Blog Posts Archive

2025-01-17 First experiment with GPT tasks - a potential tool for research workflows. — hey

2025-01-15 Some memories of Cat Williams — hey

2025-01-12 Notes on four ideas - Paul Kedrosky - Jan 12th edition. — hey

2025-01-12 Some reads about what is going on with social media right now. — hey

2025-01-11 Addressing Research Integrity with Ringgold — hey

2025-01-05 Notes on four ideas - Paul Kedrosky - Jan 5th edition. — hey

2025-01-04 Questions for a better life. — hey

2025-01-01 What things might be true about scholarly publishing? — hey

2024-12-31 Interesting links found in December. — hey

2024-12-29 All my blog posts. — hey

2024-12-26 Where do emotions belong in the workplace? - Everywhere! — hey

2024-12-26 data showing AI productivity gains in materials science — hey

2024-12-22 Where infrastructure grows naturally, there, there may be opportunity. — hey

2024-12-22 My notes on the Ithaka report — hey

2024-12-22 "The truth infrastructure of the web" — hey

2024-12-21 Impact indicators, and clarivate. — hey

2024-12-19 Why I Disagree (and Agree) with This Take on Science and Open Access — hey

2024-12-19 Preprint validation. — hey

2024-12-17 GPT’s view on - What Have We Learned from Subscribe to Open? | Katina Magazine — hey

2024-12-17 two reports that I was interviewed for — hey

2024-12-10 Do we need a trust credit agency in scholarly publishing? — hey

2024-12-04 STM innovations winner - Knowledge Gate Group — hey

2024-11-27 Some interesting looking LLM tools — hey

2024-11-27 What tools do you use for research integrity? — hey

2024-11-27 Software companies as publishers? — hey

2024-11-17 I learnt two things today that I’m surprised I didn’t know before. — hey

2024-11-11 STM Digital Preservation Webinar — hey

2024-10-29 JOSS has a call for new editors — hey

2024-10-04 some interesting links - week 40 — hey

2024-10-01 we should not privatise peer review — hey

2024-10-01 should we try to detect AI generated text? — hey

2024-09-27 OpenAlex is putting together an advisory board. — hey

2024-09-22 McKinsey technology review. — hey

2024-09-21 visualising python dependency trees — hey

2024-09-08 Attention and technology - some questions. — hey

2024-09-06 Reuse Dryad data and win up to $100k from the 2024 Dataworks! Prize — hey

2024-08-19 fund for AI training — hey

2024-07-24 GenAI just over a year on - scoring my predictions — hey

2024-07-24 some recent GenAI news worth catching up on — hey

2024-06-03 I sat down to talk about how I think about GenAI in the context of BMJ — hey

2024-05-16 building product with LLMs - some advice from Will Larson — hey

2024-05-14 We are in the business of attention. — hey

2024-05-13 BMJ's response to the ICO commissioner's request about GenAI — hey

2024-05-13 two view on future energy needs of LLMs — hey

2024-05-12 What are we walking on? — hey

2024-05-12 data to paper, and some reflections on LLMs — hey

2024-05-06 Measuring the impact of google on research — hey

2024-05-05 What is it that we do, as publishers? — hey

2024-03-28 There is an upcoming STM integrity hub town hall — hey

2024-03-28 BMJ launches new clinical evidence product — hey

2024-03-27 The ICO have consolation out about GenAI — hey

2024-03-25 interesting post on governance — hey

2024-02-16 Silverchair AI lab — hey

2024-02-16 Staying optimistic. — hey

2024-02-11 AI clock — hey

2024-01-22 Links, and thoughts - week 3, 2024. — hey

2024-01-12 Reading - 2024 - Book 1 - The System of the World. — hey

2024-01-12 Interesting reads, and some thoughts, - week 2 - 2024 — hey

2024-01-12 Have we seen the end of growth for publishing hyper scalers? — hey

2024-01-10 Here are a couple of useful reads to kick off 2024 with GenAI. — hey

2024-01-07 Weekly Links, some thoughts - week 1 - 2024. — hey

2024-01-02 We are going to need new architectures for the web. — hey

2024-01-02 Some great advice on working with LLMs — hey

2023-12-25 My Climbing Year in Review - 2023 — hey

2023-12-23 Some interesting facts to close out 2023. — hey

2023-12-21 Interesting LLM Papers - December 2023 — hey

2023-12-21 AI and scholarly publishing - language assistance — hey

2023-12-01 Decision making - some tips on how to get better at it. — hey

2023-11-26 In our time - Einstein — hey

2023-11-26 In our time, the Ramayana — hey

2023-11-18 In our time - the chartists. — hey

2023-11-18 In our time Paul Erdos — hey

2023-11-17 GPT gets a conscience — hey

2023-11-09 magic, the command line, and large language models — hey

2023-11-08 The difference between OpenAI’s Assistants, GPTs, and system prompts. — hey

2023-11-07 What are large companies saying about the future of copyright? — hey

2023-10-31 Some thoughts on Futurepub - October 2023 — hey

2023-10-30 Implementing AI Governance — hey

2023-10-24 Three interesting Machine Learning Papers - Sept 2023 — hey

2023-10-16 Demystifying AI in the workplace — hey

2023-08-15 Two perspectives on how transformative LLMs will be. — hey

2023-08-14 How do you tell what energies people? — hey

2023-08-12 So, I’ve finally left twitter. — hey

2023-08-10 I've been interviewed on a podcast about tech and product — hey

2023-08-10 Things I’ve been reading online, since May — hey

2023-07-28 Multi-dimensional calendars. — hey

2023-07-20 How likely is it to generate a copyrighted image using a Generative ai tool such a stable diffusion? — hey

