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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 3d

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🎉 Digital Science congratulates @dashunwang.bsky.social and his team on their development of Funding the Frontier - an innovative prototype that explores the future of analysis to enable better decisions in research, by allowing a user to visualize the impacts of funding.

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Funding the Frontier: Visualizing the Broad Impact of Science and Science Funding

Understanding the broad impact of science and science funding is critical to ensuring that science investments and policies align with societal needs. Existing research links science funding to the ou...

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 3d

You can read more about SRAD - and request access to it - in Kathryn’s recent post: ow.ly/gTQZ50X8nXa

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Introducing SRAD - Digital Science

Discover SRAD, Digital Science’s new program launched in July 2025, designed to streamline research analytics, offer real‑time data insights, and empower scientists to drive innovation across the open...

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 3d

We look forward to working further with Professor Wang @dashunwang.bsky.social and his team. 🙌

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · Jul 10

📢 NEWS: China's #AI research dominance is undeniable.

A new report from Digital Science CEO Dr Daniel Hook @dwh.bsky.social reveals China’s pre-eminence in AI research volume, citation attention & influence. 🇨🇳 #DeepSeek

🔗 See more: www.digital-science.com/blog/2025/07...

Data from @dimensions.ai

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Dr Suze Kundu @funsizesuze.bsky.social · May 22

Off to #ChemUK to host The Big Debate, midday on Stage 2. I’ll be wringing all the best insights and expertise from a stellar panel of chemistry-related folks from across academia, publishing, funding and industry to ask what we need to do NOW to secure a future where the UK’s chem scene can thrive.

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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · Mar 28

Our @timoreilly.bsky.social argues we’re not witnessing the end of #programming, but the beginning of something far bigger. He draws on past computing revolutions to explore how #AI is reshaping what it means to build software. Check it out on Hugo Bowne-Anderson's podcast: bit.ly/4iL8JSL

High Signal by Delphina | Episode - The End of Programming As We Know It

Tim O’Reilly—founder of O’Reilly Media and one of the most influential voices in tech—argues we’re not witnessing the end of programming, but the beginning of something far bigger. He draws on past co...

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Bennett Institute for Public Policy @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk · Mar 28

Dennis C. Grube opens the first session sparking dialogue on whether wicked problems need wicked solutions. He’s joined by @lauradiazanadon.bsky.social, Shailaja Fennell & Gordon Harold. #BennettInst

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ORCID @orcid.org · Mar 20

We welcome Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo as the first ORCID member in Bolivia! 🇧🇴 They have joined our Regional Latin American and Caribbean consortium led by Consortia. ORCID is now being adopted at institutions in 62 countries around the world!

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Vincent Traag @vtraag.bsky.social · Mar 11

I'm happy to say that after almost 5 years, our work on comparing peer review with metrics at the institutional level is now finally available from QSS at doi.org/10.1162/qss_....

Here's the previous thread on our preprint:
social.cwts.nl/@vtraag/1101...

Metrics and peer review agreement at the institutional level

Abstract. In recent decades, many countries have started funding academic institutions based on the evaluation of their scientific performance. Post-publication peer review is often used in this conte...

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · Mar 17

🌟 Key takeaway 1: It's now easy to access #ORCiD data with Google BigQuery; we can enhance Dimensions data. 🙌 @orcid.org

Find out more in this Research Musings post from @helenedraux.bsky.social & @sjcporter.bsky.social - available now on Substack.

🔗 researchmusings.substack.com/p/blooming-r...

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Daniel Hook @dwh.bsky.social · Feb 22

Much appreciated, Altmetric - you know it’s to your own advantage…if you want to know about PT symmetric quantum theoretic goodness!

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Feb 17

We are inclined to think of misinformation as a particularly modern phenomenon but it has been with us through the ages. Join us on Tues 25 Feb as we have a panel of experts guide you through the history of misinformation (online only - in person tix gone)
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The History of Misinformation

Delve into historical tales of distorted truths and alternative facts with renowned Academy Fellows – and find out how the past can help us to combat the challenges we face today.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Feb 17

@digital-science.com's VP of Research Eval and everyone's collective fun uncle @jwastl.bsky.social spoke at @univie.ac.at about the future of AI in research: responsible use of AI, chatbots, and harnessing Skynet to take over earth.

