Scott C Edmunds
@scedmunds.bsky.social
Iranian-Scottish Londoner lost in the East, trying to get his head around scientific data and publishing
Another write-up on my recent magical mystery tour of the AI sights of Hangzhou. Adventures in AI City, Pt2: The AI-fication of Chinese Healthcare and the Zheijiang Lab substack.com/home/post/p-...
Adventures in AI City, Pt2: The AI-fication of Chinese Healthcare and the Zheijiang Lab
More musings from a magical mystery tour of the AI-highlights of Hangzhou, including the Zheijiang Lab and the Sir Run Run Shaw "smart hospital".
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November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Another write-up on my recent magical mystery tour of the AI sights of Hangzhou. Adventures in AI City, Pt2: The AI-fication of Chinese Healthcare and the Zheijiang Lab substack.com/home/post/p-...
This ain't Shiraz, this is Tomb of Sheikh Ahmad Qomi in Ayutthaya. The Persian merchant who settled in the Ayutthaya Kingdom in the early 17th century, founding the still powerful Bunnag family in Thailand.
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This ain't Shiraz, this is Tomb of Sheikh Ahmad Qomi in Ayutthaya. The Persian merchant who settled in the Ayutthaya Kingdom in the early 17th century, founding the still powerful Bunnag family in Thailand.
Finally completed a write-up of #ICG20 in Hangzhou, as I thought I'd give my thoughts on what happened in AI city scedmunds.substack.com/p/adventures...
Adventures in AI City: The end for the International Conference on Genomics?
Coming back from the AI hub of Hangzhou and BGI's ICG, I thought I would provide a write-up of my impressions and thoughts from the trip, especially on if this was the end of the road for ICG?
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November 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Finally completed a write-up of #ICG20 in Hangzhou, as I thought I'd give my thoughts on what happened in AI city scedmunds.substack.com/p/adventures...
Despite health problems James Watson filmed a video 2yrs ago for the BGI ICG meeting (which they just showed again at #ICG20) where he was still looking forward to solving difficult problems. Even then he couldn't help go off script to talk about girls and tease Crick's failure in neuroscience #RIP
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Thank you Francis for all you've done for the journal. We put in a lot of effort to build up an excellent and very experienced Ed Board, and seeing so many of them resigning in this manner is sad but shows they've taken their responsibilities seriously.
I was one of the Editorial Board Members at @gigascience.bsky.social who resigned from the Editorial Board.
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Dozens of board members resign from big-data journal after mass staff firings
More than three-fifths of the editorial board of a biomedical sciences journal resigned after the publication’s operations moved from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, China, and the editors and software team…
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November 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Thank you Francis for all you've done for the journal. We put in a lot of effort to build up an excellent and very experienced Ed Board, and seeing so many of them resigning in this manner is sad but shows they've taken their responsibilities seriously.
Got a pretty good view of the Wat Nang Chi “Pulling of the Buddha’s relic” procession on the Khlong Dan canal this morning
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Got a pretty good view of the Wat Nang Chi “Pulling of the Buddha’s relic” procession on the Khlong Dan canal this morning
Enjoying the DataCite-OpenAlex webinar right now. Interesting seeing the heavy use of the API from places like India
November 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Enjoying the DataCite-OpenAlex webinar right now. Interesting seeing the heavy use of the API from places like India
New post wearing my @citsciasia.bsky.social (and Burmaphile) hat: Organising the First Ever @inaturalist.bsky.social Bioblitz in Myanmar: The Jacana Project Art + Science Exhibition scedmunds.substack.com/p/organising... #citizenscience
Organising the First Ever iNaturalist Bioblitz in Myanmar: The Jacana Project Art + Science Exhibition
This weekend if you are in Yangon don't miss this event at the historic Secretariat, which is helping Citizen Science take flight in Myanmar
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November 5, 2025 at 5:23 AM
New post wearing my @citsciasia.bsky.social (and Burmaphile) hat: Organising the First Ever @inaturalist.bsky.social Bioblitz in Myanmar: The Jacana Project Art + Science Exhibition scedmunds.substack.com/p/organising... #citizenscience
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Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
highlight of my day!!!! vote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social vote @workingfamilies.org ❤️❤️❤️
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
I’m in Bangkok this weekend but remotely helping to organize what I think is the first ever iNat bioblitz in Myanmar
If you are in Yangon this weekend don't miss this Art+Science event at the Secretariat, with an accompanying @inaturalist.bsky.social bioblitz on the student day (possibly the first in Myanmar?). Follow and join the iNaturalist project here www.inaturalist.org/projects/the...