2023-07-20 LLMs evolve, they are not predictable, and that's challenging for product development — hey

2023-07-15 The BMJ is requiring code sharing. — hey

2023-07-14 Dryad is seeking new additions to the board. — hey

2023-06-27 In our time - megaliths. — hey

2023-06-26 Acting on the world, and understanding the world. — hey

2023-06-24 Precision vs recall when looking for fake research papers — hey

2023-06-24 In our time - Stevie Smith — hey

2023-06-24 In our time - John Donne — hey

2023-05-26 SAGE 10 year impact awards — hey

2023-05-22 In our time - Persuasion — hey

2023-05-21 Will AIs be scared if AIs, who cares? — hey

2023-05-12 things I've been reading - week 19 - 2023 — hey

2023-05-08 NIH Data Science Scholarships — hey

2023-05-06 in our time notes - Tycho Brahe — hey

2023-05-05 Some recent reads from around the web - week18 — hey

2023-04-29 Dryad board meeting 2023 — hey

2023-04-29 Rawls - in our time. — hey

2023-04-27 London Generative AI hackathon - some reflections — hey

2023-04-21 Some recent reads about how to think about large language models — hey

2023-04-20 In our time - superconductivity — hey

2023-04-19 I have just built my first Safari Extension! — hey

2023-03-08 The Challenger Expedition - 1872 — hey

2023-03-07 BMJ is sponsoring an AI Hackathon in London in April — hey

2023-03-04 In our time - The philippics. — hey

2023-02-08 A note on technological disruption, unintended consequences, and poo — hey

2023-02-05 A nee way of structuring a phd — hey

2023-02-02 What are the hard problems in innovating in healthcare? — hey

2023-01-26 usage shapes computing, computing shapes usage — hey

2023-01-07 A scaled way to step back from twitter. — hey

2023-01-07 Martin Fenner has launched a science blog indexing service — hey

2023-01-05 This researcher does not exist — hey

2023-01-01 My 2022 in review — hey

2022-12-25 async code reviews kill throughput. — hey

2022-12-25 How team composition affects science. — hey

2022-12-21 Micro Book Review - Going Digital — hey

2022-12-17 What trends in open science make me think about. — hey

2022-12-12 Some quick reflections on week 49 — hey

2022-12-09 a nice resource for learning how to graph things — hey

2022-12-09 what will be hard and what will be easy with AI — hey

2022-12-09 What looks interesting in AWS going in to 2023? — hey

2022-11-29 book review - rendezvous with Rama - Arthur c Clark. — hey

2022-11-22 Two pieces of news regarding large language models — hey

2022-11-12 eLife, peer review, and architectures of attention — hey

2022-11-08 fast tools for data processing — hey

2022-11-06 Questions to test your idea with — hey

2022-11-05 What will be the effect of Elon Musk on Altmetrics? — hey

2022-10-28 Wiley Partner Solutions — hey

2022-09-19 A good overview of challenges in adopting AI in healthcare. — hey

2022-09-07 When will researchers use AI to manipulate images? — hey

2022-09-05 Some quick Links - End of summer 2022 edition — hey

2022-09-05 Using GTP-3 to do some data cleaning — hey

2022-09-03 When should you build platforms? — hey

2022-08-26 DocMaps and integrations — hey

2022-08-25 docmaps - perhaps an effort to represent the creation of knowledge? — hey

2022-08-12 some experiments with DALL.E and AI generated images — hey

2022-07-27 Book review - “The Storm before the Storm” by Mike Duncan. — hey

2022-06-22 Book review - leviathan falls, the 10th book of the expanse series. — hey

2022-06-22 We don’t know ourselves - book review — hey

2022-05-28 Recent reading from across the web — late may edition 2022 — hey

2022-04-29 a breath of fresh air, a deeper perspective — hey

2022-03-29 A modern take on research communication - an emerging set of principles — hey

2022-03-29 Recent reads from across the web - week 13 — hey

2022-03-02 remix vs, well, vs lots of other things — hey

2022-03-02 reading list - week eight — hey

2022-03-02 open letter asking for more support for Ukrainian refugees — hey

2022-02-20 Weekly reading - weeks 4 through to six — hey

2022-01-26 What questions might we ask of AI systems in scholarly publishing? — hey

2022-01-26 Some brief pointers about misinformation and the pandemic. — hey

2022-01-22 Week 3 links of interest - more on AI, and a saxophone playing toilet! — hey

2022-01-21 How might we champion integrity? — hey

2022-01-15 AI - oh my, interesting links from week 2 of 2022 — hey

2022-01-09 easy reading to make writing easy - book review - the agile comms handbook — hey