OK one of those isn't in the talk

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZeD...

Exploring the Future of AI in Research: Insights from Jürgen Wastl | ub:talks December 2024

YouTube video by Universitätsbibliothek Wien

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · Feb 3

Discover more about our Advisory Board members - a panel of six experienced leaders in their fields. 🤝👥

The Board is assisting Digital Science to improve engagement and alignment with the communities we support.

🔗 See our Board members' bios here: www.digital-science.com/management-a...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jan 29

If you're keen to understand whether (and if so, why and how) including Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences in UK industrial strategy and science matters, have a read of evidence-rich, hot-off-the-press 'Understanding the importance of SHAPE to the UK research ecosystem': arxiv.org/abs/2501.16701

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Athene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social · Jan 18

Attrition of women continues from academia, despite numbers in biological sciences starting healthy #womeinstem www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal gender gaps in surprising fields

Even in scientific areas in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years.

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Daniel Hook @dwh.bsky.social · Jan 12

This year's STI ENID Conference @stienid2025.bsky.social will be held at the @bristoluni.bsky.social from 3-5 September. The theme is "Reconciliation of research and measurement". The Call for submission is now open!
www.stienid2025.org/submissions

Submissions | STIENID2025 Bristol

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Leslie McIntosh @mcintold.bsky.social · Jan 8

It was an amazing and busy year in bringing Forensic Scientometrics to life. If you don’t read anything else, read the #FoSci Paris Declaration — the culmination of this year’s work. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Forensic Scientometrics (FoSci) Paris Declaration

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Jan 3

Origami Black Hole xkcd.com/3033

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Dec 31

The current international financial architecture is a key reason that the UN SDGs are failing.

2025 must be the year when the rules of global finance are reformed. A landmark conference in Spain in June offers a chance to agree on how to do it

#natureeditorial
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

2025 must be the year when the rules of global finance are reformed

The current international financial architecture is a key reason that the UN Sustainable Development Goals are failing. A landmark conference in Spain must make progress in reforming it.

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Daniel Hook @dwh.bsky.social · Dec 19

Always a great pleasure to work with @cmkeithw.bsky.social on talks like “The Digital Twin Paradox” where covered some of these topics recently!

Keith Webster @cmkeithw.bsky.social · Dec 19

I appreciate the post by @9thprime.bsky.social on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social today on #digitaltwins. @dwh.bsky.social and I presented on this topic at Charleston last month, and posed many questions but few answers. Todd has helped move this forward!

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Once It Has Been Trained, Who Will Own My Digital Twin? - The Scholarly Kitchen

Generative AI agents have the possibility to make us more productive, but once trained, who will own and control it?

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Daniel Hook @dwh.bsky.social · Dec 15

Brilliant plan! You’re always welcome to crash ours!

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Daniel Hook @dwh.bsky.social · Dec 15

And you’re certain that there is absolutely no sample bias at all going on here…right?

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · Dec 10

CALL for Nominations: 2025 Open Scholarship Awards - sponsored by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (c-ski.ca) and its partners! Nominations for the 2025 awards are due by January 17 2025 via forms.gle/NdeHTsfbv1Wm...

Open Scholarship Awards 2025

We are pleased to announce the Open Scholarship Awards, sponsored by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (c-ski.ca) and its partners! Nominations for the 2025 awards are due by January 17th 2025.

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Dec 10

‘A truly remarkable breakthrough’: Google’s new quantum chip achieves accuracy milestone

This nature news story describes the new work from Google Quantum AI and Collaborators just published in Nature 👇🏻

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
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‘A truly remarkable breakthrough’: Google’s new quantum chip achieves accuracy milestone

Error-correction feat shows quantum computers will get more accurate as they grow larger.

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