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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 9d

Periodic Labs: A new $300 million seed-backed startup aiming to build “AI scientists” — autonomous systems that hypothesise, run physical experiments, gather data, learn, iterate — especially in the physical sciences. They’re starting with materials/superconductors.
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Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture

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Hum @humworks.bsky.social · 11d

"The research community doesn’t necessarily want ‘peer review’ — it wants quality assurance, fraud detection, constructive feedback, ethical oversight, and credible validation." @innovationideas.bsky.social / @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social

Peer Review in Transition: Helen King and Christopher Leonard on AI and the Future of Peer Review - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today, we talk to thought leaders Helen King and Chris Leonard, who offer a nuanced look at how peer review might adapt, fracture, or reinvent itself in the AI era.

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Maverick Publishing Specialists @maverick-os.bsky.social · Sep 3

Maverick’s copywriting services help scholarly publishers use the written word to reach their audience in a variety of ways. Learn more and see examples in our new blog post
“Get the Message Out with Maverick’s Copywriting Services” bit.ly/3UZ3NzC

Copywriting word cloud in an open tablet next to a pen and a cup of coffee.

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Maverick Publishing Specialists @maverick-os.bsky.social · Aug 18

A new post for Maverick’s Insider blog provides complete details of our Interim Placement services, including examples of how we’ve solved staffing challenges for numerous publishers.
Read “Solve Staffing Challenges with Interim Support” bit.ly/3JkuBb1

Rendering of a woman standing in the middle of a dark maze with lights guiding the way for her.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · Aug 13

Fascinating - both the story and the robot. Is this Marketing or Art?
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Ai-Da and the Art of Storytelling: Reflections on Art, AI, and the Market

When a robot sells art for over $1M, what is the collector really buying? A reflection on Ai-Da, authorship, and the art market’s blurred lines.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · Jul 23

From @pressgazette.co.uk: A PR agency is flogging an AI that auto-generates expert quotes with fictional bios and pre-written charm aimed at Journalists. It’s fast and it's scalable, but do we really want to live in this kind of world?

🔗 pressgazette.co.uk/news/pr-agen...

PR agency sells AI tool which sends out automated expert comment to journalists

A PR agency is selling an AI tool which automatically answers pitches from journalists on services such as ResponseSource, HARO and Qwoted.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · Jul 22

Interesting listen - This episode of The Inquiry discusses the trade-offs between productivity and mental acuity in the digital age: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Inquiry - Is AI eroding our critical thinking? - BBC Sounds

Are we allowing AI to make our brains lazy?

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · Jul 21

A reminder of how pervasive gender bias can be. This study found that when given identical profiles, ChatGPT’s o3 model recommended a $280,000 target salary for a woman versus $400,000 for a man solely based on gender:

thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds

A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · Jul 16

New study from the Max‑Planck Institute: ChatGPT has begun influencing human speech. Analysis of over 740,000 hours of academic podcasts and YouTube lectures shows a significant surge in ChatGPT‑preferred vocabulary such as “delve,” “comprehend” and “meticulous” since 2022.

arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754

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Maverick Publishing Specialists @maverick-os.bsky.social · Jul 9

Think Selection Managing Director, Danny Parnes, explains how he goes about identifying and recruiting candidates with the skills and expertise that reflect the new landscape of publishing.

Read “Recruitment trends in publishing: Adapting to a changing landscape” bit.ly/40aTJ9D

Photograph from behind of a man at a computer with the words "Candidate Search" on-screen.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · Jul 14

I used to sit next to someone who wrote abstract summaries for a series of academic journals, condensing complex, nuanced thinking into tight little summaries. It was meticulous, relentless work that usually left them a touch frayed by lunchtime. I suspect Carr would have quietly sympathised.

Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · Jul 14

A long and interesting read from Nicholas Carr. A historical critique of our obsession with 'informational compression'. He makes a compelling case that the tech world’s love of efficiency risks draining the richness, soul, & meaning from the world: www.newcartographies.com/p/against-co...