2022-01-09 Brief links - 2022 week 1! — hey

2021-12-30 Book review - The duty of genius. — hey

2021-12-18 my climbing year in review. — hey

2021-12-16 remember the reproducibility project? — hey

2021-12-15 I have missed the conference circuit for the last few years — hey

2021-12-10 operative representation and the scholarly literature — hey

2021-12-02 what is going on with all the fake papers? — hey

2021-12-01 Is AI Magic already here for conference posters? — hey

2021-12-01 I take this as a sign that the pre-print world is maturing — hey

2021-11-23 A new NLP Challenge for mining biomedical literature — hey

2021-11-16 ConteTech Live 2021 - day one - what lies in the future? — hey

2021-10-29 as employers what are our obligations to to millions of micro workers? — hey

2021-10-26 a new again model of scholarly publishing — hey

2021-10-26 technology slippery slopes — hey

2021-09-18 eLife Reproducible Articles — hey

2021-07-15 I caught COVID - Again, after vaccination! — hey

2021-07-02 skills needed for the future of work! — hey

2021-06-30 Are we seeing the promise of AI in augmented productivity systems? — hey

2021-06-28 how much value can you get out of web scraping - quite a lot apparently! — hey

2021-05-29 A collection of infinities. — hey

2021-05-23 Book review - good to great. — hey

2021-05-13 The importance of diversity in science — hey

2021-04-29 Are we still figuring out preprints? — hey

2021-04-29 Where is "the business"? — hey

2021-04-27 The Open Access button has rebranded — hey

2021-04-10 The code check paper is out — hey

2021-04-10 Innovation focus, and target states — hey

2021-03-26 Biden indicates a step change to research funding is on the horizon — hey

2021-03-18 Even Wittgenstein had a hell of a time getting published — hey

2021-03-17 10 years of product failures, some personal stories — hey

2021-03-16 Primer.ai are an interesting company — hey

2021-03-16 — hey

2021-03-11 Reducing friction increases throughput. — hey

2021-03-10 why publishers should care about persistent identifiers (PIDs) ? — hey

2021-03-09 New "DARPA" style 300M fund for breakthrough biological science from Wellcome - Wellcome Leap — hey

2021-03-08 Four inspirational women — hey

2021-03-07 How to think about technical innovation in a medium to large organisation. — hey

2021-03-06 I’ve joined the advisory board of GetFTR — hey

2021-03-05 What’s up with peer review these days? — hey

2021-03-04 The enduring and astonishing wonder of the universe — hey

2021-03-04 Yet another blogging platform — hey

2020-09-27 12 week lattice training plan - review — partiallyattended

2020-09-25 Prakash lab - frugal science and the future of research — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2020-09-25 Prakash lab - frugal science and the future of research — partiallyattended

2020-07-12 Profit Trees and making business cases — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2020-07-12 Profit Trees and making business cases — partiallyattended

2020-07-03 CODECHECK - reviewing code in publications — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2020-07-03 CODECHECK - reviewing code in publications — partiallyattended

2020-07-02 Using Datasette to publish data — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2020-07-02 Using Datasette to publish data — partiallyattended

2020-02-13 Goodbye SAGE, hello BMJ! — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2020-02-13 Goodbye SAGE, hello BMJ! — partiallyattended

2019-12-11 thoughts on GetFTR — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2019-12-11 thoughts on GetFTR — partiallyattended

2019-12-06 Some brief thoughts on scholarly publishing and climate change. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2019-12-06 STM Research data workshop. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2019-12-06 Some brief thoughts on scholarly publishing and climate change. — partiallyattended

2019-12-06 STM Research data workshop. — partiallyattended

2019-12-05 STM Research data workshop. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2019-12-05 STM Research data workshop. — partiallyattended

2019-11-19 Google data set search. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2019-11-19 Google data set search. — partiallyattended

2019-11-13 rescognito - a route towards a weighted scholarly graph. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2019-11-13 rescognito - a route towards a weighted scholarly graph. — partiallyattended

2019-11-12 Where is research going - a Kudos report — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2019-11-12 Where is research going - a Kudos report — partiallyattended

2019-11-11 Rave tech conference 2019 — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2019-11-11 Rave tech conference 2019 — partiallyattended

2019-11-06 Unpaywall Journals - possibly the most interesting thing to happen this year in library subscription land. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2019-11-06 Unpaywall Journals - possibly the most interesting thing to happen this year in library subscription land. — partiallyattended

2019-11-04 Responsible metrics - the state of the art - Elizabeth Gadd at Force2019 — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2019-11-04 Responsible metrics, the state of the art, Elizabeth Gadd at Force2019 — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2019-11-04 Things holding back your analytics. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2019-11-04 Responsible metrics - the state of the art - Elizabeth Gadd at Force2019 — partiallyattended

2019-11-04 Responsible metrics, the state of the art, Elizabeth Gadd at Force2019 — partiallyattended

2019-11-04 Things holding back your analytics. — partiallyattended

2019-09-10 Book review - Tiamat’s wrath - book nine of the expanse series. — partiallyattended

2019-09-10 The three body problem. — partiallyattended

2019-09-05 Are scholarly publishers technology companies? — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2019-09-05 Strategies to reduce cognitive load, and make systems more robust whilst doing so, and why that’s important for product development. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2019-09-05 Are scholarly publishers technology companies? — partiallyattended

2019-09-05 Strategies to reduce cognitive load, and make systems more robust whilst doing so, and why that’s important for product development. — partiallyattended

2019-08-01 key questions about AI in the publishing knowledge industry — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2019-08-01 test blog post — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2019-08-01 key questions about AI in the publishing knowledge industry — partiallyattended

