Mark Hahnel
@hahnel.org
Figshare Founder, Digital Science, DataCite, DOAJ, re3data #openscience #openaccess #openresearch #desci #stemcells #genomes
From Recommendation to Action: A New Tool for Measuring Metadata Completeness
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From Recommendation to Action: A New Tool for Measuring Metadata Completeness
A new collaboration between GREI and Metadata Game Changers delivers an open-source tool to help any repository visualize, measure, and…
medium.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:13 AM
From Recommendation to Action: A New Tool for Measuring Metadata Completeness
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We're excited to be speaking & exhibiting at the inaugural Charleston Conference Asia! 🌏 #CharlestonAsia
🗓️ 26-28 January 2026
📍 Bangkok, Thailand
Mark Hahnel will present on "A Decade of Open Data". #StateOfOpenData
🔗 More details: https://ow.ly/p5hb50XZVBp
Charleston Hub #CharlestonConference
🗓️ 26-28 January 2026
📍 Bangkok, Thailand
Mark Hahnel will present on "A Decade of Open Data". #StateOfOpenData
🔗 More details: https://ow.ly/p5hb50XZVBp
Charleston Hub #CharlestonConference
January 20, 2026 at 6:00 AM
We're excited to be speaking & exhibiting at the inaugural Charleston Conference Asia! 🌏 #CharlestonAsia
🗓️ 26-28 January 2026
📍 Bangkok, Thailand
Mark Hahnel will present on "A Decade of Open Data". #StateOfOpenData
🔗 More details: https://ow.ly/p5hb50XZVBp
Charleston Hub #CharlestonConference
🗓️ 26-28 January 2026
📍 Bangkok, Thailand
Mark Hahnel will present on "A Decade of Open Data". #StateOfOpenData
🔗 More details: https://ow.ly/p5hb50XZVBp
Charleston Hub #CharlestonConference
Its a new world
"NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books"
torrentfreak.com/nvidia-conta...
"NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books"
torrentfreak.com/nvidia-conta...
NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books * TorrentFreak
NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training.
torrentfreak.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Its a new world
"NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books"
torrentfreak.com/nvidia-conta...
"NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books"
torrentfreak.com/nvidia-conta...
Figshare was 15 over the weekend
Academic data has never been more important
Academic data has never been more important
January 19, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Figshare was 15 over the weekend
Academic data has never been more important
Academic data has never been more important
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📣 NEW on Substack: "The Battle for Knowledge" by our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Dr Leslie McIntosh.
"We are now fully engaged in a power struggle over knowledge itself," Leslie writes in her first FoSci post for 2026.
🔗 Join us at the front line - see more here: https://ow.ly/QnIy50XXbCm
"We are now fully engaged in a power struggle over knowledge itself," Leslie writes in her first FoSci post for 2026.
🔗 Join us at the front line - see more here: https://ow.ly/QnIy50XXbCm
January 15, 2026 at 1:11 PM
📣 NEW on Substack: "The Battle for Knowledge" by our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Dr Leslie McIntosh.
"We are now fully engaged in a power struggle over knowledge itself," Leslie writes in her first FoSci post for 2026.
🔗 Join us at the front line - see more here: https://ow.ly/QnIy50XXbCm
"We are now fully engaged in a power struggle over knowledge itself," Leslie writes in her first FoSci post for 2026.
🔗 Join us at the front line - see more here: https://ow.ly/QnIy50XXbCm
The Battle for Knowledge
Knowledge is precious and vulnerable
fosci.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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Join us in thanking the latest to sponsor #NISOPlus26,
@dclaboratory.bsky.social & @ebsco.bsky.social!
We're grateful to them & all our generous sponsors for helping us host the conversations that lead to standards. It's not to late to join them! niso.plus/niso-plus-20...
More info: niso.plus
@dclaboratory.bsky.social & @ebsco.bsky.social!
We're grateful to them & all our generous sponsors for helping us host the conversations that lead to standards. It's not to late to join them! niso.plus/niso-plus-20...
More info: niso.plus
January 13, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Join us in thanking the latest to sponsor #NISOPlus26,
@dclaboratory.bsky.social & @ebsco.bsky.social!
We're grateful to them & all our generous sponsors for helping us host the conversations that lead to standards. It's not to late to join them! niso.plus/niso-plus-20...
