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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · 5d

I love the vision and the execution. The Open Graph approach is amazing too. Super clever. 👍

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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · 7d

Exploring @leaflet.pub on the @atproto.com — and it is pretty slick.

Hello, World! The Leaflet Edition

Experimenting with a new writing app built on an open social protocol

leaflet.jamesshelley.com

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dan @danabra.mov · 12d

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

overreacted.io

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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 19d

Move over, ChatGPT. Newer AI platforms are aimed at academics and doctors and they're not supposed to hallucinate citations.

I tested many of them, but especially Consensus AI.

My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social.

www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

AI Comes for Academics. Can We Rely on It?

By now, the fact that artificial intelligence can hallucinate is, I hope, well known. There are countless examples of platforms like ChatGPT giving the wrong answer to a straightforward question or im...

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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · 15d

🗨️ “responses are typically predicated on an assumption that AI in assessment is a problem that can be solved if only the right approach can be found. However...we argue that GenAI may not be that kind of problem at all.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · 15d

I'm looking forward to this conversation. The Canadian Association of Research Administrators is hosting a panel on "The Impact of AI on Research Administration in Canada" on November 26 at 12PM ET. cara-acaar.ca/227192

James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · 19d

I am presenting a session on “Artificial Intelligence & Automation: Supporting the Exchange of Information Between Researchers and Knowledge Users” at #KTDRR25 on October 23, 3:25PM. Conference is online and free to attend (registration required), so swing by if you can ktdrr.org/conference20...

James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · 23d

Big week for new features at @researchmesh.com! The platform‬ now automates RSS feeds for new public research articles from any collection of @orcid.org IDs and provides administrators and readers with a fully browsable index of publications, accessible through its automated newsletters.

research※mesh @researchmesh.com · 23d

Platform Updates for Monday, September 15, 2025 researchmesh.blob.core.windows.net/mesh/976af32...

Platform Updates

research※mesh update for Monday, September 15, 2025

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WesternU Research @westernuresearch.bsky.social · 29d

This morning, we connected over breakfast with Western Research staff, followed by updates from @pennypexman.bsky.social and a panel on AI in Research with Joanna Redden, Lyle Muller and @cribravo.bsky.social, moderated by @jamesshelley.com.

Thanks, everyone, for a great start to the school year!

Western Research staff eating and speaking to each other in long tables at the Wave Restaurant on Campus at Western University.

Joanna Redden, Lyle Muller and Cristián Bravo Roman on stage with moderator James Shelley speaking to Western Research staff about AI in Research.

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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · Sep 3

Welcome #SSHRC to @bsky.app!

SSHRC | CRSH @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca · Aug 27

🌟 We’re excited to share that #SSHRC is now on Bluesky!
Follow us here for the latest on:
🦋 Research funding opportunities
🦋 Announcements and key updates
🦋 Inspiring stories of discovery and impact

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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · Aug 27

Faculty members, researchers 👋 Need to polish up your @orcid.org profile? A team of us at @westernu.ca are hosting a virtual "ORCID Clinic" on Sep 24 at 12PM ET to help researchers get their profiles connected with trusted databases. @westernuresearch.bsky.social forms.cloud.microsoft/r/zRVJ84t55C

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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · Aug 18

This is “Platform Updates for Monday, August 18, 2025” …Or, simply, another saga in “The Adventures of Building an App to Automate All of the Post-Publication Workflows in Academia” #researchmesh researchmesh.blob.core.windows.net/mesh/976af32...

Platform Updates

research※mesh update for Monday, August 18, 2025

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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · Aug 10

I’d highly recommend “Status Game” by @willstorr.bsky.social — it is an exceptionally well-researched and well-written treatment of the phenomenon. Should be required reading for humanity, I think.

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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · Aug 10

Storr hypothesizes that forces beyond us compel us to live in a state of perpetual status anxiety.

Pair with Arthur C. Brooks observation that people habitually and chronically choose “being special” over “being happy”…

Will Storr @willstorr.bsky.social · Aug 9

Today’s free-to-read essay, A Crisis of Mattering, lays out a theory that I’ve touched upon but not fully fleshed out in previous books, that a major cause of modern unhappiness is that our world has grown too big.

READ HERE: willstorr.substack.com/p/a-crisis-o...

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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · Aug 9

“Moving beyond consumer-grade interfaces like chatbots (ChatGPT, Copilot, etc), our focus here is on the strategic development of enterprise-scale AI projects deployed at an institutional level.” 💻 Wednesday, September 10 at 12:00-1:00PM EST #ResearchAdmin #ai cara-acaar.ca/227183

Banner image that says: “Let’s Talk AI Club - Beyond the Chatbot: Enterprise AI in Research Administration” by the Canadian Association of Research Administrators

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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · Aug 9

Author disambiguation is ORCID, so the corpus is basically DOI registries with affiliated ORCID metadata (with a discovery loop to include/reject edge cases coming soon—where affiliated authorship is probable but only algorithmically determined by SKGs). Entire workflow only uses public metadata.

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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · Jul 29

Are you an all-star videographer, a master of post, and passionate about supporting research communication? Are you in #ldnont? My team has an RFI out, towards creating a shortlist of longterm collaborators for the @westernu.ca Storyhouse program. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

🎥 Feel free to pass this along and/or tag any videographers or media teams who might be interested. | James Shelley

🎥 Feel free to pass this along and/or tag any videographers or media teams who might be interested. (We are especially keen to work with local vendors in London, Ontario.) Are you an all-star videogr...

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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · Jul 22

research※mesh is a snazzy, lightweight-but-powerful app that unlocks efficiencies across knowledge exchange, research dissemination, stakeholder engagement and research administration workflows. Subscribe to Platform Updates for beta testing notes. researchmesh.blob.core.windows.net/mesh/976af32...

Platform Updates

research※mesh update for Tuesday, July 22, 2025

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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · Jul 10

Are you a researcher or a person who supports researchers? I am looking for a few more beta testers to provide feedback on a new prototype app that automates the workflow of identifying, collating and sharing new research articles. DM me if interested! m.youtube.com/watch?v=DZI8...

researchmesh: beta testing

YouTube video by researchmesh

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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · Jul 6

The part in Theaetetus where Socrates talks about social media.

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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · Jun 23

It’s got loads of creepy AI slope. It’s got lots of nostalgic blubbering. It wallows in the uncanny valley. It has a silly broadway show tune. It also has a point! My contribution to the @westernu.bsky.social CTL GenAI Summer Challenge is MULTIMODAL at teaching.uwo.ca/genai/posts/...

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Science Writers and Communicators of Canada @swc-can.bsky.social · Jun 13

sharing of ideas among the audience.

Western University’s @jamesshelley.com addresses a critical challenge for universities and other research institutions: the lack of dedicated communication support for departments and research centres. 2/3

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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · Jun 13

SSHRC Storytellers finalists at @swc-can.bsky.social in Fredericton

James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · Jun 1

It’s the enshitification of everything in the age of surveilllance capitalism…when the purpose of an actual cookie is to get a cookie in your browser.

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James Shelley @jamesshelley.com · May 1

For what it’s worth, I just want to say I’m willing to die on this hill with you. “Vibe coding” described a very specific phenomenon, but has been usurped to sell AI things and diminish AI things.