2019-08-01 test blog post — partiallyattended

2018-11-29 AGILE or agile? — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-11-29 AGILE or agile? — partiallyattended

2018-11-22 Some ruminations on software architecture and diagramming — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-11-22 Some ruminations on software architecture and diagramming — partiallyattended

2018-10-26 The state of retractions in the research literature. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-10-26 The state of retractions in the research literature. — partiallyattended

2018-10-24 RAVE publishing technology conference 2018 — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-10-24 RAVE publishing technology conference 2018 — partiallyattended

2018-10-19 Belmont Forum Round Table - data accessibility statements — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-10-19 Belmont Forum Round Table - data accessibility statements — partiallyattended

2018-10-18 One Two Four All - a technique for getting insights from groups — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-10-18 One Two Four All - a technique for getting insights from groups — partiallyattended

2018-10-17 One Two Four All - a technique for getting insights from groups. — partiallyattended

2018-07-04 blockchain in STEM - part 3 — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-07-04 testing a new form of peer review - again — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-07-04 blockchain in STEM - part 3 — partiallyattended

2018-07-04 testing a new form of peer review - again — partiallyattended

2018-07-03 notes on notes on “crossing the chasam” — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-07-03 notes on notes on “crossing the chasam” — partiallyattended

2018-06-29 Distill is dedicated to making machine learning clear and dynamic — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-06-29 Jobs to be Done A Case Study in the NHS | Digital transformation blog — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-06-29 Distill is dedicated to making machine learning clear and dynamic — partiallyattended

2018-06-29 Grants for Nonprofits | Grants for Researchers | Instrumentl — partiallyattended

2018-06-29 JavaScript End to End Testing Framework | Cypress.io — partiallyattended

2018-06-29 Jobs to be Done A Case Study in the NHS | Digital transformation blog — partiallyattended

2018-06-29 Narrative Science | Natural Language Generation Technology — partiallyattended

2018-06-29 Reaktor Breakpoint 2018 Ben Sauer, The rise of voice, and how to design for it - YouTube — partiallyattended

2018-06-29 Sentry | Error Tracking Software — JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, more — partiallyattended

2018-06-29 Voice Principles | Clearleft — partiallyattended

2018-06-26 blockchain in STEM - part 2 — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-06-26 blockchain in STEM - part 2 — partiallyattended

2018-06-21 OA negotiation manifesto from university of California. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-06-21 Preprints growth rate ten times higher than journal articles - Crossref — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-06-21 Scholia — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-06-21 Architect, The Killer Serverless Framework – Reify — partiallyattended

2018-06-21 Limiting “Software Infant mortality” rate — decoding GO-JEK’s Deployment Checklist — partiallyattended

2018-06-21 Model Zoo - Pretrained deep learning models for transfer learning, educational purposes, and more — partiallyattended

2018-06-21 OA negotiation manifesto from university of California. — partiallyattended

2018-06-21 Ongoing experiment in ‘Extreme Open Science’ announced at Structural Genomics Consortium - HBGDki — partiallyattended

2018-06-21 Preprints growth rate ten times higher than journal articles - Crossref — partiallyattended

2018-06-21 Research Software Engineering conference 2018 workshop abstract — partiallyattended

2018-06-21 Scholia — partiallyattended

2018-06-21 Unsupervised Extraction of Epidemic Syndromes from Participatory Influenza Surveillance Self-reported Symptoms | bioRxiv — partiallyattended

2018-06-19 Blockchain in STEM - part 1 — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-06-19 Blockchain in STEM - part 1 — partiallyattended

2018-06-07 Digital Radar - STM landscape — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-06-07 Strategy in a Lean Enterprise - lean value tree. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-06-07 Adequate statistical power in clinical trials is associated with the combination of a male first author and a female last author. — partiallyattended

2018-06-07 Advanced computing with IPython — partiallyattended

2018-06-07 After 5 years and $3M, here's everything we've learned from building Ghost — partiallyattended

2018-06-07 Digital Radar - STM landscape — partiallyattended

2018-06-07 Internet Archive, Code for Science and Society, and California Digital Library to Partner on a Data Sharing and Preservation Pilot Project — partiallyattended

2018-06-07 Open Knowledge Maps - social science map — partiallyattended

2018-06-07 Strategy in a Lean Enterprise - lean value tree. — partiallyattended

2018-06-07 The Cost of Developers – by Ben Thompson — partiallyattended

2018-06-07 VIPER - The Visual Project Explorer — partiallyattended

2018-06-06 About Backyard Brains — partiallyattended

2018-06-06 Cool slide deck about the advantages of using the shell for data science. — partiallyattended

2018-06-06 How to Visualize an XML Sitemap Using Python - Ayima — partiallyattended

2018-06-06 Impact of Social Sciences – The academic papers researchers regard as significant are not those that are highly cited — partiallyattended

2018-06-06 Mindcontrol A web application for brain segmentation quality control - ScienceDirect — partiallyattended

2018-06-06 The Guardian view on digitising culture make manuscripts more illuminating | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian — partiallyattended

2018-05-18 eLife Innovation Sprint - appstract.pub — partiallyattended

2018-05-16 A new new way to make biological data more easily citable — partiallyattended

