Mark Hahnel
hahnel.org
Mark Hahnel
@hahnel.org
Figshare Founder, Digital Science, DataCite, DOAJ, re3data #openscience #openaccess #openresearch #desci #stemcells #genomes
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"Slop" is @merriam-webster.com's word of the year.

To celebrate (?), I decided to collect the generative A.I. slop imagery has been creeping into academic journals. For scholarly use.

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#AcademicChatter
Pulled From the Trough: Slop Images in Academic Journals
This project collects images created using generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) that have appeared in academic journals.If you run across examples of gen AI images in journals or books - whethe...
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December 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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📢 NEWS: Kharon & Digital Science have formed a new partnership, bringing together Kharon’s risk intelligence and our world-leading Dimensions Research Security platform.

Together, we're strengthening institutions' #ResearchSecurity.

🔗 See our announcement: https://ow.ly/QEBe50XKimK
December 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I asked claude about the credibility of a nuclear physics preprint and it gave me this

I now think this should be implemented across all arxiv papers
December 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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🎄 On the 3rd day of DS AI Christmas, Overleaf gave to me… 3 ways to write efficiently. 🎶

Now available in beta, Overleaf's new chat-based #AI experience helps improve document quality, save time formatting & fixing errors, and accelerates learning LaTeX.

🔗 https://ow.ly/aVV350XGORA

#DSChristmas
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Digital Science invites Overleaf users to test next-gen AI capabilities
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New features "designed to allow users to spend more time on research and innovation rather than on time-intensive tasks.”
@digital-science.com @dimensions.ai
Digital Science invites Overleaf users to test next-gen AI capabilities - Research Information
New features "designed to allow users to spend more time on research and innovation rather than on time-intensive tasks.”
www.researchinformation.info
December 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
As of December 10th, 2025, the arXiv Mathematics section will no longer accept institutional email addresses (i.e., an email address associated with an academic or research institution) as the sole qualifier for an automatic endorsement for new authors.

blog.arxiv.org/2025/12/10/u...
Attention Authors: updated endorsement policy for arXiv Mathematics – arXiv blog
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December 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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💻🤖 What does it mean to be "machine-first FAIR"? And how can this benefit research conducted by (and for) humans?

Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, shares why we need to embrace the #AI research revolution with open & #FAIRdata.

🔗 Read his post: https://ow.ly/e7oe50XAtht

#AcademicSky
December 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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It was really fun and hopeful, describing the potential for a better future with @nickdimonaco.bsky.social (QUB) and Martin Vickers (JIC). Although bioRxiv doesn't accept review paper preprints, here it is on Figshare figshare.com/articles/pre... 6/6
Genome Assemblies and Annotations Are Not Static and Need Support for Tracking Their Evolution
For the past 25 years, genomic data has been distributed in two key file formats, FASTA and GFF. These files are used across nearly all genomic analyses and encode both the data of genomic sequences ...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Does Publishing need a Pulse Check or Resuscitation?

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Does Publishing need a Pulse Check or Resuscitation?
Sharing my thoughts and fears on whether a major health crisis for STM publishing is coming or not.....
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December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
ICYMI - my reasoning that FAIR for machines is more important than FAIR for humans - because we're both "clever" - just in different ways

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"The best way for humankind to benefit from research is to prioritize machines over people when sharing data"
Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution
The best way for humankind to benefit from research is to prioritize machines over people when sharing data.
hahnel.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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🌟 Blog posts of the week: "To go further, faster... we need to move past human-powered knowledge discovery," writes our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel.

Mark says academic research should be prioritized for machines, not humans.

🔗 See why: https://ow.ly/WGTg50Xvf2S

#FAIRdata #AcademicSky
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
What GenAI does well—and where it needs an ecosystem webinar - Dec 4th

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What GenAI does well — and where it needs an ecosystem - Digital Science
Exploring how hybrid AI approaches blend creativity with structured knowledge for more transparent and trustworthy decision-making.
www.digital-science.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Now on Substack: "Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution" - by our VP of Open Research, Mark Hahnel.

Why should we prioritize machines over people when sharing data?

🔗 Read Mark's post: https://ow.ly/Z24y50Xu7qk

#FAIRdata #OpenData #OpenResearch #AcademicSky
November 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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📣 NEW: Why should we prioritize machines over humans when it comes to making research FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable & Re-usable)? #FAIRdata

Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, says academic data should be realigned for the #AI research revolution.

🔗 https://ow.ly/uq4r50XsNsg
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The best way for humankind to benefit from research is to prioritize machines over people when sharing data.

Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution:

hahnel.substack.com/p/machine-fi...
Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution
The best way for humankind to benefit from research is to prioritize machines over people when sharing data.
hahnel.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"While a degree of self-citations is expected as researchers build upon their existing body of work, excessive self-referencing in some cases can obscure the true impact of research, making the work seem more broadly important than reality warrants"

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Self-citation patterns among researchers
What's normal? What's unusual?
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November 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Digital Science's own Maria Cotera on stage with @joyowango.bsky.social (TCC Africa), speaking to a large and engaged crowd in Nairobi, Kenya for #KLISC2025.

This conference for professionals & practitioners in library & information science is proudly sponsored by Figshare.
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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3. Monash University (Figshare)’s "Young people’s perspectives on missing out on being young" (Education, Youth Studies) - Altmetric Score: 589.00

doi.org/10.26180/261...

@monashuniversity.bsky.social @figshare.com

5/7
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
How is AI changing scholarly publishing?

COPE Publication Integrity Week webinar next Monday

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Publication Integrity Week 2025
Publication Integrity Week is an opportunity for all involved in publication ethics to gain insights from peers, share practical solutions, and learn from experts in their field.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
AI Scientists

Can they iterate when things fail?
Can we solve the reproducibility problem?
What about breaking down disciplinary walls?

Great to see ARIA picking this up

www.aria.org.uk/ai-scientist
AI Scientist
AI Scientists are emerging systems designed to generate hypotheses, run experiments in automated labs, and interpret results – without continuous human intervention. Could they help unlock breakthroug...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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🚨 Coming soon: Have you reserved your spot for the Symplectic & Figshare EMEA User Meeting?

🗓️ 13-14 November 2025
📍 London, UK

With case studies from institutions, product roadmaps, #REF2029 & more!

🔗 Register now: https://ow.ly/U1WT50XigOS
October 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
"In this constellation, bioRxiv & medRxiv serve organizing and empowering functions for bringing the ecosystem together linking with repositories, data stores, open APIs, and supporting platforms for replication, verification, validation, and peer review"

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A Constellation of Open Research
The openRxiv community came together to share plans for the future of the preprint ecosystem. We reflect on the vision and community energy that will shape the next few years, and how technologies lik...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Only 2.3% of traffic to BMJ coming from "AI tools"

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October 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM