one because I think that might be the only way I’m going to really understand it. Here is some reading that I intend to follow up on about agents. AWS Strands API https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-strands-agents-an-open-source-ai-agents-sdk/ and ...

https://bloomberry.com/blog/i-analyzed-180m-jobs-to-see-what-jobs-ai-is-actually-replacing-today/ some impact, not dramatic, split between execution and strategic, overall loss of trust of companies, software engineering not massively affected, equally customer service roles not massively effective either. Keep an eye on this.

I was looking at some data from Google Analytics on referrer traffic for BMJ. This is a sample of traffic from about one or two thousand referrer urls. There are a lot of near overlaps in this data, e.g. different country versions of Google Scholar. I had Claude build me a streamlit tool that allowed me to create a small local ML pipel...

I was delighted to contribute to this work, and am looking forward to reading the other contributions. Geoffrey's work has been foundational in scholarly communication. The underlying infra on top of which so much rests has been shaped by this man. https://zenodo.org/records/17372611

I got a chance to quickly kick the tyres on Reviewer3, and I really like the design approach that they have taken to show how their agents operate together. I just want to add in a pirate reviewer! This is https://www.reviewer3.com/ The screenshot is self-explanatory. I've been playing around with AI in peer review myself, and managed ...

I took part in the STM china symposium ahead of the STM meeting at Frankfurt this year. It was a fantastic meeting and I got a richer view into publishing knowledge china than I’ve ever had before, in such a short period of time. It was so fantastic to see so many representatives form china at the event. This is the slide I presented, ...

My bias In this post I want to pull together my current thinking about AI. There are a few different threads that I want to cover in this post. Bear with me. I am enamoured with technology. There is something here in GenAI and LLMs. I like them. I use them a lot. I have a strong positive bias. I have to guard against that. I probably d...

An explainer for the Nobel Prize announced today: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/d827fa6c-9f2e-4baa-acfa-223c97474336 A learning tool about microscopes for my son https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/ab93f097-4a09-4ea5-bd9e-01bfa7ce7d31 A learning tool about Samba music for my son, with design feedback from my wife https://claude.ai/...

"VeriMe provides researchers a secure digital identity that enables verified access without exposing personal data. " from https://verime.coop/ This is interesting because one of the people behind it Laure Haak is the ex director for ORCID. They have a survey out now asking researchers about how they have been verified in scholarly sys...

Harsh Jegadeesan writes up notes form a recent AI focussed TED symposium. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ted-ai-vienna-2025-breakthroughs-shaping-our-health-work-jegadeesan-truxe/?trackingId=qJPYVOANYkAI8vPzaiW7gA%3D%3D These are summary notes, but what I liked about the post is the breath of topics brought together in one place. I thi...

An increasing number publishers are licensing content for AI training. What’s the potential size of the market? CrossRef gives us the data below for the top 80 lenders by CrossRef counts. Now not all of these are going to be papers, but we are just looking for an order of magnitude guess. The total sum of records across these publisher...

I recently wrote up some of my own experiences on vibe coding - https://world.hey.com/ian.mulvany/notes-on-vibe-coding-3-what-works-for-me-ab780e02. This post - https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/ace-fca.md by https://github.com/dexhorthy gives a much neater explanation of an approach...

If you are in London and have some free time on Monday, there is an AI in publishing meet-up happening -- 25 Copthall Avenue London EC2R 7BP, from 6pm. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-publishing-collective-ai-in-peer-review-in-person-tickets-1642733864209?aff=oddtdtcreator You can also sign up virtually, but you will have to drink on...

Last week I had the opportunity to attend an executive round table on "securing the agent workforce", and then later in the week I had the chance to have lunch with one of the co-founders of one of the hot AI startups, he was doing a tour of London, but is based in the US. The roundtable was organised by HotTopics https://hottopics.ht/...