Ian Mulvany

I’ll tell you way through. PIDs make it a hell of a lot easier to stitch trust markers together!

Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors Initial results from scanning through Excel files belonging to 600 published scientific papers.

Today, a study was published on Science Detective featuring case studies of datasets published on Dryad.

The study is a testament to the importance of #opendata in supporting research integrity by enabling validation.

You can read the report here: www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-d...

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Looking forward to FORCE2026 keynote- Surviving the Disruption: Scholarly Communication in the Age of AI by Ian Mulvany, Chief Technology Officer, BMJ Group

event.fourwaves.com/force2026/sc... - Early Bird Registration for FORCE 2026, 3-5 Jun,Singapore is still available!

@ianmulvany.bsky.social

I thought it was impactful, clear, specific, and actionable.

At #r2rconf we created some AI generated assets in the AI workshop, you can see what kinds of things were generated here mulvany.net/r2r/, presentations, games, visualizations, and a cartoon.

Highlight of the conference for me so far.

Slide showing the 7 injustices of AI in STM publishing: - AI tools simply perform worse in non-English languages. - Cultural bias. - Knowledge gaps. - Language laundering. - Reinforcement of publication barriers. - Economic inequality. - Epistemic injustice.

Very important presentation on how AI can exacerbate the inequities that are already huge in the global scholarly communication system. #r2rconf

At the debate at the end of day one. Both debators making emotive and inaccurate claims in relation to the motion. #R2Rconf.

How ethically would you report AI use on manuscript submission - play this game to find out - mulvany.net/r2r/ai_use_g...

@r2rconf.bsky.social - mulvany.net/r2r/ai_use_p... use case permission map against policy - output from 1st workshop today. #r2rconf

Yes. It’s because of bots. We had to decline something like half a billion requests from bot scraping on BMJ sites in the last 30 days.

@simonwillison.net i just saw your post about chatjimmy, and i tried it out and this has totally freaked me out.

OpenAI PRISM I am in a state of confusion and wonder. Most of the time I’m able to suppress this and stumble through my days without thinking too much, but now and again I fail and my attention gets arrested by th...

I wrote about Prism - the new tool from OpenAI world.hey.com/ian.mulvany/...

Oh, I see you saw it. I was about to post the link on here.

Good luck!

AI & Me - a snapshot of how people in publishing are using AI right now.

Please fill out my AI usage survey if you work in publishing.
Which models are you using? How often? What's delivering value? Takes under 5 minutes. Contributors get early access to results before I share them more widely towards the end of the month: ai-and-me.innovationideas.co.uk

Ah memories! We built an island for nature - second nature, and ran conferences in SL.

I have a long blogpost coming.

Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys | Wiz Blog Learn how a misconfigured Supabase database at Moltbook exposed 1.5M API keys, private messages, and user emails, enabling full AI agent takeover.

A great example of the crap security in vibe-coded slop apps...

www.wiz.io/blog/exposed...

Perplexity Cannot Always Tell Right from Wrong Perplexity -- a function measuring a model's overall level of "surprise" when encountering a particular output -- has gained significant traction in recent years, both as a loss function and as a simp...

Bluesky doesn’t really shine yet as a place to discover papers, especially at the intersection of biology and ML. To help a little, I’m going to start sharing papers I find interesting. To kick things off, here’s one from @petar-v.bsky.social and colleagues at DeepMind
arxiv.org/abs/2601.22950

New tool exposes scale of fake research flooding cancer science A new machine learning tool has identified more than 250,000 cancer research papers that may have been produced by so-called “paper mills”.

“If fabricated studies make their way into the evidence base, they can mislead real scientists and ultimately slow progress for patients."

Published in The BMJ, a new AI tool developed by @aidybarnett.bsky.social and colleagues has exposed the scale of fake studies flooding cancer research.

They played with Julian Lennon. It was a great gig!

Saw them live in NYC.

blogging expectations in 2026 I have been blogging for twenty years. Last year I wrote more than one post per week. I was very happy about that. You can see my posts here - https://mulvany.net/all-my-posts.html. AI is accelerating...

world.hey.com/ian.mulvany/... / I’ve been blogging for 20 years this year.

Doctors

This year we will launch a BMJ commission on the future of the doctor.

We seek your support and your ideas for an inquiry built on the premise that if society seeks the best for patients it must also seek the best for its future doctors.

@kamranabbasi.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Ireland getting nervous

I did my first escape room yesterday.

I also had a great chat with the folks at @humworks.bsky.social yesterday and what they are doing with AI in peer review is also awesome.

At BMJ we are doing some really interesting and important work with our partners at AWS to see how far we can push Agents in support of peer review. Very early days, but so interesting to see what these systems are capable of right now.

I have a “Riccola” hat. I got it over Xmas, I’m delighted with it. Riiiiiicooooolaaaaa !