Against Compression

Let me not boil it down for you.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · Jul 3

Fame at last! Really touched to get a shoutout from @georgewalkley.com during his fantastic talk, AI: Threats and Opportunities for Publishers, at the PLS conference today. Great insights and perspectives.

Link to AI in academic publishing case studies list: coda.io/d/AI-Powered...

Slide from George Walkley’s talk about opportunities and threats of AI for Publishers

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · Jul 2

As RAG-based chatbots find themselves locked out of the latest information, we may be witnessing the shift from a shared commons to a gated web where access is no longer free but brokered. Unless intelligent agents come armed with wallets, only giants like Google may keep their AIs properly fed.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · Jul 2

The web is no longer an open picnic for AI. Cloudflare’s new Pay-Per-Crawl feature lets publishers charge bots per request, dusting off the HTTP 402 code and handing creators more control: blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...

Introducing Pay per crawl- enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access

Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · Jun 26

“Afterlife” is a wonderfully creative yet utterly disturbing example of AI storytelling. It's evocative, unsettling, and well-crafted. It pulls you into a world where bots and avatars feel eerily human and alive. #AI #Veo3

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Afterlife: The Unseen Lives of AI Actors Between Prompts

YouTube video by BinaryImagination AI

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Adrian @adrian13.bsky.social · Jun 17

A nice starter AI-Scholarly Publishing list here from Helen King @innovationideas.bsky.social - including @clearskiesadam.bsky.social, Tim Vines @dataseerai.bsky.social Thad, @ianmulvany.bsky.social and @jayaisdg.bsky.social
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30 People to Follow at the Intersection of AI and Academic Publishing

These 30 people are navigating AI's impact on academic publishing from the front lines. Whether they're technologists experimenting with new workflows, librarians exploring new research assistants, or...

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · Jun 24

Westminster seems to have finally remembered that the creative industries exist. Proposal for a new "Creative Content Exchange as a marketplace for selling, buying, licensing, and enabling permitted access to digitised cultural and creative assets":
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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · Jun 9

📝 Wax.is is a new open-source doc editor for teams. It has real-time editing, sharing, PDF generator, comments, Word import & an AI designer, assistant, and knowledgebase (all AI tools are optional, off by default). Read about it here: www.robotscooking.com/announcing-w..., try it here: app.wax.is

Announcing Wax.is

Announcing the release of a new collaborative document editor platform - Wax. You can find a demo here - https://app.wax.is Website here: https://wax.is Code here: https://github.com/Wax-Platform/W...

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · Jun 9

What happens when you let AI models play a game of trust and betrayal? Turns out, things get wild. From unexpected alliances to epic backstabs, AI Diplomacy reveals how these models handle pressure, strategy, and trust.

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · Jun 4

Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’

Thrilled to announce this new $900,000 project headed by @jamesheathers.bsky.social

Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’

Group behind Retraction Watch aims to pinpoint the most influential flawed health data.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Jun 1

I wrote a history of recent AI development in 32 images of otters using wifi on airplanes, from images to video to code.

It shows two big trends: rapid improvements in AI models of all types and the growth of open weights AI models. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-recent...

The recent history of AI in 32 otters

Three years of progress as shown by marine mammals

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Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social · May 31

So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS.

Please read and share this thread.

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · Feb 7

Q: Why can't these companies brand and name products? OpenAI has a model drop down with "GPT-4o," "o1," "o3-mini," "o3-mini-high," "o1 pro mode." There are thousands of coffee shops and dog groomers better at product naming. Hire one of those people, guys.

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · May 27

Apply TODAY (they're a fantastic team to work with!).

Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · May 27

We have received a large number of submissions for the Metadata Management Associate role (openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/job-meta...) and will be conducting our first set of interviews on June 6th. If you wish to be considered in this round, please submit your application no later at 11:59 UCT.

Job: Metadata Management Associate at Open Book Collective

An opportunity to become involved with a new organisation at the cutting edge of the Diamond Open Access movement, supporting the creation and improvement of the metadata from OBC publisher members

openbookcollective.pubpub.org

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