November 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I’m in Bangkok this weekend but remotely helping to organize what I think is the first ever iNat bioblitz in Myanmar
Sam Sen Nai Philatelic Museum really going all in for their Halloween “You’ve Ghost mail” weekend
November 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Sam Sen Nai Philatelic Museum really going all in for their Halloween “You’ve Ghost mail” weekend
Interesting already 1/3 of the data access requests for MCPS are coming from researchers in China. After the reception this talk is getting sure it will go higher… #ICG20
October 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Interesting already 1/3 of the data access requests for MCPS are coming from researchers in China. After the reception this talk is getting sure it will go higher… #ICG20
Francis Crawley up now at #ICG20 talking event data visitation. In a world where data sovereignty is being asserted more, this seems to be a “new architecture” to keep applying the “done by all, shared by all, and owned by all” vision of BGI
October 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Francis Crawley up now at #ICG20 talking event data visitation. In a world where data sovereignty is being asserted more, this seems to be a “new architecture” to keep applying the “done by all, shared by all, and owned by all” vision of BGI
Refreshing AI talk from Wang Jian from the Zhejiang AI lab. None of that Silicon Valley AGI spin, “AI intelligence is completely different to human intelligence”. Looking back to Turing and Simon, and Hinton’s background as a cognitive psychologist #ICG20
October 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Refreshing AI talk from Wang Jian from the Zhejiang AI lab. None of that Silicon Valley AGI spin, “AI intelligence is completely different to human intelligence”. Looking back to Turing and Simon, and Hinton’s background as a cognitive psychologist #ICG20
Opening of #ICG20 in Hangzhou, and Huanming Yang opening things with an apology (we’ve run out of seats). And thanking all his teachers. Already setting the tone for a meeting of bittersweet nostalgia.
October 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Opening of #ICG20 in Hangzhou, and Huanming Yang opening things with an apology (we’ve run out of seats). And thanking all his teachers. Already setting the tone for a meeting of bittersweet nostalgia.
Bangkok Science Nerds, I'm doing a talk on Bauhinia Genome on 30th October at Bangkok Scientifique. Sign up here www.meetup.com/bkksci/event...
Building Genetic Literacy Through Decoding The Hong Kong Emblem, Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Far outpacing Moore's law, the growth of genomics, sequencing the genetic code of all living organisms, has been [predicted to overtake](http://journals.plos.org/plosbiolog
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October 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Bangkok Science Nerds, I'm doing a talk on Bauhinia Genome on 30th October at Bangkok Scientifique. Sign up here www.meetup.com/bkksci/event...
Rama III building a temple looking like a Chinese junk to try to stem declining Chinese maritime trade seem topical again in our current geopolitical and economic climate. Totally bonkers temple though
October 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Rama III building a temple looking like a Chinese junk to try to stem declining Chinese maritime trade seem topical again in our current geopolitical and economic climate. Totally bonkers temple though
As International Data Week has just finished, if you didn't make it to Brisbane here is a brief write-up of my highlights and what I thought were some of the main themes this year open.substack.com/pub/scedmund... #IDW2025
Data is for life (and not just International Data Week)
This week is International Data Week in Brisbane, and having watched along and participated I've decided to share a brief write-up of what I thought the highlights and themes of the event were.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
As International Data Week has just finished, if you didn't make it to Brisbane here is a brief write-up of my highlights and what I thought were some of the main themes this year open.substack.com/pub/scedmund... #IDW2025