2018-05-16 Alexa is becoming less popular as a baby name since the Amazon service launched. — partiallyattended

2018-05-16 Computer replaces workers, workers ty to turn into data scientists. — partiallyattended

2018-05-16 Google employees resigning in protest at potential militarisation of AI — partiallyattended

2018-05-16 Is caution justified when thinking about docker? — partiallyattended

2018-05-16 US phone companies are selling your real time location data. — partiallyattended

2018-05-11 Hunting for structure in nested JSON with python just got a whole lot easier — partiallyattended

2018-05-09 Some initial thoughts on the Google Duplex demo — partiallyattended

2018-05-04 choice magazine podcast Questions — partiallyattended

2018-04-27 AI and discovery tools — partiallyattended

2018-04-27 Where once we dreamt of many gardens, now we have many walls — partiallyattended

2018-04-19 Microsoft Surface Hub - very first impressions — partiallyattended

2018-04-19 python - running commands from within a directory — partiallyattended

2018-04-19 Where should you host your Kubernetes solution? — partiallyattended

2018-04-18 scholarly comms product meetup - V2 - announcement — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2018-04-18 scholarly comms product meetup - V2 - announcement — partiallyattended

2017-11-09 The robots are coming, the promise and perils of AI - questions — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2017-11-09 The robots are coming, the promise and perils of AI - questions — partiallyattended

2017-09-14 Kubernetes - As I Learn — partiallyattended

2017-09-14 Software Publishing To Maximise Data Value, slides from ALPSP — partiallyattended

2017-09-13 Moving from Jekyll to Hugo - urls — partiallyattended

2017-07-20 I'm hiring a product manager — partiallyattended

2017-07-13 ic2s2 - Thursday, closing keynotes — partiallyattended

2017-07-13 ic2s2 Thursday morning keynotes — partiallyattended

2017-07-12 ic2s2 Wednesday morning keynotes — partiallyattended

2017-07-12 IC2s2 Wikipedia track, Wednesday — partiallyattended

2017-07-11 IC2s2 - Tuesday Morning — partiallyattended

2017-07-11 IC2s2 Tuesday Afternoon Keynotes — partiallyattended

2017-07-10 IC2s2 2017, conference preview — partiallyattended

2017-03-16 Futurepub10 — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2017-03-16 Futurepub10 — partiallyattended

2017-03-15 Three posts about product development — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2017-03-15 Three posts about product development — partiallyattended

2017-01-10 PLOS are looking for a new CEO — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2017-01-10 Reverse DOI lookups with Crossref — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2017-01-10 PLOS are looking for a new CEO — partiallyattended

2017-01-10 Reverse DOI lookups with Crossref — partiallyattended

2016-12-15 Hello SAGE! — partiallyattended

2016-12-15 What do we mean when we talk about Big Data? — partiallyattended

2016-12-13 What we mean when we talk about preprints — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2016-12-13 What we mean when we talk about preprints — partiallyattended

2016-12-09 Social Humanities DataHack event — partiallyattended

2016-12-09 Textometrica, a tool review — partiallyattended

2016-12-08 Covalent Data, first impressions — partiallyattended

2016-12-08 Something broke in a Jekyll upgrade (a.k.a, sometimes I hate software) — partiallyattended

2016-06-21 I’m voting IN, and you should too — partiallyattended

2016-06-19 SSRN and Elsevier — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2016-06-15 Goodbye eLife! — partiallyattended

2015-05-17 A(peeling) Peer Review, a proposal. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2015-05-17 A(peeling) Peer Review, a proposal. — partiallyattended

2015-05-11 data science vs statistics talk at the RSS — partiallyattended

2015-04-16 aws london summit notes — partiallyattended

2015-03-13 RIP Terry Pratchett — partiallyattended

2015-03-05 Some thoughts about product management — partiallyattended

2015-02-19 Wittgenstein and Physics, Cross College Oxford one day seminar — partiallyattended

2015-02-11 Climbing outlook for 2015 — partiallyattended

2015-02-04 The 70/90 Rule — partiallyattended

2015-01-28 FuturePub Jan 2015 - Lens Next — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2015-01-28 FuturePub Jan 2015 - Lens Next — partiallyattended

2015-01-19 Some thoughts on FORCE2015, science trust and ethics. — partiallyattended

2014-09-26 synthesis of breakout session from day 1 - institutions and metrics — partiallyattended

2014-09-24 thoughts on the ERC data workshop — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2014-09-24 FuturePub3 - September 2014 event — partiallyattended

2014-09-24 thoughts on the ERC data workshop — partiallyattended

2014-09-21 ERC data management workshop, day 1 — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2014-09-21 ERC data management workshop, day 2 — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2014-09-21 ERC data management workshop, day 1 — partiallyattended

2014-09-21 ERC data management workshop, day 2 — partiallyattended

2014-08-11 Some pittfalls in using iPython to generate talk slides — partiallyattended

2014-08-09 shortcuts that I use for the git command line — partiallyattended

2014-07-29 looking for ideas for our wikimania talk on open scholarship tools — partiallyattended

2014-05-30 FuturePub - future of publishing event, hosted by NESTA and WriteLaTeX — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2014-05-30 Designing better UX deliverables - Anna Dahlström — partiallyattended

2014-05-30 FuturePub - future of publishing event, hosted by NESTA and WriteLaTeX — partiallyattended

