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Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · 4d

ICYMI: GigaScience Press is showing how strong metadata boosts transparency and impact. Their practices make research easier to index, track, and reuse. https://doi.org/10.64000/z2qhj-7nd90?mtm_campaign=blog%20post&mtm_source=BS&mtm_medium=social

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 4d

Help Tackle the Asian Biodiversity Data Gap with Asia Nature Challenge medium.com/citizenscien... #AsiaNatureChallenge #ANC2025

Asia Nature Challenge 2025 is Go!

This weekend is the second installment of the Asia Nature Challenge, so go outside and observe our biodiversity because nature in Asia…

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 5d

First day of #AsiaNatureChallenge, and my highlight has to be the giant water monitors sunning themselves in Lumpini park www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ANC2025

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you OBF (and especially Taz) for this lovely post about the GigaScience team. I've been going to your #BOSC meetings since 2011 and will miss catching up with you all each summer, but hopefully it's not goodbye!

Open Bioinformatics Foundation @openbio.bsky.social · 8d

An open letter about the recent cuts at GigaScience: www.open-bio.org/2025/09/30/2...
(open for signatures until the end of October)

#OpenScience #OpenData #GigaScience

Scott Edmunds cuts the cake at the 2025 GigaScience birthday party at ISMB/ECCB 2025

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 14d

Only just noticed @crossref.bsky.social posted their interview with me talking about winning one of the inaugural Crossref Metadata awards was finally published on my last day of work. It's always good to end on a high!

www.crossref.org/blog/raising...

Raising the standard: GigaScience Press on metadata and discoverability - Crossref

To mark Crossref’s 25th anniversary, we launched our first Metadata Awards to highlight members with the best metadata practices. GigaScience Press, based in Hong Kong, was the leader among small publ...

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 17d

A Chinese *food delivery* company produced an apparently high performance open weight LLM. Can someone remind me what OpenAI’s moat is again? There is apparently no exotic special sauce required to do this.

Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 17d

Meituan, China's largest food delivery company, is releasing more open-weight LLMs.

LongCat-Flash-Thinking: Smarter reasoning and leaner costs!

Performance: SOTA open-source models on Logic / Math / Coding / Agent tasks using 64.5% fewer tokens to hit top-tier accuracy on AIME25

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks Nick. It was great to cross paths with you on lots of these crazy occasions. Long may it continue

Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 18d

“If knowledge is power, then openness is resistance”.

Just found out @carolegoble.bsky.social dropped this at Dagstuhl. Thank you Carole, this means a lot!

Carole Goble talking at Schloss Dagstuhl

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks Jason. Look forward to eating late night pies with you in weird new places in whatever the next phase brings

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GigaScience Journal @gigascience.bsky.social · 21d

And it’s goodbye from me. Final GigaBlog from outgoing EiC @scedmunds.bsky.social on the major changes at GigaScience Press gigasciencejournal.com/blog/and-its...

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is great to know. There was an earlier longer draft where I wanted to mention software carpentry as a potential example of that. To start to develop some recommendations/guidelines we need to get a broad range of stakeholders and experts together. So it would be great to involve you in this

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Daniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org · Aug 28

From me, @mhmdhsini.bsky.social, and @scedmunds.bsky.social

Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity

The Scholarly Kitchen @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social · Aug 28

Guest Post – Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/28/g...

Guest Post – Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen

This post explores author, reviewer, and publisher ethics and responsibilities related to the use of AI in coding and publishing research software.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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Mohammad Hosseini @mhmdhsini.bsky.social · Aug 28

#code_plagiarism is REAL & #AI is negatively affecting the #integrity of code/software. Dan Katz, @scedmunds.bsky.social & I discuss involved issues & their impacts on #research_integrity & #publication_ethics in a @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social post: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/28/g...

Guest Post – Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen

This post explores author, reviewer, and publisher ethics and responsibilities related to the use of AI in coding and publishing research software.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thanks Herve Menager for showing me around the Pasteur Institute. It felt appropriate visiting the Yersin Building, as Alexandre Yersin (of Yersinia pestis fame) made his big breakthrough in Hong Kong. And I’ve long admired his statue in the HKMMS

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Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) @bosc.bsky.social · Jul 26

A few shots of the #BOSC2025 panelists discussing their thoughts on data sustainability. Panelists were @scedmunds.bsky.social, @cmungall.bsky.social, @varsha-khodiyar.bsky.social, Tony Burdett, and Nicky Mulder; the moderator was @monimunozto.bsky.social

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Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) @bosc.bsky.social · Jul 23

During the #BOSC2025 panel on Data Sustainability, @scedmunds.bsky.social shared his perspective from the world of open scientific publishing while moderator @monimunozto.bsky.social listened attentively.

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Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) @bosc.bsky.social · Jul 17

Don't miss the Data Sustainability panel at #BOSC2025: www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...
with ‪@cmungall.bsky.social‬, ‪@varsha-khodiyar.bsky.social‬, Nicky Mulder, Tony Burdett, @scedmunds.bsky.social, and moderator @monimunozto.bsky.social

What would you ask these data sustainability experts?

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · Jul 6

And now for something completely different, Robin Ince and Pierre Novellie at @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social discuss neurodivergence and comedy in a session on “Thinking differently and laughing loudly” #BradfordLitFest

Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · Jul 6

My first time at @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social, in the lovely city hall for the Muslim Women in Media session. Hearing interesting stories and perspectives from the media coalface #BradfordLitFest by

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · Jun 20

My cousin's daughter Persia has her debut single out today and it's brilliant! open.spotify.com/album/18DHXP...

No Hero

PERSIA · Single · 2025 · 1 songs

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · Jun 2

I’m glad bibliographic software messing up data citations is finally being quantified as I flagged this as problem 12 years ago at the @datacite.org meeting youtu.be/nzHM1BLYj0g?...

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · May 29

Watching the #WOOC2025 updates from Bologna again makes me wonder who the #openscience illuminati are that ensure all their important meetings are only held in cities beginning with B

OpenCitations @opencitations.bsky.social · May 28

#WOOC2025 is now taking off! Bianca Kramer introducing the Bologna Meeting on Open Research Information @barcelonadori.bsky.social

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · May 24

I’m definitely part Sicilian now. Or that’s what my bathroom scales tell me. Everything was so delicious

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · May 24

Parallel evolution of food, pt. 3. Sicilian tenerumi e cucuzza versus SE Asian chayote shoots (gourd shoots and tendrils) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chayote

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · May 24

Parallel evolution of food, pt. 2. Sicilian Pani câ meusa versus haggis baps (lung sandwich)

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