More info: niso.plus
@dclaboratory.bsky.social & @ebsco.bsky.social!
We're grateful to them & all our generous sponsors for helping us host the conversations that lead to standards. It's not to late to join them! niso.plus/niso-plus-20...
More info: niso.plus
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🤩 Congratulations! Dr Anita Bandrowski (SciCrunch) is the winner of the 2026 APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication. 🏆
Dr Bandrowski has won for her long-term impact on scientific rigor and reproducibility.
🔗 See more: https://ow.ly/n8eY50XWLPf
Proudly supported by Digital Science.
Dr Bandrowski has won for her long-term impact on scientific rigor and reproducibility.
🔗 See more: https://ow.ly/n8eY50XWLPf
Proudly supported by Digital Science.
January 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
🤩 Congratulations! Dr Anita Bandrowski (SciCrunch) is the winner of the 2026 APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication. 🏆
Dr Bandrowski has won for her long-term impact on scientific rigor and reproducibility.
🔗 See more: https://ow.ly/n8eY50XWLPf
Proudly supported by Digital Science.
Dr Bandrowski has won for her long-term impact on scientific rigor and reproducibility.
🔗 See more: https://ow.ly/n8eY50XWLPf
Proudly supported by Digital Science.
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"Slop" is @merriam-webster.com's word of the year.
To celebrate (?), I decided to collect the generative A.I. slop imagery has been creeping into academic journals. For scholarly use.
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
#AcademicChatter
To celebrate (?), I decided to collect the generative A.I. slop imagery has been creeping into academic journals. For scholarly use.
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
#AcademicChatter
Pulled From the Trough: Slop Images in Academic Journals
This project collects images created using generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) that have appeared in academic journals.If you run across examples of gen AI images in journals or books - whethe...
doi.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"Slop" is @merriam-webster.com's word of the year.
To celebrate (?), I decided to collect the generative A.I. slop imagery has been creeping into academic journals. For scholarly use.
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
#AcademicChatter
To celebrate (?), I decided to collect the generative A.I. slop imagery has been creeping into academic journals. For scholarly use.
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
#AcademicChatter
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📢 NEWS: Kharon & Digital Science have formed a new partnership, bringing together Kharon’s risk intelligence and our world-leading Dimensions Research Security platform.
Together, we're strengthening institutions' #ResearchSecurity.
🔗 See our announcement: https://ow.ly/QEBe50XKimK
Together, we're strengthening institutions' #ResearchSecurity.
🔗 See our announcement: https://ow.ly/QEBe50XKimK
December 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📢 NEWS: Kharon & Digital Science have formed a new partnership, bringing together Kharon’s risk intelligence and our world-leading Dimensions Research Security platform.
Together, we're strengthening institutions' #ResearchSecurity.
🔗 See our announcement: https://ow.ly/QEBe50XKimK
Together, we're strengthening institutions' #ResearchSecurity.
🔗 See our announcement: https://ow.ly/QEBe50XKimK
I asked claude about the credibility of a nuclear physics preprint and it gave me this
I now think this should be implemented across all arxiv papers
I now think this should be implemented across all arxiv papers
December 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I asked claude about the credibility of a nuclear physics preprint and it gave me this
I now think this should be implemented across all arxiv papers
I now think this should be implemented across all arxiv papers
Reposted by Mark Hahnel
🎄 On the 3rd day of DS AI Christmas, Overleaf gave to me… 3 ways to write efficiently. 🎶
Now available in beta, Overleaf's new chat-based #AI experience helps improve document quality, save time formatting & fixing errors, and accelerates learning LaTeX.
🔗 https://ow.ly/aVV350XGORA
#DSChristmas
Now available in beta, Overleaf's new chat-based #AI experience helps improve document quality, save time formatting & fixing errors, and accelerates learning LaTeX.
🔗 https://ow.ly/aVV350XGORA
#DSChristmas
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🎄 On the 3rd day of DS AI Christmas, Overleaf gave to me… 3 ways to write efficiently. 🎶
Now available in beta, Overleaf's new chat-based #AI experience helps improve document quality, save time formatting & fixing errors, and accelerates learning LaTeX.