2014-04-16 Trial by public, open peer review and the power of attention. — partiallyattended

2014-04-14 April digital strategy forum — partiallyattended

2014-04-08 Php user group March 2013 - BeHat. — partiallyattended

2014-03-30 Climbing goals update 1, 2014 — partiallyattended

2014-03-23 Discussing Open Access - a comment — partiallyattended

2014-01-31 How to create threads between publications and clinical trial registraion numbers — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2014-01-31 How to create threads between publications and clinical trial registraion numbers — partiallyattended

2014-01-18 WriteLateX/Overleaf launch event at the British Library — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2014-01-18 Review of climbing goals, goals for 2014 — partiallyattended

2014-01-18 WriteLateX/Overleaf launch event at the British Library — partiallyattended

2014-01-08 advice on publishing research online — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2014-01-08 advice on publishing research online — partiallyattended

2013-12-04 STM innovations seminar, London, 2013 — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2013-12-04 STM innovations seminar, London, 2013 — partiallyattended

2013-12-03 STM brainstorming session - 2013 — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2013-12-03 STM brainstorming session - 2013 — partiallyattended

2013-12-02 Hidden In Plain Sight — partiallyattended

2013-11-19 Setting up Vagrant, Librarian-Chef and Vagrant aws plugins on OSX Mavericks. — partiallyattended

2013-11-10 Spoton13 — partiallyattended

2013-11-06 Vertigo — partiallyattended

2013-10-17 PLOS ALM 13 day 2 — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2013-10-17 PLOS ALM 13 day 2 — partiallyattended

2013-10-16 PLOS ALM 13, day1 — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2013-10-16 NISO ALM standardization workshop — partiallyattended

2013-10-16 PLOS ALM 13, day1 — partiallyattended

2013-09-30 Cambridge usability group - UX and agile — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2013-09-30 Cambridge usability group - UX and agile — partiallyattended

2013-07-29 Some advice on learning web development. — partiallyattended

2013-07-02 EC consultation on Open Data - a report. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2013-07-02 EC consultation on Open Data - my presentation. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2013-07-02 EC consultation on Open Data - a report. — partiallyattended

2013-07-02 EC consultation on Open Data - my presentation. — partiallyattended

2013-05-16 Some Thoughts on web scale annotation. — partiallyattended

2013-04-27 Some thoughts on the Taylor and Francis Survey. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2013-04-27 Some thoughts on the Taylor and Francis Survey. — partiallyattended

2013-04-23 Communicating better, moving from virtualenv to vagrant/Chef — partiallyattended

2013-03-24 Climbing review of 2012, goals 2013. — partiallyattended

2013-03-24 Font, Spring 2011, quick report — partiallyattended

2013-03-24 Font, Spring 2013, preview — partiallyattended

2013-01-30 ENCODE - an example of open publication and data integration. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2013-01-30 ENCODE - an example of open publication and data integration. — partiallyattended

2013-01-23 Product Tank 6, big data — partiallyattended

2012-11-12 SpotOn day 2. — partiallyattended

2012-11-11 SpotOn day 1. — partiallyattended

2012-11-11 The new food. — partiallyattended

2012-11-10 Last minute changes to our solo12journals line up. — partiallyattended

2012-10-28 The journal is dead, long live the journal - abstract. — partiallyattended

2012-10-11 Data literature integration workshop. — partiallyattended

2012-10-03 Mind the product 2012, notes. — partiallyattended

2012-10-02 Going for gold, open access debate. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2012-10-02 Going for gold, open access debate. — partiallyattended

2012-08-22 The slow web, more thoughtful experiences. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2012-08-22 The slow web, more thoughtful experiences. — partiallyattended

2012-07-17 academic ghost towns, Google scholar and Mendeley — partiallyattended

2012-07-17 sharing documents with google apps for your domain — partiallyattended

2012-07-12 The cost of production — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2012-07-12 The cost of production — partiallyattended

2012-07-11 XMP wrangling on OS X — partiallyattended

2012-07-08 What use metaphor? — partiallyattended

2012-07-02 Elio — partiallyattended

2012-06-26 Did you just tell me to go fuck myself? — partiallyattended

2012-06-18 Some Thoughts on Peer Review and Altmetrics — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2012-06-18 Some Thoughts on Peer Review and Altmetrics — partiallyattended

2012-06-17 Augmented Peer Review — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2012-06-17 Augmented Peer Review — partiallyattended

2012-06-17 Super quick start guide to fluidinfo — partiallyattended

2012-05-08 The Tractaus, a mini-review — partiallyattended

2012-05-05 Leaving Mendeley — partiallyattended

2012-01-18 Mendeley, an investment branch of the citation bank. — partiallyattended

2012-01-17 SOPA and PIPA stink, but the RWA is more dangerous to science. — partiallyattended

2012-01-08 Climbing Goals 2012, review 2011 — partiallyattended

2011-11-21 example title — partiallyattended

2011-11-20 Update on MathJax — partiallyattended

2011-10-13 Converting between dates and unix time in Python — partiallyattended

2011-10-07 Nature, Whiskey and me — partiallyattended

2011-10-06 Hindawi have an awesome reviewing system. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2011-10-06 Hindawi have an awesome reviewing system. — partiallyattended

