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- Love this demo of Crixet (now Prism). For all the talk of robotic labs and AI accelerating science, the reality is Victor Powell, the developer, in his kitchen, minding the baby (the high-value work), while talking to an AI tool to handle the writing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce-S...
- 🚨 New issue of PubTech Radar is out: lnkd.in/eaCsVfja
- Reposted by PubTech RadarBritish Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
- From Pietro Schirano (@skirano) on X writing about Nano Banana Pro: "Here’s my favorite use case so far: take papers or really long articles and turn them into a detailed whiteboard photo." How to video: x.com/skirano/stat...
- Reposted by PubTech RadarGoogle Scholar gets into "AI powered" space Assuming this can use all the full-text they have indexed this might be a game changer. The timing of this release maybe suggests Gemini 3 is being used? scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/scho... . Apparently some hit a waitlist, I have access though (1)
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- New interview in the newsletter: Jonathan Woahn on how his startup Cashmere gives publishers control over their content in AI systems. As Jonathan puts it, they provide tools to manage entitlement, security, access, reporting, and turn-key RAG infrastructure. open.substack.com/pub/pubtechr...
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- Reposted by PubTech RadarYay, let’s swap bad metrics for more bad metrics! 🤩 And with a twist - as shown by a browser extension. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Research output has increased 212% since 2004, but reviewer capacity hasn't kept pace. At the AI Publishing Collective meetup, Chris Leonard, Wiley's Sam Parker and Rebecca Windless, and Digital Science's Leslie McIntosh explored how AI might address this challenge. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-pee...
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- 📅 How is AI reshaping peer review? Join the AI Publishing Collective, hosted by BCS Women & BCS Publishing, for insights on efficiency, fairness, and research integrity. Speakers: Chris Leonard, Sam Parker, Leslie McIntosh. Mon, September 22, 6 - 8:30pm London 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1642733864...
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- New issue of PubTech Radar Scan: pubtechradar.substack.com/p/pubtech-ra... Covers: Wiley’s journal migration to Research Exchange, Trusted Reviews scraping incident, IOI 2025 report on open infrastructure, call for US adoption of DOIs and ORCIDs, Crossref systems moving to the cloud...
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- Initial thoughts about ChatGPT 5. There is a certain 'shock of the new', it's a bit like getting a new colleague that you need to get to know - some of the shortcuts I used/lazy prompts no longer work. It's very fast - so fast I find myself doubting the responses. Overall experience so far is 👎.
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- Tim Vines, founder of @dataseerai.bsky.social, has been thinking about the future of research publishing for some time. His latest idea, what if publishers created AI-optimized versions of research articles and sold them as premium subscriptions?
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- Enjoyed this podcast from @nikeshgo.bsky.social, interviewing Kent Anderson and Joy Moore, co-authors of How the Internet Disrupted Science. Lots I don't agree with but interesting challenges - need to read the book when it comes out. music.youtube.com/watch?v=MrF6...
- Fascinating - sources that are ok/not ok to use for third-party RLHF training of Anthropic’s models. More at: www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-su...
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- Reposted by PubTech RadarGotta love economists. This is from a paper about researcher views on open peer review:
- Interesting insight from Dustin Smith @humworks.bsky.social about the need for orchestration infrastructure that connects AI models, prompts, data, and interfaces to allow publishers to harness AI: blog.hum.works/posts/the-al...
- Cabells, the US-based academic intelligence firm, has announced the launch of CompassAI, an AI tool to assist researchers in selecting appropriate/avoiding predatory publications: blog.cabells.com/2025/07/23/p...
- New issue of Pub Tech Radar Scan: open.substack.com/pub/pubtechr... Lots in this issue, new launches include Sleuth AI, Featured Notebooks in NotebookLM, LLM Citation Verifier, and CC Signals from Creative Commons.
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- BMJ Best Practice put their tool up against ChatGPT and Grok in real clinical scenarios, and (unsurprisingly) their carefully curated, evidence-based guidance came out well ahead. The AIs sounded convincing, but missed the nuance, depth, and safety insights. 👉 bestpractice.bmj.com/info/us/blog/
- Florent Daudens’ latest post on LinkedIn highlights how Google’s NotebookLM partnerships with The Economist, The Atlantic and other premium publishers aren’t just experiments, they’re likely previews of how we’ll engage with information in the years ahead.
- Adam Hyde’s gloriously sprawling, passionate love letter to a decade of building open, collaborative publishing tools is well worth a read: www.linkedin.com/pulse/ten-ye...
- 🧠 Curious how XML automation and AI are reshaping scholarly publishing? Join industry legends at @scholarlypub.bsky.social's free Innovation Showcase on July 24: customer.sspnet.org/Portal/iCore...
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