This claim is common in Wikipedia discussions; most recently, I read it in an article by Andy Tattersall on the LSE Impact of Social Science blog. I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but is it true of Wikipedia? You don’t have …
Some of the AI tools in use for scholarly publishing
A fascinating webinar by MyScienceWork examined this question, and certainly provided some answers, some directly, and others by implication. The webinar is available on YouTube, but if you are in a …
The new funding will allow eLife to advance its vision for a system of curation around preprints that replaces journal titles as the primary trust indicator of a
Some years ago, I read the wonderfully titled How to talk about books you haven’t read (Pierre Bayard, 2007) (and yet, I actually read it from start to finish). Actually, Bayard’s book isn’t quite about the kind …
Reading Time: 4minutesWhat Blinkist offers its members
Blinkist really has something. Forget the awful title, and the attempt to present the service as the internet equivalent of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends: as you can see from the advert above, reading …
Reading Time: 4minutesLibraries can be oppressive (image: David Whelan)
I usually find the Impact of Science blog at the LSE site interesting and well informed: an easily readable summary of academic research. A post today, however, struck me as highly questionable: Is …
This book is no atlas; the term “atlas” suggests a neutral presentation. Instead, Kate Crawford’s book is a virulent critique of all AI. A better title would be “How computing forms part of the power structure of the modern world”:
Reading Time: 5minutesThe most startling slide from the event: users are not happy with Enterprise Search (from Martin White’s presentation)
Anyone interested in search and discovery is spoilt for choice at present. First, the excellent Haystack conference on open-source search, and now the …
A car stuck in the mud (photo by Aubrey Odom, Unsplash)
A new article by Johan Chu and James Evans (Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science” suggests some major problems in the current state of scientific research. The authors, …