2011-10-03 Megajournals — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2011-10-03 The rude health of Open Access Publishing. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2011-10-03 Megajournals — partiallyattended

2011-10-03 The rude health of Open Access Publishing. — partiallyattended

2011-09-02 Science Online London Keynote, Michael Nielson on Open Sciecne — partiallyattended

2011-09-02 SOLO11, day1, morning sessions. — partiallyattended

2011-09-01 Talkfest, science and community — partiallyattended

2011-08-30 ArXiV at 20, a brief review. — partiallyattended

2011-08-08 Serendipity, a chance encounter (obviously) — partiallyattended

2011-03-31 Robert Bunsen's Birthday — partiallyattended

2011-03-30 Sits meeting notes, November 2010. — partiallyattended

2011-03-29 mini-review of "Measuring the User Experience on a Large Scale" — partiallyattended

2011-02-27 Our gospels define us — partiallyattended

2011-02-06 Rat in the Snow — partiallyattended

2011-01-04 Turning the Physics ArXiV into an Open Peer Review System. — scholarly-comms-product-blog

2011-01-04 Turning the Physics ArXiV into an Open Peer Review System. — partiallyattended

2010-12-20 Cancelled :( Drinks with Chris Wiggins. — partiallyattended

2010-12-13 Wrangling image metadata — partiallyattended

2010-11-14 Video workflow with a mac using iMovie and capturing with a Lumix GF1 — partiallyattended

2010-11-02 Arriving in Paulo Alto for the DLF fall forum — partiallyattended

2010-11-02 DLF opening keynote, beyond buckets and boxes — partiallyattended

2010-11-02 San Francisco, and science hack day discussions — partiallyattended

2010-10-18 save mailfolder messages to a file using applescript — partiallyattended

2010-09-24 Citation Style Language — partiallyattended

2010-09-14 The Future of Knowledge Organisation on the Web, a one day conference. — partiallyattended

2010-09-13 Slides from APS Talk, August, 2010 — partiallyattended

2010-09-07 Connecting Scientific Resources, Slides — partiallyattended

2010-09-06 science scraping with YQL — partiallyattended

2010-08-27 Connecting Scientific Resources — partiallyattended

2010-08-23 Passing arguments in liquid templates. — partiallyattended

2010-08-15 Testing Code Hilighting — partiallyattended

2010-07-14 Notes from JISC activity streams workshop — partiallyattended

2010-07-05 Read mail in intervals on OS X — partiallyattended

2010-07-03 my first post — partiallyattended

2010-05-12 hackney are fuckers. — partiallyattended

2010-05-04 Edinburgh, first draft — partiallyattended

2010-04-29 A mini rant about LaTeX — partiallyattended

2010-04-13 creating a tumblog — partiallyattended

2010-03-22 The three ages of Elvis in potatoes! — partiallyattended

2010-03-17 Kierkegaard, forgetting and existence — partiallyattended

2010-02-19 Python PEP for a graph API — partiallyattended

2010-02-10 Probabilistic language models, auto-correction tools and scientific discovery. — partiallyattended

2010-02-08 4 ways to set the heigth of your open social gadget — partiallyattended

2010-02-04 Banks and Credit Card companies are fuckers — partiallyattended

2010-02-04 Cost benefit of publishing academic books, — partiallyattended

2010-02-04 Identity systems, science and the internet — partiallyattended

2010-02-04 What's the right amount to charge for phone content? — partiallyattended

2010-02-02 what makes a chocolate "cheeky" — partiallyattended

2010-01-29 opensocial development on eclipse, starting the web server — partiallyattended

2010-01-28 quick thoughts on the iPad — partiallyattended

2010-01-20 Usage of graph layouts on Biostor — partiallyattended

2010-01-04 Climbing Goals 2010, review 2009. — partiallyattended

2009-12-01 dreaming of snow — partiallyattended

2009-12-01 Keeping Dopplr and iCal in two way sync. — partiallyattended

2009-11-20 Strange anxiety dream — partiallyattended

2009-10-31 Notes from the Google Wave London roadshow — partiallyattended

2009-10-19 Django models vs. Pickling objects for object persistence. — partiallyattended

2009-10-03 An interesting invitation — partiallyattended

2009-08-25 Comparing Windmill to Safariwatir — partiallyattended

2009-08-17 Cron, python and Google Wave — partiallyattended

2009-08-13 Why I think the Drake equation is a crock of shit. — partiallyattended

2009-07-29 Swine flu t-shirts — partiallyattended

2009-06-11 Fluid Dynamics in the Browser — partiallyattended

2009-05-20 unknown post — partiallyattended

2009-04-16 Another great example of how being lazy can reap great rewards — partiallyattended

2009-04-14 Neat blog on Sankey diagrams. — partiallyattended

2009-04-14 notes on "Classes of complex networks deﬁned by role-to-role connectivity proﬁles" — partiallyattended

