Open Research
Mark HahnelMusings on data, metadata, open science and desci
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BioSingularity. The substrate determines the ceiling
In the past two years a phrase has been circulating in the AI-in-biology community that I find genuinely useful for thinking about where the field is heading. People talk about a “biosingularity”, meaning the point at which biology becomes...
Ground the model, or it invents the evidence
Earlier this year a thread from Tom Dietterich, who chairs arXiv’s computer science section, made the rounds. He was clarifying the consequences for unchecked LLM output on the platform. If a submission contains “incontrovertible evidence”...
The new era of going “Fast and Far” in research
Small teams have always innovated. But AI means
a) We can split research into big and small teams
b) The small can do absolutely massive things now
In October 2024, a Nobel Prize in Chemistry went, in effect, to a piece of software....
What parts of the academic knowledge creation & dissemination pipeline can we automate with AI?
As a tech founder who can, at best, describe himself as a hacky coder, I’ve spent most of my career having to either hire engineers or do without when an idea was too technically demanding. That’s changed quite a lot recently. Tools like Cl...
OpenAccess.ai: How Cheap Can We Make Academic Publishing?
What Problem Are We Trying to Solve?
Article Processing Charges at major journals run to thousands of dollars per paper. The editorial infrastructure - submission systems, copyediting, typesetting, hosting - is expensive. What I want to...
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Mark Hahnel is the VP Open Research at Digital Science. He is the founder of Figshare and has a PhD in stem cell biology from Imperial College London. Mark sits on the board of DataCite and the advisory board for Directory of Open Access Journals.
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