🔗 https://ow.ly/aVV350XGORA
#DSChristmas
Now available in beta, Overleaf's new chat-based #AI experience helps improve document quality, save time formatting & fixing errors, and accelerates learning LaTeX.
🔗 https://ow.ly/aVV350XGORA
#DSChristmas
Reposted by Mark Hahnel
Digital Science invites Overleaf users to test next-gen AI capabilities
www.researchinformation.info/news/digital...
New features "designed to allow users to spend more time on research and innovation rather than on time-intensive tasks.”
@digital-science.com @dimensions.ai
www.researchinformation.info/news/digital...
New features "designed to allow users to spend more time on research and innovation rather than on time-intensive tasks.”
@digital-science.com @dimensions.ai
Digital Science invites Overleaf users to test next-gen AI capabilities - Research Information
New features "designed to allow users to spend more time on research and innovation rather than on time-intensive tasks.”
www.researchinformation.info
December 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Digital Science invites Overleaf users to test next-gen AI capabilities
www.researchinformation.info/news/digital...
New features "designed to allow users to spend more time on research and innovation rather than on time-intensive tasks.”
@digital-science.com @dimensions.ai
www.researchinformation.info/news/digital...
New features "designed to allow users to spend more time on research and innovation rather than on time-intensive tasks.”
@digital-science.com @dimensions.ai
As of December 10th, 2025, the arXiv Mathematics section will no longer accept institutional email addresses (i.e., an email address associated with an academic or research institution) as the sole qualifier for an automatic endorsement for new authors.
blog.arxiv.org/2025/12/10/u...
blog.arxiv.org/2025/12/10/u...
Attention Authors: updated endorsement policy for arXiv Mathematics – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
As of December 10th, 2025, the arXiv Mathematics section will no longer accept institutional email addresses (i.e., an email address associated with an academic or research institution) as the sole qualifier for an automatic endorsement for new authors.
blog.arxiv.org/2025/12/10/u...
blog.arxiv.org/2025/12/10/u...
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💻🤖 What does it mean to be "machine-first FAIR"? And how can this benefit research conducted by (and for) humans?
Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, shares why we need to embrace the #AI research revolution with open & #FAIRdata.
🔗 Read his post: https://ow.ly/e7oe50XAtht
#AcademicSky
Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, shares why we need to embrace the #AI research revolution with open & #FAIRdata.
🔗 Read his post: https://ow.ly/e7oe50XAtht
#AcademicSky
December 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
💻🤖 What does it mean to be "machine-first FAIR"? And how can this benefit research conducted by (and for) humans?
Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, shares why we need to embrace the #AI research revolution with open & #FAIRdata.
🔗 Read his post: https://ow.ly/e7oe50XAtht
#AcademicSky
Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, shares why we need to embrace the #AI research revolution with open & #FAIRdata.
🔗 Read his post: https://ow.ly/e7oe50XAtht
#AcademicSky
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It was really fun and hopeful, describing the potential for a better future with @nickdimonaco.bsky.social (QUB) and Martin Vickers (JIC). Although bioRxiv doesn't accept review paper preprints, here it is on Figshare figshare.com/articles/pre... 6/6
Genome Assemblies and Annotations Are Not Static and Need Support for Tracking Their Evolution
For the past 25 years, genomic data has been distributed in two key file formats, FASTA and GFF. These files are used across nearly all genomic analyses and encode both the data of genomic sequences ...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It was really fun and hopeful, describing the potential for a better future with @nickdimonaco.bsky.social (QUB) and Martin Vickers (JIC). Although bioRxiv doesn't accept review paper preprints, here it is on Figshare figshare.com/articles/pre... 6/6
ICYMI - my reasoning that FAIR for machines is more important than FAIR for humans - because we're both "clever" - just in different ways
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"The best way for humankind to benefit from research is to prioritize machines over people when sharing data"
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"The best way for humankind to benefit from research is to prioritize machines over people when sharing data"
Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution
The best way for humankind to benefit from research is to prioritize machines over people when sharing data.
hahnel.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
ICYMI - my reasoning that FAIR for machines is more important than FAIR for humans - because we're both "clever" - just in different ways
hahnel.substack.com/publish/post...
"The best way for humankind to benefit from research is to prioritize machines over people when sharing data"
hahnel.substack.com/publish/post...