2009-04-14 Why measure scientists and their work? — partiallyattended

2009-04-13 Directed Graph blog setup. — partiallyattended

2009-04-13 Grave of the reverend Thomas Bayes — partiallyattended

2009-04-13 Moving over to the googleverse — partiallyattended

2009-04-13 Why I'm setting up this blog — partiallyattended

2009-04-12 Adding a tag cloud to blogger — partiallyattended

2009-04-12 Getting listed on nature blogs — partiallyattended

2009-04-12 testing latex and syntax hilighting on blogger — partiallyattended

2009-03-10 I woke up today and git-svn was broken. — partiallyattended

2009-03-09 Rail in the UK is really pretty shitty — partiallyattended

2009-03-02 Five places to eat in New York, mmmmm — partiallyattended

2009-03-02 other tips for new york — partiallyattended

2009-02-18 Not a smart way to do this. — partiallyattended

2009-02-18 Training Diary Catchup — partiallyattended

2009-02-18 unknown post — partiallyattended

2009-02-13 Wrangling data from a mysql db — partiallyattended

2009-02-10 Training diary, week 5 — partiallyattended

2009-02-09 Converting a mysql schmea into an entity relationship diagram — partiallyattended

2009-02-07 Even Santa goes to see the rugby — partiallyattended

2009-02-02 weekly training log, week 4 — partiallyattended

2009-02-02 Weekly training report, week 3 — partiallyattended

2009-01-21 Code Higlighting in Blogger — partiallyattended

2009-01-21 unknown post — partiallyattended

2009-01-21 wrapping c code for python using swig on Mac OS X — partiallyattended

2009-01-17 Weekly training report, week 2 — partiallyattended

2009-01-14 Is RSS dead, and why is it dying? — partiallyattended

2009-01-12 Nasty week ahead — partiallyattended

2009-01-09 World War II, Science and Springer Authors — partiallyattended

2009-01-08 Wekly training report, week 1. — partiallyattended

2008-12-23 Review of Climbing Goals for 2008. — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 a great presentation about books and community — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 A minor milestone in leisurely reading — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 blogging darwin — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 bus podcast idea — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 chasing cars — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 climbing milestone — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 Cloverfield — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 collaborative intelligence and the pidgeonhole problem — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 Creationism as Science, — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 digital archeology, finding traces in the bits — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 drowning in the streamosphere — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 Efficient Name Disambiguation for Large-Scale Databases — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 further confustion — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 getting married and buying an iPhone are probably incompatible. — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 How I learned to stop worrying and love RSS — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 how to learn python — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 I didn't expect lock in so quickly — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 ikea is like a biological machine — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 incentives — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 iPhone prediction market — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 Max OS X does not have gethrtime and as a result cannot load Time::HR — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 mozy backup service — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 netsci08 blogging — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 netsci08 opening keynote — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 network branching, netsci08 — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 Networks in Space, Mark Newman, netsci08 — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 networks; head to head — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 nice idea for improving the six nations rugby tournament — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 perl and again, — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 Predictably Irrational — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 progress — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 question of the day, evil vice presidents — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 sadly I've just discovered that vox sucks — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 scribed is cool, but — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 social networks — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 Soft peer review — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 star wars — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 subprime mortgage crises explained using stick figures — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 test a link — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 Testing out a new blog platform — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 The gap between Open Access and Editorial Quality — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 Ubigraph — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 Upcoming.org Founder Creates Fireball (Fire Eagle + DodgeBall + Twitter) — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 We have been nominated for a webby — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 what apps do I want on the iPhone? — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 Why the LHC is not really that impressive — partiallyattended

2008-12-21 Your Brightkite Invite — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 agile programming — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 An idea for an interface for picture search — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 and while we are at it here are the references from that article — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 Are Academics Prostitutes — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 BarCamp Cambridge - James Smith talking about Ensemble, head of the internet team for Ensemble — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 BarCamp Cambridge - James talking about HTML5 — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 BarCamp Cambridge - teacking computers to understand text, Peter Corbett — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 BarCamp Cambridge Jeff Fates, Drupal — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 BarCamp Cambridge, ARM microcontroler — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 BarCamp Cambridge, Tom Morris, Semantic Web for hackers — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 comment on climbing goals — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 CPANPLUS and Mac OSX — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 friends of mine of TV — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 get addicted, feed the world — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 Get Slimmer Pets — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 Getting motivated for climbing — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 getting started — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 google reader now has search — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 Great places to hang out in Den Haag — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 If programming is magic, then the old languages are strong — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 Installing Python Image Library on a Mac — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 Liam dropping by london — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 live blogging from BarCamp Cambridge, — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 live blogging from BarCamp Cambridge, Laura James — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 live blogging from BarCamp Cambridge, Matt's discussion — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 live blogging from BarCamp Cambridge, Matt's talk — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 Mining social data, what Flickr tells us about place — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 Money Saving Web Sites for Living in the UK — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 mozy backup service — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 New terminal in Mac OS 10.5 is nice — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 Open Reviewing — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 open science — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 Patents and Peer Review, kissing cousins? — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 Potter prediction — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 pythonic is a way of thinking — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 restaurant BAYOU Berlin — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 Sci - foo lurking — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 Simpsian — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 sometimes, just sometimes a piece of news makes me smile — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 spreading of meme's behavior driven transmission of an idea — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 The fruitcakes have a talking form — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 The Laboratory Website and Video Awards — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 Tips for switching from Windows to Mac — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 Today at lunch duplicators and instantiators — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 Weddings make you fat — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 weekend grill — partiallyattended

2008-07-14 Why do all of the science fiction authors have all of the really good ideas already? — partiallyattended

2006-06-29 Volvox — partiallyattended

2006-06-26 Economics and The New World Order, — partiallyattended

1-01-01 — partiallyattended

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