Richard Sever

It should be noted that Google has noticed the backlash enough that they quietly published a code that would removed AI results for their searches.

An enterprising person built a default site to search without AI, and the results are goddamn refreshing as hell.
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Agree 100%. My 2c is that there’s almost always a better term/phrase that more accurately conveys what is being discussed.

US "the only major country on Earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people"

Deaminase-assisted single-molecule and single-cell chromatin fiber sequencing Gene regulation is mediated by the co-occupancy of numerous proteins along individual chromatin fibers. However, our tools for deeply profiling how proteins co-occupy individual fibers, especially at ...

What an amazing assay.

DAF-seq, the evolution of Fiber-seq from the Andrew Stergachis group, using the @pacbio.bsky.social platform:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This will revolutionise our understanding of transcriptional regulation and functional non-coding variants.

Monday: why we need a new "media theory" for open science Join me Monday at 12:30pm Eastern for a virtual panel on how open academic publishing can help rebuild trust in research

Sneak peak of what we'll discuss on our "media theory of open science" virtual panel on Monday with @richardsever.bsky.social, @needhibhalla.bsky.social & @rachelzamzow.bsky.social at @journoresource.bsky.social/@shorensteinctr.bsky.social.

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Happening this monday

yep - the irony of the source

Lancet editor: "I can’t forgive Bhattacharya and Makary...both know reliable evidence does not exist to restrict paracetamol use during pregnancy...both know evidence linking vaccines to autism simply doesn't exist. What are they doing?"

[politics - that's what]

www.thelancet.com/action/showP...

Saying reluctance to revisit questions about vaccine safety is because the research might give "politically incorrect answers" rather because the scientific evidence is utterly convincing is disgraceful www.thelancet.com/action/showP...

yeah I couldn't find any info about whether new content processing is affected (it has with shutdowns in the past)

As I recall EuroPMC is a mirror. It will not show new content PubMed is unable to process because of the shutdown

Can’t believe you copied me!

That’s the point of the 3/n post

It *may* be copyright breach if output is verbatim. There's still fair use for re-use.

right - good point

YouTube video by CNI: Coalition for Networked Information Closing Plenary: Open Access, Open Scholarship, & Machine Learning: A Panel & Community Conversation

Full discussion is with some interesting consideration of legal aspects, (lack of) role of licensing, and philosophical aspects. Couple years ago but I think it still holds up 4/n www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ABz...

YouTube video by CNI: Coalition for Networked Information Richard Sever considers the ethics and infrastructure of #AI in the closing plenary panel at CNI

That doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned about winners and losers in AI and water rights are a good analogy youtube.com/shorts/dJP0u... 3/n

Both @lisalibrarian.bsky.social and I keep saying this. IMO academia has to deal with this, not conjure an OA fantasy where reuse excludes LLMs.

After all the purpose of knowledge generation is reuse. As I said at CNI, this is not the situation screenwriters or musicians find themselves in. 2/n

Outliers | Clarke & Esposito Will HHMI’s new preprint policy have any impact on the larger market? 85% of marketers use GenAI tools.

"Courts leaning toward training [of AI] is “fair use” not subject to copyright restriction...none of the [CC licenses] take away what one can do with copyrighted content.”

☝️ training is legal. It's only copyright breach if _output_ is verbatim reproduction 1/2

www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/ou...

That and hardly anyone seems to be able to make a decent Martini, so relocation is practically inconceivable

Yes, yes, Europe has its benefits. Walkable cities. Cultural heritage. Amazing food. Little gun violence. Healthcare. Governments that are not shut down. But the number of website pop-ups asking one to accept cookies renders the continent pretty much unlivable.

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- @prepub-singlecell.bsky.social for #singlecell papers
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Another record month for bioRxiv - and further evidence the pandemic spike+dip was just that and growth continues. Thanks to all involved and that includes 🫵

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In fairness they also say "preprint servers such as bioRxiv and medRxiv...allow users to set up RSS feeds or e-mail alerts on the basis of keywords, authors or subject areas...preprints give early insight into emerging findings...because they appear...months before peer-reviewed publication"

Our latest ‘call for preLighters’ closes tonight!

Interested, but didn’t find the time to write an application? Expressions of interest are also welcome – just email us at prelights@biologists.com

Why join? See what other preLighters have to say…⬇️👀

I'm always reminded of Tim Hunt's description of going to the library: "flipping through tables of contents of all the latest issues, hoping there isn't something relevant to your work..." 3/n

Journal TOCs do allow occasional serendipitous discoveries other strategies don't yet enable. Meanwhile, highlights, reviews, news & views, etc. do point to things one should read, and I see a continued role for journals in curation 2/n

How to find the papers you need to read — and avoid the ones you don’t With thousands of papers being published everyday, it can be a task working out which matter. Here are some tips to help you decide.

"One of the simplest and most reliable ways to stay current is through journal table of contents (ToC) alerts"

Discuss...

My 2c: For many fields, this is an inefficient strategy for primary research - most papers simply won't be relevant. But... 1/n

www.nature.com/articles/d41...