"The best way for humankind to benefit from research is to prioritize machines over people when sharing data"
Reposted by Mark Hahnel
🌟 Blog posts of the week: "To go further, faster... we need to move past human-powered knowledge discovery," writes our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel.
Mark says academic research should be prioritized for machines, not humans.
🔗 See why: https://ow.ly/WGTg50Xvf2S
#FAIRdata #AcademicSky
Mark says academic research should be prioritized for machines, not humans.
🔗 See why: https://ow.ly/WGTg50Xvf2S
#FAIRdata #AcademicSky
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🌟 Blog posts of the week: "To go further, faster... we need to move past human-powered knowledge discovery," writes our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel.
Mark says academic research should be prioritized for machines, not humans.
🔗 See why: https://ow.ly/WGTg50Xvf2S
#FAIRdata #AcademicSky
Mark says academic research should be prioritized for machines, not humans.
🔗 See why: https://ow.ly/WGTg50Xvf2S
#FAIRdata #AcademicSky
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What GenAI does well—and where it needs an ecosystem webinar - Dec 4th
www.digital-science.com/events/what-...
www.digital-science.com/events/what-...
What GenAI does well — and where it needs an ecosystem - Digital Science
Exploring how hybrid AI approaches blend creativity with structured knowledge for more transparent and trustworthy decision-making.
www.digital-science.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
What GenAI does well—and where it needs an ecosystem webinar - Dec 4th
www.digital-science.com/events/what-...
www.digital-science.com/events/what-...
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Now on Substack: "Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution" - by our VP of Open Research, Mark Hahnel.
Why should we prioritize machines over people when sharing data?
🔗 Read Mark's post: https://ow.ly/Z24y50Xu7qk
#FAIRdata #OpenData #OpenResearch #AcademicSky
Why should we prioritize machines over people when sharing data?
🔗 Read Mark's post: https://ow.ly/Z24y50Xu7qk
#FAIRdata #OpenData #OpenResearch #AcademicSky
November 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Now on Substack: "Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution" - by our VP of Open Research, Mark Hahnel.
Why should we prioritize machines over people when sharing data?
🔗 Read Mark's post: https://ow.ly/Z24y50Xu7qk
#FAIRdata #OpenData #OpenResearch #AcademicSky
Why should we prioritize machines over people when sharing data?
🔗 Read Mark's post: https://ow.ly/Z24y50Xu7qk
#FAIRdata #OpenData #OpenResearch #AcademicSky
Reposted by Mark Hahnel
📣 NEW: Why should we prioritize machines over humans when it comes to making research FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable & Re-usable)? #FAIRdata
Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, says academic data should be realigned for the #AI research revolution.
🔗 https://ow.ly/uq4r50XsNsg
Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, says academic data should be realigned for the #AI research revolution.
🔗 https://ow.ly/uq4r50XsNsg
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
📣 NEW: Why should we prioritize machines over humans when it comes to making research FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable & Re-usable)? #FAIRdata
Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, says academic data should be realigned for the #AI research revolution.
🔗 https://ow.ly/uq4r50XsNsg
Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, says academic data should be realigned for the #AI research revolution.
🔗 https://ow.ly/uq4r50XsNsg
The best way for humankind to benefit from research is to prioritize machines over people when sharing data.
Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution:
hahnel.substack.com/p/machine-fi...
Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution:
hahnel.substack.com/p/machine-fi...
Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution
The best way for humankind to benefit from research is to prioritize machines over people when sharing data.
hahnel.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The best way for humankind to benefit from research is to prioritize machines over people when sharing data.
Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution:
hahnel.substack.com/p/machine-fi...
Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution:
hahnel.substack.com/p/machine-fi...
"While a degree of self-citations is expected as researchers build upon their existing body of work, excessive self-referencing in some cases can obscure the true impact of research, making the work seem more broadly important than reality warrants"
fosci.substack.com/p/self-citat...
fosci.substack.com/p/self-citat...
Self-citation patterns among researchers
What's normal? What's unusual?
fosci.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"While a degree of self-citations is expected as researchers build upon their existing body of work, excessive self-referencing in some cases can obscure the true impact of research, making the work seem more broadly important than reality warrants"
fosci.substack.com/p/self-citat...
fosci.substack.com/p/self-citat...